WARNOW-WERFT WARNEMUENDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100520004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORMATION REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
COUNTRY
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East Germany
Wsrnow-Werf t, Warnentuende
nkamlau or TITLE to. sicnONS 79
AND 7114 OF THE 11 ~S. COD..AS AHSH
DBD. ITS TRARSr SSIOR OR REVEL.
ATIOR 0:- ITS C0FTENTS T
O OR RECEIPT DT AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROM 31TED ?T LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THig FORK IS PROHIBITED.
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DATE DISTR. 19 It rch 1953
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
2. The shipyard consisted of
sect an
Steel ship building
Shipbuilding forge
Storehouse
Machine shop
Tinsmith's shop
Joiners shop
Carpenter's shop
Transportation section
General technical section
Investment section
1, The Warn w Werft (Warnow Shipyard) in Warnemuende was equipped for both
ship repair work and the construction of new seagoing ships. The manager
of t} shipyard was Ems, Erich Druf; his deputy was Eng. Karl Lettow0
The managing engineer was Dipl. Irng.. Ruth Geist; the chief technologist
was Eng.. Techen (fnu); the latter's.deputy was Eng. Prause (fnu)? The
administrative manager was chief bookkeeper Hermann Ehlers, whose deputy
was &ich Schlimm; the cormercial manager was Kroeplin (fnu),1- The labor
force of the shipyard, numbered about 8,5000 employees.
the following 10 sections:
Section Chief
Schoop (fnu)
Feistel (fnu)
Oldenburg (fnu)
Nabel (fnu)
Rogge (fnu)
unidentified
unidentified
unidentified
Kowitz (fnu)
Koehler (fnu)
I cat,on
New shipbuilding shop
Shops I and II
Shop III
Shop IV
Shop XX
Shop XXI
Carpenter's shop
unidentified
Shop VIII
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The new shipbuilding shop, 100x200 meters, allegedly the largest of its
aei no in Europe, was 50 percent complete in September 1952. Machinery
aiid other devices were installed in September.2 The mold loft above
she new shipbuilding shop was 125 meters long.
Th - mid-September 1952, the first, second, third and fourth shipways
tx e completed 100, 95, 60 and 40 percent respectively. The outfitting
sh,p 109 was 100 percent complete, outfitting shops 105 and 106 were
95 percent complete and. outfitting shops 101 through 104 were still
under construction. The newly erected building of the large canteen
ho~iae was 85 percent completed. The construction of transformer station
2 ?aas completed on 16 September. A cable crane installation, 49 meters
high, was under construction. The total investment capital of the
shipyard amounted to 36 million east?arks.
Jn A. type-IV experimental section for a. type-IV freighter which had been
under construction on thFi first slipway, was removed from the slipway
tbe..ause of lack of material and was stored in. workshop bay B near, and
we It of, the slipway-. The floatb of the first slipway were removed
up to the middle to make possible the laying of keels of 65-meter
passenger ships. The shipyard was to build a total of 38 passenger
vessels, each 65 meters long, for use on the Volga River in the U.S.S.R.
It was planned simultaneously to lay three ships on each slipway. The
first series of six vessels was scheduled to be completed by February
or March 1953. The first ship of the series was to be afloat by 21
December 1952. Laths and patterns for this type of vessels were constructed
in the new mold loft. The material which was to come from the U.S.S.R. was
t;. unavailable in mid-September.
6 The shipyard planned to build a 1,500 ton freighter, a 500 ton freighter,
.ant': a training ship for the U.S.S.R. in 1953.4.
8, The sheet metal for the shipyard was supplied by rolling mills in
lsenburg, Thale im Harz, Riess: in S?xonyand by rolling mills in the
HH3S.S.R. The sheet metal quota allotted for the construction of ships
was 500 tons for July, August and September 1952 The actual supply
Was 10 percent of this quota until 16 September.' The plates received
differed very much in thickness; for example, some of the 7-mm plates
ordered were only 6.6 millimeters thick..As the angle iron supply also
was unsatisfactory? most of the angles were made from sheet metal by
the shipyard. The supply of screws, bolts and rivets was absolutely
insufficient. Washers were made in the, shipyard.
Shipyard manager Erich Druf and his de
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had been aircraft constructors at the feinkel-Werke,
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ent. For a list of the equipment of the new shipbuilding shop
the machine shop, see Annex. The machines and the equipment listed
and
there were recently manufactured in East Germany.
3. C ant. The discontinuation of the construction of the type-IV
m~src snt skhip was previously reported
omment. Available documents indicate that the construction of
four type-IV merchant ships was scheduled'for 1953. It is possible,
however, that the original building program was dropped because the
shipyard was overloaded with Soviet orders for ra'air of ships as it
presumably will be in. 1953.
C mr nt For details on ships under repair, see previous report
lCo ant The shipyards in East Germs n are supplied with sheet
metal from the U.S.S.R. or East Germany as well as, to a considerable
extent, from western European countries.
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11ac zi.nery and other equipment of the new shipbuilding shop.
l :oiler shears, cutting straight up to 16 mm and V-seam cutting.
2 ?r)iysee-type acetylene cutting machines.
I lever shears, cutting up to 25 mm.
1 500 -ton shipbuilding press, supplied by VVB Abus Wildau.
1 oil-fired annealing furnace for ship frames, 18 meters long and
:pitted with swage block supports.
1 Tmiversal punching, edging and cutting machine.
3 drilling machines for-holes up to 25 mm in diameter.
2 :10 ton traveling cranes in shop bay A.
3 10 ton traveling. cranes one each in shop bays B, C, D.
3 Damag-type hoists each in shop bays A, By 0, D.
1 large sheet straightening roller in front of the new shipbuilding
shpp.
1 small sheet straightening roller in front of the new shipbuilding
3hcp.
EqujLp,r~enM of the machine shop:
long planing machines.
1 al:t_dr?ich-type lathe.
large boring- and -turning rings .
3 -turret lathes.
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