CONSUMERS COOPERATIVES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000500300010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 18, 1948
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL '1TELLIGE. E GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
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E OUNTIW Gerwany/.ussian Zone
JBJECT Consumers' Cooperatives
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oumersf cooperatives
.1-land Saxony
280 0 ?7,
4axony A.nhalt
2807%
~huringi.a
28?1%
! e ckl enhurg
22.6/7,
;randenburg
20.4%
eriin (Russian 3ector)
1404
25.3%
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DATE:
INFO. 31 October 1946
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in the Russian Zone there are 2^7 cooperatives with, 5584 sales
stores These cooperatives are gaining control of means of produc-
ti.on., As of 31 October 1946 they owned 235 bakeries and 50 slaughter
houses; since that time these numbers have increased rapidly. As of
the bsaTie date, the cooperatives also had 45 other concerns, including
mills., distilleries, match factories textile factories,, soap facto-
vies, and artiaa:?>,s' shops. Of the total number of ration card hold-
Qra in the Russian Zone, the following psrcentagea buy at the con-
2 ? he cooperatives are financed by the members in the for: of shares
= ith an average Face value of 30-50 R' a Half the val.^ae of the share
has to be paid on joining. On 31 Cctober 1946 total shares through-
out .the Russian Zone amounted to 50,100,000 RM,j~ of Which 53?1% were
paid up. They wore distributed as follows:
Face Value
Paid Uy
Land Saxony
16"800..000 EM
39 05%
Saxony Anhalt
8,900,000 Riff
65.5%
Thuringia
899009000 R11
:05.4
Mecklenburg
2a600,000
6508%
Brandenburg
'7,200,000 EM
7030%
Berlin (Russian Sector)
5, 300 0 000 RM
50.2%%
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Transactions of the consumersu cooperatives in the Russian Zone in
the month of October 1946 amounted to:
Land Saxony
261200$000 RM
Saxony Anhalt
1F?,400,000 P
Thuringia
10,300,000 RM
Mecki enburg-Vornomriern
.000 PM
Brandenburg
17,400 ,000 PAR
Berlin (Russian Sector)
73100.060 RM
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Total
85,300,000 Fir,
Of this total, 27,600,000 RM was accounted for by stirits and tobacco.
4.,
The business of the consumersB cooperatives
3rd Quarter 1946 consisted of the following
in Land
Saxony in the
Textiles
5.3%
Household Goods
4.1%
Shoes
1.7%
Spirits and Tobacco
36?x'%
Marmalade
5.0%
Sugar
8. ?3
Nghrmittel
4.9%
Meat
3.4%
Fats
5.3%
Bread and Other Bakery
Products 8.3%
Miscellaneous 17.0%
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