PERSONNEL CHANGES AT VEB WARNOWWERFT WARNEMUENDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006200380011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 24, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Personnel Changes at
VEB Warnowwerft Warnemuende
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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REPORT
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DATE DISTR. 24 March 1955
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appointed manager of the Warnoup ft
time held a professorship for naval areh44ecture at the Rostock University,
was appointed head of the design departme t of the shipyard. In 1954, Franz
was in Communist China trying to get an order for the design of 15,000-ton
ore carrier, which would be built in Warnemuende. The negotiations on this
project were still going on at the time.
chair at the University of Rostock
p
r
on
e reshuff
e. On that day, it was learned from
a section head at the shipyard tha
it was going to be adopted by the Poles also. The as
construction, he declared, would make possible a considerable acceleration
of the bul.],.? QWat,i,ans.
had been successfully applied by the Soviet shipbuil
who explained that
field, Germany had
development in the
were built.
adherent
followed
Geist was, a
at the Warnovrtt and known to be a fervent
t Unity Party (SED;. In the discussion, which
ist was vehemently attacked by old shipbuilders,
during the war, and especially in the submarine building
reached a much higher degree of perfection, and that
USA also was superior at the time the Liberty-type ships
4. During the meeting, it was already rumored that Geist would have to withdraw
from his post as manager of the Warnow,Wrft1w As early as 4 November 1954, ILLEGIB
RiA>d broadcast a re
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