USSR RETURNS APPROPIATED GERMAN ENTERPRISES

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• Sequence Number: 207
• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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USSR RETURNS APPROPRIATED GERMAN ENTERPRISES
TURNS OVER 23 SAG -- Taegliche Rundschau, No 115, 20 May 50
The USSR has turned over to the East German Government 23 Soviet Corpora-
tions (SAG), that is, former German enterprises which had been appropriated
by the Soviet Union as part of its reparations.
Enterprises returned include the UFA Film Studio in`Babelsberg, the Tobis
Film Studio in Berlin, the Afifa Color Film Laboratories, the Meissen Porcelain
Factory, the Olympia Typewriter Plant in Erfurt, the Mifa Bicycle Factory in
Sangerhausen, the Siemens-Halske Electrical Measuring Instrument Plant in
Chemnitz, the Siemens-Schuckert Plant for Porcelain Electrical Fittings in
Neuhaus, and the Plant for Industrial Rubber Products in Woltershausen, Helsen-
han.
The combined innuali7 production of the returned plants, according to the
1950 Plan, is valued at 290 million Deutsche marks, based on 1944 prices.
SAG FILM STUDIOS NOW PEOPLE-OWNED -- Taegliche Rundschau, No 117, 23 May 50
At the beginning of 1949, the UFA Motion Picture Studio in Babelsberg,
the Tobis Moticn Picture Studio in Berlin-Jobannisthal, and the Afifa Color
Film Laboratories in Berlin-Koepenick were merged into the Linse-AG ryens,
Inc , a Soviet-owned corporation (SAG). All three enterprises were recently
turned over to the German Democratic Republic. Ownership of the UFA studio
alone has added approximately 15 million Deutsche marks to the national
capital of the German Democratic Republic.
The UFA studio has a production capacity of 20 films per year. While it
was under USSR control, its director-general was Wikbacheff (fnu), a former
director of the Len-Film Studios in the Soviet Union, The studio was equipped
with the most up-to-date USSR apparatus, valued at 12 million Deutsche marks,
which also has passed into East German hands.
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under SAG ownership, the email ca tle. a.t Pa'.-e.lsberg was turned into a
rest and recreation center for the staff.. A polyclinic was set up at a cost
of 18,000 Deutsche marks; a professional library of 2,000 volumes, a hall of
uituzre, and a moving picture auditorium also were established,
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