CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PLANT AT LUDWIGSFELDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000900020003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO..
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
East Germany
Construction of a Ne'r Plant at Ludwigafelde
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1:, Construction work on the new plant in Ludwigsfelde is still in proi-ress.
The Plant is located on the =grounds of the forn:or Daim.,.nr-Eenz works. it
is i:ot known exactly what the plant is to produce.. In the summer of 1952
rumor had it that the far.tory was to fabricate tanks; the latest rumor is
that aircraft turbines are co be constructed at the plat. The latter
conjecture may be true, since engineers from the industriewerk Nosslau
near ;3ess:au 'rho were formerly with Junkers have allegedly been contracted
to work in Ludwigsfelde.
2. ork on the plant was su -poses to have been com Jleted by 21 December 1952,
S 1-.alin's birthday, tut it is daut;t?ul that this deadline could have been
met. Bad we. Cher. slowed dowt construction a Fare ,t coal
3. Though money seems to have been no object where constructio i of the plant
was concernec, government circles have sharply criticised "bad planning"
at the plant. The plant's heating system could be put into operation only
partially, since work on digging ditches for the heating pipe lines began
only on about 10 December.
~. Because of flaws in the fastening iron (.'oniereisen)9the roof of hall 12
caved in; five workers were injured. An unusual amount of nonferrous metals
are stored at the plant; the metal allegedly comes from west Germany.
In early December 1952,there were about ),000 workers employed at the
Ludwi gsfelde plant. Of these, about ninety percent were from construction
srms working on the plant.
6. The following are some of the leading oerson:el at the plant:
(fnu) ilepsteck - director of construction; formerly a leader in the
Central Committee of the SLI) in Thuringia and al-
legedly instigator of the large show trials of in-
dustrialists.
(fnt)) Vetter - 3eosteck's personal referent
(fuu) Drose
- deputy director and technical director; once named a
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(thin) Helmuth Bach - business manager; born on 26 July 1905; : Pipl. Kaufhann (re-
ceived a commercial diploma); an intelligent and fanatic Com-
munist who went to school in Moscow.
(fnu) Stroh ? plant manager; allegedly from the Central Committee of the SED;
belongs to the VVN (Association of People Persecuted by the
Nazis); true to the SED line:,
?. There are some informers and SSD men in the factory, The Securing' force
is ayll at present. . then the plant begins production there are to be.a vu.&-
polisei detail of 120 men and a group of 50 SSD men at the plant. The following are
personnel allegedly with the SSD:
leader of the SSD at the plant; a Sudeten German from Marien-
bad; about 50 years old; held the same position formerly at
Stahl-und Walswsrk Brandenburg,
allegedly belongs to Hinds staff; is officially in charge c:
transportation (Fahrdienstleiter); formerly in the Land govern-
ment at Potsdam; allegedly has special contact with Repsteak.
(fnu,) Seidler d officially the cultural director of the plant; about 35 years
old; formerly an official member of SSD in Potsdam.
t The following firma are engaged in the construction of the plant:
Barw4Unnion Bitterfeld
Bev onion Potsdam
Bau-Union Stassfurt
RFT Oberechoeneweide
Parkettlegerei Nicker Potsdam
unidentified firm from Magdeburg, function of which is unknown
9, Concurrent with the construction of the plant, which allegedly will consist of 12
halls, work is in progress on the construction of 850 dwellings near the Ludwigs-
felde railroad for station workers at the plant.
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