PROPOSED IRON AND STEEL WORKS NEAR SCHWEDT AT THE ODER RIVER REGION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300120005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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To,mako ; good the constant deficiency, of iron and< st. el in East C ertaany, the
SCP E in Pool tta~T4ar! herat ordered the Central aaiui. i t ee of the . in Berlin
to induce the central designing office fist the Il nistry for Metallurgy and
Or. i i.uing to lake designs for a large iron and steel pl=t at he large Oder
River bend near Scl.,ved',,
The new Iron and steel works were allegedly schew.azled to have 8 blast furnaces
each with at daily caapu, i.ty of l,0(10' tons of pig iron and 20 .low furnaces with a,
daily capacity of W tons of foundry pig iron. Other plans provided for `only
13 blast :'a maces a daily capacity of 1,000 tans of pig iron and no low
i A aces;,
Coa:ina n p if tl~e Inform'- t.id rt. cont?ain.ed in the prey;en t report is true,, the
new iron my steel au:r.:ss would produce about, 2,,4 t),OO0 tons of pig iron and
20,,C O0 tons of foundry pig iron per year when. completed. Since a previous
report indicated that EKO, W14 and Max huette, the three pig iron. producing, works
were scheduled to produce a total of l,6l5$t.>C0 tons of pig iron and 420"0 C0 tons
of foundry pig iron in 1955, the total East German production of. pig iron an(.
f of aidry pig iron would amount to 4,015,CCO torts and 3/V),600 tone after the
:;chwedlt lroo and steel works ha ire been put into opera t1..on:, An Increase of hire,
pig Iron capaxc ity to tae extent stated in the F' Teserxt report seems un ik e .ty everr..
' - he uae of scrap in the production of steel 6-1'f' . ,p. j n the years t:come
f: e t,data l 1aa;3t 0 -.rman ra steel production is scheduled to amount No # most
41,17000'00 tons in JS55, The erection of the Schwedt iron and steel wanks,, if
carried out. would prove that, in the economic fi.eid, the East German EEl)
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