DISMANTLING OF THE ZEISS-WERKE IN JENA; SCHOTT - WERKE MICROBIOLOGICAL LABORATORY

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• Publication Date: February 25, 1947
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
0UN`T RY Germany (Russian Zone)
WJRJECC Di tling of the Zeies- erke in J"
Schott 4srke Mierobiologicsl Laboratory
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The Soviet executive has requested an additional 6,000 persons to
complete the dismantling of the Zeiss plant at Jena within two
months, The Russ.ans are measuring and sketching all the rooms.,
down to the smallest closet..
2. 24 November 1946
it is hoped to add to the 2,500 employees still at Zeiss. Those now
working are engaged chiefly in packing equipment for shipment to the
ITSSR. Although Zeiss executives have been assured that glass and
photographic lens production will continue at Jens., they have not
been told anything abet actual plans, and do not know whether the
nlant is to be taken over, by SMA. The SMMA administrative officer
now at Zeiss is Major Villner.
November 1946
'-) in addition to a large ntmther of workers recruited by the
Russians solely for dtsin ntling activities, Zeiss has placed 600
administrative personnel and all its laborers at the disposal of the
dismantling officers, leaving 19600 people on Zeiss' books. Besides
this, the Stadtroda district labor office was ordered to halt all
construction work, ehifting the men thus released to Zeiss; and the
1.,500 Zeiss employees who were d,5schar:ed on 22 October lave been
ordered to return. s of 30 November, the labor office had not
complied with the order of 'av,tin.. the Soviet personnel director,
to return the former employees under police escort,
a 25% bonus),, A feu of the workers classified as "engineers"
female helpers to 2.2().marks per hour for skilled workers (excluding
b) Workers transferred to dismantling work received their last
Zeiss payment on 20 October, Since that time, they have been paid
by who Russians on a scale ranging from .46 marks per hour for
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receive 2.80 marks per hour. The director of the apprentice work-
shop has been receiving 2.18 marks an hour, a fraction of his ncrmal
pay. Heavy deductions are made for absences. Working hours are
arbitrarily fixed according to particular needs. A majority of the
workers have been reclassified, placed on payrolls, but as yet. have
not drawn any salaries.
c) The above conditions, plus attacks on the local populace by
Soviet troops and the haphazard methods employed in the dismantling;
have shortened the tempers of the German workers at Zeiss. The
competition between Soviet officers to hasten the dismantling; has
worked to the detriment of the machinery. Packing is done in great
haste: in one instance, chair seat reeds were substituted for wood
shavings and a valuable stock of tare wood =gas cut up for crates.
d) This already high state of indignation has been incre~.sed by
reports in the MD press that 1,000 machines are to be returned to
Zeiss. The workers say that this total must incltu i screw drivers
cha3 rs, and rulers. Actually, out of appr?oxi.mately 1.1, 000 machines
removed, 700 - chosen without regard to the production program and
now classified as rejects . have been earmarked for return to the
plant. An optical grinding section was left with only thosemachines
which were ready for scrapping at the 7-at inventory. Another sectic??
'ound that, of the eighty machines remaining, only two were immediate
ly operativo, twenty--three could be repaired in three months, and the=
eRt would have to be scranned.
e) Although Zeiss was to be allowed sevent-ien automatic lathes, ten
were removed, The delivery quota presented by SMA is greater than
the remaining plant capacity,
f) A majority of the evacuated machines have been addressed to
Moscow. Machinery from the precision instrument production section
carried the address, "Ok{ular Leningrad". Machinery- used to produce
range-finders and periscopes was addressed, "Kiev Frisma".. The
particularly valuable divisionmc11nexyy used in the fine graduating
section was scheduled for removal 117 aAr to Moscow shortly after
30 November.
g) The deadlines set for dismantling of the various Zeiss sections
vary between 1 and 31 December 1946.
h) The microbiological laboratory of the :..Scott-Werke, directed by
Dr. Knoll, was slated for dismantling; on 22 November, This laborator
had been used mainly for the production of penicillin.
1) A letter received from Dipi. Ingo Bihimuier, former plant
director of the entire cptical construction branch at Zeiss, stated
that he. had arrived at his destination, some ten kilometers west of
Moscow c.
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