DRESDEN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE) AERONAUTICS PROGRAM

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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(Technische Hochschule) Aeronautics
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Dresden Institute of Technology
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITRO STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 7S4. OF THE U. S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
REPORT
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DATE DISTR.
17 June 1955
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Aircraft engineers and experts for rocket ballistics for the DDR were 25X1
trained at Faculty III/C of the Dresden Institute of Technology.
Professor Dr Richter (fnu), primarily a good party member, was dean
of the faculty. Training courses started in the fall semester in 1953.
Fver since, the faculty had been enlarged and improved. The individual
institutes were located on 24 Duererstrasse, Dresden A 16, in buildings
of a former medical research institute and in other newly constructed
buildings. This faculty was the only institution in East Germany with
an independent lesturs staff.
2. The faculty included the following institutes:
a. Aerodynamics, director Professor Dr Richter who as also
dean of the faculty.
b. Flight measuring techniques under Professor Dr Clausnitzer (fnu)
c. Airframe constructions under Profesew l who had
come from the Rostock University.
d. Light construction technology, chief Professor Dr Vandersee (fnu)
and as assistant Dr Bredendieck (fnu) who had returned with the
Junkers Group in 1954.
professor Dipl Ing Baade.
f. Aircraft engines and metal ailrlaft'constructions, chief honorary
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h. Ballistics; chief Dipl Ing Franz Schaadt. This institute
was to be established and to start classes in the spring semester
of 1955.
i. Aviation medicine was planned but no preparations for the
establishment were seen.
3. The spring semester lasting from February to June was the first
semester for chemical and mechanical engineers. The fall semester,
lasting from September to December was the first semester for
mathematicians, physicists and construction engineers. Examinations
were held in July, and vacations or practical courses were to be
taken in August. For the spring semester of 1955 the number of
students at the III/C faculty was to be increased from 400 to
800. According to a new basic arrangement the 400 new students
were to start with their four basic semesters at Dresden, and not
at other universities as the students of previous semesters
had done.
4. During the fill r in 1953 and the spring semester of 1954,
If lathe .ties at Paeulty I. y. -
an of this faculty. In the fall
to lecture ern ballistics at
N.eulty III11C. He had eight students who had completed four
semesters either at the Rostock University or at the Rostock
Institute of Ship Engine Construction. During their fifth, sixth
and seventh semesters these students were to study at the institute
of aerodynamics at Faculty III/C in Dresden. The above-mentioned
lectures in the field of ballistics were given to students in the
eighth semester during the Fall of 1954. A ninth semester was to
follow.
Ballistics Curriculum
'. It was planned that Dipl Ing Schaadt would lecture on ballistics
for the eighth and ninth semesters. He presented the training
program for the eighth semester, based on principles of Professor
Kranz (fnu), to the dean who approved it. According to its basic
principles this program which covered only the field of interior
ballistics was as follows:
Repetition of fundamental mechanioa3 otisnce and thermodynamics.
Abel equation.
Determination of powder constants (Pulverkonstanten).
Principles of combustion according to Vieller (fnu), Chaponger
(fnu), Krupp-Schmitz (fnu) and others (all names ^pelled phonet-
ically).
The establishment of the interior ballistic fundamental equation
and its interpretation.
The approach system according to Heidenreich.
Rocket principles, interior ballistics.
Powder geometrics.
Gas pressure measurements, and speed measurements.
Pressing resistance.
The ninth semestej was to jnabs4t lsa.tures *a em$rrtor ballistics.
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Schaadt had not yet submitted the training program. It was requested
that lectures be held on methods for the calculation of rocket paths.
6. Schaadt had worked out the following curriculum: The flight path
in vacuous space, according to Pr .Gssor KranV (fnu), the tuning of
ation, ILLEGIB
jewski and
of flight
7. Until the end of the fall semester in 1954 (December) the curriculum
of Faculty III/C was based on the first four basic semesters including
mathematics, physics, chemistry and technical mechanics, which the
students, so fax, could have taken at any East German university or
institute of technology. Students for aircraft engineering had then
to go to Faculty III /C at the Dresden Institute of Technology to
take the specified courses. When Dipl Ing Schaadt started to lecture
in the fall of 1953, there were about 400 students at the faculty,
who had to take three or four required subjects. It was unknown how
these subjects were soordinsted. Later, the students were permitted
to take an a0dities*I adores. After completion of basic semesters at
some btEer university irrd five special semesters at Faculty III./C9
the students were ready for graduation in the tenth semester. It
was possible, however, to graduate later. The eight students attending
Schaadt's courses on ballistics had aerodynamics as :a major subject.
In the spring of 1955, they started their ninth semester. The other
students in their sixth to ninth semesters were also to enter the
next grade in the spring semester. During 1955, the first 100 students
were to be graduated.
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planned establishment of an institute of ballisti
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in 1955? Schaadt was suggested as chief of this institute, and Wolf
was to get a high position at the KVP. The training program was to
include four semesters: interior i1t11i~tt is rior ballistics,
experimental ballistics and special .'e lectures and one
class for a study group were to be The detailed
program was not yet prepared. The institute to be established was
to include one computing office for flight paths located on
24 Duererstrasse, Dresden, and a branch institute of experimental
ballistics at Sonnenstein in Pirna. The Pirna institute was to be
equipped with a flight path model, a firing tunnel and a wind tunnel
which were to exceed the capacity of the former institute in
Geetkift9i._ 19 further details were obtained. The Institute of
Ba stud possible have begun lectures in the spring semester
ofil formation was obtained on the installation of the
required instruments, apparatus and other equipment, and it was
unknown who replaced Schaadt as professor for ballistics.
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9. The faculty sponsored the VPL unit stationed at Kamenz airfield.
Although there was probably no student a VPL member, this
sponsorship made it possible for them through glider training
to make their pilot licenses for conventional and jet aircraft.
10. The library at the Dresden Institute of Technology included
75 percent Soviet publications. The English and American
literature available exceeded the insignificant German
publications in quality and quantity.
11. Professor Dr Willers (fnu) was nominally in charge of the
development of an electronic-computing machine which was
actually handled by Professor N.J. Lehmann who had two assistants
and his own workshop. The project was scheduled to be
completed by the end of 1955. It was learned that the device
had the special advantage-of operating with not more than
1000 tubes. The computer was not to operate A8 fast as the
Mark 1 to Mark 4 type sets, but could do 1,000 additions per
minute. Lehmann had recently visited Moscow and Prague, and
Soviet professors who were interested in this development
frequently visited Dresden.
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