LIGNITE MINES IN THE SENFTENBERG AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400730010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 5, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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3Y2 "121"."""sit INTELLIGENCE REPORT 25X1A
COUNTRY Germany/Russian Zone
SUBJECT Lignite Mines in the Semi-tea-erg Area
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DIST. 5? April 1947
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1. Dismantling of the lignite mines in Senftenberg (A34)" was started
in November 1946. ByJebruary 1947 the corn?
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pletely dismantled: ViktoriaT Marlanne II Marianne,I4Unds.,40110.1L
Cattle The above Mines had the Most modern equipment :of any mines
in the Lausitz coal region, particularly the'modernr"Ordetbi7114,4.1n7i
which not only dug out the coal but alSo leveled:off:.;',thej?rk40,,,
These mines have been dismantled ."down to
machinery". The Sedlitz'Ost is now under water Froth 7,000 to' .
9i000 workers took part in the:.dismant34A8 'and ? it
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2. Dismantling also extended to the-briquette.factorlea..:-The :briquetto--
factory "Freienhufen" was ,dismantled by the begihhingof ebr;
only three old briquette presses are left there. ,TheS9t1.40:::000iPs.',"
do not represent more than twenty percent of the former oapacit
gkbeactory._
chemical factoriesan'd-';:t:PriSes_whioh- ,
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used to process the by -products'of briquette manufactureare no*,,,
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dismantled. .
4. (1)n 10 February 1947 diamantling of additional mined,:eituatd_...bet*een-.,
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Sonftenberg and 1H_notervalde (Al&) was begun-. This concerned'melnly''
the Marianne and 1:,11J:J ,;,lommenhopf-(sie) mine
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6. VAth the eacer,t.lol of tho Se4i,tz-Ost mine, whorethefloodinMakes,
, further op.oraltDn impossible, work -has 'been resume440,4tsii4htlect,
mines by u.th . mac:nIncry asaenblel fram'Old_insta)lattPhs.Thet.P.UPtit
in the oe mineo in February 1947 equaled taUr-,,Percehtif:_tt'ie:;_60tPht
at 4:lie beginninz of Trovember 1946. 'Mining engineerS.e4tiviate-:t4at.;?
it will take fr,..:;?n fouv to fiVe years to reach fifty perdent-,of_the..
1938 production?, Tho refit'.4.nfs; of the dismantled bri
wil1 take oven tlmt.?
_ This document .1alierebjr regraded_ to
tONFIDE letter of 16 October 19/6 from the
CONFIDENTIAL in: dabordOce with the
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Director of Central -IntolligenCe to -the
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states that six lignite, Mines n the tion qn Pr
now boing diswantied., The..-oucl;ion in thezn mincs7duiing.-/
amounted to 120500,000 ton.. of rtt whic.11. 7r1eld6a $4 , OO
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.... .. ,....,-.)ntled in V .--1-,,, sprlik41* of -IN? atJ.n sova41 , .. 4. :, ------,
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to of lIgnite aAr..3. 759scop ton of lignite briqUet es.
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the complotIon,oP dismantlil
Fabriken I und 11.4 in Deceidoex, 1946.
1111Dr. (fnu) Ratjen and Director R tzer;
airector o). e Allgemoine Tort Geselischaft'in' 41.111-zig
are nop omployed la Leipzig in the wAn office of the Sovie_ G for
rj InefArtry.
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irsiktorla Il and *.v- probably Anne Nathilde Grube Ilse Goo,b.0.)