Josef Schintlmeister

Josef von Schintlmeister (16 June 1908, Radstadt – 14 August 1971, Hinterglemm) was an Austrian nuclear physicist and an amateur alpinist.

Initially part of the German Uranverein, he was taken into Soviet custody and detained in Russia. There, he was one of many German nuclear physicists working on the Soviet program of nuclear weapons until 1955 when he returned to Austria, only to take teaching position at the TU Dresden, later becoming a senior scientist at the ''Helmholtz''-''Zentrum''. Provided by Wikipedia