GDR IMPORTS DURING THE SECOND HALF OF 1951

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r'I:NTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
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PUBLISHED
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DATE
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LANGUAGE
GDR; USSR; Peoples Democracies
Economic - Foreign trade
Daily newspapers
German Democratic Lepublic
7 Jul 1951 - 4 Jan 1952
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
GDR IlP0RTS DURING THE SECOND HALF OF 1951
Thfollwaieg compilation of imports received by the German
Democratic Republic (GDR) during the second half of 1951 is based on
a survey of ten lee.ling daily newspapers published in East'Ber)tn
and in the five Laender of the GDR from 1 July to 31 December 1951.
Slate-c, .1 parentheses refer to appended sources.
7 July
During the first'5 days of'July 1951, 104 carloads of beer and pork from
the USSR arrived in Frankfurt/oder. (1)
8July
Daring the last 5 days, 5,256,000 eggs arrived in Frankfurt/Oder from
Poland,(2)
13 Jay
During the last few days, 94 carloads of prime beef, pork, and lard from
the USSR arrived in Leipzig.(3)
14 J91y
From 2 to 4 J 1.951, 65 carloads of beef and pork from the USSR arrived
in Frankfurt/Oder-01
16 JU
From 9 to 11 Daly 1951, 65?'carloads of beef and pork arrived from the USSR
in Frankfurt/Oder.(5)
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From 8 to 14 July 1951, the office for CEEas17 German Foreign Trade received
from the USSR 927 carloads of barley, oat', and wheat, and 13 carloads of lard
for transshipment to the Laender of the OR.
The RO (Trade Organization) received 30 carloads of fresh eggs, 42 carloads
of cherries and blueberries, and two carloads of canned fish from the People's
Republic of Poland.(6)
25 July
From 15 to 21 July 1951, 30 carloads of beef and pork arrived from the USSR
in Frankfurt/Oder for transshipment to the Laender of the OR.
The people-owned Patent-Lineol Factory in Brandenburg Havel received 20
tons of thin m al plate from the USSR during the same period. (7)
8 August
On 4 and 5 August 1951, 24 carloads of butter, 12 carloads of rendered but-
ter, and 5 carloads of lard from the USSR arrived in Frankfurt Oder for distri-
bution in the Laender of the GDR.(8)
22 August
Twenty-four carloads of butter, two carloads of rendered butter, five car-
loads of lard, and 60 tons of tea from the USSR have arrived in Frankfurt/Oder.
From People's Republic of Poland, several carloads of whortle berries and
20 carloads of cauliflower were received.(9)
29 Be t
From 19 ren-
dered butter tfromSth~SRlarrived inF~furof butter +/Oder. Adlar12 carloads ge ships~ent fof rice
wan also received from the USSR.(10)
5 September
During the past we,*k, 45 carloads of fresh butter, 6 carloads of rendered
butter, 2 carloads of lard, and 11 carloads of rice arrived from the USSR in
Frankfurt/Oder.
During the same time, 12 carloads of high-grade strawberry pulp for pro-
cessing by the marmalade industry arrived from Poland.(11)
12 September
From 3 to 8 September 1951, 70 carloads of butter, 14 carloads of rendered
butter, and three carloads of lard arrived in Frankfurt/Oder from the USSR. In
addition, the USSR delivered 18 carloads of rice and 10 tons of tea.
During the same period, Poland shipped 75 carloads of fruit and vege-
tables.(12)
L9_2 e Member
From 7 to 13 September 1951, 33 carloads of butter,.8 carloads of rendered
butter, 14 carloads of lard, and 11 carloads of rice arrived in Frankfurt/Oder
from the USSR.
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During the same period, 30 carloads of fruits and vegetables were received
from Poland.(13)
During Jtit1,y and August 1951, Thueringen received 1,638 tons of prime beef
and pork, 336 tons of butter, 403 tons of lard, and 182.6 tons of rendered but-
ter from the USSR.
During the same period, Poland and the Scandinavian countries shipped 36
tons of bacon and 813 tons of fish to the GDR.(14)
27 September
From 21 to 24 September 1951, eight carloads of butter, four carloads of
rendered butter, and two carloads of lard arrived in Frankfurt/Oder from the
USSR.
