1. RESEARCH INSTITUTES DRESDEN 2. PHYSICS INSTITUTE OF LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2008
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• Publication Date: September 26, 1955
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1. Manfred von Ardenne?s Institute for Research on the Physics of Electrons,
Ions, and Ultramieroscopylis located in a villa in Dresden- Weisser Hirsch.
At the beginning of 1955 deep cellars were being constructed under the villa.
By the second week in July 1955 a number of houses in the neighborhood of the
villa had been evacuated and were standing empty.
2. Von Ardenne also directs the work of a recently established research institute
in Dresden-Blasewi.tz, the aims of which are the development and manufacture of
instruments for use in nuclear physi.cs. Dr. Di.pl. Ing. Alfred Frommhold is
expected to be business manager of this institute.
Dr. Werner Hartmann?s business address is Vakutronik, Dornbluether Strasse 14,
Dresden A 21.
4. Prof. Dr. Gustav Hertzias -research head of the Physics Institute, Leipzig
university, directs a team of about LO young research assistants. Among them
are: Dipl. Phys. Dietmar Geissler,K eint (fnu), Liebmann (fnu), and Lohmann
(fnu). Prof. Dr. Phil. Waldemar Ilberg remains administrative head of the
Physics Institute.
The building of new premises f or.the Physics Institute, Leipzig University,
to replace those destroyed during the war was first discussed in 1950. Work
began in 1953. The building was planned in four parts. The first and second
part have been completed and are now in use, the third is nearing completion,
and the fourth has yet to be started. The laboratories and cellars have no
special features. Hertz's appointment to the institute has occasioned no
significant change in building p"la.ns.
6. Hertz has chosen to do research in high, vacuum technques. Field emission
from insulators under high voltages is a toxic being investigated under his
direction.
omme t. The exact title of this institute is Forschungsinstitut
deer Uebermikroskopie and Physik der Ladunastraeger (Research Institute for
Ultramicroscopy and Physics of Charge Carriers).
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East Germany
1. Research Institutes, Dresden
2. Physics Institute of Leipzig
University
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DATE DISTR. 26 September 1955
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