PRODUCTION SITUATION AT THE MAIN ADMINISTRATION OF RADIO AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNIQUES (HV RFT)

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY East Cer^lany
SUBJECT rc duction Situation at the Main k'~rn3strat-cm NO. OF PAGES 8
of iL_+:_l^. _y d Teleocrnxaunications Techn:Lnues (i~'I RrT)
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-~ f '`-a'_!o and. Telecouu unication Techniues)were encountered with the
of not being fully employed in 1955. The individual plants,
therefore, started a competition for fork orders. Altho'Arh the
ytio-ial .zed industry received an increasing number of work orders
?o:: fo ^ei n countries, these expert orders could not fill up the
asp of orders for the German market. Ex_aniples for the oiitical
sitb_ation in October 1954 are given with the followi!-. "i,=;ures:
one 1111,5 production capacity of Stern Indio Berlin was filled with
10 scent, of Fernmeldewerk A nstadt with less than 10 p=ercent and
_f 3d rk Leipzig with 40 percent. For the second ?quarterxof
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Xtuu needed additional orders for an a^nount of 1.3
to to a
;_-ti: to 'Cep them permale
'7.0 F-T plants :sere,
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nlhLe ry braicnes
o r.+ e of labor i-s: "7 reft* -,.w n,e~
iabo:cere had. alre 'rbeen. drafted for mining tyrork. l.,
5. Tn Cc ;c oer 1954, the i nisti- -ave final approval for '11;>M k
lw .s of all ?-F-T enterprises for ,tho first euarter of l55 .anl -
i.o ":'it? one..l approval for the other quarters. L11 prepar`~tions r'ade
b;,I" thc' '~plants for the 1955 production ouch as Pro(ure'Le?"-; of rlaterial
etc ,d become void, because the expected work orders ere not
:''eceived.
4". In October 1954, the commercial manager of an HV
Construction enterprise st .te:l. that they_ h cl_th
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The Lsbcr Control Office and the Plant Party Organization at most
enterprises maintained that this unfavorable development should
have been foreseen in time by the leading personnel,,who therefore
s;hou:td be charged with this failure. Prom various sides it was
demanced that the entire personnel of HV R-F-T and the management
of several enterprises should be replaced. In October, the Labor
Control Office of Stern Radio Stassfurttobjected to an order of
the Ht' R-P.T by which the production of the medium-class superheterodyne
recei_ier ? was to be turned over to Stern Radio Berlin for the better
uti1ip,,ation of the production capacity of the latter plant. The Labor
Control Office informed HV R-F-T by cable that they had requested the
cancellation of this order and the replacement of the responsible
persons from the SED Central Committee.
6. On 28 Cctober 1954, at a conference at HV R-F-T, 'Hansky (fnu),
chief of the planning control office, stated that the 117 ll-F-T
su e e~L from a lack of 16 million 10astmarks for 1954, that the HV
1' M# (T ietallation of Cables and Lppara.tux) was short 17 million
esastna,rks and the' 11V VTMM (Electric Motors) 24 million.eastmarks.
?cu.rteen additional Hl's had not yet received much of their allotted
:'h.e Ministry of , Finance o was incapAble"of providing these
u_-gently --required amounts.. At a conference with Minister Lau on 27
October which had been scheduled to take two hours but lasted from
1.500 to 2300 hours, the projected funds for HV R-F-T were reduced
for the third time. Among other projects, the production of 10,000
)road-cast receivers by 1+unkwerk Dresden was cancelled.
that the laborers should be assigned to any available work place and
that, after all, the state of laborers and. farmers was- ion-ta a
that during the meeting on the preceding day, Minister knn had mentioned
7. At the conference on 28 October, Heinze, chief of planni-n, stated
ro? :;wse or to tu9n to Osth.T pt . Th. !l 1d e
1-ii--n J requenc;r;*althoi c pe ,teiy fi titix 1 ,ain t s.his
could do to help, and be- adaittid that 11! +rtn*ilj WWittaer
chief by provisional appointment, ; st , * t na was t~-
In a confidential conversation on the iy~l`k
prcidud'tian rapacity.
which should have been turned over to
plant ;.Q had-".proximately enough
17oen-+ t7 plant hart to..release._6O -men,
4' 'iVerk furor Fera eldswessn
although-it_-was working on -orders
Zittau. There were only very few
work orders to fill the
B erlin-Obe rs choenewe ide .
