Institut fur
Physikalische Forschung Neu Drossenfeld
CIOS XXVIII-41
fur should be:
für!
Visited 30
June 1945
Reported by:
Mr. Walter
Hauz, U.S. Ordnance
CIOS Target
Nos. 1/725 & 6/109
Radar
Directed
Missiles
Keywords:
This institution worked on a television type homing
device before American occupation, and tested it successfully .. ; The target
was assed on 1-2 June 1945 by Capt. R.A. Wright and Lt. G.E. Gross, a CAFT Group
II team ... ; They visited the spinning mill to the north of Bayreuth ... (Neu
Drossenfeld); ... to investigate the target by G-2 T Branch, 12 AG Hq
interrogated these men on 19 and 20 June. The demonstration was not yet ready,
but some schematic diagrams ... ; The writer, believing that the device
justified some investment, urged that demonstration plans be continued .. Means
for sponsoring the work to prevent disintegration of the organisation before a
demonstration can be given were discussed with the commanding officer of G-2,
Ninth Armored Division at Bayreuth. He was very willing to cooperate with all
means .. .. but was unable to authorize susistence wages for the employees on
the project. Third Army Forward and Rear, G-5 were also unable to authorize
this, so action must originate on a higher level; Dr. Rambauske apparently
became interested in an automatic electric eye in connection with his
astronomical and electron optical work in 1939 ... ; During his employ by
Gollnow and Son, 1939-41 he did some work on it with the cooperation of Firma
Fernseh GmbH on the iconoscopes. No immidiate success was met at Gollnow let it
drop. In 1941 he became employed by Askania A.G. as scientific consultant and
head of a small department for high frequency work. At this time he took up the
project again because of general progress in the field; He worked at the berlin
plant of Askania until it was bombed out in 1943. The project then moved to a
branch at Stagard/Pomerania (Pommern, AOB). Dr. Gerlich of Zeiss-Ikon Dresden
was now doing the work on the iconoscopes. Some government decision removed
electronic work from Askania, which was primarily a mechanical device
manufacturer (gyroscopes). It was proposed to transfer the project to
Zeiss-Ikon, but this could not be arranged, so a separate organization was
created, with Dr. Rambauske as leader and was named Institut für Physikalische
Forschung. This organization received its money and men from the RLM and the
Arbeitsfront and was, along with many other similar small institutes, under the
supervision of the Gesellschaft für Forschung und Entwicklung. The latter had
headquarters in Berlin and was headed by Dr. Lafferentz ... ; work was engaged
at Kulmbach .. ; Rambauske destroyed completed models as ordered by the germans,
but retained incomplete apparatus and some iconoscopes; The device had allegedly
been successfully tested on the Madusee near Stargard/Pomerania (Pomern, AOB)
... ; History of Dr. Rambauske born 18 March 1911 in Breslau, moved in 1923 to
near Stettin, where all his family .... Attended Gymnasium the Universities of
Würzburg, Munich Göttingen and Berlin, where he studied mathematics, physics,
astronomy and music. He stayed for a year at the astrophysical Observatory at
Potsdam and took his docorate under Professors Grotrian and Guthnick in 1938;
Dr. Krohs worked on screen materials; servo motors ...
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