PERSONNEL AT THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, GREIFSWALD UNIVERSITY

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Personnel at the Institute of
Physics, Greifswald University
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This Document contains information affecting the No-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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As of December 19529 Professor Dr. R. Seeliger 1 was director of the Greifswald
University Institute of Physics. Seeliger was assisted in the direction'of the
Institute by Dr. Wulfb.eckel, a scientist of forty-fives, who was working on
problems of gas discharge physics with negative ions (aa&pgen and chlcn?3ne).
2, Professor Schallreuter,3 a fall *ofessor of experimental physics., was admin-
istrator of the Institute, From 1932 to 1939, Schallreuter was employed in the
electrotechnical industry in England and published several manuscripts on the
industry. For the past six years, his work in lecturing and ai%dnistration at
Greifswald University has kept him from publishing new findings in experimental
physics,
3, Dr, Euellmer, assistant to Seeliger, became director of a research laboratory
in Rudalstadt in the autUmn of 1952, Dr. Theisa, former assistant to Seeliger,
fled to West Germany in January 1953, He was accompanied by his wife, a
physician in the Greifswald University hospital?
Dr. Seeliger is also director of the Institute for Gaseous Discharge of the
German Academe of Sciences. From that Institute, Seeliger can obtain sufficient
funds for research and has never requested funds from ZAPT for his Physics
Institute, Seeliger declined an offer mule by the State Secretariat to enlarge
his Institute. 'As a result; .the work of Professor Schallreater has been
considerably ham Bred, since he is in need of mpre working space. Seeliger's
deputy at the Academy Institute was Dr. Pupke, * a physicist working on gas.
discharge under high pressures. He was considered by his associates as a good
physicist with inclinations toward theoretical physics.
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