During the same time, 32 carloads of fruits and vegetables were received
from Poland.(15)
From 1 to 20 September 1951, 81 carloads of imported fresh and frozen meat
arrived in Leipzig from Hungary, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
During the same period, several carloads of fats, including two carload, of
high-quality rendered butter, arrived in Leipzig from the USSR.(16)
4 October
From 24 to 29 September 1951, 26 carloads of butter, 17 carloads of rendered
butter, and four carloads of lard from the USSR arrived in Frankfurt/Oder.
During the same period, three carloads of canned meat for distribution by
the HO arrived from Poland.(17)
14 October
During the last 2 weeks, the ships Helgoland and Thy7ana unloaded in Ros-
tock 2,743 head of beef cattle from Denmark.
18 October
From 12 to 15 October 1951, 16 carloads of butter, rendered butter, and
lard, and three carloads of tea arrived in Frankfurt/Oder from the USSR. In
addition, 14 carloads of fresh and canned fish and 16 carloads of fruits and
vegetables from Poland arrived in Frankfurt/Oder.(19)
20 October
From Jtily to September 1951, the GDR imported 290 tons of meat from Den-
mark, 145 tons from Hungary, and 78 tone from Bulgaria. A total of 484 ton,
of butter were received from Denmark, Sweden, and Holland.(20)
21 October
ietveen July and September 1951, Sachsen-Anbalt received 55,250 tons of
food mPorts, mainly from the USSR. The USSR ehipp_d over 47,000 tone of
grain, 1,038 tons of most, 633 tons of butter, 141 tons of rendered butter,
390 tons of slaughter fat, 1,206 tone of oily grains, and 436 tons of crude
oil.(21)
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From 14 to 20 October 1951, .j.2 carloads of butter from the USSR and 24 car-
loads of fresh fish, 3 carloads of canned fish, ana 2 carloads of poultry from
Poland arrived et Frankfurt/Odor.(22)
27 October
From 1 to 20 October 1951, Leipzig received 13 carloads of butter and 20
carloads of rendered butter from the USSR, 25 carloads of beef from Denmark, and
one carload of poultry from Hungay.(23)
31 October
From 21 to 27 October 1951, 18 carloads of butter, two carloads of rendered
bitter, and two carloads of tea arrived in Frankfurt/Oder from the USSR.
During the same period four carloads of poultry, six carloads of fresh fish,
and four carloads of fruits and vegetables were received from Poland.(24)
31 October
During the third quarter of 1951, 131 tons of high-grade beef and 94 tons
of pork arrived at the slaughterhouses and stockyards in Chemnitz from the USSR,
Hungary,, and Bulgaria. During October 1951, Chemnitz received 108 tons of meat
from Bulgaria.(25)
11 November
During the first 9 months of 1951, Land Sachsen-Anhalt received 150 million
kilograms of food from the USSR, including 2,617,000 kilograms of butter,
490,000 kilograms of bacon, 841 000 kilograms of rendered butter, 4,667,000 kilo-
;rams of oil, and 4,170,000 kii..grams of meat.(24)
14 November
Poland shipped 15 carloads of butter, 4 carloads of rendered butter, 3 car-
loads of lard, 3 carloads of edible oil, and 3 carloads of poultry to Frankfurt.,'
Oder.(27)
21 November
The USSR shipped 23 carloads of edible oil, four carloads of butter, and
three carloads of lard to Frankfurt/Oder.(28)
28 November
From 18 to 24 November 1951, 20 carloads of edible oil, ten carloads of
butter,and flva carloads of beef from the USSR arrived at Frankfurt/Oder.
During the same period, Poland shipped 9 carloads of poultry, one carload
of fresh meat, nd seven carloads of vegetables for the HO stores. (29)
2y November
In 1951, Thuertngen received 14,500,000 kilograms of food imports, con-
sisting chiefly of fats and meats, from the USSR and the Pr).'.e's Democra-
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Oder.
