FEDERATIONS OF PEOPLE-OWNED INDUSTRY IN BERLIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 159
• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Soviet Zone Germany
SUBJECT Economic - Industrial.
HOW
PUBLISHED Semimonthly periodic9l.
WHERE
PUBLISHED berlin
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 Aug 1949
LANGUAGE German
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SOURCE Die Wirtschafty No 15, 1949-
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIST. Jun.1950
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
On 7 February 1949, the municipal government of the Soviet sector of Ber-
lin issues a decree ordering the confiscation of properties of war criminals
and active Nazis and their transfer to public ownership. This meant a change-
over from simple administration of the properties to actual management with
operational assignments.
Seven federations of people-owned plants of Berlin were formed, as fol-
No of Plants
Appioximate
No of Employees
Federation of People-Owned Machine-Building
and Metallurgical Plants
General machine building 32 5,600
Metal-woiking industry 37 4,500
Metallurgy 16 7 2,700
Vehicle construction
Federation of People-Owned Electrical Plants
Federation of People-Owned Chemical Plants
Sparte Chemicals 31 3,500
Industrial gases 6 400
Laundries and dyeing establishments 13 1,000
Federation of People-Owned Light Industry Plants
Light industry
Clathing
Woodworking
2,200
9 4,000
22 1,000
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Approximate
No of Plants No of Employees
,Federation of People-owned Food
and Beverage-Processing Plants
Distilleries
6
250
Breweries
10
2,000
0
Tobacco processing
3
6
55
Mills and elevators
Processed ford product-
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700
Federation of People-Owned Building 10,000
and Building Materials Plants 15
Federation of People-Owned Printing 23 1,800
and Paper-Processing Plants
Thus, nearly 50,000 persons are working in the 288 people-owned plants,
which include almost 49 percent of all industrial employees in the Soviet Sec-
tor of Berlin, although the number of people-owned plants is only 17.3 percent
of the total number (,1,665 plants) of industrial plants in the sector. In
1948, in all of Berlin there were about 5,800 plants with 258,000 employees.
A number of people-owned plants in Berlin have contracts with the corre-
sponding zonal federations to facilitate coordination and the completion of
the plan,.
At the head of each federation there is a chief director, who is also ex-
clusively responeibie for personnel matters,. There is also a directorate and
a council, the latter an advisory body composed of a representative from each
of the democratic pa.rtlea, one from the FDBG, one from each of the competent
IG (Interessengemeinschaft, community of interests), and five representativ4s
from the plants which belong to the federation.
So far as investments in these plants are concerned, special emphasis is
placed on plants which manufacture for export, particularly the electrical in-
dustry, At present, about 15 percent of all persons working in the electrical
industry in Berlin work in people-owned plants., This number must be consider-
ably increased, and production emphasis must be placed on motors, transformers,
turbogenerators, radios, and incandescent bulbs.
Some of the more important plants which belong to the federations include
the following:
Metallurgy
The German Brass Works, "Admos," Hartung and Jachmann
Machinery Construction
Berlin Machine-Tool Factory (formerly Kdrger), Jung, Bergmann-Borsig (suc-
cessor to the Borsig plant in the French sector), German Niles Plant
Metal working Industry
Injects, Pintsch, Berlin Steel Construction;, Gebbers and company (a sister
plant of Bergmann--Borsig)
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Electrical Industry
TEO (formerly PEG `.Xransformers), Graetz AG, Berlin Incandescent Light Plant
(formerly Osram, D Plant)
Chemicals
Potash Chemicals, Schering (three plants), GrUnau Chemical Factory
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