DEPORTATION OF PERSONNEL FROM THE GOMA PLANT IN BERLIN-KOPENICK

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 5, 1946
• Content Type: IR

D a ltrient No.Ap? y, se 200`.
7NO CHANGE in C1
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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
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Ct J TR'`( Gox nany- (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Deportation of Persorrnel from the
Gerrma Plana in Be- in K.t5 enick
This document i
ORIGIN
s hereby regraded to
N a iAL in accordance with the
a Oc o ..er 1,34-3 from the
i)IS . S December- 1946
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STATE WARNAVY JUSTICE Ft & r=
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Do2ortations
largo rta.ttons of personnel employed at the .~aer a (Berlin Institute)
. ta11atjon: in Berlin-K8aenick took 1 ice on 0, 21 . rid 22
October :1.94 Personnel, some of whom font voluntar ly, were
v - .;ited either on the evening of 20 {~otcber or in the early
:corning of 21 actober, given contracts to sign, and then were
loaded onto trucks with their :'amil.es and household goods, The
contracts are reported to have been financially very favorable.,
with food and lodging provided by the Soviet 0overnmoot for the
workers and their fsrrtil.t es durl.ng two years em loyiment in the
e~aka:
I three types :,f personnel were deported or went
o ~,e r own volition:
a ; Depa;~=trrtent 1" oa~!s capable of reorganizing their groups in
isussia
Personnel of little ability who have worked hard at impressing
the Russians;
Tec anic;jan , such. as export draughtsrr~ez3i who have worked on
o of she ^.=.exita projects initiated by the German Army and
?4iho cie acquainted with all phases of their particular work.
'kola employees in this eats ;or. were not evacuated, it is
said, because of their sornatha antagonistic attitude towards
the siax s,
Densrtrnents Affected
A r roxirrately 100 specialists a,v en inee.rs were evacuated from
=; a l`uilowing departments at eiaa;
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) Krelsel, HG
rerr.oto control steering thr?oagh radar)
Rohe int oohtor
Flak mit Raketenantr?ieb
t rocket propelled shell)
,) T r i ebwerIc .
(rocket development)
The above departments had been working against a I October d+ ad-
g and they.r research work had been coapleted
3.. The follovtin ; departments, W , uh a 1 December aeadlino, o.av~.= been
, : undisturbed so far: craretter15.rig~ .,Ew-293, and ~~;ensc ae . Korpe .
aIln "he '?VCfit of L.S. October the baoyiet execidle; eat Gent stated
~ t he was not advised of the evacuation of personnel until m_3 0.atober, when he was told that skeleton stafi.s of departmOnts
~ ch had completed their developmentti on achedulo obit be upped-.
'; knows neither 'irhe deportees' destination nor If they are All
to azay togetY er, According to tnis officer,, projects sitil r to
the one at Gema have already been set up in the 32-N and c,r:
developing Gera researcht
25X1 Commend the entire "Halals" epart-
menTlas been evacuated, together with families of personnel,
-hereas only the heads of other departments have departed
7;, Between 0400 and 0600 hours en 22 October, the : ollowing Uenn
personalities left for Russia- Dr. Trommadorf, Dr. Siegnntand,
Richter, Burkhardt, K1ose, and Eitzeenbergert, The. latter was
accompanied by thirteen staff members.
25X1 Comment= Eitzenberger*s removal but
giv he number of staff members accompanying him as 15.
Eitzenberger earlier was reported as being in charge of
3 hanetterlin,g development.
Also on 22 October, Major Julius made a speech to foremen and
engineers in the Telefunkon section, stating that the 15 men
(presumably Eitzenbeagerss group) had signed contracts sane time
ago for this evacuation, but that those remaining at Gema would
continue working. A Dr. Linke will replace Eitzenbarger.
Pamiliee of the 15 men are to remain in K$penick for the time
being.
Comment.- Unless he has enjoyed rapid upgrading since July,,
J-,4jjo5Julius is a lieutenant.
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