GERMAN NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS IN THE USSR

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• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 11, 1953
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working in the laboratory. The following personnel were identified by name:
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In 1946, abiput 200: persons were employed at Manfred von ;:Ardenne l s institute
in $u.khum . About 50 of these were Ardenne people and a large; part of the
remainder, were German prisoners-of-war, There were also Soviet assistants
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Pr. Menke (fnu) - a biologist and a pupil of Prof. Noack.(fnu).
Dr. Kurt Mie - a physicist who left because of sickness in Aecember 1946
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and wae.transfrrred to Moscow; he returned to
East Germany in the summer
c. Dr. Stendel (fnu) from AEG, a Ramsauer pupil, successor to Mie in 1946.
USSR/East Germany
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e. Herbert Reibedanz - belonged to Ardenne's laboratory in Berlin.and was
still with him; he is believed to be the research man behind Ardenne's
organizational talents.
Prof.Fritz Thiessen - a department chief with Ardenne.
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Alexander Bergengruen - Ardenne's father-in-law, H.O. s also'still with
In 1940, Ardenne received a prize of 50,000 rubles. Ostensibly this prize
was Awarded for new developments on the electron microscope, but it was
rumored amohg the Germans that this was terely an elegaht .way to pay for
Ardennes laboratory. Until that time, Ardenne had maintained that the
laboratory, which;,he:tbrohAht with hii 'f rom iBbrlin-Liohter tilde in 1945,
settled the matter this way rather than entering a discussion with Ardenne
about legal ownership.
was his own property. The other Germans there believed that theSovjetS,.,
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The following personnel left Ardenne in 1951:
a. Dr. Max Steenbeck - he is known to have met Prof. Max VQ1lmer3 in
Moscow and is believed to have worked on isotope separation (mechanical).
b. Herr Dames?(fnu) - originally employed by the German Ministry of
Propaganda. Dames"joined the Ardenne group when Ardenne needed a
photography specialist because he had the entry "film section" in
his Phi records. It is not believed that he ever took any research
pictures while with Ardenne, but he was useful in holding school
for the German children.
c.. Dr. Haren (fnu)4 - an MD prisoner-of-war.
d. Dr. Stendel
4 Dr. Thiessen was known to be with Ardennestill in 1951 when he met several
Germans in Moscow. He"stated then that he was working in libraries and
institutions in Moscow. At the same time, he,mentioned that the installa-
tions at the Ardenne Institute were very good, "as good as any KNI".
5. The Moscow collection and transit camp for German scientists was at
Osyeri (phonetic spelling), southwest of Moscow. This place was built
originally by a rich Russian merchant and was in fact a large-villa with
two brick lions at the entrance. At some time before-the war, it had
been the residence of Yagoda; and,,after his downfall, the buildings were
taken over by the NKVD. Immediately after the war, it,was General Paulus'
residence. After he"left, it was returned to the NKVD, which used it
as a transit camp for German scientists. All Germans in the camp were
particularly warned never to mention its name or location anywhere.
The following persons resided there in 1947 or 194 s
a. Prof. Schindlmeister (fnu)' - a nuclear physicist from Vienna; he
worked in'Moscow in an institute that had an unusually large number
of guards.
b. Prof.. Vollmer...
c. Dr. Bewilogua {-fnu)7- Vollmer's assistant.
d. Dr. Richter (fnu) - a pupil of Prof. Becker. in Leipzig and Vollmer's
assistant.
e. Dr. Beierl (fnu) - a physico-chemist; worked with Hartek8
during the war.
f. An assistant (name unknown) to Bewilogua - worked with Linde
Eismaschinen during the war'on low temperatures by liquification
and on V-2; he died in 1949.
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g. Prof. Kronenberg (fnu)9 - was believed to have received his professor-
ship from Prof, Robert Rompe after the war. He was a convinced
Communist who used his political status for non-cooperation.
'Eventually, the man seems to have overtaxed-Sbviet patience, because
he suddenly disappeared. His field was reportedly uranium fluorites.
2. Comore
Germany in the summer of 1946.
returned until the summer of 1952.
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die paid a visit to
Mie was not
4. Comment,E probably means Dr, Franz Marren.
5. =G }". i.4 Oeyeri may be the name of the estate Ad not ' of a town
M , ...... .. _ _ _ ,_......
or. villa
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C probably means Dr. Josef Peter Schintlmeister.
C probably means Dr. Ludwig Bewilogua.
Comment. lprobably means Dr. Paul Harteck.
C. probably means Dr. Paul Kronenberg.
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