FACTORIES OF THE EAST GERMANY MOTOR INDUSTRY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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-CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Factories of the East Germany
Motor Industry
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE DISTR. 16 December 1953
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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VEB 1 tallwerke Harzgerode
is This factory is a key industry for the production of high-quality light metal:,,
used mainly in the manufacture of engines. It employs 350 persons,, and manu-
factures 70 - 90 percent of the pistons used in East Germany.
20 Orders on hand for the present year amount to 6,000,000 eastmarks. They inciu&
orders for the H3A 4-cylinder 60 h.p. engines, which are built by IFA for
installation in 3-ton trucks. The H6 engine has 6 cylinders and develops,l0O
It is used to power Horch G5 motor-cars, which are used by the national army.
These vehicles, which are of the three-hxle type, have six-wheel drive. Two-
thirds of the pistons produced are for 4-cylinder engines, the balance for o1=
cylinder engines.
3, The factory is also turning out pistons,Iizi.d cylinder heads for 4,500 engines of
the 3 OK type,.. manufactured at VEB Kraftfahrzeugwerk Phaenomen, Zittau. This i,;
an air-cooed 4-cylinder 30 h.p. engine, used mainly for ambulances, etc.
4o Last year the Harzgerode plant also supplied pistons for 6,000 40-h.p. tractors
of the Pigni2r type, which are being built at VEB Schlepperwerk Nordhausen.
Only 1,000 pistons have been ordered this year, because production of t Pion:ie
is to stop next September. The Pionier is to be replaced by the 30-h,p RS
tractor, The Nordhausen plant also produces caterpillar tractors of the RS 62
type developing 60 h.p.
5. VEB Metallwerke Harzgerode N .nufactures 1,000 cylinder heads per month for the
manufacture of F9 engines, These are 3-cylinder, 2-stroke DKV engines which are
built at VEB Kraftahrzeugwerk Framo, Hainichen, and VEB Automobilfab:r.'ik EM,
Eisenach, Most of the engines are installed in trucks earmarked for export.
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VEB Automobilfabrik ENW. Eisenach
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In 1952, the Harzgerode plant supplied the EMW plant at Eisenach with 15,000
cylinder heads for 350 cc. motorcycles. As of next September, the ENW at
Eisenach will also build 750 cc. motorcycles of the R75 type. Output will be
reserved exlusively for the armed forces.
VEB Fahrzeug u. Geraetewerk Simson; Suhl
7, The Simson plant at Suhl received 10,000 cylinder heads for the Avo 235 motor-
cycles of 250 cc. This type of motorcycles is being built by Forsten & Co.,
Leipzig, It is mainly used by the FDJ, the police, and the Association for Sport
and Technics.
8, The Simson factory is developing a motorcycle of 600 cc. which is scheduled to
go into production towards the end of 1953.
VEB IE'A Motorenwerk, Chemnitz and Johannisthal
q. The LEA motor works at Johannisthal and Chemnitz have received 500 piston skirts
and other parts for an outboard motor of 125 cc. for Picoicz? boats. 280 of these
were supplied.. on 31 March 1953. In spite of the fact that the order had been.
placed by the Office for Economic Matters, the boats were accepted by Soviet
officers.
100 The IFA motor works at Johannisthal is also manufacturing 200 SM4./17 150-hp
diesel engines.
11. At VEB IFA Schlepperwerk Schoenebeck, Elbe, 550 engines of the same type are be ng
built,
BerlinnJohannisthal Experimental Station
12. For the tractor factory at Schoenbeck, the experimental station at Berlin-
Johannisthal is developing an engine similar to the Junkers, equipped with ccunler-
.pistons. It will be used for a vehicle of the Alligator type, which is eq?uiPPex
with a belt movement made of Perlon in place of tracks. This vehicle is used
exclusively for military purposes. Twelve engines of this type are at present
undergoing tests.
Shortages of raw materials
13o The greatest difficulty encountered in the production of pistons is the shortage.
of silicon with a low iron content; 30,000 tons of pulverized silicon were
imported illegally from This quantity
represents approximately 300 tons of light metal containing silicon for piston
alloys.
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