SCHORFHEIDE AIRFIELD

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1. Between 5 and 16 May 1953, 2,450 meters of the southern strip of the runway
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concrete a of 7.-O x 7.4 meters each. The eastern portion of the runway
which was also underconstruction had-not yet been leveled, therefore concre-
ting of the southern s rip was stopped at, 2,450 meters. The concreting was then
continued on another strip in the opposite direction. The two strips fining
concreted were separated by about the width of three of the concrete :labs. A
seaorid set of construction machines started to work on another strip running
from the western end of the runway. This'strip had been-completed to a length
25X1 of 1,561 meters, ioe. 223 _slabs. Wide cracks had formed in the first seven
s'Te~s-of i s str pia S fir one of t1i. " six mixing machi-
nes used in_"the operation had failed.
2. In order to speed the leveling work, four Soviet dumping trucks were put into
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5. A new barracks area was erected. east of the cantonment in Jagen No 124. The
ammunition or fuel dump which purportedly was at Jagen No 162;could not be
locate There was a large clearing and an old nursery in this
area but no installations could be found in spite of a carefull check. The
concrete testing machine was still covered with roofing felt and had not yet
been in operation.
operation. The northern edge of the runway under construction had to be filled
up with large quantities of earth taken from a pit located at Jagen (forest
section) No 217. This square pit was of 6 to 8 meters deep at its deepest point,
and had 40 cm of subsoil water on the bottom. Additional pits were dug at Ja-
gen Nos 216 and 219.
3. The quantities of cement consumed were somewhat larger than the quantities being
shipped to the construction site with the latest shipments always being used
first. Shipment of gravel and crushed stone has been increased considerably.
4. Guard details, composed of one sergeant and two privates, were posted at the
northern and southern edge of the construction site, at the Vietmannsdorf-
-Gross Doelln road and in front of the Staff building. Occasionally, guard
patrolled along the - fence. The other part of the area was guarded by German
Plant police. On 22 April, pew gate passes with stripes in different colors
were given to the German personnel,, indicating their respective sections.
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6. Prior to 6 Maur construction material which arrived at Schor#heide
airfield was unloaded by concrete workers of the second shift. The
concreting could therefore only be done in one shift. After 7 May,
material was unloaded by 100 workers of the Thueringlsche Bau.
oseenschaft (Thuringian Construction Company). A hundred addition-
al workers from the Genossenschaft worked on the field tracks at the
construction site. On 10 May, the workforce wss increased by about
250 new laborers. Of the 2,046 construction workers, 1,826 worked in
exceavatioa and road construction work, while; the remaining 210 labo-
rers did above-ground construction works On 15 May, only 350 laborers'
reported for work, even though it was a regular work days
7. The runway under construction was to be composed of 11 concrete strips
each 3,500 meters long and 7,4 meters wide. Strips Nos 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11
were to 1n constructed first, and the construction of strips Nos .2, 4,. 6, 8
and 10 were to start after the completion of the others. By 16 May the conre-
to strip along the southern edge of the runway had been completed to a length
of About 2,500 meters The remaining portion of the strip could not bo'con-
creted, because the subsoil was s till being tamped by "Delmag-Froeschen" tam-
pers and being leveled with rolling machines. Concrete strip No 3 was comple-
'ted.from the western end of the excavation up to the Gross-Doelln-Vietmanns-
25X1 dorfroad. This road as spared during the excavations as it carried the tracks
of the field ear line. But the road was blocked for any motor vehicular traf-
f1s. even inside tr'uction area,
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start at the eastern end of the runway.
8. On 15 May, 12 voice radio sets were observed in the temporary building of
the Soviet construction staff,, The portable sets which could be carried by
two men were to be distributed to the most Important construction sites at'
the airfield, and one set was to be given to the construction. staff of the
Brandenburg Bau Union, The sets were to facilitate a quick communicati.on of
construction orders, instructions? and status reports.
9, A watchtower with glass superstructure on poles., 7 or 8 meters high, was loca-
ted beside the temporary building of the Soviet construction office. The tower
was occupied day and. night by one Soviet guard.
100, Between 8 February and 13 Hay, shipments arrived at the airfield incl uded 9,945
tons of portland cement; 10,005.55 tons of 7/15-type crushed stones; 17,649,56
ton's of 15/30-typs crushed stones; and 24.,4,71.89 tons of gravel.
11. The east-west runway at Schorfheide airfield was marked by plates at intervals
of 40 meters. By 22 May 1953, strip portions concreted included one strip, up
to plate No 79, another strip up to plate No 64, and a third strip from plate
No 79 to plate No 54. Each strip was 7.4 meters wide and two strips were 7.4
meters apart)
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the mixing of the concrete involved one
to a 3/4 cubib meters mass and additional 320 kg of cement. To prevent inaccu-
raeyg five measuring vats, 1.05 x O4 x 0,25 x 007 meters prepared for gravel
and five.1,09 x 0.40 x 0024 x 0.8 meters for crushed stones filled up to the
edge,, were used to obtain the correct mixing ration. The numbers of containers
used of each size for each material was not yet determined. A laboratory tech-
ni6ian continuously tested concrete blocks. 12xl2x5O cm under a hydraulic pre
It the blocks resisted a pressure of 306 tons, the mixing ration was correo*
part gravel and one part crushed stones of either size, 7/15 and 15/30, mixed
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25X1 2,400 laborers were. emp oye at field. Major Kubanesh
tnu was the key person of the Soviet construction office at the field,
Teutsch (fnu) was the German ' Bauleiter"e Buchholz (twa) was the archi-
25X1 . tect for the above-ground structures and Ney (,fnu) was the "Bauleiter"
for the construction of barracks. Five persons transferred to the Schorf-
heide construction site from Werneuchen included "Bauleiter" Kunze (fnu) s
25X1 his deputy Eichler (fnu)) surveying engineer Schmidt (fma.), Gustav Sitzig
personnel manager,, and Petri (fnu), standardizing expert.
o On 30 May 1953, the runway at Schorfheide airfield was about 25 percent
completed. Colonel Kirk (fnu) was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Kononien
(fnu) e
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20. Comment. Major Kubanesh is reported for the first time
Colonel Kirik was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel umo ov0
Lieutenant Colonel Kononen is reported for the first time,
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