REORGANIZATION OF THE EAST GERMAN MINISTRY FOR POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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East Germany
Reorganization of the East German Ministry
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1. In late May 1953, the Ministry of Postal Services and Teleconmunications plan-
ned toleorganize its administration into the Main Administration for Postal
Services and the Main Administration for Telecommunicationspeach under a state
secretareeand to assign to .these administrations the Institute for Postal and
Telecommunication Engineering which was,still to be established and was sche-
duled to deal with technical problem& 4 The personnel of the previous Main
Administration for Radio Opmmenicationseehich had proved unable to control effectively
the manufacturing of radio equipment,was scheduled to be cut ee percent
and to he assigned aa a department to the Main Administration for Communica-
tions. Gradecki (full) was mentioned as the probable head of the new depart-
ment. About 40 members of the staff of the Main Administration for Radio
Coemunications, who worked at the Manufacturing Plants Department, were taken
over by the Ministry for General Mechanical Engineering in early July. Artur.
Aatzke and Adler (Thu)1 the managing directors of the Mein Administration,
were scheduled to be released for other appointments while Baumbach (fnu):
formerly chief of the Manufacturing Plante Department?was reassigned his
former subordinate position at the District Administrative Office for Postal
Services and Telecommunications in Erfurt,because of inefficiency. In late
19521 two engineers of the Sachsenwerk Radeberg had applied for employment
in a newly established office for decimeter wave engineering at the Ministry
of Postal Services and Teleconnunicationsedespite opposition by the management
of the plant,
2. In early July? the KVP department for signal commenications at the Ministry
of the Interiorr represented by Oberkommissar Buehring (fnu), offered the
Ministry of Postal Services and Telecommunications 6O00 telephones valued
at about e60000 eastrarts, and installations of local stations,valued at about
450,000 eastmarks. The ?free vas made because?in consequence or a out of funds
the KVP was not in a position to accept the goods which had just been finished.
The Ministry of Postal Services and Telecommunications e- was unable to 10.1Y
the eouipmenteeee the OPD (Postal District Headquarters) Berlineunder the
financial eontrol of the City Government of East Berlinecould purchase the
6,000 telephones,
3. In early July, the Ministry of Postal Services and Telecommunications was in-
formed by the Bau Union that installations ordered for the construction pro-
jects in the Torgelow areaorhich had essentially been reducedftwere released
for postal purposes. In early July, the Department for Special Telecommunicsa-
tion Missions and Security Missions, (FS), cancelled o I
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mobile long-distance switching central and a mobile local telephone
central which had been placed with the telecommunication equipment
plant in Arnstadt.
4. In early May, the 1953 budget was still in force for investments by the
Department for Telecommunications.2 In late March, the Ministers'
Council appropriatedom supplementary budget A, investments of 6000000
eastmarks of the supplementary budget of 1200002000 eastmarks. Supplemen-
tary budget which involved another 6,0002000 eastmeekawas not yet com-
pleted. In April 19540 the Ministry of Postal Services and Telecomemmlea-
tions completed the 1954 standard investment budget which provided for
35,000,000. eastmarks for the Radio Communications Main Department and
52000,000 eastmarks for the Telecommunications Main Administration.
5. A project for the formation of a stock of reserve materials to be used
In the event of catastrophes, which had been stibmitted by the Ministry
of Postal Services and Telecommunications to the Ministers Couoil in
February, was postponed in May.
6. In 1952, the state of repair of installations of the local wire net in
Dresden, which included 32,000 main stations, had essentially deterioriated.
The net, which had completely been destroyed dur:!ng the war, was reconstruc-
ted with old materials from other telephone offices. Since the plants in
East Germany had not yet started manufacturing replacement parts for old
telephone systems, it was planned to purchase the required materials at .
the Christoph Emmerich Company at 1420 Hamburger Landstrasse in Frankfurt/
Main, which had stated In writing to be prepared U.: supply the required
replacement parts. No contract was made prior to March 1953.
7. Sufficient quantities of storage batterieu were supplied to the switching
centrals and long-distance telephone centrals due to the purchase of plates
of lead at the AFA factory in Frankfurt/Main?
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