Prof Kurt Diebner as described in the book "The German Atomic Bomb" by David Irving was head of the (German Army's) Heereswaffenamt (HWA) project to develop an Atomic Bomb from enriched Uranium. Dr Paul Harteck and DrErich Bagge developed the Uranium gaseous centrifuge during World War 2 for this Uranium enrichment.

Diebner's project was a rival to those of Dr Werner Heisenberg, whose efforts in the German nuclear energy project were directed towards nuclear power and the creation of Plutonium. Heisenburg belonged to the Kiaser Wilhelm Gesellschaft. Some commentators refer to Heisenburg as the chief nazi nuclear physicist but in terms of financial patronage by the Nazis, Kurt Diebner was viewed as far more important than Heisenburg. Hermann Goering was an important patron of Diebner during late 1943 through the Reichsforschungsrat-Goering.

Diebner's project at Heerswaffenamt was termed Forschungs-stelle E under tha command of General Eric Schumann. Following the plot on Hitler during July 1944, Himmler and his SS took control of the Nazi A-bomb project. Diebner was rounded up at the end of the war as part of the Allied Operation Overcast.

Diebner was born 13 May 1905 at Obernessa am Naumburg. He died in relative obscurity at Uppelive on 13 July 1964. In the Farm Hall transcripts of secretly taped conversations by captured nuclear scientists after WW2, Diebner was assessed by his captors as "Outwardly friendly, but has an unpleasant personality, but cannot be trusted." Diebner probably held much the same view of his captors as one of the transcripts records his conversation with Heisenberg in which Diebner speculated that their conversation was being secretly recorded. Heisenberg scoffed at the idea, but Diebner was clearly cautious that he was being recorded.