STEEL PRODUCTION AND STEEL IMPORTS OF EAST GERMANY IN 1952

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• Publication Date: September 1, 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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USSR
Poland
Rumania
Ozeohoslovakia
188,355.6 tone
3,631.
384.
42,152.
16,024.
Other West European
ooutitr ies
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272,380. tons
Dynamo sheets
(Exporter unknown) 98.
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East Germany
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Steel Production and Steel Imports
of East Germany in 1952
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Of the Brand total of 1,?24,58 tone of steel, 1,478,530 tone, or about
was imported, In addition, 9;231 tons of better quality bar steel and
145 tons of hollow drill steel were imported, making a grand total of
355, 433 tons of steel imported into East Germany in 1952. According to
export country, this total is broken down as follows:
81 per sent, were produced in East Germany; the remainder, 346,057 tone,
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Foundry pig iron
(Exporter unkno
82.961,
tons
Total:
355,439.
Minus differe
Field Comment
nce
2.
accordin
g to
6.
tons
S
um
totals
355,433,
tons
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According to the above tabulation., 69 per Pent of the total imports were
from the USSR; including foundry pig iron, which probably also came from
the Soviet Union, 75 per cent of the East German imported steel originated
in that country.
1952 and 1953 ,import plans of DIA Metallurgie
Planned 1952 Actual Planned 1953
bteel imports steel imports
Demo
in ton's
in to m
Heavy sheets
92,000 99,2
05 102,000
Medium sheets
11,000 6,8
08 22,400
Fine sheets
23,600 16,1
16 4,000
Very thin sheets
10,750 5,2
31 12,600
Pickled sheets
Undetermined 15,
034 18,900
Transformer sheets
1,000 1,
393
1,100
Spring steel
1,200
319
1,200
Hollow drill steel
280
145
Undetermined
Steel bare, warm-rolled
975 28,
28
828
32,000
Steel bare, cold-rolled
,
1,
585
Steel bands, warm-rolled
3,000 2,
069
1,000
Steel bandp, cold-rolled
6,800 40
5959/
5,500
Oan steel
Undetermined
- 500
Seamless boiler tubes
36,000
31,
000 37,000
Welded gas tubes
2,300
1,
169 3.000
Precision steel tubes
Undetermined 3,
391 2,300
Rolled wire
14,000
8,
509 11,000
Tires
14,000
11,
498 11,000
Standard rails
1,500
1,
667
34,000
Mine rails
750
350
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Planned 1952 Actual Planned 1953
steel imports steel imports
Items in tons in tons
Sections up to 18 am Undetermined 3,111 4,000
Sections more than 18 cm Undetermined 20,284 25,000
Foundry pig iron 80,000 82,961 60,000
From the above tabulation, it appears that the, planned 1952 import quotas
have been fully reached only in heavy sheets, transformer sheets, and
foundry pig iron; compared with the 1952 and the 1953 plans, there have
been shortages in medium sheets, very thin sheets, spring steel, hollow
drill steel, welded gas tubes, and rolled wire. The 1953 plan, moreover,
lists considerable increases in medium plates, sections up to 18 cm,
sections over 18 om, and rails, and decreases in fine sheets, steel bands,
rolled wire, and foundry pig iron.
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1. There is an error in addition; the total for precision steel tubes
should read 6,716, and the grand total, 1,824,587 tons.aee Annex 1,pages 5,6.
2. There is an error in addition; the total of the quantities quoted for
the individual exporting counties should read 4,601 tons. The error
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of "0" as the last digit in the figures
3. The final yearly totals for standard rails and for the production of
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forging billets at Riess are less than they should have been, based on
production and import statistics previously reported for the period
from 1 January to 30 November 1952. Be* Annex 2, page 8.
