Kurt Diebner
German physicist
Died when: 59 years 61 days (710 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Kurt Diebner (13 May 1905 – 13 July 1964) was a German nuclear physicist who was well known for directing and administrating the German nuclear energy project, a secretive program aiming to build nuclear weapons for Nazi Germany during World War II.
He was appointed the project's administrative director after Adolf Hitler authorized it.Diebner was also the director of the Nuclear Research Council and a Reich Planning Officer for the German Army until its surrender to Allied Powers in 1945.
After the war, he was incarcerated in the United Kingdom and repatriated back to West Germany in early 1946.Shortly after his return, he became director and joint owner of DURAG-Apparatebau GmbH, and was a member of the supervisory board of the Gesellschaft zur Kernenergieverwertung in Schiffbau und Schiffahrt m.b.H
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