IRON AND STEEL WORKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000670009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 6, 1947
• Content Type: IR

-"'`~ ` Approved For Release 1999/09/08: CIA--RD457R0010606700
`..':N R`:' Oer (Rtteeian Zone)
;` 1 on and Steel. wor.;s
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eon open--hearths ee p ant?~ ?i ar iron rolling All with Mittel-
and Feinstrassen, a tube rolling mill; an nYtrl:ryiori tube press
(Strarigrohrg,resso), plus a tank (Beh#lter) and pipe line
construction plant. in 1943-194- crude st. el production
.:;mounted to 360.000 tons per year. The follo-in; installations
have, however, been dismantled: the steel vo rks, the rolling
mill, the tank and pipe line construction macLinery, and half
ti--a factory buildings. The remainder of t'''.e buildinr,s and
part of the out-moded machine tools remain .ntact.
The survey below deals with thirteen of the n:r~ ae important, irrn
and S i.00'. producers in the Russian Zone. Eir;h : of the, *e plants
belonged formerly to the Flick Group, Data exx supplied on former
production capacity, dismantling, ano the nature of presEnt
production.
2 Plants formerly belonging to the Flick Conceinz:
a. ritteldeutsche Stahlwerke Riess: The wro rks originally comprised
By virtue of Reconstruction Order To. 307., some of the plant
installations were rebuilt. The='o are at ~r.esent two small
open-hearth furnaces In operation }roducir, r cast steel ar:1
ingots which are supplied to other rolling mills. in a(. i`lsion,
the factory has reacquired a tank (T361hRlter) construction
punt delivers to Krupt -Gruson, Ma=,-deburg, in Connection
with Reparations Order No. 5031 concerning the. production ofc ;en
z> .e izer7 for Russia. At present crude steel producti.(r
to J,.1,000 tons per annum at this factory, However, in order
that production may be increased to approximately 250,000
tons per year, reconstruction of the steel works and rolling
? .k s has been ordered. The factory is state-owned.
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h.. ,i tteldcut-chc StahiY.er.cs Gresditz-.Ries.: These :.corks fcrneriy
ri u open e- rah ~s ee " plgin Qrgi. ig press v rks-s a
MI-Ling mii.t_, plus a steel roi:nary anu r`itting lactorv,
During the war the plant produced gun barrels, projectiles.
ut~?~s'ioti 2;tnd wagon wheel sets. in 1943-1944 crude steel
production totaled 140,000 tons per year. The works have
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