ORGANIZATIONS AND PERSONALITIES IN THE EAST GERMAN OPTICS INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015700250011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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German Optics Industry
SUBJECT Organizations ar Personalities in the East
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1,. The optics :Ln.stitute of the D71R Aka,domie Was moved from Berlin- rarow
to Berlin-Adlershof in the spring of 1952. It has become one of the
largest optical institutes _i-n. all of Geruaany and. maintains its own
- test station and lens. grinding shop. The budget is reportedly large.
The fol.loi-rind; departments have been identified:
Teleoptics (Fernrohroltik)
Wave Optics (Wellenoptik)
Photographic Optics (Photoopti.k)
Optical Testing (Optische Pruefung)
2. About Co persons are erip1 oyed ?:ct; the Institute. The chief is Dr, Ernst
.a,isan.d Dr. (fnu) Krug,who -s :regarded as highly capric1e, is his
asr;istsantr Dr. (fnu) Iiodam is chief of the Photographs Optics Depart-
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The emphasis being given to the development of the Institute may indicate
that the DDR goverrmment= intends to centralize East Zonal optical research
n the ".astitutc,with a corresponding decrease in research at Zeiss/~Tena,
4. l:ie:?r (fn's) Zoellner is now chief of the Calculations Department at Zeiss/
Teata: In addItion ` he has been made chief of the Photographic Optics Department and chief of the Geodesy and Aerial Photography Department G
fie -iss a member of the Scientific Council ( ..issenschaftl:iche Hauptleitung)
of Zeiss/Jena and one of the most important men in the firm,
5. Herr Bobcat i2uel.ler, chief of the Assembly Department (Fertigung) at Zeiss/
Jena., stated recently that, former Zeiss personnel. returning from the 1. SP,
Ila"e introduced new measuring techniques wk. 3ei.ss.,
The new methods enable
establishment of appreciably mailer tolerances and may be applied by
unskilled technic3.a.n;.,
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