Erich Bagge

Erich Rudolf Bagge (born 30 May 1912, died 1996), German scientist. Bagge, a PhD student of Werner Heisenberg, was engaged in German Atomic Energy research during the Second World War. He worked as an Assistant at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik in Berlin. From June to December 1945, Bagge was, together with Kurt Diebner, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Werner Heisenberg, Horst Korschning, Max von Laue, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Karl Wirtz, detained at Farm Hall near Cambridge, England. After the war, Bagge became Professor in Hamburg, later Professor and Head of the Department of Physics at the University of Kiel, Germany. He was also Head of the Gesellschaft für Kernenergieverwertung in Schiffbau und Schiffahrt (GKSS) near Hamburg.

Further Reading

Sir Charles Frank (ed), Operation Epsilon. The Farm Hall Transcripts, Bristol and Philadelphia 1993

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