For the Christmas trade, the Thueringn 110 stores received 10,000 kilograms
of lemons and large quantities of red and white vine from Hungary, Bulgaria, and
Rumania, and apples from Denmark.(31)
5 December
During the
loads of beef last week of November 1951, 37 carloads of edible oil and 3 car-
arrived in F'ankiurt/Oder from the USSR.
rived from ppthe same ,eriod, 15 carloads of fowl and 19 carloads of fruits ar-
From 3 to 7 December 1951, 72 carloads of edible oil, nine carloads of but-
ter, and four carloads of rendered butter arrived in Frankfurt/Oder from the
USSR.
During the same week, 21 carloads of poultry and ten carloads of fruits ar-
rived from Poland-(33)
20 December
Last week, 28 carloads of edible oil from the USSR arrived at Frarlcfurt
During the same period, Poland supplied 38 carloads of fowl, eight carloads
of fresh carp, and 12 carloads of apples.(34)
DI PORTS OF RAW W TERIALS FOR THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY
Large quaiitl.Lies of natural silk from the People's Republic of China have
been received by the Tannenberg Artificial Silk Mills and by the Derga/Elster
Thread Mills. T'he material will be converted into sewing thread.(35)
25 August
From 1 to 22 August 1951, 100 carloads of USSR raw wool arrived at the
Leipzig Wool-Carding Plant. The Leipzig Cotton Mills received 27 carloads of
cottcn from the USSR.(36)
19 SeF;;ember
During the first half of September 1951, 25 carloads of high_grade unproc-
eased wool from the USSR were received by the Leipzig Wool-Carding Plant for
distribution to the various processing industries. At the same time, four car-
loads of amprocesseA w--o1 from. Iceland and 13 carloads of
USE arrived in Leipzig-(37) raw cotton from the
23 September
During August 1951, 150 tons of sheep's wool from the USSR were allotted
to the People-owned worsted mills in Rodewisch, Kreis Auerbach, for pro cessing
into high-grade yarns for the textile mills of the CDR.(38)
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24 September
The Werdsu Tuchfabrik (textile mills) has received 34 tons of cotton from
the USSR during the third quarter of 1951.(39)
6 October
The people-owned cotton mills received over 10,000 tons of cotton from the
the USSR between January and September 1951. (40)
17 October
During the first half of October
received by the Leipzig Cotton Mill. 19 carloads of USSR raw cotton were
,
During the same period, eight carloads of high-grade unprocessed wool and
camel's hair Vcre
Republic of China.(41)ived by the Leipzig Wool-Carding Mill from the people,,
23 November
(42) The Leipzig Cotton Mills received 36 carloads of raw cotton frog the USSR.
14 December
The Leipzig Cotton Mills received 47 carloads of raw cotton from the USSR
during November. (43)
2 January 52
At the end of December 1951, 50 carloads of uncarded wool arrived at the
Leipzig Wool-Carding Plant. The wool will be shipped to the carded yarn and
felt plants in Sachsen and Thueringen.(44)
14 July
The first trainload of high-grade ore has arrived at the Oat Metallurgical
Combine near Fuerstanberg/Oiler from the Krivoy Rog mining region in the USSR.(45)
19 July
From 8 to 19 July 1951, the Ost Metallurgical Combine received 72 carloads
of, iron ore from the USSR. (46)
24? July
The first 15 carloads of coke from Poland have arrived at the Cst Metal-
lurgical Combine. The USSR also .sup '4 220 additional carloads of iron ore.
(47)
28 July
A total of 600 tons of coke, consisting of 31 carloads from the USSR and
two carloads from Poland, have arrived in Eisleben.(48)
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August
From 5 to 8 August 1951, 500 carloads of iron ore from the USSR arrived in
Frankfurt/Oder for transshipment to the Oat Metallurgical Combine in Puersten-
berg/Oder.(49)
28 August
On 26 August, 1,200 tons of USSR coke from the Donets Basin and 450 tons
of coke from Poland and Czechoslovakia arrived at Eisleben. The shipments were
earmarked for the Wilhelm Pieck Combine in Mansfeld.(50)
10 November
During the last few days, six carloads of structural steel, anchor chains,
metal pipes, and steel bars arrived at Rostock harbor from the USSR. In October
1951, the USSR supplied 18 carloads of this material to the shipbuilding- indus-
try.(51)
The Chemnitz Gasworks received 3,000 tons of black coal from Poland during
the last few Pays. This makes a total of 45,000 tons of coal which Poland has
supplied since the beginning of 1951.(52)
7 December
Freighters from the USSR unloaded 14,000 tons of steel and iron plates,
copper, manganese, and asbestos, to be used for shipbuilding, at Mecklenburg
Ports. In addition, 100 carloads of Soviet shipbuilding materials, structural
steel, anchor chains, iron pipes, and round steel bars were shipped by the USSR
to Rostock.(53)
4 ranuar 52
More than 830 carloads of high-grade iron from the USSR and Hungary were
received by the Lippendorf Ferroalloy Plant near Leipzig at the end of December.