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10. At a conference of energy experts at HV R-F-T on 5 and 6 November,
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it was announced that the critical .electric power sitaation had _-
become worse than during the pr cl4,i Xo O. An addition l M4,000 k?7 were lost as a result of
l contingents previously apjiro led. `these nes .
ne:7 order.
In early November, Da,ug (fnu), chief of the Central Department of
Advertising and Pairs in Leipzig, mentioned that the Leipzig Fair
in the fall of 1954. had proved that the states of the amt 31od%.
viei t~pd t MW
4 `ho,e ergy experts would be responsible
T,eipzia; Fair was only
TTIF_i_y people. The consequences of this dovelopr.ent for the
. "c_mman industry could not be foreseen. Govornr.ent authorities were
seriously worried and functionaries in charge had allegedly indicated
e2ready that restrictions will be placed on all visitors of the
Leipzig-Pair
UNC Experts from all East Ger.ar. industry
oiamchee criticized the standards of the DDR industry and stated
that no medala were to be won on the world market. The Firm
Planned to display at the Leipzig Fair a new type of me or se actor,
about 10 cm, square, for which the East G m Yi=r a.~rt rsdde..-_
five to six times larger. Although the .se at ts &0t a4, _X14
"Hero of. Labor" and two others were prod axe zed "Saari ad- .Designers". -
selector was completely unpractical, one 60 .#"~
12. In Early November, the Production Office of RV ?-P-T received two'
now orders from the Ministry of 'rte c for instruments developed
by fl)
nlcwerk _a?esden and Funk werk Leipzig-Plag~rit-. It was still.
tl~ d.ec .de , which plant would be given these orders.
13., On O November, t'4~ received a circular from th.-, Material
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Supply Office of U sta ng that those types of papaw, dncl.uding
among others corrugated ,teX and packing paper, which haf not been
rationed.,9were quota goods -a"ain. The order was effective immediately.
The -?ol_lowing was pointed out by Eff Chief Sc~haidt at an. N R- F-T
L eeti:4g on 1.9 Novornber.
a. No production figures and information on now develop- s3its could
be given as long as the 1955 plan of political econorly had not
Ne ,on. approved by t1-1e D 1R T-Iinl.cter Council. The app oc%ed plan
would have to be ratified. by the Vclkskamrner (peolplors chamber)
from ;where, however, no objection. were expected.
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The `i.~~~~ figures of the 1955 plan =zln, ttlerefore be pt,lalzshed
( Cot~r;ril 46eeen obtair_e d. T`re 111V wou1,:` :hen iavve to
~t~ cur V already arnotui.ced, however, that, r tholl-,_h,-the
.-): -roc it of the 1955 production plate i ooverrd byjor-iers
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.. lctiiusi of -ower consumptio-ri had to be followed strictly by
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Schmidt said that this was the result of poor plan fulfillment in
1954. Fernmeldevrerk Leipzig, Ilessgeraete Zwoenitz (plant for
measuring instruments) and two other plants. of the HV had a backlog
of production' for an moo- un `~f 1 r~i iic. stma_rks .
GL - - %AWdach and 0bex
------read-resumed operation already. Th
these fu.lds were required to increase _iMlt
J"4 ppedw
plants, and had., therefore, vacancies for surplus personnel of the
Plant for Telecommunications.
c. Ste n Radio in Rochlitz was to turn over to Stern Radio ]3erlin the
production of 30,000 receivers of type 7 r 86, because 4-.II~j Tatter
1) -ant had not enough work orders for 1955.
Se^L.rity
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d. Duo to E. lack of work orders, at the Plant for Si l i'ec: zicuest
at lerlin Treptow (previously Graetz many exports wou'd be
uncr-ployed. No new work places were available. (sic)
e. Pimkwerk Dresden, one of the few R-F-T enterprises which ',--ad enough
work orders, requested funds for the increased production of mine
radio sots and VFIF voice radio sets. ^lh ~*lr~ if.-stated thou
allocate these funds, maintaining that eL;p.- .s;ap caLy
plat was not to be increased, as long as most of the other li-F T
about 4.5 million :Ida.stmarks (unit of ac
the additional production. .
