CRITICISMS OF SELBMANN'S ADMINISTRATION IN DWK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700480007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. 91-4A
SEPT.1948
Approved For
CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
upbraided by Waiter.UlbrichtR at a meeting of the Central
Secretariat of the SED. Ulbricht, at the instigation of Heinrich
Rau, President of the DWK, blamed Selbmann for the following:
a. The People's Combines were operating at a loss, and instead
of correcting this Selbmann was merely trying to cloak. the
production losses by obtaining control of the trade outlets.
b. Selbmann had introduced the incentive wage system into firms
which were not adapted to the system, and had brought this
SED sponsored movement into disrepute.
e, Selbmann had allowed the Hennecke movement to be introduced
indiscriminately, some times using up a month's supply of
raw material in a few highly productive shifts, thus harming
the whole Hennecke system.
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may be appointed as head of this new section.
2. Selbmann acknowledged that he was to blame.in the two latter com-
plaints but refused to accept any blame in the first instance,
saying t hat the fault lay with Bruno Leuschner, head of the
Central Administration of Economic Planning. He stated that the
requirements and the planned supply for the two-year plan con-
flicted and that the import plan was not coordinated, and. that
the entire Central Administration of Economic Planning was
operating without any system whatsoever.
3, The-Central Secretariat of the SED investigated these accusations,
and found them to be justified. It is believed that Bruno Leuschner
will be replaced and that Fritz Selbmann's position is still rather
precarious. The Central Administration of Economic Planning is
to be replaced by a section for coordinated planning directly under
Heinrich Rau. Scholz, (fnu), formerly in the Brandenburg.Adminis-
tretion and now in tI Central Administration of Economic Planning
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