(54)
Ju
27
Eight carloads of first-quality bristles and a large order of badger hair
arrived in Leipzig from the People's Republic of China. The material will be
used for the manufacture of brushes.(55)
3 August
The third shipment of high-grade casings from China arrived at the Mark-
neukirchen people-owned catgut and string factory during the past few days.
Most of the surgical thread and strings for musical instruments made from ear-
lier shipments have already been distributed.(56)
25 August
Large shipments of hemp from the People's Republic of China have arrived in
the GDR. Most of the material was shipped to the people-owned rope factories in
Annaberg, Leobau, and Muldau (Sachsen), and to the Schlotheim Plant in Thuer-
ingen.(57)
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1. Berlin, Taegliche Rundschau, 7 Jul 51
2. Potsdam, Maerkische Volksstimme, 8?Jul 51
3. Taegliche Rundschau, 13 Jul 51
4. Maerkische Volksstimne, 14 Jul 51
5. Schwerin, Landeszeitung, 16 Jul 51
6. Taegliche Rundschau, 19 Jul 51
7. Berlin, Nacht Express, 25 Jul 51
8. Taegliche Rundschau, 8 Aug 51
9. Nacht Express, 22 Aug 51
10. Taegliche Rundschau, 29 Aug 51
U. Ibid., 5 Sep 51
12. Maerkische Volksstimme, 12 Sep 51
13. Nacht Express, 19 Sep 51
14. Chemnitz, Volkestimme, 25 Sen 51
15. Thegliche Rundschau, 27 Sep 51
16. Ibid., 29 Sep
17. Weiner, Das Volk. 4 Oct 51
18. Taegliche Rundschau, 14 Oct 51
19. Nacht Express, 18 Oct
20. Ibid., 20 Oct 51
21. Taegliche RimC.achau, 21 Oct 51
22. Das Volk, 24 Oct 51
23. Plauen, Freie Presse, 27 Oct 51
24. Taegliche Rundschau, 31 Oct 51
25. Landeszeitung, 31 Oct 51
26. Taegliche Rundschau, 11 Nov 51,
27. Nacht Express, 14 Nov 51
28. Maerkische Volksstimme, 21 Nov 51
29. Taegliche Rundschau, 28 Nov 51
30. Ibid., 29 Nov 51
31. Ibid., 1 Dec 51
32. Landszeitung, 5 Dec 51
33. Taegliche Rundschau, 12 Dec 51
34. Nacht Express, 20 Dec
35. Taegliche Rundschau, 18 Aug 51
36. Ibid., 25 Aug 51
37. Freie Presse, 19 Sep 51
38. Taegliche Rundschau, 23 Sep 51
39. Freie Presse, 24 Sep 51
40. Nacht Express, 6 Oct 51
41. Ibid., 1'r Oct 51
42. Ibid., 23 Nov 51
43. Leipzig, Leipzigez Volkszeitung, 14 Dec 51
44. Landeszeitung, 2 Jan 52
45. Freie Presse, 14 Jul. 51
46. Taegliche Rundschau, 19 Jul 51
47. Ibid., 24 Jul 51
48. Ibid., 28 Jul 51
49. Ibid., 8 Aug 51
50. Ibid., 28 Aug 51
51. Ibid., 10 Nov 51
52. Das Volk, 27 Nov 51
53. Frele Presse, 7 Dec 51
54. Nacht Express, 4 Jan 52
55. Taegliche Rundschau, 27 Jul 51
56. Freie Presse, 3 Aug 51
57. Taegliche Rundschau, 25 ;ug 51
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