Dre::O.en to cooperate with other R-r-T enterprises and to turn over
of a `pr ,rate capitalistic" character. Schmidt ordered F_u l.vrerk
enterprises were hopelessly underemployed. Such a measure would be
f. The funds requested by Stern Radio Rochlitz for the required
enlargement of the test field were also disapproved, and t'he plant
vas advised to procure the money on credit.
The Arnvtadt, Leipzig,and Bautzen enterprises were still entirely-
uncmployed, and there was no possibility at the present t me,
of giving them production orders from other plants.
h. ao 1954 profit plan of the Ministry of Lachine Construct w,,.ould
presumably have a deficit of 500 million astmarks. cllrr,.d't finally
stated that the plan fulfillment was also completely insu'f_cient
in regard to the adda. - action of rassconsumer- . ___--f'aae-
wn amao t1o_yT
r a? 'd from I t' rr~. c ~l +d ct, th? a tr e l Indus t had
Con t* to an add j 1Ki action of a u"r jkvcas or rs
r istadt with less than 10 percent and
of Fernmeldewrerk Leipzig with 40 percent. For the second quarter of
19559 Funkwerk Zittau needed additional orders 'or an amount of 1.3
na;.~' fi ct a.s4 :marks to fill its production
oaraci ty
2. In October 1954Jtudo1oh Hein^ ..;thief of planni n: a'- HV a-F--T stated
that 9 according to Minister Hein eh u9 V10 14:Lna. 3tXy of waca.:alka
and its subordinate enterprises had a surpluo of personnel, even too
high to keep them permanently employed at a favorable work situation
Tue HV R-F-T plants were9 however, not permitted to di ;raids personanel9
since it was allegedly planned to transfer surplus personnel to other
industry branches such as the mining and lumber industries whinrer (people & s chamber)
from -here, however, no ob j ec ti ors; were expected n
The final figures of the 19551 plan could., therefore be published
to the IIV~FT i :nadir. tely after the approval of the Minister
iii7L?iiC it T -- --=1 been o tained, Irie U I Cron a yon have to
distribute the projects to the individual enterprises. It was
a read-; ainiounce: howc-,r,?r, tthat, a" dg l .L l iaiJ e`?~ the : Cx1g~7,'aY1pe r1an
had been reduced about G0 million eastmazks, only 2 iJto '30
Percent of he 1955 production - ' 11 was covered p~?= by orders
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ichi',iidt said that this was the -.result of pp; or plan fulfillment in
1954. Perrimeldeu{erk Leipzig, Lessgeraete Zvdoenitz (Plant for
measuring instrv~ments) and two other plants of the iI V had backlog,
of production for an amount of 50 million c 'astmar'ks a
b. Schmidt pointed out that the Barlinar
Osiam, 16$3d ae,:Caed o 3:i:ZS Cry ate`` is 600 surplus laborers from the
Plant for '2elecommvn.:?cations., Hig'c. era aency_in Berlin,
aCYtL: KLF3`v3C?`.~C'
SBrtcc the x~;Liner QDIQLIapperve4~ was able to cover the &m M
for lie ht bulbs, the plants which had been closed in 295:, et.:ii as
r: .UGi~~ TtsYI3rIVViG'Y"~C Lisenaich and. 0C e-.:,1,e 'ssba.cho were 'to be reopened. or
had resumed operation already. 1.h ter ?.nor MITgh ! p^moez had
hal f out- with seine experts to -et - e ~" roduction s' t ~+.rte c`S'`t; these
plants, and had, therefore, vacancies for surplus personnel of the
Plant for Teleco. nunications.
