INFORMATION ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A KVP AIRFIELD NEAR STRAUSBERG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003600720007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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at the Berlin Itegionel hE ilroad projecr vo v ng the construction of a railroad connection
between Art.usl erg Teich stahnhof :nd : trausberg Stadt was given prl ority,a
KVF instep lation, aUegedly= an ordnance depot or ration supply depot, was
scheduled to be built in the area t ehinc3 the tra.usberg I,~~ndesjugendhein
(provincial youth hostel ), which previously had been used by the Sovietso
The completion date for the installation is said to to 1 '::arch 1954, The
:tvi e ency in char- of the Project is headed ty Vajor G,anersl Konrad I:F;ierm
Construction work will be executed ty the 1E Tiefbau and Lauunion Spreea
2. Petween 15 and 21 Pecember,, 2(0 rai lro,.d. carloads of -construction materials
including 12 carloads of railroad ties arrived on the site of Stra.usberg air-
field, Construction work for the field had not yet been started.
30 ow wooden buildings were teing constructed
in the area of the former airfield at Strausberg. 'A total of 6,500 workers
was allegedly 4chcduled to be quartered there. These workers were to be
enploye l on the reconstruction of Str;:.usberg t irfie.d. for the M. The elevated
train line was to be extended from itrausherg to the airfield,
4,, Petween 3 and 5 Decenter, Strausberg :i rfield was inspected by menbers of the
Berlin Designs Pureaua The forner llmd carters tuildi of the vi r was
to be reconstructed and enlarged o
the airfield was referrt~d to as Project I and given the code mane
ee ?ius A was ruiuored that ex-Field I arshal Paulus would set up his head--
quarters at this airfield. Frelininary designs for the reconstruction of this
headquarters tuilding were completed on g Decanter. The ;roject was controlled
by Lieutenant Colonel Rochlitzer and C