EAST GERMAN FIRMS MANUFACTURING PARTS FOR TANKS AND WEAPONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006500070003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 29, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
S-E-C-R-E-T
NOFORN
29 April 1955
East German Firms Manufacturing
Parts for Tanks and Weapons
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any manner to an unauthaels~a p~r~on L prohfbiLad
bylaw.
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS RE-ORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
iNE A-/RAISAL Of CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(fOR KEY SEE RlVERSU
the following independent orders for tank an gun par s were e n
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Caterpillar treads and links
Bolts for tread links
Tank turret housings '
Tank turrets
Tank sprocket wheels
Tank armor plate
Tank engines
Gun carriages
Artillery breech mechanisms
Gun barrels
Unfinished grenades and grenade packets
2. Following are the firma that produced
5tahlwerk Raasberg b. Zeitz
'Stahlwerk Silbitz
Eisengiesserei Leipzig2
Dampfhammerwerk Grodenhain
B. F ~ G. LauchhatiIIne r
Stahlguss Ueckermuende
1(asch. Fabrik and E-Giesserei
Niedez'wuerschnitz~Sachsen
5chwermaschinenbau Ernst Thaelmann
Magdeburg
Werkzeugfabrik Schmalkalden
Stahlgiesserei Frankleben
Schwerinaschinenbau Ernst Thaelmann
Magdeburg
S-E-C-R-E-T
NOFORN
X AIR ~( FRI I I AtC
6,000 tons
500 units
2,500 "
2,500
2,500
7,000
2,200
500
900
700
28,000
and delivered the parts listed above:
Caterpillar tread links, treads, armor
plate and bogie wheels
Cat. tread links, unfinished grenades
and grenade packets
Cat. tread links
n n n
Caterpillar treads
Armor plate
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NOFORN
Stahl-u. Walzwerk Riess
Giesserei Torgelow
Peniger Ma,schinenf'abrik
Stahlwerk Bo,,,~r~dorf b. Leipzig
Maschinenbau~Eisengiesserei Goerlitz
Schwermaschinenbau Ernst Thaelmann
Magdeburg
IFA-Werke Schoenebeck u. Audi-Horch
Zwickau
Panzerwerk Rirchmoeser
Waggonbau Goerlitz
Stahlwerk Wetterzeube
Stahlgiesserei Frankleben
Getriebebau Leipzig u.
Kirchschau b. Bautzen
Maschinen u. Zahnraederfabrik Gotha
Schwermaschinenbau Georgia Dimitroff
(Otto Gruson) Magdeburg
Maschinenfabrik u. Eisengiesserei Dessau
Maschinenfabrik u. Eisengiesserei Pulsnitz
Messegeraetewerk Quedlinburg
Sachsenwerk Niedersedlitc
Feinmesszeugfabrik Keilpart~Th.
Spiralfederfabrik Muehlhausen
IFA-Gelenkwellenwerk Stadtilm
Verbundsglas Babelsberg
Geraetewerk Karl Marx, Magdeburg
Maschinenfabrik Halle
Maschinenfabrik Nordhausen
Schwermaschinenbau Georgia Dimitlroff
Schwermaschinenbau Karl Liebknecht
SchwerrrL>a~~hinenbau Ernst-Thaelmann,
Schwermaschinenbau Karl Liebknecht
Schwermaschinenbau Georgia Dimitroff
Eisengiesserei Weissenfels
Mech. Werkstaetten Guestrow~l+ieckl.
Maxhuette Unter~rellenborn
Armor plate
Tank bogie wheels, turret housings
Bogie wheels, tank sprocket wheels
Tank bogie wheels
Tank bogie wheels and bolts
Tank bogie wheels, turrets and gun
barrels..
Tank engines
n n
Tank turrets and turret housings
Tank turrets
a n
Tank sprocket wheels
rr a rr
(Tank parts, oil pressure brakes, oil
(filters, starters, meters, steel seats,
(drive shafts, safety glass, connecting
(rods, bushings, armatures, etc.
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Gun carriages and breech mechanisms
a a n n ~r
Cannon barrels
n n
Unfinished grenades and grenade packets
n n a n n
1. Probably identical with the enterprise listed in the directory to the 195+
Fall Leipzig Fair as VEB 3tahlwerke $ilbitz-Rasberg.
2. Possibly identical with Eisengiesserei Walter Slug, Taucha, Bezirk Leipzig,
Gerichtsweg 9 c~d.
B-E-C-R-E-T
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