The production figures for foundry pig iron are also smaller than
previous estimates. A comparison, however, is difficult, inasmuch
as Annex 1 refers only to foundry pig iron and previous estimates
combined foundry pig iron, steel iron, and specular iron, See Annex 2,
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Survey of East German Steel Production and
Imports from 1 January to 31 December 1952
Zone Import
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Heavy sheets
Auerhammer 9,704
Willie Becker 89,897
Ilsenburg 49,176
Hettstedt 113,725
Maxhuette 4?456 266,058 99,205 366,163
Medium sheets
Auerhammer 16,737
Hettetedt 9,970
Olberrhhau 12,388 39,095 6,808 45,903
Fine Sheete
Burg 12,463
Olbernhau 4,467
8 4,2,2
106,563 16,116 122,679
Thale
Very fine sheets
Burg 1,820 1,820 5,231 7,051
Pickled sheets
Hettetedt 6,677
Thal. 28,121 35,668 15,034 50,702
Automobile body sheets
Thale 2,153 2,153 2,153
E?etria-eneaial steel sheets
Auerhammer 265
Thale 2,079
Burg 314 2,658 836 3,494
S ri ,g steel
319 319
Dynamo sheets
Burg 2,494
Qlbernhau 6,158
Thale 8,904 17,556 98 17,654
Trangformez sheets
Thale 4,009
Olbernhau 1,857
Burg 2,772 8,638 1,393 10,031
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Annex I: (cont'd) - 5
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Zone Import Total
Seamless boiler tubes
Riesa
Steel bars, warm-rolled
15,485
15,485 31,000 46,485
Riesa
Finow
Maxhuette
Willi Beaker
Doehlen
Hennigedorf
Steel bands `wa -rolled
122,330
40,437
25,958
37,905
3,187
139.059
368,876 28,828 397,704
Rieea
KW Oberepree
61,618
17
78,832 2,069 80,901
steel bare, oold-draw
Brotterode
5,789
Praema
13,068
Delitzeoh
15,518
Miteoherling
620
Ziehwerk Berlin
4,922
39,917 1,585
41,502
steel bands, gold-rolled
Faradid
5,955
Oranienburg
3,229
Salzungen
4,541
Hettetedt
23,819 4,595
28,414
Can atom ll
Hettetedt
- 1.3.45
1,145 -
1,145
Welded gas tubes
Riess,, 23,712 1,169
24,881
Precision steel tubes
Faradid
3,325
3,325 3,391
3,716
Rolled wire
(6,716)
Willi Becker
8,381
Hennigsdorf
34,744
Hettstedt
9,792
Riesa
275
Kabelwerk Oberspree
5,416
58,608 8,509
67,117
Ti_
29.559
29,559 11,498
41,057
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Annex I: (cont?d)
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Import
Total
Standard rails
Maxhuette
28,149
28,149
1,667
29,816
Mine rails
Maxhuette
7,188
Wilhelm Florin
3,734
Riesa
48a
11,404
350
11,754
Sections up to 18 cm
Hennigadorf 3,871
Maxhuette
23,462
Riesa
21,608
48,941
3,111
52,052
Profile over 18 c m
Maxhuette
45L
45,844
20,284
66,128
Forzing billets
Hennigsdorf
26,184
Maxhuette
41,886
Riess,
102,516
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102,516
Foundry Rig irog
Maxhuette
57,585
EKO
26,043
Calbe
32,01
117,289
82,961
2250
Total production including imports 1,821,587 toz
for period 1 January to 31 December
1952
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Annex II:
Total
Heavy sheets:
99,205
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6,808
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Fine sheets:
16,116
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5,231
Pickled sheets:
15,034
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Electric-speoial steel s
heet
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8
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Spring steel:
3
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Transformer sheets:
1,3
93
Seamless boiler tubes:
31,0
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I Degembe r 1952
79,'200
4,570
10,908
2,099
99
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Breakdown by oountry
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from the USSR
from Western Europe
from Czechoslovakia
from Poland
30
1,245 om es .rope
159 from Czechoslovakia
4,740 from the USSR
from Poland
6,890 from Western Europe
2,777 from Czechoslovakia
from the USSR
581 from Western Europe
637 from Czechoslovakia
from the USSR
6,604 from Western Europe
280 from Czechoslovakia
from Czechoslovakia
0.2 from the USSR
347 from Czechoslovakia - 61.6 1 from the USSR
1093
1,485
7,027 from Czechoslovakia
122
20,725 from the-UFX
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Item Total Breakdown by country
Steel bars, warm-rolleds28,828 Fines 210 from the USSR
559 from Czechoslovakia
164 1 -1
39980
266
Heavys 129 from Poland
23,473 from the USSR
47 from Western Europe
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Steel bands, warm-rolled12,069
1,077.
4 fr
om the
USSR
936
fr
om Czec
hoslovakia
55?
fr
om West
ern Europe
2,069
Steel bars, cold-drawnt 1,585
1,437
from
Czecho
slovakia
29
fro
m the US
SR
Steel bands, cold-rolled'4,595
69
24
26
1,585
1,871 from the USSR
316
4
1,588
210
296
from Czechoslovakia
_M 316
405 (4, 01
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Welded gas tubees
Precision steel tubeei
1,169
3091
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8,509
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11,498
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Standard Railss
1,667
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35 from Czechoslovakia
35
from the USSR
3,050 from Czechoslovakia
35
58 from the USSR
152 _ from Western Europe
3,391
2,673 from the USSR
3,467
from Czechoslovakia
2,144
255
8,509
8,383 from the USSR
1,746
from o ari
11,498
317 from Czechoslovakia
1,667
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Annex II: (oont'd)
zic Total
Mine rails: 350
Seotions up to 18 oms 3,111
Profile over 18 om: 20,284
Foundry pig irons 82,961'
Bar steel, better quality:
9,231
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Breakdown by country
350 from the USSR
3,111 from the USSR
17,889 from the USSR
1,372 from Czeohoelovakia
50
973
20,284
No breakdown available
1,257 from the USSR '
2,639
1,245
516
329
from Czechoslovakia
2,708 from the US R
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195 from Western Europe
142 from Western Europe
9,231
67 from the USSR
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From Western rope
145
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