MINISTRY OF COAL AND POWER: 1. ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL 2. PREPARATIONS FOR DECENTRALIZATION

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• Publication Date: March 21, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material 18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 contains
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Ministry of Coal and Power : DATE DISTR. 31 ' me
1. Organization and Personnel
2. preparations for Decentralization NO. PAGES
DATE OF
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SnuRCF EVALUATION APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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for Coal of the Council for Mutual Minister Rolf Jeczmionka is the re(u~l.e.':
headquarters in Warsaw, and Deputy E1 tric Power in Moscow.
5. State Secretary Kier is the regular East German delegate to the CommissiQ
ic Aid (CEMA) which has its
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matters in the Ministry's militia (Kampfgruppe organ
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was Horst Wegener, who was also the functionary reap ization.
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Soviet Bloc countries, and this office was
travel to Soviet Bloc countries and the West. Also employed in this office
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Office for International oop
ganizational questions concerning scientific and technical cooperation with
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3. Deputy Min s eiztration for rowers, the
the Central Cadre Department, the Marketing
Marketing Department for Coal, the Marketing Department for Hydrocarbons,
the Main Referat for Traffic, the Central Department for Labor, the Main
Referat for Training, the Main Department for Planning, the Bookkeeping
Department, the Finance Department, the Budget Department and the General
Administration Section:.
4. There was also an Office for International Cooperation, headed by Hans
Fliegner, an SED member. Fliegner had the additional responsibility off
representing East 'Germany at Geneva in international labor matters.
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Kier. 1 MAY 1958
2. Also under Kier was the Research and Technical Development Department, mdr-
Dr. Heyer (fnu), whose assistants were Dr. Hermann (fnu), Dimski (fnu) and:::- : .:`--'-
Wolf (fnu),,
for Commercial Matters Wolfgang Roesel was in charge of
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of Hydrocarbons (Konlewertso e
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Power, as follows: a commission for labor, professional training and work
competitions, headed by Johann Dumbel, the chief of the Central Department
of Labor; a commission for the structure of the governmental apparatus, head
unknown; and a commission for planning and material procurement, headed by
Fritz Wolf, the chief of the Main Administration of Planning. These
commissions were given the assignment of preparing concrete proposals on
the subject of decentralization, to be completed and submitted to the
Minister's office by 1 December 1957-
7. However, the proposals of the three commissions were never completed because the
decisions reached at the 33rd plenary session of the SED Central Committee
changed the complexion of the proposed reorganization. A meeting of the Party
leadership of the Ministry of Coal and Power formed the conclusion that the
Ministry was apparently to be reduced to a small organization, probably of the
approximate size of a main administration, which would be physically located
in or near the State Planning Commission. At that same meeting the following
policy decisions were also made to cover the situation at the moment: no new
employees would be taken on until further notice; dismissals would be frozen
until further notice for female secretaries, technicians and members of the
intelligentsia; special permission for changes of jobs would have to be obtained
either from the State Commission for Governmental Organization and Job Assign-
ments (Staatliche Stellenplankommission) or the Central Commission for State Control.
8. Further clarification of the planning for decentralization made it apparent
that the former main administrations would be redesignated "industrial adminis-
trations" (Industrieverwaltungen) and would be located at the points in East
Germany where the industry concerned was most concentrated. This meant that
the Industrial Administration of Pit Coal would be at Zwickau, the Industrial
Administration of Lignite at Borna and Senftenberg and the Industrial Ad-
ministration of Hydrocarbons somewhere in the Halle/Merseburg area.
9. As for the physical location of personnel, the only thing that was certain
was that Minister Goschuetz would be located in the State Planning Commission,
where he would be in charge of the Production Area of Coal and Power.
10. Deputy Minister Rolf Jeczmionka was especially perturbed over the projected
reorganization of the former Main Administration of Electric Power and the
former Main Administration of Gas, which were to be broken up and parcelled
out as departments of the Bezirk Councils. Jeczmionka opposed this proposal
vigorously, describing it to Minister Goschuetz as "absolute folly". His
argument was that his organization had striven for many years to centralize
as strictly as possible the production and distribution of power in order
to keep abreast of the power situation and be prepared to handle any sudden
emergencies. Now it was planned to demolish this organization at a blow,
making possible any number of unforeseen eventualities and difficulties.
Furthermore, it was not merely a question of the distribution of power but
also of the distribution of capital investments. Heretofore,it had been
possible, by assigning capital investment funds to key installations and by
cutting through bureaucratic red tape at appropriate times, to keep the power
installations operating. It would be totally impossible, however, for the
Bezirke to overcome all the various possible bureaucratic hindrances and
restrictions and keep the power program going as it has in the past.
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