Edmund Geilenberg

Who was Edmund Geilenberg?

Edmund Geilenberg was a German official of World War II who headed an emergency 1944 decentralization program, the Geilenberg Special Staff, to disperse Nazi Germany oil production. The program included the Cuckoo project for an underground oil plant to be "carved out of the Himmelsburg" North of the Mittelwerk, as well as plans for an oil facility at Ebensee. "Geilenberg used as many as 350,000 men for the repair, rebuilding, and dispersal of the bombed plants and for new underground construction [which] were incomplete when the war ended". Defenses included a June 21, 1944, order for a minimum number of flak guns to be placed at Pölitz, Auschwitz, Hamburg, Brüx