POLITICAL NOTES ON THE BAU-UNION POTSDAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600550010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT PoUtical Notes on the Rau-Union Potc-dam
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1.. On 25 August 1953, a conference attended by about 40 SED activists of Bau Union
Potsdaxr, took pla, ~e. Engler, secretary of the SED cell of the Ben Union,geve a
report on the events of 17 June and their effect on the construction projects
executed b, the Bau TJni.m,. He stated that the workers of 95 percent of the con-
estru .tion ~;i tes of the firm participated in the strikes staged after 17 June and
that a total of 248 skilled construction workers had left the firm `after giving
notice. Many FDGI3 members including numerous SED member I vurned ixt their member-
ship cards. Construction supervisors complained about the low 'morale cif construc-
tion workers, while the workers were dissatisfied with the poor quarters made
available to them at construe-1-lion sites. P '
2, Beckmann, chief of the SE3) cell at the Stalinstadt construction site., stated that
several workers had told him that X-day would soon be repeated. Another chief of
an SE73 celn. Bastian from the Wu ensdorf?..Zossen construction site, reported that
an underground organization was operating at the construction site. The members
of this organization revealed their membership to each other by secret signs.
Bastian said that he had obtained this information from a bricklayer who belonged
to this underground,organi.zati.cn, but disappeared when he became aware that he
had been compromised.
3. Wunderling, FDJ secretary of the B&u. Union Potsdam, ;eta trod that of 1,000 appren-
t .ce r who were members of the :FDJ. about 400 belonged to the Jung* Gemeinde, the
youth organization of the Protestant Church in East Germany. The members of the
JLmge Gemeinde had a strong influence or. the apprentices. Mateplowski, chief of
the Planning Department of the Bau Union, announced that the produc tiofa plan of
the firm had been fulfilled only 63 percent during the first half of 1953. Com.
petitions after the Sov&et pattern were rejected by the Gemcies Orkers. Di tbrenner ,
chief of the Investment Department, stated that the Ben Union Firms in Potsdam,
Brandenburg: and Leipzig were faced with financial bankruptcy and that they could
?ontinue operating only through government loans.
4. According to statements made by all chiefs of party cells at the various con-
s-tructiou sites, KVP recruiting ecomissions of 2 or 3 men were active at all con-
struction sites... Special efforte were being made to recruit juveniles who had just
completed their apprenticeship. Those who volunteered were promised further pro?-
fessiona4 :r ini n and even study at a technical school while they ;rere serving
the V At Feuni.gsdn.
rf four Juveniles accepted the offer and joined the
KVP.
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