GDR STATE PLANNING COMMISSION REPORTS ON FULFILLMENT OF 1950 ECONOMIC PLAN

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• Publication Date: December 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
GDR STATE PLANNING COMMISSION REPORTS
ON FULFILLMENT OF 1950 ECONOMIC PLAN
The report of the German Democratic Republic's State Planning
Commission on the fulfillment of the 1950 Economic Plan gives de-
tailed information on the development of industry, agriculture, end
transpor*.ation, *he production of capital goods, the expansion oP
commodity sales, end the rise of East German cultural and living
standards under the 1950 plan.
Industrial Developments
Total GDR industrial production during 1950 exceeded the planned 1950 quota
by 9 percent, an increase of 26 percent over 1949. ~pccording to the Berlin
newspaper Nachrich*.en fue:? Aussenhandel of 21 February 1951, the commissina's
r r~ort showed that 1950 production was 12 percent In excess ~?` 1936 figuree~
People-~w~ed industry was largely responsible for this development.
The 1950 quotas were realized by the various branches of industry ae fol-
lows (in percent):
E:ectrlc power
10'(
Mining
102
Metallurgy
116
btachine constriction
lu6
Electrical induary
106
Precisicn mechanics
and op*.ics
98
Chemicals
108
Building materials
9'T
Wood industry
108
Textile industry
119
ether, shoes, and clothing
118
Cellulose
112
Crude lumber
99.9
Polygraphic industry
98
Foo3 industry
110
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~;uotas under the 1950 plan were exceeded considerably for crude brown coal,
potash salt, crude steel, milled aenferrous products, lathes, milling machines,
freight and passenger railroad cars, bicycles, incandescent lamps, typewriters,
calcium carbide, lacquer sad paints, solvents, synthetic rubber, diesel Yuel,
cement; cut wood, ce]lulose wool, knitted apparel and undergarments, ready-made
clothing, and paper,
The quality and variety of industrial products have Leon improved, Signifi-
cant increases have been recorded In the metallurgical, cellvl.ose, food, and
textile industries, and in the production of leather shoes and ready-made cloth-
ing. While planned targets have been fulfilled and exceeded for most of the
important industrial products, heavy industry failed to meet its quotes for black
coal, coppP- c+re, su'_furlc acid, carbon disu1f13e, phosphate fertilizers, bricks,
composition roofing, and window glass. In addition, the machine conetructlon in-
dusrry did net fulfill the planned quotas for diesel motors, metallurgical equip-
ment, rolling troll equipment, mo*.or vehicles, locomotives, steel casting, and
elec*.ric motors over 1C kilowatts. Light industry did not fully meet the reyuire-
meuts for zayon and wool yarn..
The 1956 outpv- r%i Important industrial products compares with 1949 figures
as shown by the f~"Mowing percentages black coal 93, :rude brown coal 108,
brown coal brinvet*.es lfk3. irpn ore i31 of h c ~ t, ^1t~ 112
iron 135, raw steel in blocks 165, rolled.-ferrous metal~productsu219, electrolytic
popper 138, rolled nonferrous metal products 109, ball bearings 160, electric
moters over 1G kilowat*_s 132, freight cars 140, passenger railroad cars 163,
passenger motor vehicles X04, *r a 2'I'_, motorcycles 226, tirycles 156, 22-horse-
power tractorr, 612, 40-horsepo:~~. tractors 602, sulfuric acid 115, calcined sodaw
110, taus?Sc soda 115, phospha*_e fertilizers 12G, automobile tires 155, cement
118, bricks 139, window gloss ll2, incandescent lamps 159, rayon 122, cellulose ~
wool 134, textile fabrics 114, foo?vear 131, leather shoes 132, paper 116, flour
113, dough prod,.ctG Itrricarcr,*_, etc,) 1e5, refined vegetable oil 189, margarine
173, and meat. 179 ,
The available St:dustrlal supply of raw materials, fuels, setaiflnished~rod-
ucts, and capitol Nco;a wr+s gr=ester !n 195^ '.hen 1~ 194y, and more economical
use vas mode of materials ani f._ ~. ,evertteless, gently needed raw materials
were fr_quen*.lv used t.o profluce~items f minor importance, waste wns not always
`held to a minim+am, and local sources were rot exploited sufficiently.
Tile flow of produc?i or. vas net elvavs ever. The output of export goods was
increased considerably, The quality of +.hese goods vas also improved, However,
conversion cf tndcstry to the manufacture of ts.~;ortant Indus*.rial equipment for
export vas not Y,rought abo+a ur.*il tte 'xs*. ;uarter of 1950. Production coats of
people-owned inlustr:.es were f+.irtt,er red!.[ed by lowering the consumption of rax
materials, supplier=, fuels. .nd r`e:trl~ ;rower Sn th? case of certain products,
and 'by Increasing labor efficiency.
Agricultural llevel op ,art s
Iot.al y:eids for the vario?.a craps ~~howed the iblloving percentage increases
over 1949. winter wheat. 13..^. s.~^?:er w%teut 16 ~, sumr.,Fr n?^ ?.6, oats 11.0,
summer barley 19:2, sugar beets 4~1 ~, and potatoes 47,.5,
The 1950 harvest equaled, artd in some cases even surpasse3, the 1934 - 1938
peacetime level, the *ais for *.his tncrease was ~re~!ei by a more regular
supply of seed an3 fertilizers to farm enterprises and by Intensified work of
the machine .entai staticrs.
Fer-hectare yields of people-owned farms were considerably :,igher than average.
For example, winter wheat yielded. 2,930 kilograms per hectare, su~cer wheat 2,590,
summer barley 2,440, and oats 2,626,
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RES~'~nr~ ~ ~.
The number of tractors made available by machine rental stations at the end
of 1950 was 36 percent higher than in December 1949, Tractor capacity increased
25 percen+, from 1949 to 1950, Despite this rise in the over-all capacity of the
machine rental stations, the assignments undertaken by them were not elw~ys fully
accomplished.
Favorable conditions have been establish. .for the 1951 harvest. Fertilizer
supp?.ies made available for the second ha1P of 1950 showed increases of 15 percent
for phosphate and 41 pezcent for potash ;ertilizer over deliveries during the
second half of 1949.
Livestock inventories in the ODR showed an increase of 289,000 head of
cattle, 1,3E_5,000 pigs, and 188,000 sheep from December X949 to the end of 1950.
These increases are all the more remarkable because the number of saimals
slaug'~tered ir. 1950 has been increased ;?.6 percent i'or cattle, 71,2 percent for
pigs, sad X6.9 percent for sheep- According to the livestock census of 3 December
1950, the above number of csttle represented 98.6 and the number of pigs 99.7
percent of planned goals.:
A favorable feed situation and the activities of the Peasants' Mutual Aid
Association is in~truct!ng peasants in the care of livestock have effected an
average increase of 2.1.7 percent in milk production,
A cumber of deficiencies have become apparent in carrying out the agricul-
tural plan. Th.e utilization of cultSvat?d areas vas of*,en assigned arbitrarily
to the kreise, co?munities, an9 vi "ages, regardless of eVis*.ing conditions in
the various regicns. The farmers sid has not yet been suSPiciently developed.
Same people-evnc3 fsrms and m~~h~ne rental s*.atiens still fail to operate
ea a prnfitab'_e basis, t:e:ause of lacf of organization and failure to take full
advantage of progressive *.ec~r.iquec 'Cho people-coned farms have not yet become
centers for *,he i.mole5cmta`_ion and a ssenination of the USSR's modern, scientific
agricultural methods,
increase in T..*aaspor*. at ic?^ -*^1~?ti
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