THE LORENZ RADIO FIRM IN LEIPZIG

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Germany (a'us.,ian ;one )
SUBJECT The Lorenz Radio :'irm in Leipzig
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1a Nearly all enterprises active in the field of electronic research and develol.-
mont in the 1 ussian 'Lone of Gerriaaiy have been unable to carry on experimental
or production wrork of arw importance as the result of the flight of mast of
their key technical personnel The exception to this condition is the Sachsen
murk, 7resden-71adeberg,
2. The main tasks - z?sch have been assigned to Lorenz, Leipzig, up until ::September
1919 (the time of defect-? on of their 'icy personnel) were
c^^:., Co':lplction of an old short---rave transit tter in - ederau near Leipzig..
Operating; wave-length - 30433 rl. Used for the transmission of German pro-
g;r^rnr.s
by Completion of a second transmitter in licderau, 100 17, used for trans-
mission of aasia.n program received inelitz near :)erlin and iolzhausen
near Leipzig and conducted to jiederau by cable..
c. An order for four "Gluebseoder" to be used for the high vacuum gloving of
metals and the melting of small quantities of metal? The order was received
in the fall of 19147 and delivery was made in the ,pring of 1943.
d. lostoration of the ..obble system of the Leipzig transmitter at the beginning
of the -'merlin blockade (a system used by the Germans during the war and
based on slig~ht chan ;e.s of wave length caused by a rotating co::zdenser to
protect the transmitter from j inning) .
e n Partial restoration of the IIapug system (abbreviated from IIarp i.g, Punga,
and C-ehrt) for the Leipzig, transmitter. This is a power-saviM-, modulation
system which makes the transmitter "dead" during pauses in transmission
and which was used during the -;car by the Geri ans as an anti-jatani:i.ng measure?
The restoration was i or po':i-er-saving purposes only.
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2, Construction, at the end of 1946, of a complete 50 watt transmission and
receiving station designated x?FuG ;; ( kgoraot':;, wwnr code nave: Gustav)
It was metalled in an airplane and, the Russians maintained, was scheduled
to serve during polar explorations.
g. l o p a i r of one transportable 1.5 I long Crave transmitter and one COO latt
ehort-Crave tranns itter, both used at the GchI ouditz airfield.
h. Construction and distribution to Bernbur g, 7,chvrcrin, eLurt, an(. A otcdaz
of four 2 Kl telophor r .carrying radio transmitters (one to each place) to
be used as reserve transmitters for the ones already existing there.
ie The construction, in 1949, for the Oberoproeviork in TDer,in-Obers chocneweide
of one 100 I;:; Gluehsenderto be used in the manufacture of high-povvred
transmission tubes, and one 20 I:.1 Gluehsondder; both orders were ; inanced
by the Bast German i'ostal Service o
3. Although the work of the firm was grc,-tly hampered by the lack of adequate tubes,
the Russians never consented to furnish or even to show Irian-built transmission
tubes. TIonever, they repeatedly provided reception tubes which, in addition
to their :tu sian inscription, bore the r tarp "Made in U.S.A."
4. All Russians with whom the Gxcr:,ian technicians dealt wore under the orders of
Colonel Skrabin, 55 to 60 years old, of the hint f1r i~erzmeldesektor (Office
for Distance Commnunfi cation Sector) in Karlsh.orst. Skrabin's immediate subordinate
for Land 3axor,r was Colonel Kropatshev, Dresden, a former Czarist officer of
about 65 years of age; he * as still holding this job in September 1919. Other
Russians there were Lta Colonel Ponasuk, not a Communist, who became civilian
and, to sources' 'knowledge, is now working; as a radio ixport in Sltrabin's office;
Major Sl;l.aroky of the Office for Cornrnunications Matters in Leipzig, which was
transferred to D.-usdcn in 1947 rriiile Skiareky returned to Rursia; and L,ajor
Ivanov, not a Communist, who was sent back to : ussia early in 1950.
5. In September, 1949, the technical chief of Lorenz,. Leipzig, a convinced Com cubist
(but apparently not a technician), named Drendel, ordered the firm to discon-
tinue all production and to concentrate exclusively on the development only of
highfrequency devises in the field of communications, including police trans-
mitters, 'w'eather service transmitters, fishery transmitters, postal communications,
and mine communicat:ionc, The f-inn, according; to orders, vies to take over the
entire dovolopment prof rain for the Soviet Zone; production was to be -taken over
by other firms. ilien the skilled technical personnel left the firma. the order
was turned over to the =..'A firm in Berli na ~.'he sources do not ,cl ieve that
G1 11A will be able to carry- it out to any reasonable extent, also because of the
lack of technical e..ortc in the field.
The only experience of the Lorenz firm tt:., is jamming equipment was in Aug=ust
of 1949 when it was coma iissioned by .major Kutchoriavenk:o, Russian chief of the.
:liedorau radio station, to convert the .;iedc.rau transmitter, designed t-o operate
at about 660 meters, for operation in the 2O0-.250 me range so that the frequency
could be changed ijit'_iin that range within a period of about two hours. The
transmitter then "u mediately began night operations in the new .frequency rants;
and was still doing so in the fall of 1949. Sources believe that the liederau
station was operating to Jan a ewe: tern transmitter,
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