CRANES TO BE BUILT DURING 1953 BY KRANBAU EBERSWALDE FOR REPARATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY
East Germany
DATE DISTR.
SUBJECT
Cranes to be Built during 1953 by Kranbau
NO. OF PAGES
PLACE
Eberswa;lde for Reparations
NO. OF ENCLS.
ACQUIRED
(LISTED BELOW)
DATE OF
25X1A
SUPPLEMENT TO
INFO.
REPORT NO.
"Narjad"? Number Approximate
Number of hrticle Value in Thousands
hrticles of D :1.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
25X1X
1,; On 26 November 1952 the Administration for Rep-retions of the SCC (Verwa1_tung
fuer Reparationen SK'CD) inforned ?d3US Kranbau hberswalde that it ~tius to construct
34 cranes for reparations in 1953? Specifications for part of the cranes
had already been forwarded to rberswalde, The +'+dr:inistration se-t up the_.
following delivery schedule for the cranes:
P pril
Fay
June
July 5
1-.ugust. 5
S ept: enb er 5
October 4
November 3
2? Kranbau therswa.lde wil actually have to rianufacture 36 cranes for reparations
in 1953, since orders for two additional cranes wore already on hand before
the Adrinistration's letter of 26 November. As of 4 December 1952 specificat: ons
for the fo j_lowing 28 cranes had been turned in to iberswalde:
Order
Nu1;:ber
52ll6
R '10/30425 2 Gantry cranes 10 tons x
25 rasters (?..ith grab and
lifting hook); working
temperature: -250C
R 70/30421 3 Gantry cranes 10 tons x
32 meters (with grab and
lifting hook); working
temperature:-250;
Probable
Deliver Dete
1:,040
20 i~.arch/
30 f _arch 1953
1,938
25 April/
5 i::ay/ 15 i%ay.
1953
5 Rotary-tower cranes 2.,5- 6 1i,670
tonsx 32 ? 34 meters (with
grab); working Cenpperature:
-250C
CLASSIFICATION SECRET
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To Ev r
20 ;-.ay/5 June/
20 June/5 Jule=-,d
20 July 1953
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"Naryad"
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112
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512305
5121309
2
5121122
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5M323
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5121322
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5221294
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5121292
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App?_-jximate
Article Value in Thousands
(Z UM. ;
Gantry crane 8 =3J0 1?400
tons x 28 ? 8 aneO-Lars
(with grab and 1lifting
hook) Q working. ~t,e:mpera==
sure: 4m?
Gantry cranes 115 tons x 1?70t
8 =}0 meters;; working
temperatura: ~5?C
Gantry crr year; 10 tons x . 1,292
32 rr otera (wilth grab and
lifting hook)) wafting
temperature: -40?C
Gantry crane t - 30 tons x 1,4
30 - 6 met err+ + ((with grab and
'lifting hook);; working
s ,Breamerature;,-14
Gantry cranes 10 tones x 4,, 380
;30 meters ((with grab and
lifting hook));; working
temperature 00C
Gantry crane :10 tons x 640,
3cmeterrs (with grab and
lifting hook),; working
temperature: - }00C.
Gantry cranes 10 tone x la,t40
8 .- 25 meters (with grab
and lifting hook); working
temperature; ...25?C
Probable
Deliver Date
22 August 1953
7 Augwst/ 15
August 1953
7 April/ 16 April
1953
30 August 1953
10 June/ 26 May/
30 June/ 10 Jul yl
15 July/ 25 July/
I. August 1953
30. ,y 1953
5 S ept emberr/
10 September 1953
Gantry cranes 15 tons x 1700 15 Sept ember//
8 25 meters (with grab 20 September 1953
and lifting hook); working
temperature: -259C
3.. The 28 cranes ordered so far will therefore cost approximately 18 million ME:.
The 8 cranes for which no specifications had been received as of 4 December
1952 will cost about six million DME? Thus about 24 million DME from
Eberswalde wil go exclusively for reparations in 1953. In addition, deliveries
for the first quarter for which the raw material is already on hand amount to
about 5 million DIE; of this sus about 3?7 million DME are for P 2 deliveries..
For the deliveries for the , first quarter of 1953 kberswalde is relying on the
contractual approval (vertraglicher Zusagen) of the ordering party,, Dleichert
of SAG Tranvnash,.
4:. An electrically powered bridge crane for Polienex, Warsaw,, worth approximately
one million D2E is not included in the deliveries mentioned above, All except
135 tons of the raw material for the bridge crane is on hand at -'berswalde,
Very little of the raw material for a second bridge crane for Polimex is on
hand,, and it Is probable that the crane will not be delivered to Polimex in 1953y,
if at all; Polimex may cancel the order completely since the crane is needed
only for the months from Marc, to September each year,
Planned K.rynbau :rlerswal.de production (presumably non-=reparations production)
.for the first quarter of 1953 is as follows:
Artics:.e
Purchaser
Approximate Value in
Thousands of DME
1 Grab,, 0,, 5 cu., m capacity
Kunstseidenwerrk Prre nits
4
1 Round timber grab (Rundholz
grtieifer)
Zellstoffwerkk
Merrseberg
.7
Parts for crane superst-u, tur?e
and substructure for 5 f1?~aatir g 81ed1.;.:c 2 Leipzig 3,710?.
cranes 15 toms x 25 getters.
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Article Purchaser
I Bridge crane 15 tons SchiffewerftOdorberg 250
2 Gantry cranes 10 tons Y.
25 meters., spare parts and Soviet Control Commission 90
packing for same
b? Thus, the situation at Kranbau 1berswalde is as follows:
Plan production (Planauflage) for 1953 24,000,000 DME
1953 Reparations Orders 240001,000 DMA;
Deliveries for the firaaat a?ter 1953 5,000,000 DME
Preliminary work on the bridge crane for Polimex 1,O00;,000 Du E
IKranbau iberswalde will therefore have to withdraw from remaining 1952 contracts
amounting to about 9,500,000 DME,
T. On 6 November 1952 the Main Administration for Heavy Machine Construction of the
Ministry for Machine Construction ordered a:berswaalde to subcontract for direct
reparations orders with ABUS Foerderaaanlagen Leipzig=, The suggested amount was
three million DME? On 20 November 1952, however, the Main Adminiasatrati a wrote
Eberswaalde concerning allocations for the reparations plan and stated that Ebers=
walde was to take over the following amounts of structural metal (Metallkonstruktion
into its production plan (Planauflage) 0 100 tons from the Ernst- Thaaaelmannwerke
l,600 tons from Unruh & Liebig; and 2;,000 tons from Bleichert,, The A erswaalde
production plan for 1953 had already been exceeded,, howeverk, and for that reason
?'::e plant director of rberswalde wrote the Fain Administration on 3 December 1952
that his factory could not take over P 2 production. kberswalde has already
finished about-1,,5O0 tons of P 2 fabrication for Bleichert in the first quarter
of 1953, so the demands for Bleichoat stated in the Main Administration's letter
of 20 November have almost been fulfilled The hberswalde plant. director
suggested that P 2 production for the Ernst Thaelmaaannwerk and Unruh':,& Liebig
plants be transferred to ABUS Foerderanlagen Leipzig,, eapeciae y since the Office
for Reparations and'the Soviet Control Comission had forbidden Kranbau Fbers.de
to shift fram direct"Irepaa.ratioras orders Eberswalde also requested the Main
Administration toythe 9,, 5 million' DICE worth of orders remaining from 1952..
cancel
SECRET,
Approximate Value in
Thousands of ONE
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