PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT AT THE OBERSPREEWERK (OSV); FINANCAL DIFFICULTIES OF ELECTRICAL FIRMS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003000460004-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SJBJECT Production. and Development at the Oberspreewerk
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1. The production of electrical equipment, such as telemeters, qactrosopic
analyzers, and field intensity meters, which the 41 "Priber? In escow
had Ordered- fraenlit Obprep ewerk (081, has beenOiscontinued, spa?
?Pribor" has refused payne s.
2. The pro uptio of 6AC7 ubs was suddenly discontinued upon order of the
Russians,;,InOtead," G7 tiThes will henceforth be Made. Both types of tubes
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mere intended for de? .lveryto Yugoslavia also, During the a,nth of Na 1949,
production rose from 40% of the quota to 705. It has. now fallen ,to 50% of
the quota as a result of a considerable deteriorationin the paste used in
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the production of the tubes.
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3. The developmerA.pfcrystal detecters,on 4 silicon-germanium base, as mell
as field intennity Metern of 0.1 to 100 Iler,ahertz, has been started by Dr.
Brondao
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4. The development of a betatron has not yet been begun since suitable space
and workmen Are not available!.
5. The existing developmental pr&gram of pm for 1949 has been expanded to in-
clude the following items:
a. Quartz clocks
b. Atomic clocks
co Damping recorders
do Frequency meters
eo Poeer meters for 8 VIlz
f. Remote-control installations
6. Utile, Social Director of OSU,Mas dismissed because he di reed with his Rus-
sian superior Loschmanov about conditions of emplo7ment and social improvements.
He has been replaced by Hans Widing, former police commissioner and member of
the SED.
7. Tschesnokov heads the electrotechnical depart-ent Mhich. is under the main in-
dustrial department of the SM. Filimonov heads 11Priboe -in the Eastern
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8. The following items are imported from the Western Zones at present:
Shell oil AY2
Part nickel products, such as tin and wire
Aluminum plate
Electrolytic copper for tranmitter tubes
"Pico-i&' ? the use and composition of this
Graphitic carbon for anodea-import of this
soon as Siemens-M=1a is in a position to
coal themselves.
substance is still unknown;
item will be discontinued as
produce a similar quality of
9. Defective production at the Funkwerk in Erfurt, formerly known as Telefunken,
amounts to 50%. This factory shows a considerable deficit Which is colered by
subsidies from the German Economic Commission. The plant has alrost no
experts. The important positions were filled with SEC employees who tried to
manage the plant according to their ideological conceptions. Each department
functioned independently, but the actual production program for each was fixed
by a collective group. Dr. Heinmelmann? the technical director, failed to co-
ordinate production amon7 the departments.
. Although individual firms have produced above their quotas, they have fallen'
into financial difficulties. Such is the case with the firm Sehlotthauer in
Thuringia which produced a large quantity of table lamps and has now filled
all its warehouses with these lamps, The Sachsenwerk in Thiringia, having on .
hand a stock of goods worth 8,000,000 Marks, owes 1;500,000 Marks for materials
purchased. Its stock consists of motors worth 4,000,000 Marks and electrical
equipment of an equal value. Firms have often chosen items -which were easy to
produce without concern about the salability. OSW has considerable stocks
which it has not disposed of up to this time and Which it accumulated as a
result of the Russians'eancelling or changing orders.
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