Stern Radio in Rochlitz was to tur T. over to Stern Radio Berlin the
production of 130,000 receive s of type 7 E 06, because the latter
plant had not enough work orders for 11),51--
and Security
d. Due to l~.ack of work orders, at the Plant for Signal] Techniques.
at, Berlin T.'epto-. (previously craetz) many experts o'uld be
unemployed. No now work places were a,,,railabie, (Sic)
c. Funkwerk Dreciden ; one 'of the f.ew h-1-'-T en -erpr3 ses @` L'h ad ?no gh
rk ^v:'.?ders, requested fnds for the increased ?sr oiluction of mine
wo-
radio i;ets and VHTF voice radio sets The l a.it c'caUe1
these a'u ids were required to increase T the t 5e - roducticr. by
about # a on 's arT:i 1 ni"l; of
a.. 3 !.? T= t;.~a n Fi.Cl3iXYt0, in 9 55. Srhm;,a+ ,,. f?. q(j to
all' ocat these funds, ma t Lfl ild' uhhat. the C?.t;?' of axis individual
plant wns not to be increased., as loxij as most, of the other
enterprises were hopelessly undereempl.oyed. Such a measure 'thou-.ld le
of a 't '.;'.'iv atee cap3 tc: G iu'tic" character. Schmidt ordered unkvjerk
Dr'eedtin to cooperate with other R-4 -T enterprises and to t rn over
tho adc:-.itional product-ion,
f , The funds requ s-4ed 'by Stern Radio iiochli tz for the required
enlargement of the, test field were also d'3 sa roved, and the plant
was adw:_ se d to procure the m_onciy or, credit.
The u%-tstadt, Leipzi `~~ and ou se en ter_ prise z were still entirely
unemployed, and there 5s.s no possibility at the present ime
of them production o.cde~rs from other plan e..
h. The 1954 profit p?n of the Ministry of Machine Construction would
presumably have a deficit of :,C)0 million. Castmr rks . Scher-!idt finally
stated that the elan fulfillment was also comp' ete f.y insufficient
in _ a and to the a dCy Iona productio of mass cons TMs:.? 'ccds its '
,i at of one billion .'astm a'35 nccoYd3ng to 3'G~iab figures
?r:ceived from the D Aden djit ct t ho
bo a . rug4 ra.s=ja~a,I 1 dn? ,ti. &
c;>._sented to an additional production o3' consu.ier goods for an
a'nohkn t of 2 9-521, 000 istn;arks q but . had actually produced goods
fo.r.only 1,259,000 C-,astmarks . The national i zeal id C " t:r' 1 e 3 l i`.lT ::3)
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directly controlled by the ministries had filled the production
quota, for consumer goods with 39 percent, local T'W- M with 41
percent, the private industry, however, with more than 100 percent.
15- In December 1954, the IIV RAFT tried to eliminate the difficulties by
preparing. production quotas for the enterprises without having enough
work orders. Only two weeks before., this measure had been disapproved
as being intolerable in respect to the plannin. In order not to close
the plants this abandoned measure was reinstalled. In a private
conversation., I.IV Chief Schmidt expressed hopes that these measures could
be legalized later b,)=. the expected. rearmament,
16. An entirely newur economic situation was effected ' by the Moscow resolution.
as The production capacity- of Funkwerk Leipzig was unexpectedly fully
erf:ployed by an order just recently received' f rom the Ministry of
Interior. Type, size, and. number of the products ordered were b. :Funkwtirerk Dresden had to include in the 1955 production plan an
amount of 2 million 'jastmarks for orders still to be received in
detail from the Ministry of interior. This production order had
been d13cua,sed by Chtef of - Production:. Office of RFT, gieinz 5eh~~?t r,
and
by Bel.z from the Ministry of Interior in a meeting on 8 December
1954.
After this meeti: Scheffl er stated that the critical situation could
improve tomorrow, but that it also could fast until the end of the
year. On 10 December., a conference at HV H-P-T was attended by all
development chiefs of the IIV and by representatives of the I4i.ni s?ry
of i'inancec, d The Ministry requested a justification for the fact
that no noticeable results have been obtained by the LW R-L-T
development stations since .1951, although 50 to 54 million bastmarks
had annual_Lv been used for these activi vies
I' l. At a conference with chaff ler on. 5 January 155, a plant manager
maintained that one should not worry about the outstanding work orders
for most 1t-F-'T enterprises, because requests from the Ministry of `bhe
Interior could be expected in the near future. Scheffler answered that
tae' orders from the Ministry of Interior so far received did not exceed
those of 1954, and that 80 percent of these orders had been dispatched
to the various enterprises. It j as still unknown what Was being prepared
at the Mini ttry.
