PRELIMINARY WORK ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAST GERMAN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005400100020-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: February 11, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLMENCE AGENCY REPORT
East Gcra~.ny
Preliminary Work on the Development
of the East German Aircraft Industry
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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1. On 15 May 1954, Herr Meister (fnu) visited t n Chemnitz. He
ordered the formation of a special working g sting of
returnees who up to that time were employed n' nt divisions
of the plant. Ingenieur Schell (fnu) was made group leader.
The group included the following persons:
Ing Schiebeck (fnu)
Ing Scheumann (fnu)
Ing Karl Schenk
Dipl Ing Helmut Stegbeck
Ing Teuchert (fnu)
Ing Steinaecker (fnu) (moved to Federal Republic )
The following persons are scheduled to be added to this group:
Dipl Ing Max Lorentzen, formerly
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employed at theJ$nkers Works,
an expert in propellers
Two offices of the IFA plant were given to the group, Meister stated that
they would work independent of the plant.
2. Meister Showed an order designated Project No 021 - 0001/TB, concerning
the design and construction of a mobile propeller test stand for
engines rated up to 700 h.p. The suspension arrangement of the test
stand was designed to accomodate either a 7-cylinder radial engine or
a 5-cylinder engine of 300 h.p. A 8-ton chassis of flat-bed trailer
type with a double-cranked frame was which
Ing Dubnak (fnu)
Ing Enderlin (fnu)
Ing Wandersleb (fnu)
emergency. power gener.
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The chassis, les %nd
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Mnism were to be delivered by the
in Rosswein/Saxony and the VEB
The following plants were
involved in the supply of various instruments.
FIMAG, Finsterwalde - Maschinenbau, Finsterwalde:
VEB-Elektrowae
No difficulties L-LUA16ed in placing the orders as the
requested equipment appeared to be available.
,Procurement Center in Pirna
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colleagues from Chemnitz j
had an opportunity to visit the Procurement Center in his search
for the necessary equipment to attach the 7-cylinder radial engine
to the test stand. The second visit involved general procurement
questions. In a parklike works area with irregularly distributed
In this workshop, sever-al
employeeswere working on the assembly of a crane. Except for some
lathes and workbenches, no machinery was seen. A 7-cylinder. radial
engine covered with a tarpaulin stood in the center of the workshop.
The necessary equipment for the projected test stand taken from
this engine.
6.
in Pirna:
Dipl Ing Theo Maedebach, expert in plastics
Ing Hermann (fnu), statistician and stability expert
Ing v.d. Fange,(fnu), engine specialist, formerly employed at BM4
Ing Banas,(fnu), technologist
technician Wegener (fnu)
Ing Kurt Vogel
Ing Hundhausen
Ing Harleib
Of those who returned from the USSR on 3 July 1954, the following
were scheduled to go to Firna:
Dr Scheinost (fnu)
Ing Jakob. Has already taken his residence in Pirna.
Ing Trimbusch.
Guenther Iange.
Salaries of 3,000 to 16,000 DM per month were offered to the experts who
rend on 3 July 1954.
The Procurement of aviation ith difficulties.
P-"the Central Depot
o the Pirna Procurement Center located in Heidenau near Dresden.
On the first floor of the main building which housed the VEB-Polygraph
(construction of printing machines), a variety of aviation material
was displayed on tables in two rooms
0 this is a collection point for captured war materiel search
for adequate equipment for the test stand, such as a barometer
and RPT-reading meter went without result.
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