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- ItemDeportation - dismantling - expropriation Jenaer Glaswerk under Soviet command(Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft, 1996) Steiner, JürgenFifty years ago, in October 1946, the Soviet occupation forces issued two Orders which had far-reaching consequences for Jenaer Glaswerk. The first entailed the conscription of 14 glass speciahsts to be sent to work in the Soviet Union for five years, and the second called for the parent works in Jena to be dismantled. After the Americans had deported 41 members of the professional and managerial staff in June 1945 ("The Odyssey of 41 Glassmakers"), events in October 1946 ushered in probably the bitterest chapter in the history of the Company . The expropriation, without compensation, of the works in 1948 and their conversion to a stateowned factory (volkseigener Betrieb) was the absolute low point. Under the exceedingly difficult pohtical and economic conditions prevailing at the time, combined with staff-related problems, the employees of Jenaer Glaswerk went to great effort to rebuild the works. The events of this period resulted in a split-up into two companies for more than forty years.
- ItemGreat son of a great father - On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Erich Schott(Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft, 1991) Steiner, JürgenErich Schott was born 100 years ago, on March 29, 1891. He was the son of Otto Schott, the pioneer of modern glass technology, who had founded in 1884 in Jena, together with Ernst Abbe, Carl and Roderich Zeiss, the later-to-be Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen. Erich Schott grew from early on into the tradition of glass making and, in 1927, he succeeded his father in the glassworks. For more than half a century, he controlled decisively the fortunes of the company in eventful times [1 to 4]. After World War II and the loss of the factory in Jena, Erich Schott conducted the "trek of the 41 glass makers" to the western part of Germany. The crowning event of his life's work was the reconstruction of the present Schott Glaswerke in Mainz. He laid the foundations for the development of the company into Europe's leading special-glass manufacturer. The stock of ideas of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung has always been the guideline of his scientific, entrepreneurial and social activities. In 1956, he was awarded the Otto-Schott-Denkmünze by the Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft that, in 1971, elected Erich Schott its honorary member.
- ItemOtto Schott (1851 to 1935) - Founder of modern glass science and glass technology(Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft, 2001) Steiner, JürgenDecember 17, 2001 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Otto Schott. The glass chemist and glass technician was one of the most important scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He carried out systematic melting trials to research the composition and properties of glass and developed new technological processes for the manufacture of glass. In so doing he created the basis for the development and manufacture of special glasses. In 1884 he founded the Glastechnisches Laboratorium Schott & Genossen in Jena which was the forerunner of the present day Schott Jenaer Glas GmbH, of the foundation enterprise Schott Glas in Mainz and of the whole Schott Group.
- ItemOtto Schott and the invention of borosilicate glass(Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft, 1993) Steiner, JürgenUntil about 1880, only two types of glass were known with respect to their chemical composition: soda-lime-silica glass and lead glass. Although glass containing boron had been manufactured occasionally since the Middle Ages, Otto Schott (1851 to 1935), the founder of the Glastechnisches Laboratorium Schott & Gen. in Jena, was the first to develop borosilicate glass to a level of scientific and industrial maturity. Thus, he was the actual inventor of borosilicate glass - a new, third type of glass. In summer 1893 - now 100 years ago - the Glastechnisches Laboratorium put borosilicate laboratory glassware on the market for the first time. The 100th anniversary of Schott laboratory glass should be the occasion to present the pioneer borosilicate glass research by Otto Schott. At first, he developed glass containing boric acid for optics with improved and predictable optical properties. Based on this work, he turned to technical glass. Thermometer glass, laboratory glass and lamp chimneys were the first fields of application for chemically and thermally resistant borosilicate glass [1; 2, p. 20-29, 36-39; 3]. Otto Schott's invention paved the way for glass as a material to advance into new dimensions and provided the basis for important scientific and technical progress. With the development and mass production of ready-to-use borosilicate glass, the Glastechnisches Laboratorium rose from a scientifically based handwork operation to a leading international group in the special glass sector.