(SANITIZED)RUBENZNOYE CHEMICAL FACTORY(SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: May 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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RUBENZNOYE Chemical Factory.
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specia ze n s a zers or
props ants . This
was the only factory in Germany working in this field. The
main substan
ces
with which this plant was concerned were-
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Ethyl chli roformate
Centralite
Diphenylurethane
Akard it
Mollit 41
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This was known as the S.T. plant and employed 200 men. Associated with this
plant were two others, the so-called X plant employing 120 men and works on
diglycol and also the Z or D.I.F. plant producing dinitrodiphenylaminer.1
(responsible for the operation of both the ST and Z plants
was Dr. VIERCK.
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3. I ILTIERCK was treated by
the Russians as a war criminal, immediately removed and probably executed.
This was thought to be a reprisal since VIERCK had discovered a communist
cell in one of the labor camps adjoining UERDINGEN Works and several suspects
had been executed.
III. TRAIN OF &,VENTS ,AFTER THE C I'ITULATION
4. At first the area was occupied-by U.S. troops from 19th May 1945
and for about three months subsequently. After this the Russians arrived
finding the plant intact. Russian personalities active at this time were:
Col HAYKING ) ExddutMV'e 1ieai
Col TSUSHKIN
Lt Col REVOKATOFF - This officer was detailed to superivse KELLER.
TROYANCF'F: A civilian official also visited, who was thought
to be from the Russian Ministry of Pharmaecuticals
5. The action taken by the Russians before initiating dismantling was to
take innumerable photographs and compile exhaustive notes on all details of the
plants. Those made other intermediates, but the Russians working there were
obviously mainly interested in the stabilizers as such. 25X1
6. Dismantling began early in 1946. In charge of the
operation was a former Lt.-Col OKS, now a civilian, thought to be the son of
a Russian General 0KS. OKS was assisted by BRINCKMANN 25X1.
mantling was completed b the beginning of October 1946 and the plant was
skillfully packed. all the lants of the com le
had be con ned to TAME OV or RUBEZ 0
pant had arrived in a damaged condition and
missing.
the
some items appeared to be
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IV. PROGRAM E OF WORK COLOURS FOR FILIVB
7. For further details of this assignment see below in the section
dealing with assignments in RUBEZNOYE.
V. DEPORTATION TO RUSSIA
e arrangement was a eac
family was allotted a goods truck and their belongings were packed and dis-
patched by the Russians. The following is a list of the deportees
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1.) Dr FUCHS
2) Ing RANK
3) Dr WATKE
4) Dr CARO
5) Prof RIECHE
6) BRINCKMANN
7) Dr SCHUSTER
8) Dr G HAIL
9) Dr Wolfgang RICHTER
10) Dr Adolf RICHTER
11) Dr LEHMANN
12) Dr OHLENDORF
13) Dr MAIER-B ODE
14) Dr HC&'MANN
15) Dr ENGELMANN
16) Dr THURM
17) Dr SCHULTZE
18) Dr BRCDERSEN
Physicist
From the ROTTLEBEN HYIRIERWERK
Head of the dyers department
D.,I.P. plant Works Manager
Scientific Head of Research-
Intermediate Products section
Works Engineer ST, X and DIP plants
DEUTSCHE HYDRIERWERK, ROTTLEBEN
Essence chemist (perfumes)
Research chemist
Water treatment chemist
Fur dyeing specialist
Research chemist in dyes
Insecticide specialist
Research worker on dyestuffs
Plant Manager Chl,benzol and other
plants at WOII"EN
Research chemist - dyestuffs
Intermediate products department
Research chemist in detergent .25X`1
and fixatives
9. The group was convened in lorries to a new block of flats
Althou h the Germans had elected two representatives
act as spokesmen for t
RIECHE liaison officer.
the Russians did not recognize them and appointed
VI. DUTIES OF THE GERMAN SCIENTISTS AT RUBEZNOYE
10. Generally speaking the German scientists worked as a group on dyes -
vat dyeing, anthraquinone derivatives, fur dyeing, and on interpretation of
data and instructions previously issued by I.G. and on improvements to existing
processes.
