DDR FOREIGN OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800280006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Gerhany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT DDR Foreign Office
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1, Gtnv Boxman, Ow, na,:, been placed in eqarge of the consular
tion of the DDR Diploma'Ac Mission to the USSR. VIM:et Prezol,
chief of the Consular Department of the DDR Foreign Ministry, wa$
formerly Oberbuergermelster of Goerlitz. Fritz Appelt, formerly
aditor of the FDGB organ Die TribAene, is now chief of the FDGB'a
Department for International liaison. Fritz Appelt is said to 110
the brother of Rudolf Ape it, the present DDR Ambassador to the aEg.
2 The Polish Government has recently informed the DDR that it cannDi
accept the DDR identity document Deutscher Personalausweis) as a
valid document for DDR citizens entering Poland, because the em-
bossed tea/ which cover z part of the photograph in the document Lz
not usualiy legible except for the portion impressed on the photo-
graph itself, The Pole l have pointed out that because of the dif-
ference in the thickness of the paper caused by the superimpositiori
of the identity photo, the stamp does not "take" on the actual pw
of ae document, but only on the photo.
(Fu) Neumann is the head of the Code Section of the DDR Foreign
Ministry. He comes from Weimar, wears glasses and an Adolphe Mercy,i,
mustache, and is considf4red to be ,a Sovie stool-pigeoa. He is Al-
re,ci,ly responsible to A,ckermann. ,fleumann_ has recently been spreaci,
lag the unevaluable rumt)r that Ackermann would shortly rep1ac4
Dertinger as the DDR Foreign Minister.
, The classification system cqrrently tn use in the DDR Foreign
MiniAry Is an fotlows.. In ,:o0din order of seQ,recy; a. 17",tril
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:40:11us_ag.4che (secre't ffiaterial to be kept locked up in a safe or
vault). I-tubber stamps are so far not in use for classifying
documents except for the last-named category. All four categories,
however, are registered and released against signed receipts.
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It is alleg;.2 that (Fnu) Schauss plays an important role in
Dertinger's plans to ponetrate and manipulate the wet German CDU.
Schauss has at prssent two -esidences, one in Berlin-Tempelhof and
the other in Hamburg, him in Hamburg lives Guenther Gereko, the Lower-
Sayonyr Agriculture. 71n1ster recently removed from office because
of his unauthorize6 talks with ialter Ulbricht. It is said that Gereke
himself is planning to join the eastern CDU. Another contact man
allegedly being used by Dertinger to further his west-German plans
is Hans Ketteler, CDU, VVN, from Stuttgart.
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