DOUBLE TRACKING OF THE AUE-SCHWARZENBER JOHANNGEORGENSTADT RAILROAD LINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100590006-8
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL IN T ELLI _ AGENGY 25X1 R"PORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germ .ny/Czeaho lovakia
SUBJECT. t'ouhle: Tta.cking tof the :Aue-.Sahwarzenber t
Johanrgeo:.?genstadt Railroad: Line
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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The doubie.trocktng of the Aue-Johanngeorgenstadt railroad line was
cunt-r i e6-by soviet. construction headquartorz located -at 1 to 3
01 1ch c. ,tease n. . eipzig. Chief of th& cc?nstriiction headquarters
t i Oolors-l -Rishkov (fnt.). Lieutenant Colonel Ki.rik (fnu), who had
his office.in-Schwarzenberg, was in charge of the constructtoft tip'.
trackage.. Persor lel ' assigned to the consuructiori headgitarters included
ale?; (ttu)? and A1~ (.nu), Captain argeyev (fnu)s
Majors
czvllian . 1env, (fir'tu) ,. Vorobyev (fnu) and ivanov ..(x nu) , Tamara Pop!ova
personnel chief, in addition to 15 fer&le office 'perso-nnel,~ and the following
uersorriel:, Four German engineers, namNly Dietz (fnu), Feldmann (fnu),
Fiacher Ord Keume (fnu), .120 skilled workers, `10 drivers and mecYta3~ ~ I:.s
30 gird, " on el and 30 office workers . The r~achin And r eh. al re_ of
kept," k T U e .heat quarters - in Leinaig was estinatetl At 'a value ' of": .million
eas arjS
Fir rs 0;~p"toyed--for the railroad construction nrojegt -included the firms
of .Neum .;tier Geitinann-Richter-Geissler, Heinke, VVB Diemitz, Liebig,
and . Linke in Chemnitza Kallenbach and I{rause in Dessau; Gersten -~er? er
in Doehle;a; Dressel in Plauen; Guenther.-and Thomas..in Dre den
GnP.uss. .rid Weder. in Bautzeni Schumann in I.eivtig,and a VEB each in -Halle
and' 13reitoribrunn . A total of 15,000 workers and.1,0CO forsc-d lu b%~)rers was
er.3ployed.on the project. The workers were-housed in temporary quarters and
well fed:, Wages maid were in excess of horn?,al rates The'line to ba double-
trs.cked .zis subdivided into three sections, nar.?ely the Aue-Schwaraenberg
section; the-Schwarzenberg-Breitenbrunn section and the Breitenbrunn-
Johanngeor; ensta~;t section. The line mentioned extends about 6 kr,3 into
Czr- choslovakia.
^z c on t -.e ling: met with. great difficulties, because the sub-soil consisted
of stone and required extensive blasting operations.. Some new tunnels had
t ,e constructed? Construction wor:. in Czechoslovakia was hampered by the
a b:i ary interference of Czech s J.~'ierso I" an r of the construct . n
t.z.r cers sa.::fered mifor injuries and 15 met with fatal accidents, The cos; cf
i;', 1a cons t ruction orc ject was o' iginally' estir:ated at 36 n l?.ion east-marks,
the final cost amounted to 65 million eastmarks.
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After the double-tracking of the Aue-Johanngeorgenstadt line was completed,
Lieutenant Colonel Kirik was promoted to the rank of colonel and awarded
a bonus of 1 0 0 ^ 0 eastinarks. The line was constructed it connection with
uranium mining- operations d 3
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2 ~C rtt~?'"" s information indicates that the 48-Icr line stretch from
Sohanngeorgenatadt to Karlebad (Karlovy Vary) in Czechoslovakia remained
single-trackyexcept for the 6-km stretch mentioned. No information has
been received that this line will be double-tracked.
~msnt~ The report refers to the double-tracking of the Aue-
o nngeorgenetadt line. The project involved the construction of fridges
and the enlargement of railroad tunnels besides improvement work
on railroad stations located on the line.
Uranium ore shipments to the USSR continued to be
sent via Frankt'urti/user to Brest Litovsk and not through Czechoslovakia.
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