(SANITIZED)THE LEUNA PLANT AND THE CHAMBER OF TECHNOLOGY(SANITIZED)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01028R000100020008-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY 4 Germany
INFORMATION REPORT
SECURITY INFORMATI -
CENTRAL. +0LLIGENC1
(Soviet Zone)
Technology-
the Leur Plant and the Chamber o
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Leunau.sed a special steel in contact with fuming
nitric acid. It was known as V46A steel, and contained 18
per cent chromium, eight per cent nickel, and two per cent
each of copper and titanium, The carbon content had to be
less than 0,,01 per cent, This special steel offered
complete protection against corrosion in the nitric acid
plant
The most Important developments currently in progress atLeuna
are the development of perlon fiber and the reconstruction of
the urea and nitric acid plants.. The perlon f iberB ~pro jest is
under the supervision of Dr (fnu) Deiters, a very capable
chemist with a great deal of experience. The urea plant is
being rebuilt under the guidance of Dr (fnu) Frick , an expert
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in his field and a competent clhemist. The reconstruction
of the nitric acid plant is supervised by three expert
c4emists - Drs (fnu) Wilfroth, (fnu) Lutz and (fnu .
Moritz?
Several special projects are sponsored by the Soviets, but
it is not always easy to ascertain their military impli-
cations. Such projects are:
(a) The development of materials for lacquers and paints,
especially black and red iron oxide. To date, the
production of oxides has yielded small quantities-of
high quality oxides, but impractical for use aspaint
pigments because of the high cost..
(b) The use of alkydais (trade name of an I a.Farben alkyd
resin) as an additive for nitrocellulose.
(o) The use of methanol as a solvent for nitrocellulose.
These projects are progressing very slowly.. The organic
department, under the supervision of Drs (fnu) Sundhoff,
(fnu) Munzing, (fnu) Bankowski, and (fnu) Bemann is'holding
back as much as possible in order to deny the Soviets the
benefit of such research.
(d) Perlon production is solely for Soviet consumption, and
this work is the only part of the organic department
production program which is pushed by the Soviets.
The purpose of the Chamber of Technology is to make avail-
able the professional experience of the members in all fields
of science and technology. It is similar to former pro'fessio-
nal associations (chemical engineers, electrical engineers,
etc) with the one vast difference, that it is a government
organization. As such, the government can check on research
and production in the various fields of science and techno-
logy. The personnel consists of academically trained
.professional men and employees with technical training. The
leading positions in the various boards and committees are
held primarily by union bosses who are members of the
Communist Party, the Chamber of Techno-
logy can provide the necessary coordination for war research,
because research projects can be assigned to professional
groups through the Chamber.
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Until the spring of 1951, about 300 tors ?f? m
Ahiuaed e M^, l
he present time are
no shipments of alcohol from Lena to th tr~SR
'insecticides are Produced by the pharma
aeutical department
Pieria acid is not produced at Leuna6 Leuna he unnlipd,
the entire Soviet Zone o
the sulphur output at about 20-40 tone per day..
IDr Gerickeproduced
oils which retain their fluidity at very low temperatures.,
these oils were ethylene-polymerization
products, made with chlorine additives. At Leuna, ethylene
was
d
fr
ma
e
om hydrogenation gases by cracking under an
electric are. The oil was used during World War II for
machine guns, and retains its fluidity at temperatures of
-30? to -40?c.
the raw materials for perlon are urea formaldehyde
,
adipio ethd, dioa tonic acids, and di mines in mole u1arl r equal parts,
erials fo,r Perlon .nufacture listed here . are otyicusly in erro ?
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