18.. .in January 1955, the situation Was as follows Nordhausen, %ea,iz?g arwd
I3autzen telecop.,r uiicatioxt plants and the Zittau said Halle radio piani;s
w''ere still short of work orders. The I'PT li F-.T increased the production
quota of radio superheterodyne receivers for automobiles for Funkwerk
Ifalle, without :.ny production order.
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1E T)lan of elecoi. at ? icatiO ~'rectuency' uh4 ch had turned over
600 laborers to the 'Mr r GluehImpe s was- informed that ado1 do
personnel would have to be taken from them. The Plant. of Signal and
Security Techninues in Berl. in-Trep:.ow (oreviouslyt Greet
z was occupied
only to a small extei .. In early January, the Zwoenitz Instrument Plent
had to turn over 60 assembly nor ,~_a to weaving mills and h,,sisrvplants
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located in the vicinity. An additional 60 assembly workers were
put on the waiting list. The production of 35,000 large superheterodyne
broadcast receivers by VEB Stern Radio Berlin for :rhich the work order
had been turned over from Stern Radio Rochlitz could not be started
because of serious technical difficulties which could' not be eliminated
within a short time.
Stern Ratio Stassfurt was completely employed. with tho production of
80,000 large radio receivers of type 6 E 151- But only 35 to 40 percent
of this product Jn quota was covered by dork orders. Stern Radio
.C7cchl is wdas the only MID DM cast equip ent xnols ry wn cn dnesq F'1d8gUt5d6 vaM
1'he two no-19r wets produced by this plant were by far the best products
manufactured in. Eact Germany.
19 In a meetinv at 1W R-r"'-T on 5 January 19559 the fact that Import-
materials , such as deep drawing sheets and automatic steel (free cuttin
svecl);, suddenly delivered between 23 and 31 December after they
enterprises had been waiting almost for a whole year was cri ti Sized .
The shi p3nents were unloaded in three:` shifts of non--stop work. After. 23
December, trains with material were parked for days from Goa l itz to
WWeinhuebel a 3n ,26 December., Funkwerk Zittau received 18 tons of deem
drawia sheets which had urgently been needed in Jaa3az.ry. . On 33. December,
the Funk Berk was informed by DHZ Let:allurgie Goerlits (German Central
Trade Office ), that they could receive on the same day, large quantities of
automatic steel of all sizes. DHHZ had cu.odanly received all outstanding
deliveries for 1954 which they had to distribute immediately.
20. The results obtained by an inspection of funkwer?k Zittau in December
1954 were discussed at HV f-F-T in a conference on 24 January. This
conference was attended b r Nattmo in (fhau), chief of the control department
of Minister :-tau, Komor and Rosskopf (or Rasskopf) (fns) from the same
department, the entire manager staff of HV R.FWT, to include HV Chief
Schmidt, Commercial Manager ':`Reiss (fnu), Chief of the Sales Department Pang
Heinrich 9 Chief of the Main Mechanical Department NNeuy i rth (fnu),
Chief of the Labor Department Fuerl (fnu), Cadre Chief I.aether (fl.1 ),
Deputy 1W Chief Albrecht (mu): Chief of the Planning Control Department
;anskyd and Seidel (fnu) as deputy for the Chief of Production Scheffler
who was on leave. 'Fu kwerk Zittau was represented by ana.ger
Wiesner (fnu), Chief of Labor Control. Findeisen (fnu), I,'bs. Haberl of
the Plant, Labor Union,, and Oppelt (frbu) of the Plant Party Organization.
21. fattmarin, chairman of the conference, puln.tod out the serious
deficiencies which had already been found when the Plant was previously
inspected by HI R-F- .' in early 1954, Adolph Hegemann c. the previous plant
mana ;er, had failed completely, bsoauoe he di 'd not, fo.9 low any advice
but behaved like a despot. Dur:`U g the second inspection it was generally
determined that there was no cooperation at the HV R- -T. No department
was sufficiently -informed about the plans or present activities of the
other departments. Everybody was either working- for himself, or W. not
care about the development, because suggestions or objections were never
observed by the HY management.
22. 11attma nn mentioned that the research and technique either suffered a
serious lack of personnel, or had to work with unqualified personnel.
