PRODUCTION OF DRUGS AT SCHERING-ADLERSHOF PLANT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R003400020005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 19, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATiON REPORT - CD NO.. 25X1A
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
DATE DISTR. 19 Augus
SUBJECT Production of Drugs at NO. OF PAGES 2
Schering-Ad/ershof Plant
PLACE
ACQUIRE
DATE OF INFO.
NO. OF ENCLS
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
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1. Until the end of the ear the fired' Schering maintained various factories
in Berlin. Its largest plant ear: located at Mtillerstrasse, Berlin-' edding
(French Sector), where the maie administration is still naintained. This
plant wan considerably damaged durine the war and then dismantled by the
Soviets. Part of the eqeipmene was sant to Russia; the other part was
transferred to the Schering pleet in Berlin-Adlerahof.
The Russians have always displayed eeen interest in the Adlershof plants,
Which hae been almost completey reamilt. In the first quarter of 1949
the number of employees rose feeem 900 to 1,200.- All econnections between
Scherine=Adlershof and firms ie the '!estern Zonesuere deliberately cut off.
The Adlershof plant belongs to the VVB-Phartavulth the main administration
located on Trothaerstrasse 35, Hallo (Seale). It administers twelve east
zonal factories.
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. The director of the Schering plent in Acilershof, is Schermer,
a convinced member of the SED, ffis professionalenow edge is limited hut
his political zeal 1s strong, Me plant council of the plant was abolished
and replaced by a directorate eeich is composed of members of the trade
union appointed by Schemer. Ptordnent members of this directorate are
Vornfett and Zuckerriedel, both convinced party member, whose job is the
political surveillance of the eeployees. Both are generally considered to
be members of the MVD.
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4. A Soviet commission is located at ScheringeAdlershof; it occupies various
rooms of the plant. The conreseion consists mainly of officers, who are
changed frequently. They negotete only with the management of the plant
and the plant-directorate. Of lete, the Soviets have been shipping out
some of the more important laboretory equipment and material, such as mer=
cury, cobalt, iodine, arsenic, salver aulphidel and ferric chloride.
5. The staff of scientific collaborators is composed principally of medical men
and chemists. At preeent they are working on the development of organic prep,
cautions and experimenting with: penicillin, insrdins and liver preparations.
Some of the more important membere of the starr - Dr. 3arlim, Dr. Schmidt, 25X1X
Dr. Oaub? and Dr. Schreiber, until recently e, member
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as an "Activist" but he declined such distinction. The plant has a modern
penicillin installation, with an enlarged department for experiments on snail
animals. The composing of the preparation is carried out exclusively at
Schering,. but other firma are also employed for the filling and tableting of
the preparation.
6. The Soviets are very secretive about a department which produced a prepara-
tion called "Pyrimal", reputed to be a rapid and effective medicine for acute
pneumonia. This drug bears no trademark. The production of Pyrimal is di-
rectly supervised, and every emeloyee is searched on leaving the department.
The entire production is deetined for the USSR; production, however, has been
halted.
7. Other preparations, either partle or completely intended for the USSR, are
penicillin; insulin; albuzit, which is used for internal inflammations of
the liver; veramon; neutralon; 'belladonna neutralon, a special gelatin for
use in the pharmaceutical induatry; santonin, a new conround which is alleged
to be. very effective against asearid from which the Soviet population is suf-
fering to a great degree.
8. The following products have been. released for the German market:
Abavit, a mercury preparation Waich is used for plant protection;
Gesarol, an ant exterminator;
Karsan, a nicotine spray.
9. Lately a new drug for thryoid diaeases is being manufactured.. It appears
under the name of "Dijodtyrosi.e.
Attached is a sanrle of Pyrimal, It is requested that this sample he trans-
mitted to the U_S. Public Health Service. that they be informed that Pimirml
Is a drug obtained abroad and alleged to be effective in the treatmeat of
cute pneumonia, and that they be aoked to furnish a qualitative report on
he drug-.
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