DECISION OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS ON THE EAST GERMAN CIVILIAN FUEL SUPPLY

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• Publication Date: March 22, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
COUNTRY
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ACQUIRED
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East Germany
Decision of the Council of Ministers on
the East German Civilian Fuel Supply
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DATE DISTR. 22 March 1955
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called for in the 195"1 L;conomio
1. In the first ten months of 1954, the )industry produced less than the amounts
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kpve occurred
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about I 2, -> -tans
b6, the Plan for prodMtion of Siebkc e vmm not falft;' led;
in, abogt 450,000 tons of briquettes were not produced since the sale (AbeM;vne)
thereof was limited (begrenzt).
The reasons given for this lack in_,prodA tin includc_d:
es.. the f4~1t.. _ _ as new enterprises } ,,~. +rA . ;oat insiu&tsry
and in the powar p IQ start operation aoe to the Plan; the procic-
tion of abouL. tote of crud ' U$ftite 25,
resolving the deficits caused by the frost and flood periods.
were established by resolutions of the Council of Ministers on
In the coal industry enterprises, Kampfplaene were instituted with the goal of
field were also put into operation belatedly, especially
works of the lignite plants"'Freundschaft'l,"'1ti'Fanz Mehring; I
because of belated equipment installation and be
nected with the start of operations. The new en
older briquette factories, except for Espenhain.
factories, new drops in production, which cannot
and 12 August 1954. The deficits in briquette pro
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The maximurn production possible in the last two moftfts of 1`9 : tld consist
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ecennmy (Wirtschaft) and the Reiehsbahn (Verkehe) will be appro a / .
follows:
Crude lignite
,:]:i Briquettes
a...:The Minister for, Heavy Industry was, to be responsible for:
1. Insuring that consultations regarding production would be held in the
about 15 days
about 12 days
On the basis of this situation, concerning the procurement of solid fuels, the
Presidium of the Council of Ministers on 11 November 1954 resolved the following:
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months of November and Deceit order to attain the maximum inerea
in coax , and briquette produe
2. Insuring, that the Main Administration for Lignite held a scheduled meeie
of the Activist Co ittee (Aktiviatenkosn&a5ion) on 12 November to att
the goal: mentioned in 5.a (1) above. At the same ti; , manpower of this
Main Administration was to be concentrated in those n!-pit mining areoev 0
which deliver to consumers outside of the jurisdiction of the Ministry
3.
for Heavy Industry.
8h rtening the time consumed in re nirg M "We and rolling stock
/~
through the introduction of q,40' re air metiodas hnellre 'aturmet
k
q
e)
-reps ir brigades (Sohne1lreparatur-
in all lignite plants and of ui
bri gaden j- f nr tharepair of o en- 1'.t mining l ent.
e es of crude lignite,
orrespond to the fuel
, and briquettes to
established by this
5. Initiating contracts for t f rst quarter of 1955, between the deliverthg
plants and the branch offi e* f DID Kahle. In this respevt, the ex-
pected requirements (Bezug prueehe), of the branch offlees of DIiZ /~
Kohie were to be established by 20 December 1954.
b. The Minister for Railway Affairs was to be responsible for:
1. The uninterrupted sppplying on a priority basis of required freight spate r