KNUGHTELL worked on color films;
ENGELMANN was concerned with chlorinations;
SCHUSTER and RANK worked jointly on catalytic oxidation
connected with the conversion of naphthalin to phthalic
acid and on anthraquinone and B.naphthol processes;
MAIER.BODE worked on insecticides, having at his disposal
a great wealth of documdht8. His work took him either to
an institute in KIEV or VC ( CHILOVG AD where he went and
stayed for a feta d .,s;
LEHMANN was engaged in fur dyeing and at one point used hydrogen
peroxide. This arrive from MCISCOW, the-
consignment being,15 litres. He was interested in stabilizing
this with benzoic acid and called on RIECHE for assistance.
during this work.
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SPECIAL'IWTE: During the period of dismantling of the plant in Germany
the German scientists had been asked to prepare colours suffioient for a five-
year production programme of colour-films but on arrival this "peaceful" pro-
gramme seemed to have been dropped.
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the concentration of peroxide was about
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VIII. PRODUCTS MANUFACTURED AT RUBEZNOYE
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RUBEZNOYE:-
the following
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Chlorbenzol
Nitrophnnol
Dinitrochlorbenzol'(for sulphur black)
Benzoic acid
Nitrophenol
Aminophenol
Nitroanisole
Paranitrophenol
Oxy-ethyl aminophenol (A fine grain developer)
Phthallic anhydride
Anthraquinone - for vat dyes (under construction
started in 1949, the plant conforming to
modern German practice.)
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13. This anthr a uinone Dlan was nnrinr riazralnnmant h a tacim fr r+m
Also there were produced B.oxynaph:W_
o c ac d and various napthols, acetoacetic esters, di-aniside and toluidine.
There was also an oxygen plant together with an acid plant which had not been
running for some time, and a CO2 plant in which the gas was produced from
limestone. There were two power plants under construction, one in the North
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and the other in the South Works.
IX. STATE OF RUSSIAN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL IN_ USTRY
While
Russian chemical personnel were well grounded in theory they seemed
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the arrival of "spectra scopic" apparatus
from Germany which rapidly deteriorated because it was placed in a laboratory
where it was exposed to acid fumes. There were marked shortages in apparatus
of all kinds and of reagents, and the quality of such things as chemical
balances, glassware, was very inferior. The German group was forced to make
its own indicators.
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15. I the general level of proficienc in the in-
dustry seemed to approximate to that of Germany in about 1910 the
example of a primitive means of reducing preassure in a line by hand methods
which would have been covered by a reducing valve in Germany with the impli-
cation (very difficult to believe) that the Russians did not have any re-
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Ithe factories employed 6,000, which was about three
times the complement which would be used in an equivalent German factory.
17. In addition to the above there were some Russian specialist such
as TSUSHKIN, who had appeared at WOLFEN a film specialist; also Major MUSICH
or MUSITS, a leader of a detergents group working in MOSCOW who occasionally
visited RUBEZNOYE and worked with BRODERSEN; ARNOLDOV, a chemical engineer
production manager in the factories; RASHEVSKAYA, wife of head of the Research
Department; BUBIPAKOV, chemical engineer, planning and development engineer.
X. RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC CEDER OF BATTLE
18, Both the North and South factory at RUBEZNOYE, the former of
which) he ROTE FAHNE 4ERKE, were operated by Glavanilprom,25X1
Also there was an organization known as NIOPIK of which the laboratory in
the South Works. at which the Germans functioned was a unit. This was known
as the 70ROSHILOV Laboratory. Further to BULKIN and TROYANOV mentioned above
there was a third manager, RHEINFAHRT, who was senior to both of these.
19. The NIOPIK organization was independent of the factory organizatioi
and could be regarded as headquarters troops. It was responsible to Prof.
CAROLOFF in MOSCOW.
C.OROLOEF
(MOSCOW)
NIOPIK
M of Ch
MOSCOW
Construo ion & ,x
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Research
(RASHEVSKAYA)
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