GERMAN SCIENTISTS IN THE LENINGRAD AREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMAT'.ON
DATE OF INFO.
USSR (Leningrad Oblast)
German Scientists in the Leningrad
Area
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT
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REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
30 June 1953
USAF, NAVY reviews
completed.
1. MUMMERT, Elans 1, chief of specialist group at Institute 49, was
the only person who was not repatriated and who remained in the USSR,
it was Soviet policy to retain the
group chiefs in order that they might furnish guidance on further work by
the Soviets.
2. three people who were employed at Institute 400 which was located at 25X1
Ore3,ilelsbeoa. Dr. Ing. Anton SCHMIEDEK 2 a theoretical mathematician and physi-
cist; Dr. Edward XROCHMIIN; and Ing. ur I .WITSCHKii. Of these three, only
Dr. SCHMIE'DE returned to East Germany. Dr. SCHMIEDEK9s work at 25X1
Institute 400 was connected with generation of high-fre uency electrical
impulses in water for torpedo idance.
Institute 400 was engaged in work concerning 25X1
torpedo propulsion. this
institute, under the Shipbuilding Ministry, employed approximately 200
people. EROCHM&N and SCHMIEDEK had little to do with the Germans at Institute
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The SKB (the Special Design Bureau) was another organization which existed
in Leningrad. The Germans who worked in the SKB group lived in a housing
development together with other Germans engaged in gas turbine research
and development for shipboard use. The SKB was probably also under the
Shipbuilding Ministry. The Germans employed in the SKB
group are as follows!
DETTKE
GBAZE3
KEPPEL LNrad
MENSSEN Erna
NLTAAUS
SCHUMACHER ffilhelmm
SZTATECZNY
TROMPKE C erhar:d7
WIESEMRG Eeisenburg, Weissenbero
NATH&US was in jail. He had been sentenced to five years of hard, labor
upon returning from a business trip to the Urals. He was a
philanderero and his imprisonment may have been connected with his affinity
for women.
another group in Lenineradi -Thad come from Zeiss. Jena. This
group included! Dr. Lonrad~ KDEHNE from the design group at Jena; Dr.
eorg7 KRESSE, a ph sicist; Rudo1 hhh7 DIETRIOH, 'a designer of optical
equipment; and Mr.ur, JOHN, a specialist, on quartz.
this Zeiss group is still in Leningrad.
Originally there were about 80 Germans in this group, but most
of them were repatriated. While employed in Leningrad, these Germans lived
in Shemilovaka, a housing project of the Bolshevik Machine Factory.
Shemilovaka was located In a suburb of the city. The place of employment
was called Goms, and was located near the Finnish Street railway station.
Several former Zeiss employees also worked in a Soviet factory named
Progress. Both of these groups were apparently engaged in the production
of microscopic and photographic equipment.
Another group worked in the Wald Institute! The personnel of this,gro
included! Dr. Paul KOTOWSKI, Dr. an MANN Dr. arJ" GROSS Ll&ns
KOTOWSKI (brother of Paul. K0T0WSSI , Dr. erhar AMM'ON, and Dr. elmu
FUESS1ER. These men were all telecommunications specialists. Dr. OTOW
presumably under Soviet sponsorship, wrote a technical book, Wia_ ter
Co icatiA, which was printed by the Hirtzel Company in Leipzig.
3.
4.
. Possibly SCHMIDEK or SOHMIEDEOK.
Leenoy Institute.
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