VEB YACHTWERFT BERLIN, BERLIN-KOEPENICK

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 29, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany REPORT
SUBJECT VEB Yachtwerft Berlin, Berlin- DATE DISTR.
Koepenick
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DATE OF INFO.
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29 November 1955
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EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE.
1. VEB Yachtwerft Berlin, Berlin-Koepenick, is subordinate to the }.nistry for
Heavy Machine Construction, HV Schiffbau, and is divided into the following
branches:
P]a>7. Koepenick, Wendenechlosstr. 366
Plant Th Friedrichshagen, Friedrichshagener Damm (formerly Hoffman-Werft).
Pla.it C: Gruenau, Gruenauerstr., Jugendwezft.
plant j~ Sasselplatz, Koepenick, Wendenachlosstr.
Plant : Gemaplatz, Koepenick, Spantanbau. 1
2, Approximately 1,600 employees, of whom 900 are operatives (including 10 - 15
females); 130 apprentices; 120 plant guards (armed with pistols when on duty);
450 clerks and secretaries, 250 of whom are female.
3. Main D829IMaW
a. Sb4jaard , consisting of the shipyard director, department for
the control of credits, security engineer, chief dispatcher, and the
research office.
b. Te h _ _ nt, consisting of the construction office and technology
department.
c. Production Maina#ement, consisting of direction and deployment, plant
management, and specialist spheres.
d. Main Accounts, consisting of bookkeeping, economic control, plant accounts,
wages office, balance sheets, and auditing.
e* n, rcia'I ) na_Qament, consisting of bookkeeping, sales, supply, and costing.
4.
S-E_C-R-F,
195L Building ogram:
a. Additional construction of type vessels; 18 fishing vessels for the
USSR; 220 jolly boats (Piraten) of which approximately 30 are for export; 30
Olympia yawls, of which approximately 5 are for export and 50 H-class yawls,
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of which approximately 35 are for export.
b. The production plan for 1954 was fulfilled by only 80%.
c. Production outlay only for 1954 was 24,000,000 DME,
5. Production Plan for 1955
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a. Output was fixed at 21,000,000 DMEI, of which the first quarter was
fulfilled by 67% and thesecond quarter by 108%.
b. Twenty-seven Schwalbe-type vessels, destined as minelayers for the Seepolizei.
These ships have the following specification: 32 in. long, 6 in. beam, 60
cm. draught. Delivery price fixed by the Ministry of the Interior -
700,000 DNE; actual cost - 1,250,000 DME. As of September 1955, 12 of
these craft have been delivered, but actually they were part of the
building plan for 1954 and could not be completed in time.
c. Nineteen fishing vessels for the USSR, with radio installation; 9 tons
capacity, the ships' hulls are bing built in the shipyard at Fuerstenberg/
Oder and the superstructure by Koepenick. The cost of the superstructure
and fitting out is 101,000 DME, making the total cost of the vessel between
310,000 and 320,000 DM, according to the cost of the radio installation.
Six of these vessels had been delivered as of 30 June 1955.
d. Three hundred fift oll boats (Piraten) of which approximately 60
have been exported Price ex yard 2,400 DME, HO price 2,750 25X1
DME. As of September 1955, 250 Piraten have been delivered.
6. Exhort Prices:
Export prices are fixed by the DIA after the boats have been exhibited at
foreign trade fairs. The price is always below the home market price.
7. Profit and Loss:
The total loss for 1954 was 4,200,000 DM; for 1955, as of 30 June 1955, 775,000
DID. These losses are caused mainly by delays in output, extra costs of
finding alternative supplies, and increased wages.
At the moment, a court case is being prepared on the subject of the Schwlbea -type
vessel. The shipyard is asking 1,250,000 DME for this type of vessel and
the Ministry of the Interior is only prepared to pay 700,000 DNE. Should the
court decide in favor of the Ministry of the Interior, the yard would have to
be prepared to meet a loss of 550,000 DME per ship.
: According to Verzeichnis der Industriebetriebe
Besatzungazone Deutschlands published by the East German
Government prior to 1 April 1950, probably in 1949, VEB Yachtwerft Berlin,
Berlin-Koepenick, was made up of the following yards: Claus Engelbrecht
Yachtwerft GmbH, Wendenschlossstr. 366; Bernhard Brunmi, Berlin-F'riedrichshagen,
Miegelseedamm 42/70; and Oswald Ernst, Berlin-Koepenick Gruenauer Str. 167.
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