THREE FORMER GUS PLANTS NOW ASSIGNED TO THE MINISTRY OF MINING AND SMELTING

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• Publication Date: April 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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East Germany
Three Former GUS Plants now Assigned to the
Ministry of Mining and Smelting
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DATE DISTR.. 17 AtTi% 1953
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L The folloming three 1,a.s.t German plants were placed under the jurisdction
2,1' the iast German LLnistry of hining and bmeiting by an ofacial deree
the Goordinting and Control Office for irviustry and Traffic (jet t.
4aauary
unci Litahlwerke V4J3 forer1i 4USi
v, 74, Gerhnrdt JLlrodt Strasse
ahrkfraxenleben IrzO (formerl GUS)
ixeis liersziaurg
?ektro-Stahlguseserk VzA (fornerly (WS)
14eip,zig 5 Georg Schwarz Strasse 181-181
io2iger Eisen una
4. The Leipziger Lisen und Lq.ahlmerke (LES) employs- about 4,900
following are some of th.: leading ersonnel at the p1-t:
:Lant hanai,er juci Arue
Chief Lligineer (fru) OfferLann
;Jusiness vg-Inager (nu) i'raurost
Lnbor .,anager
Cultural Director (fnu) Vetter
worker The
L-5 eonsista of a Tlair rt ia Leipzig End three bramh
;oolkau and Boehlitz-L,hrenberg boehlitz-alrenberg is a trtning fundry
(Lehrgiesserei), Lindeneu a gray-iron foundry, and roe1kau,1 gray-1 '14
foundry for machine casting (.:aschinenfertigung),
i. The LS production rogri!i includes cast steel parts up to five r_et
tons in weiRht, ,boA 60 percent of the castiAge are ,sachine-roIdci
(Paschinengeformt) The 19!3 oroduction clan is rs fo,lows:
seel casting's 10,000 l'etriu tons :of this ::mount about /,000
,ric tons are sa ne electric steel cer!zz_ngs)
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malleable iron castings 5,560 metric tons
gray-iron castings 18,500 metric tons
Machine construction during 1953 will amount to appreximately 9,000,000
DM.
5. The following evipment is in the plant:
3 Siemens-Martin furnaces (10 metric tons) in operation
2 Electro-furnaces (5 metric tons)
1 Electroofurnace.(3 metric tons)
In the malleable iron foundry:
3 Siemens-Martin furnaces (10 metric tons) acidic
1 Siemens-Martin furnace (15 metric tons) acidic
In the gray iron foundry:
2 hot air cupola furnaces
8 normal cupola furnaces
In the gray iron foundry at there'll; plant:
1 oil-heated rotary drum furnace (Trameldrehofen) for =skink:
alloyed gray iron castings
6. The bottlenecks in the steel-casting foundry, which are to be partially
elimineted by 1953 investments, are the cleaning shop (Putzerei), the
annealing furnaces and the mold-drying mem, 1953 planned inveetments
amount to 1,572,000 DME. The chief 1953 projects are the expansion of the
cleaning shop, the construction of a polyclinic, the conversion of a
generator and the construction of a clipper unit (flipper-Anlage) for
chain links. The main difficulties in the plant are ehortages of allocations
for the eanufacture of machines and the shortage of steam power. Otherwise
the situation is generally termed good.
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7. The Frankenberg plant is a steel-casting foundry. It is an old plant and
has more space than the Elektro-Stahlgusswerk. In January 1953 about 780
people were employed at the plant; 525 of these were production workers.
The following are some of the leading personnel at the plant:
Plant Manager (fnu) Becker
Chief Engineer (fun) Schicke
Business Manager (fnu) Enehnan
Duty Secretary (fnu) Loeffler
8. Stahlwerk Frankenberg has two 11-ton Siemens-Martin furnaces. In 1953
the plant is to produce 10,400 metric tons of steel castings, The production
program includes cut steel parts up toti.cre and six metric tons in
weight; about 25 percent of this amount is wachine-molded, the rest
handpmolded. About 5,300 metric tons had been contracted for as of late
January 1953. Preliminary contracts for the balance of the amount have
been concluded. The capacity of the furnaces is greater than the amount
which can be cast on the basis of the fcala surface (rormflaeche), so an
expansion of the farm surface will have to be undertaken.
9. No provisions have been de for funds for investment in 1953. There had been a
plan for the allotment of 600,000 DNB which was to be used to eliminate
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difficulties in procuring water and in building a transformer station
Water procurement at the plant is extremely bad, and every attempt will
have to be made to make available the 200,000 DM needed for this phate
of the Project in 1953,
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,0 Approximately 968 workers are employed at the Elektro,Stahlgusewerk The?
anift plant personnel are as follows:
Plant Manager i,fnu) Franke
Chief &Rinser (I'm) TaUeel:
Business Manager iftna Sic*
Labor Manager- (fnu Rachhaus
Party Secretary (filu) Buerger
The plant is antiquated and poorAy equipped; there is little chance of
ilc-panding the plant. It will be necessary, however, to use some invest-
ment funds to preServe the current quality of products The plant has the
MIlowing furnacew
8-ton hlectro-furnace
S-ton 41ectro-furnace
1-ton Electro-furnace
:twa-k,Iram high-frequency furnace
The productim program at 4Arktro-Stahlgusswerk consists of oast steel parts
rrom electric stee:castinge up to low to five metric tons in weight,
25 to 30 percent of the east parts produced are machine molded; the rets2,
ere hand molded, About 10 percent of the production of theplant is call..
floyed steel- In 1953 8,000 metric tans of castings are to be producoct
As of late January 1952 5n400 metric tons had been contracted for.
According to the 1953 investment plan, 397,000 DUE is to be invested in VI*
plant, The fundn sre fe bp used mainly to build mp a 30 kV transformer
lAption,
There are no roan.* sar,us diffivalties at the plant,: Some articles are II
short supply, however, such as scrap metal? electric power and such allot-Lng
elements are AP farrtnadi...-.5i and ferromolvbdenua.
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