NOTES ON VARIOUS EAST GERMAN OPTICAL PLANTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 18, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Notes on Various
East German Optical Plants
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIR
DATE ACQUIRE
This material contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States within the
meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel-
ation of which in any manner to an unauthorized
-_person' is, prohibited by law.
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information on various optical plants and other users
1. VEB Zeiss-Ikon Dresden: Approximately 4,000, employees.
a. Personnel: Chief - Netz (fuu)
Technical chief - Kajesch (fnu)
Chief designer - Barenyi fnu)
Designer - Kuhnert (fnu) (Specialist for mot:Lon picture
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Sales - Schroeder (fnu), Dr.
Chief mathematician - Geissler (fnu)
Scientific direction - Dipl. Ing. Schulze (fnu)
Mdtion picture apparatus - Dipl. Ing. Schehring (fnu) 25X1
Electro-amplifiers - Dipl. Ing. Trommer (fnu).
b. P roduction: During World War II9 Zeiss-Ikon Was active in the
production of gun cameras and in fuse experiments. The space formerly
devoted to this work is now being used for normal consumer production.
The plant manufactures viewfinders and mounts for the Contax-S, l125X13,
time cameras, and prisms for film editing machines.
2. VEB IHAGEE Kamerawerk, Dresden: It has one plant, employing- about 500
Chief - Kretzschmar (fnu), formerly secretary to the Lord ayor of
Dresden.
persons. The plant does about 10,000,000 DIE worth of business per yearo
a. Personnel:
b. Production: la new 6x6 cm. camera of
which 12,000 were planned. 6ome 300 were exported and returned as
defective. This situation left Z$rGES with about 2,0001,000 DME worth
of part>i. Other production includes 25,000 Exakta Varex and a 25X1
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cheaper camera, the Exa. come Exa ca..inoras were produced for Rhein-
metall, ''oemmerda.
P _er`crsc 1J U . This plant
em?logs between 750 and 900 persons.
The -lint chiefly produces to types of cameras, the Praktica and the
raktina. 25,000 of each were planned for 1954; however since the develop-
ment of the l raktina was delayed, the 1rakt ic