INFORMATION ON VEB FUNKWERK DABENDORF

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• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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.1. The Dabcwdorf Radio Plant, which was foraerly a suti:idi_a::y plant of ' the t. .A. La ?eia :
firm, wee scheduled to be detrolish H by t1a Go?: tc c~ . 'It is 112'-an, h=~,..,rew; waw ven up 25X1
and 200 and 800 watt marine transmittter:o o. the cc-call id ~~~;I enma ' twro4 t e
built for the Soviets from etociks available at the plant.
2. In 1951, the plant was placed under the trusteeship of VVB RFT Leipzig; it was made
a nationalized enterprise in 1952. When the Ministerium fuer Post, and Ferrielde-
wesen was set up, the Dabendorf Plant was placed under this ministry, first as a
subsidiary of Furkwerk Zospenick and later as an indepeniont plant.
3. The managers of the plant changed frequentl;r between 1951 and 1953. Ob ..=lo (fuu) was
dismissed without notice for illegal operat ens and embezzl enent; his successor
Ilsgeretaedt (fnu) was also dismissed for umbezzleffient. The latter was followed by
technical manager Plosse (fnu), a locksmith by training who had to be transferred
to P nkwerk aoepenick because of inefficiency. Wosaok (fnul, who had been transfers:
to Dabendorf from RPT-Unlagenbau Brandenburg was plant manager in late 1953. Ile
previously worked at RFT-Anlagenbau in Rostock .
4. In January 1954, approximately 560 persons)including 80 adrniniutrative personnel
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0 apprentices,worked at the plant.
5. The follaaring radio equipment has been manufactured at the plan.,:
a. 800-Watt and 204-Watt "Fdirenmal"--type transmitters; medium u vc transmitters
(500 to S00 meter waves)- limit-wave tranamlttors (100 to 2G0 meter waves); and
short-wave transmitters (12.5 to 100 meter ways:,). Free 1945 to 1953, a total
of about 400 sets were delivered, mainly to RFI-.Anlagenb a jr Rostghok for in.-
ste?llation on ships to be delivered to the USER an r a . tio;i;3 ,.r. >c'tt.
Four 200-Watt transmitters for sl**t and Herr :saves for tr:~?:h~ ,were a3.rso built.
Other radio sets were delivered to the in Administration of ..' _ 8,1'43101 i Z 0i J to
the Sea Police to China and EEumenia through DIA, and a Soviet Pi nay -1 r_ Wueyi- orf
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In the fall of 1953, three 800 -Watt transmitters previously delivered to this
unit underwent general overhaul at the plant.
b. : 11-s .ve :-eceivers. They covered a wave range between 10 and 2500 meters, divided
into eight wave. re_nge groups and a ninth group for the"distress call wave07.
Total. production was about 3CC sets, which were delivered to R-Anlagenbau
Rastcscl and the I?lq.iss P ini t mt-?ons of the Volkepolizei and 8eepolizeia In the
fall of 1952, the Soviet unit in Wuensdorf received a total of 20 all-wave sets.
c. 25 -Watt marine telephecy e -ad.~i~ xer . A total of 60 units of the equipment were
dhh? ivered to the USSR uhi.lo 80 sets were manufactured at the plant for use in
th, R. develcp:,ont of this type of equipment has not yet been terminated.
Oaring t3? s corgi half" of 15, a totel of 60 sets were scheduled to be delivered
ti5 - ~Y asenba FDstoc k fox 1ne rte. oration on cutters, to be exported to the
USSR, and another SO sets ,,era .r .ar ked for cutters of the East German fishing
fleet.
d. Drifter V;rcnsnit ters . About 30 transmitters of this type have been manufactured
up to the present time. This equipment was developed by ? un erk oepenicko
Production w:,-as scheduled to start during the third quarter of 19540
e. irane,ni.tter?s for geophysical tests. Wenty transmitters of this type were delivered
to the Ocophysikelisches institut at Brieselang (near Yauen) in 1951, another
four in 1953. The 20 sets were delivered by Br?iesoxang to the Geophysical Service
in Leipzig, while the 4 remaining sets were delivered to Communist China. Other
orders were a ect i to be reneived from East Germany, China, Hungary, Poland
and ' - Czechoslova a,
f. Twenty portable wr?ensceivers were delivered to the ee ,olizei though the uero
fuer Wirtschaf tefragen (Bureau of ZScomomic Aff,'aiz s) in 1951/1952
An order for 70 sets was placed in 1953 but subsequent'.y cancelled because the
equipment was scheduled to be redesigned.
