VEB ZUENDMITTELFABRIK, SCHOENEBECK/ELBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100450003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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East Germany CATE OgYat, 14 My 1953
VEE Zuendmittelfabra, Scaoenebeck/Eibe
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l. VEB Zuendmittelfabrike Schoenebeek/Elbe (.formerly the Lignose 'eorks),
eon-A:As of twe planta:Sprengstoffwerki and Sprengstoffwek 11, Spreng-
atoffwerk 11 i3 VEB Ji2dpatronenfabrik Schoenebeck, Spreugstoffwerk 1
is divided into 22 sections or departments; the sections ere called
Department A Department B2 Department C, etc, About 3,500 workers are
currently employed at Sprengstoffwerk I. In mid-January 1.953 an order
forbidding employees e enter departments other than where they work
was put into effect. Visitors to the plant have to turn n their identity
papers, cameras, cigarette lighters, matches, tobaeco anl the like at
the reception office.. Visitors are accompanied bytwo escorts when
they visit various buildings and areas, The esorts are .4omen guards,
leomen guards are also statiened at the entrancee to buildings and check
the passes of employees and visitors,
2, The entire plant area is surrounded by teo parallel barbei-wire fences
about two teters apart and 2,5 meters high,. The fences 'are guarded by a
detachment of Volkspclizei consisting of about 120 men, In addition,
about 20 dogs are used for guard purposes at night, .6t, the main entrance
there is,in addition to the barbed-wire fences, a wocdcn fence about two
meters high surmounted by barbed wire; the werden fence is about twenty
meters in front of the barbed-wiee fences, V Guard towers bout ten
meters high are located every hundred meters aleng the fence. On the roof
of each tower there is a search light which can be eotated;, ?The towers
are manned by two to four Volkspolizei at all. times, At night the outside
fence is illuminated by lights spaced every 25 meters along the fence,
The towers are between the two barbed wire fences and extend from one
fence to the other, thus forming-an enclosed area. Watch dogs run loose
in the area bounded by the two fences and two watch towers,
1, As far as could be determined, the plant is producing thc following products:
loading of cartridges for 5 cm., 75 em,, and 8,8 cm, projectiles
fuse cord for the mining industry
detonating cord
explosive charges of 130, 250, 500, 1,000, and 3,000 grams
The explosive charges manufactured do not differ in regaH to outward
design from those manufactured for the German Army? ,?;,/
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Black powder is daliv , VEB Jagdpatrorenfabrik (Sprengstoffwerk II),
here iufa1tr7 anumnition as well w, 3mal1 caliber ammunition is being
i-Anuraciured,
i14.terial or products are usually shipped from the factory in complete
Lrains of 35 cars or in half trains; normally, however, the trains
split tpl in Leipzig/Engelsdorf. There are no marf,.igs on the railroad
,ars to indicate that they are carrying explosivs
25X1A Cornent.? See Attachments for sketch of M.,: factory area. The
cgetc'- are not to scale, The underground
buildins indicated on Attachment A could not be completely seen;
25X1A they are manufacturing plants, si,sce during
1::r II a disastrous explosion occurred at the plant, and the
manufacturinp facilities were re?designed to prevent such accidents
in the future. The buildings called warehouses are presmed to be su.'M
because of their design, that is, with loading platforms arid access
roads, The entire center area of the plant is wooded
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2/ IIIIIIIEomment Sc Attachment C for a sketch of the explosive 4harges,
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