THE FATE OF THE PHYSICO-TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100100075-8
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• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: February 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Tf~E FATE 0~' THE ~HYSICO-TEOHNIC INSTITUTE
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of in weida~ Zlmenau~ Zeulenroda' and Ronneburg~ but
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victual laboratories moved to other parts of aermarCr ~ West an
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harlottenburg where the PTR graduallq dis~
East. The remainder stayed in C
final Raesian oaoupation~ The buildings
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had been the cents
a Russian Commander as hie Headquarters ~ About l2
were taken over by
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soldiers guarded the places a Russian ~
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boratories later assembled near Brauneahweig
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ooou ation of Thuringia the laboratories again began
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emantlin ended further activities One year after ,
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re the onetime g1orY of PTR was gone and a
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great effort
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Tho thorough dismantling which was usual in Berlin took ~1ao�; when
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rho British foroea took over, nothing was loft of tha valuablo laboratory
equipment -everything, including rho quarts olock~ having boon taken ax~y~
even the well.-atooked library had suffered greatly during and after the war.
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~ soon as thA ooougation for�ee had changed, it beoame possible to
reo8ndition tote in~taSlations~ Fortunately acme c?f the very valuable in-
struments had been �o deeply buried under th� rubb~;e that they had been
completely hidden. They formed the nucleus of eoidntifio equipment with
which th� saientieto tried to re-eetablioh the institute. Prof. Ka'stere
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finally sucaoeded in obtaining some funds fra~a the Harlin authorities so
that to a oerte~in degree work ua,s aasured~ Two years passed thus under the
leadership of Prof ~ Kaster�, who then accepted an appointment to the Depart-
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ment of Economics and to the Preparatory Committee of the Physikaliaoh-
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Teahnisahe Anstelt located in Sraunsohweig~ In the mf,dst of the blockade
~ Diplom Enginear Johannsen, the then Chief of the Berlin coordinating depart-
went of the Berman Cffiae of Weights and Measures! became herd of the PTR
in Charlottenburg~ ,after the end of the blockade money began to flow some-
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what more freely and i t became possible to reequip some of the laboratories
Some of the buildings - especially the main buildings and the high-voltage `
buildings - which had not suffers very much b�cauae of their solid construc-
tion were put in order again The Berlin PTR ie therefore functioning at
pr�s�nt at a pace which resembles very nearly that under pease-time aonditions~
A report on the work being done in the PTR Charlottenburg was made on
l ~'eb, 190 (publ~.shgd on l9 Feb ~ 1950 in a report of the Berlin Administra-
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The PTR had been corr~ssioned in writing as follows t The PTR is to
cal~.brate meaaur;.ng instruments, oalil~ation ~o be baud on paragraph 9 of
. the laws governing weights and measures; standard~.~e ships for inland ` , ,
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