WERK FUER FERNMELDEWESEN HF PRODUCTION AND PLANNING

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• Publication Date: April 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
East Germany
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SECURITY INFORMATION
Werk fuer Ferirm.eidewesen HF
Production and Planning
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1, 1952 Production .Statistios'-
a, The output of the factory in the year 1052 was valued at 108, 000,, 000 II:
(Rant) (Abgabewert m selling prioe)o This was 'an increase of 36% over
the production in 1951, and 186% over t Le production in 1950. The
factor thereby fulfilled its r
y y production plan by 100.8%,
b. Production in 1952 was as #ollowsa
Item 43quantity
tubes
2eoti#iers-and- technical
Stabilizer-tubes
"Stromtore"
Discharge lamps
.110
'Television tubes etc. 920000
Large transmitter
tubes.,..
Other transmitter
_ ... tubes
Radio tubes 1,950,000
Metal ceramic tubes 16,500
Instruments
Components
quartz etc)
Sundry (transformers
etc)
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'rh~o orrt__ ion of
toval pro uc otion
47%
11,5%
1.8%
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22%
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97%
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112.9%
86&04%
106.8%
121%
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1868%
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2. 1952 Labor Statistics
a. The factory employed 7,219 persons on 31 December 1952; compared with
6,115 on 1 January 1952. 56% of the staff were ?female; of the total staff, 9.5%
were juvenile. The staff was classified as followss
Production 66.6%
Tecluiioal 1404%
Business 8b4%
Auxiliary- _ 3;3%
Apprentices 4.4%
Not engaged in actual
production 2.5%
(fire service et04
b. During 1952; 3;I66 persona were hired
2;251 persona [eft the-factory --
2,327 persons were transferred to other jobs in the factory.
On 31 December 1952A-only 40% of the employees had been with the factory for
two years or longer.
The factory now enploys a
9 "Inventors of Ilarit"
1: "Activist-of Merit"
426 "Activists"
45 wo ?~lcers airarded the-'"Itedal__for Excellent Production Record"
(I edaillon der ausgeaeichneten Leistung).
o. The factory has lost the services of the following leading technioiansa
Eitel Spiegel, in ahr rge of -the' developnieiit . of VHF
and television apparatus...
Jung (fnu),,, in charge of the development of electron
microscopes etc,
Dr. Bingel, iii charge of the development of semi-conductors
During 1952, ls70O,0OO I East were spent on capital investment and 600,000
Ti[ Eat on general overhaul of the plants
4. 1953 Plan
a. It is planned to'norease production by 45% in 1953 (to about 150,000,000
IX East.) The planned increases iiioludea
'Kadin 'tubes
12%
Television tubes etc.
50%
Petal'ceramie tubes
250% (to 55,000 tubes)
Instruments
10%
b. Orders in hand in late January 1953 included the following for tubes2
53'&000 television tubes (9") for export to the USSR
12,0}0 television tubes (9") for Radeberg
46,500 metal ceramic tubes for export to the USSR including
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15' 000 Lt77
11' 00 19
,9"000 LL 11
11 a 000 LiD 12
800 metal ceramic tubes type LD.12:for Radebergo
5. Metal oeramio ,t ubes
The proportion of re-jeots inDecember 1952 amounted to%
99% f6 -r- APO z 7
71% for type I ! 9
~e5% for to w 11
62% for type L1) 12
Military?te tubes
A Volkspolisei unit in Leipzig Plagwitt has requested the manufaoture of the
following tubes a .
RV 24,4P7-00
tR32.4T6' ''
RP 12 P 2000
RV te4F800
(The RY 12 P 2000 is already being manufnatured by the Tunkwerk Srfurt).
A chinese a3iegati-.0a U~
the facto for ten da s in late Aove'tbif "early i3eoembere The delegation
showed _a -general interest in the 'a0t6rytook'nwa-y faith-t ism an electron
microscope and samples of tubes, and invited the ''plant to tender for the
delivery of the fo11cw1ng tiuDes a
Impede?-ti?iodee fie` fit."Iiigul"se duratiim
3 miareseos, Frequency 600 c/se .outputs of
250 KW9 150 Kn 60 1L17, and 10 XW
Required in 19538 1,000 of each type
Required in 1954% 2,000.of each type
Required in 1955?7: 5p000 of eaoh type
The Chinese would provide specimen ttubes
b. 6AE6a (Miniature broad-bandi amplifier ):
Required in 19532 30400
Required in 19542 5;x00
egired in 1056a: 15,000
squired in 1956-2a 200000 each yeaz?e
c. Cathode ray tubes (types not yet deoided)
Required in,19532 1-000
Required in 1664s ~ .2-000
Required in 1956-7,,5,000 each year.
Magnetrons;
a 3-614,....1-aof,oseo .600 c/s0
outputs of 10 and 60 ]Lilt
cm. 1.ia*iorOseo, 700 a/s.
50 KW.
outputs of 1'20 and 250'
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(3)D Required in 19554ss 300 of each type
1955-8 '800 of each type
1956-72 4,00 of each type
(Mis"'ierfc"hP.deoTared-they-wiould be
-unable to-deliver any before 1954).
HF 2549 (Hydrogen tbyratrom,vit . 1 RV inverse voltage)
Eydrogen thyratron with 5 HV inverse voltAge.
PA -
Required in 19-53: 1000 of ia
19548 1500 of eac}i
1955-72 2000 of each
each year.
80 Iconosco es
a. Groat'ditficultjes have been met in the manufacture of iconoscope tubes.
The fewi so far -
madehave hadI Alike of orif~ 120 hours. Dr. Paul has
been inlcharge o-f this, "assfsted by"~aurer wrho ~eia t~re~nsferred ii-ei tly
3?i?om the television Iaboi?atory in ,MIOrehof`. '"Development *ork" is also
proceeding inAdlershof under the direction of Dipl. Ing. Haas.
b. The Terk HP' plans to make 100 ioonosoope tubes in the first quarter of
19530
9. 1953 development projects
About- 18O'proposals were ' submitted by "the factory to Hvr Funks -'of which, 95% have
been approved. These include the development of the followings
a. LMS 1000 tube, (1 megawatt impulse magnetron)
b. 2 types of moving field tubes
a. 2 different klystronso
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