VEB TRANSFORMATOREN UND ROENTGENWERK (TRARO), DRESDEN - PERSONNEL CHANGES AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004600250004-3
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY fist Ceritetw DATE September 195'
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7 t: L uet 1953; t}uahmsa? x ` ~sL ` w c ht d cx :: a`)potnted cmanageir of the 'f ranafoimatoren..
and Poesltga27Vexk a; a: den by -the Soviet3Ja -dismissed,. The saran
r.*Fpered to Zi,m c.fntr),, in SRD member.and former oetpepter, to bad ome
&. staff of t-he_plant,.In August or September ?1.53'}
Director Bruno wide.- ~~.'~ ?rrn, according to an.,official venlon,?fdt
hsa .th reasons, About the sera,; t x.; Professor Dr. 9. StAmm, technical
marager of the enterprise,uras ar.rs,d to set up a College of Electric al
t:ntireering ak-ibmenane.3e was reolaced by In_genieur Zirkel (iia)c an SF.1)
Cier?.bar who t4as i'ormerly a designer in the field of higr =atte.ge ii+stallcctions.
LWcas -(.--nu) worked as an. assistant engineer in the plant, In
ca ptenber.19 3 chief c.asigne.r Dunke1 (fhu) returned from China where he had
been for halt a' year.' In April 1954, Wnkel was maggger of the enterprise,
Beclwnn (fnu) worked at the Designs Bureau, Professor Stamm had induced
Tn?-er.' eur Sirkwi tz (fnu) an o71--^t tn. the field of high-power transformers
of ''fie TIRO plant in '' ist Berlin to come to Dresden,
2, TI c. largo building for the high voltage U epar- u..-:' was completed in
flejtta)ber 1913. ?hccept fora sr&i.l crane, the machinery required had not 25X1
been :.natall.Ed in April 1954: _- wcrkshop was mainly used far.-Storago and
pack' ng pdj xes; Two 500 kVA engine:: (sic) required for the depertament were
sche;;:.:l.ed to a :milt at the Sachsenwerk Plant in Piedersedl'its.-
n,. rolec* ?.- "Development of a ? rgle member for the direct current
nat_',-.'-.on.3; development of a multiple valve fitted on the vacuum
Lump is:'c fo?- these installations; development of one betatron far 10 and
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used in the facto,:- s e:Ltt's i ;rl4Q1ttoe test fie.LO, h ,.ded b;, Stumu
The engineers Still workinj at the firm could not ovireomc L._o
difficulties in-rolvred in the z ov iop e it work m'n;lonad R'at i.'onco
:; ade to the fact that the :t4Fiust 195 3 rrodurt:Lon p1ca of the
f irn was f ul, illed only 20 perceAt, Information dating from ' il .9S 3
ind..fated fiat the work on. We develapncnr, of h.tatrons and instal:LatLc:a.
der,;. ;ned for linear acceleration of electrons did not rake i ch
prr,;!?s&'a.
b, :.reject `vaveloTt;ent of a bighgoltagc test transformer for 1,0!' ItV
.nd of L. combined current and voltage traftsforraer for. 220 k9".
It :s beiievved that this develop uL' work was interrupted by Ainke.
t--.pr to Ch.i.:cae Information dating from April 1954 indioated that, w::
::r4 r: in, done an the two pcsrat,r.s, but details ::era not availabl:
c, project 3: ' ";evolo?;:;ant of a e GyUle differential bridge d signed. ror
diloct fault-reading". It'!.a doubted that there was &ni urge:,. requc,rae;rt
for the ' ^,,~eiopment of this eC1'uimnent.
t' o;ject 4: ttuavelop.TM:ent of a transform:- for 220 kY". It is ioasib.Ll
That this devaloi:;xnt order was given to the enterprise as a result
of s -racist efforts nade b - Professor 3tamr, One of the reasons for
these effor1;s may have bear the consideration that =
al:.ccztione are t)r nted for development work. 25X1
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on the development of this transformer had beer, unsuccessful. This
did not agar surprising in view of tho fact that 110 kV 'Lrensfora>ri
te::ted at Vie n'lant in Septar. r 1953 did not stand the tests,r a11e oily
because of inadequate insulating material., 'fork on the develDonent of
220 kV transformer has bean ccnductod at the TRO plant in East Herl:n
for 20 years, The Berlin plant is better equipped and better suited
for developr.e.nt work on transformers for very h.gh voltages,
e., r,o1ect 5: r`.asoGreh work on rrocassos occurring in rectifier plan;?
..r in ; n a okrarti c and valve-steered rectifications. (gtn). This
lio1-r1.: iuly belexDa ted to roach positive fesults only when tha Marti P.11
~. J.!:^t? ^la.:. i? or the Siemens Valve Plant is in a poa.tt on tr :^ili:'au..i:? -.~
i lr_?: c' salves, The develooMant wort: may be supervised by D Win. rip
Sistant to Professor Guenther-Schulze wan while C t
the :3resder., Institute of Techrology, made experiments with r,ctlfvr:.:i7
6: r'?irti.e ^ dove t. of p;'esaur? gas condatriers :'o,r SOC !V c .sure a cone=;soars of this c p-:cit, ctn be bought itt the Harti.:::trii
any 3raurn f}:-r at :'rseankfurt ?min. It A :L therefore.. believed that ,:t)
?.el: c..eveloplreat of this equipment in Dresden was uneconomical,.
?ro;iect 7: ='Davc:i_opment of hi ghvolt&ge condensers utiU.zing or an::-:
inesu:.acing r:ateriais. " Porcelain high vlltage condensers wire ors - .o rs'ly
menu cict per at the Reecho firer in Hcrmsdorf. this 25X1
':irrr was still in a position to furnish porcelain higb~voltage
In giving this develop ,nt order, the Dresden fi.rrs may have been in..
2luonced by davelopraent work wade in this field by Swlstt ' Lx-r,s
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Cu:^ II)EN?IAl < U0S. 'JVFIeL&LS ON-.,Y
h, Project 8: "Development of an X-ray apparatus for 400 k0". Details
were not available, Apparatus of this kind are being built in the
JSS^,
i. Project 9: "Further development of an X-ray apparatus for 200 kV",
Development work in this field was expected to continue according
to schedule