A total of 35 sets were ready for dispatch to the Seepolizei beginning late
January lr ~, l
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The production quota of 41,he p`! aa?a . encunted to about 3,000,060 eastsnarks in 10,52 and
probably twit-e this sum in 1?53. Production plans were slightly overfulfilled b tween
1951 and l953.
No investments were made prio.-A to 1952 as ts.o plant was under trusteeship a` d rcoeived
no investment funds, nor was it a? lowed to be investments. In 1953, a comprohenm
siVe investment plan was drawn -tap. Origina,l'4y, about 800,000 eastmarks were appro-
priated; but this sum was reduced by 50 percent in connection with the economy
drive started in the sprig of 153.
Under the curtailed investment scheme, the following plan could be carried out:
a. The construction of a new workshop with space allocated follows
develo ent department (:,bout 60 square meters),
desiga.s office (about 80 sc1aaa. e met),
new lock,s?m::. th's ahh:sp (about 250 -square mete re) ,
sand blasting shop (about 70 square meters),
galvanizing shop (abou _ 60 squa5,s mt rs, .
b. Ma-chinery arn~l technical eggzi neat prow n'e:1 included
a sand blast app r?afus,
* coo ?l n e galvanizing
e. 5-tin press,
a cylindrical. grinding chine for .rc clueing shaft diameters,
a surface grinder for tools (Flaechenschieifmaschine fuer 141srrkze agbau
a precision grinding maot uo.
77 n.7
a top 121 precislc n, frracmency Mete,-,
a _159- type measuring gernerator,
an induction meter,
a 220 It -type sound g d rig tor,
a 1.14. type tube voltmeter,
a 116-type tube voltmeter., all made Funloverk Erfurt,
a c~athede ray osci lcer.ad &a Fads by the S C, H Zim at Zwce it
a faraday cage 2., 5 x 3,,` m ctera des?geed at bon doe f.
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d. . es a en s worc ai ,c rade for various test gnstrtnnents including a precision
frequor , j 1' e Lt,
:e K 37 i for f h l'C I !c7 3 c' ' w: 1 i u! ve ,, a . ' vc Yhani(??al equi ent available had been
to "_en evor fr o r Yh, 'r zm, This zuip ient, on which source could give
no dctai1c::d' tot! ?, iE .:c ?tYty ollo ,Y? DZa inesa
2 :Lea; r ~;?r aathe-_ 5 snag 0 w es 3 9 2 rfli.l.li ng machines
R ~efl7 ati~ lath~,es, p
1 shaping machine, 1 12rge mcc}ranj jai c~ :?11'1 y 2 m l rerahanical drill, 2 grinders,
I horizonta.j grinding , aehinc, . winding machines and 6 small hand-operated
winders. `1 frost all of these rra4hine:- were in poor condition.
Sore of the CCOC--?4att and ?CC att transmitters were built from."; stocks of the former
Gerr?n A.rry C I d r tcc r r,f c:on >onerrt pate were gradually exhausted and were con-
t cDur nsly re l e t y o nr:led or news -r developed parts. The converters used with the
I a z t a i :n:o id n is (c P e r &.dic equ.. : rit wev e U 10 S-type converters for
FUG zi'-'t-V-y ` U~ s V :'r i?"r 0 a~ rn..1 / z n y which were still avail-
J.. able -in ar,e g,,;,a'Yttt.}e!3. C.erakuio corponjentb1 'e eh as fixed condensers and variome--
te `i, ijsr t.yip-_?ed b; the Kex"a.:isches Werk `?Hosa}io't at Hermsdorfo They were of
C~ ,. 4r'1~ ...1111 ~'t.1a L,.~.F4r a-_-, O. YJU C:f'f:`~"es
1 1uY~ sq~ilp `j met dai l , 2;' r atio .?sCpo~~,n?e,7'ans ~'~o.- M3yer and~ `~ d eme
sheets wnre mainl.yr ordered frcm i b:X~L.ZFA:> b ,5 a .. w~2Y. eee v"ere experienced as
there wayo no direct contact with ,jh a play e., its, 'n believed U .t stocks wore
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187 $ kc/ - '.60 'Mete- S
2000 kegs -- 1 50 ~ Meters
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. It shall also be suited for A--3 oA er?ations.
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