He informed the attendants of the meeting that four additional vacancies
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could be filled immediately for research and techniques. The leading
personnel and the laborers at the plants could not be expected to
have confidence in their HVM and $a the ministry, if even the staffs
of the H1T had no confidence in the higher authorities. These
conditions night eventually effect that the confidence of the working
classes to the entire government was. undermined.
23. Lost previous plant manager consultations were failures, because the
subjects primarily discussed were already known to all offices concerned.
Nattmann ordered that the production figures of the enterprises were no
longer to be given at these meetings,. because they had already been
published and submitted to the IN in the activity reports, and also
because this system involved security violations. tattsnann gave H8' R-F-T
the following; eight points,which were to be observed carefully and would
be. checked at a new inspection3
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(8)
Strict observance of all control decisions reached.
Establishment of a manager 'coup (Leitungakollektiv) at iiV RmFdl'
and the smooth cooperation of all leading functionaries n
Coordination and constant cooperation of all departments.
Detailed evaluation of all production conferences
Iraiproved organization of sponsor work which had actually never
been observed e The sponsors at HY Rm -T had, so far, hardly cared
about their sponsorships.
Immediate preparations for 1056. Nattmsnn severely criticin ed the
activities of the sales department and announced that Heinrich
was the new chief of this department. (Heinrich had been chief of
the Export Department at. the forcer 1VB R-F--'T and was transferred
to the IIuehlhausen Tube Plant when the deparbmcne vac
d'izbar.13d)
Improved of^ganization of the Snnorvlcion e ~o~ ; v Uo a 1 tho
sil;ooth transfer to production.
' rais1.neg of new qualified personnnel f' or the cadre departments.
youn; qualified personnel had already become a bottleneck.
24. i'rattmana,. finally stated that the inspection of ?fui kwerk Zittau had proved
that the disadvantageous development was not the fault of the pla?~s, but
rather a failure of HIT R-? T. T'hla oonfe once, hove- erg was not held to
"break the necks of the guilty" but rather to hero
criticism. Should the Persons concerned again igiO Cdri?oa
further action would have to be tcken3
After the meeting Rosskopf and Komor, members of Minister Raul e Control
Departme ~to informed the manager of b unkwerk Zittau that his plant
was to ,. 9+ ~r ~b L! ~' F +8 (y 3is.i T, in the e2 poc ~2 Fsec en`~i patio -I
The plant had the most advantageous location of all RFT enterprises.
Special orders from the Ministry of Interior were not yet received?
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25o The following information wan obtained on personnel changes at HV
In October 1954, i egemann
, :}y Chief,
Scrmsid :, an Si member and previous
plant Imager of t'L1Zii;?erk ,;r u r , has been his deputy since 15 Oc ;ober-
Prokes (LXIU). an S51 member who had worked in the Prod uct.~on Off ice
of i?he iff, became assistant manager. Before Schmidt became chief by
provisional appo-.ntmentfl Voi`G (fnu)V present manager of Sacheem.erk
F.adeber; - an suggested for this posi tiona In November 954 it was
rumored that Scheffler, Seidel, and. Heinze would be replaced at the
26. Liar _ous persons of H Y R F- T ? ho either wanted to l save or hae been
;ivsn notice in January 1955 were not released o Br.emmann (fnu) r
G ~ ycia co= i ssioner for sh.i,obuildiug of HV R.F-Te was not released
although he wane" to leave. Beoause the 'e was no ; ep?acsrienr; available,
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Guenther ~1Iiehii of the Production Office was not to be di=lo by
of i:r>.iet_r hau, a? tough he had loot his bra efeaso with all records
d riU an unauthorized trip through `;"'rash Berlin and. was consequently no
longer adueotabb as state functionary . It was not cloar whether the
Briefcase was lost or whether it vas Stolen a
27, can about 15 Decenber, four Est Berlin necrspapers publl.iohad advo 7~~ nf~
t , n_ he , , =~i ,a'., a. equeno,A had two vacancies
hao" he Plazn Gf V ? 9 i, np' '~
for engineers as chief techrologisto , and vacancies for a phyrsic:tet and
for other personnel. :investigations initiated by the Control Office
of iiiinister eau at the Plant revealed that the advertisement had been
fictitio:as and that the case had been turned over to the criminal police
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