Erich Bagge

Erich Rudolf Bagge (1912–1996), was a German scientist engaged in German Atomic Energy research and the German nuclear energy project during the Second World War. He developed a gaseous uranium enrichment device (Isotopenschleuse or isotope sluice) for enriching the U-235 isotope content of uranium in 1944. In 1945, he was one of several scientists captured by the Allied Forces at the end of the War. After he was released, Bagge went work at the University of Kiel.

Erich Bagge in The Man With the Iron Heart
Erich Bagge (1912-1947) was one of several scientists captured by the German Freedom Front in 1946. It had been Reinhard Heydrich's hope that the scientists might build the GFF an atomic bomb. Karl Wirtz disabused Heydrich of that notion.

Nonetheless, Bagge and his fellows were held in the underground Alpine Redoubt until 1947. When American forces arrived, Heydrich escaped, and ordered Bagge and several other scientists killed.