MAIN ADMINISTRATION 18 OF THE MINISTRY OF MACHINE CONSTRUCTRION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005900600005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 24, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
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SUBJECT Main Administration 18 of t
he Knistry of
Machine Construction
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
DATE D R Marclt 1555
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IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1W Pirna (Main Administration), referred to
was allotted 3 million C'rlstra, k IV, tho' F'ciniatL?ry of ~iacxnine 25X1
Constriction on 11 October 1954. These funds were required by HV 18 for specia.
projects and had been requested through the ZK (central ecan+ittee) of tho SED,
An employee of the designing office locat"d at Sctinenstein r%astle in Pirna stated that.
the workibrce of the office amounted to 40 engineers in August 1954. By 7 October
1954 ; the work tree had increased to 100 persons, It was noticed that most of the
new employees were very young and had not been in the USSR as had the older oriueo
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units cans to be started in Hal'
in charge of the project. It tion of power
"Hodern Aircraft Design" as a guest lecturer at the Dresden Institute of Technology
The Activities of the newly hired experts at Firna previously scheduled to start
at, 1 October 1954 were postponed until 15 November. Pirna .. .. lade
wonder 1avol personnel, snob as designers, draftsn4n and accountants* The
vacancies of main department and department chiefs could be filled with returnees
from the USSR. These returnees were not very a*itious and did not work xuc-,h0 TheJf
sane to their offices only for short periods of timed It was difficult to }'.ire fo.r-nc::?
aviation and aircraft construction expertq and the activities were behind lehedule,
Pirna was to become a development institute, possibly with an experimentali'orkshop.
It could not yet be foreseen whether the construction of models would be pc-seible
or not. No information was obtained which night indicate that there was a
requirement of skilled labormeat ftrrtto
b, Some preparations for aircraft production were being made at the Reams Fire in
Schkeuditz. It was said that Wendt (fbu), a former Lufthansaotficial was tv be
a, Dipl Ing B.Cv..Baade, chief of the development station in Pirna was lecturing on
c. The production of gliders was'to be transferred, from Gotha to an undetermi.:td pla::o,
No information was obtained on.e projects in Dessau and Uhennits0
4 1- r1edt Toppe who, prior to the riots on 17 Junea953, had had a key position in the
aircraft construction, was transferred to the Rostock Neptun Shipyard in June ~954a
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L mid October 1954, monthly salaries offered to former designers and
engineers in the field of aircraft construction by thA r:irna
Designing Office amounted to about 12p000 eastmarkso
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In mid October 1954, monthly salaries offered to former designers and
engineers in the field of aircraft construetiont by the ~'irwi
Designing Office amounted to about 12,000 gastmarks.
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