RECONSTRUCTION OF THE KOMBINAT SCHWARZE PUMPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007600380005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 31, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL I REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY last 0womw DATE DISTR. 31 August 15555
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SUBJECT Reooestraatian of the K mbimt Solwarse Rape NO. OF PAGES 1 25X1
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
hO. OF ENCLS.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEIAII ..UATED INFORMATION
1. On 23 June 1955s the Pras idium of the Ea--t- Cerra.. Council of Ministers
issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the Koabinat Schwarze Pumps
as apart of the program for developing the lignite industry. The decree,
based on a suggestion of the MiL .istry for Heavy Industry, designated the project
as one of the decisive tasks of the Second Five Year Plan. It was to be con- 25X1
sidered an investment project of the Ministry for Heavy Industry to which the
Ministries for Reconstruction, Transportt$ Post and Telecommunications,as well as
the Office for Water Economy (Amt fuer Wasserwirtschaft) and the Besirke would
also corrt2ibute investment fluids,
2. -,A Data an the Rambinat Schwerze Pty, as given in the Praesid.tum decree, 25X1
', arf - as follevs:
Raw materialst
Raw lignite
32,8 million tons per year
Byproducts:
Briquettes
6.0 million tons per year
Steam
35900 tons per hour
Electrical power
4t6 megawatts
Goods production:
High-temperature coke
@ 2.5 million toms per year
Tar and oils
0 .0.5 million tons per year
Long-distance gas (Ferngas) Q37000 N cum. per year
Power to the public network 0 900 kWh per year
Approximate labor force including
those in open-pit operations: Total number 16,000
3. The labor productivity achieved to date in the Kom na was to be about tripled,
according to the decree. To that end, the follow ng yearly figures were set:
a) Expenditures for raw materials, wages,and amortization 311j million DES
b) Income, goods production of the Kgmbinat 1427.7 million DID
c) Profit on
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Investment funds requirements
1 okS Koribinst. Derei a _ha etc i~ 3 tt~,;.~~nd auxiliary installations
Open pit operations
2,671 mil-ion DME
~1g119 million D4
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?w The decree specified that the preliminaryracasures in the construction work
on the b t were to begin during the 3rd quarter of 1955 and be completed
by 31 Dec 1957
1st Construction phase (briquette factory to begin 1 July 1956
with power plant?ps' ) to be completed 3rd quarter 1959
Coking oven, pressure-type carbur.tion
(Druckvergasung) and power plant part) to be corn'leted 30 June 1961
2nd Construction phase
to begin 1 January 1960
to be completed 31 December 1962
3rd Construction phase to begin 2 January 1962
to be completed 31 December 1963
AU ministries concerned were ordered to get their respective parts oi' these
measures under Way during 1955 and to adhere to the time schedule formulated in
the decree. The preliminary measures were to be worked out within a total
scope of 1JjO million ,DI
Specifically, the Mi~.istry for Transport was ordered to complete the expansion
of the Bluno 13ahnhof by 20 Luguust 1950 The connecting highway F 97 to the
Kombinat entrance was to be finished by 1 October 1955 and highway F97 itself
car a over 8 plant railway tracks, In addition., the State Planning Commission
was to see that steam and current were supplied to the construction site and that
all necessary materials would be available as required to keep the program moving
on schedule 4 The drinking and industrial water supply was to be secured by
I July 1955 by the Office for rater Lc norJ.,
6 During the 1st Construction phase, those parts of the power plant and the
briquette factory which would be required for achieving a daily production of
5,700 tons of briquettes (as well as the appropriate coal bunkers work buildini,s
transformer stations and pit-hev b th i i~~,.a.k. t -o b Mj ' %,nA t )7 '`b4 p rrll~aInery
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