SHIPYARDS IN THE RUSSIAN ZONE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006700220012-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: January 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Germany (i'hussian Zone )
DATE DISTR. J 3'.y1 J,
SUBJECT Shipyards in the Passian Zone NO. OF PAGES 3
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The tarn. Shipyard, form :: iy called the Lcroeger erft and re-named
Karl :Lieb1 cht erft after the capitulation, is one of the People 's
l ed Shirvards. It has about ,OOO employees including the a&-dnisira-
t Lve Dersor eL The con *:.'eia _ director is Thu T&PS, a decent and
capable mane He is not a Cost . nisi; by conviction The technical.
. srec'cor is En ineer fnu IMUSL. He appears to be efficient ? He claims be
ye s b d.11% treated by the Br t .sh and went to the Soviet Zone in
.7 ^ .vst in 19t;7o Although he nought to avoid coming under suspicion
ar.ie Soviets and Cormnunists distrust hang
The present e ployees include only a small proportion of those fore e~,-iy
y exy4 there , Ever -one is under constant pressure from the SJLD so
-n at no one dares to declare h_Lmseif to be anti-Comnnmistic or to
engage in anti-Corrvinni.st activity,. Denunciations are comma
The Soviets removed the former director, fnu STIEY in 1947o He had.
a.za?o7rYter in. l9F a. ter Crap vi lion He had worked in the
hi rn and as an electrician but had been released because of irregular. ia-'
i:i.es He is a Gonmiunist activist and was supported by the Communist
ade union, the SED and the former mayor of Vi srnemuende, tnu J ASPAR?
t,n After STREY had been removed, the Soviets wished to put the former
= 4;t er back in as directors Twc Sov. et officers; Lt, Col. Thu GOLD
then corking in Schwerin as a speci.al3.st in shipyard matters, a;nd a
j_nu ;.LICILI ? LGU, backed this suggestion it was pointed
al :, :mover that di fi cul:ties would result were the yard to be
=ken out of the sozial ration Plano A nom People I s-Owned shipyard
could not court on receiving state orders or ample allotments of
r `dtorials. At the same time, an effort ms, being made to place tl
T''arnot yard under a single direction along mrlth the yards at 1Zisma
and Loizenburg. This plan was never put into effect
We document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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T daq th -i s one of the r_~?ost L odern of the
op t.e ~s -Ch: d yards. The e%trava ;ant outlay for large buildings,
for equipr.,ent, and storage bears -no relation to the actual.'productiorn~
It is Safe to conclude that the s ii )yard has been built as a And of
aesenal.
The yard does not yet have a dock... ;bout two years ago it was planned
that a floating dock would be built there but the plan fell through
for lack of iron and steel as i l: as ti.?e impossibility of finding
F,ace for a dock pit. o it is planned to bui7 a dry dock. or
this purpose it as -)la'aanod to use the cld steel rabbeting from the
former Rerick Luftwaffe harbor. The material turned out to be in
an adva ced state of decay clue to rust. Pln atter.ipt is now being
raze to secure rabbeting elsewhere.
The Larnorr yard built 11~ meter fir,itin ; cutters in 1913 and 19h9.
11. also repaired ,S--Foote, R-Lbote., and, it is thought, one ".:--Doot.
IIu1 it works only on repp>airing and refitting raised vireeks. The iorr-:er
German liners II INISA, COdDIL LD! 1,, and ?)ER DI UTSC,1E are either
coi l.eted or in repair there. This 22,000 ton iIt L" CTPG is sup,posed.
to be taken there from ,: assnitz where it was raised.--` t present the
Yard is not building any new vessels.,
.3 The channel had to be deepened in order to bring the large vessals
into the yard. Dredgin is still going on. There is cone dEmger
that the shore walls and reinforcements may slip as their foundations
are not deep.
Some years ago there Ira a construction office ostensibly for wind-
pow r apparatus (I,:incikr-ai'twerks) in the Ilohenzollern Hotel in
I;arnemuende. It apparently dealt with shipbui.?ding. It is not
known whether it is still in operation.
IC . 11scellaneou. shipyards in the So'riot Zone:
Dn?gelbrecht Shipyards iii 'Perlin. Primarily concerned ?~, ! th construct: on
of hood boats (ScImell-Foote). The designer is Ing. fnu FiTG".::IiIJ,
01i e,.por? ended specialist who is not a CoI 3Cuiunist. .'Lccording to
reliable contacts, the :peed boats have the following cb racterist.ics
c' their type
30 meters long
'! h`rree 300 HP Diesel n":,otors a,rnarently from the .',Li.,' astir. -erke
in i-er?lin a
30 laiots (1 knot - 6,0t0.20 ft.,, approximate' speed.
I n ;5neer fnu idJCUEiTIT1 is said to .rave tried to establish himself in
t,~e .extern Zone of 0erriany after the capitulation. He did; not
succeed and rent to the Soviet Zone.
The People's-0vned Shipyard in Gehlsdorf near Rostock was formerly
called the Mode Shipyard. Tile orz:,er otirrer, fnu MIODT, has been
expropriated and sentenced to fou-, years in_risonnent after part of
the yard burned. He was charged with not having provided enough
fire-fighting equipment.. Lin production item in the yard is 13
i ter long wooden fishing cutters,
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r . "nfet,ror fn [0'5 a card D;.pl. . "0PP t.prk on nalipbu-J"c.~.,rig in
Soviet Zone. Their office ix in Berlin but its exact location
:,.s not imov n? Loth are shipbuilding specialists and, in reality,
: o not favor the Coz ~anist ideology.
d~ The People's--tuned Shipyard in Stralsund, which forr r].y vrorkod foxr
the Gem an :ir Force has been zoderrdzed and expanded. It builds
l u? 'ems .
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:11. The attached chart is a coDv of one published in January 1949. It
represents the it roveruents and additions vdAch it was planned to
7 A an the shipyard at l arneriu ndep Source produced photographs
-:,zh_icb were supposed to have beentakm-n in August 1950. according
-,o the evidence of the photog aphs,$ most of the proposed changes have..
lroad., been accomplished,
Comsat. yin indep. ndent source reports that the "Hamburg",*
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an ado i iie being toured into 1.arnow Shipyard. Three dredges
4,,r e said to be working to get the vessel afloat and into the yarn?
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