STAHL-UND WALZWERKE BRANDBURG (VVB BRANDENBURG)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800180009-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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PLACE
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DATE OF
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Germany (Russian Zone)
Stabl.tmd Walvis/arks Brandenburg
(WS Brandenburg)
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REPORT
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 14 June 1951
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1. The Stahl- 176 .ialzwerke Brandenburg (Brandenburg Steelworks and Rolling
all)? the former lAtteldentsche Stahluerke GmbH (Central German Steel-
works, Ltd.) in Brandenburg, is located on Nagdeburger Landstrasse in Brandenburg/
Havel (N 53/Z 23),
2. This plant was damaged during the war and was completely dismantled by the
Soviets in 1945/1946. The equipment of the dismantled plant as shipped to
:',ostov ()47?15'K/39?53 GE), L:olotoir (530004/1/56015vE) and Cherarakhovsk
(5)4?39'N/2100E). The plant premises were owned by Land Brandenburfv, in
late 191_1(5 The 1949/1950 Two-Lear-Plan of the Loviet Zone of Germany sche-
duled reconstruction of the plant for 1950. It is now called Stahl- und
.4alzwerke Brandenburg and is an independent association of nation.glized
enterprises (zonal plants) in ::randenburg. * In February 1950, tie Centri,1
Technical Designing Offtee of the liain Department of :detallnrgy at 3.3P11
::auerstrasse in Berlin drew up blueprints for the workshops and crane
equipment, as well as for the mechanical and metallurgical anstallatior-,
for this plant. ThEtr.-2 Dau-Union Ost in Brandenburg 7a3 assigned as cAef
conracter for he excavation and construction work.
3. Th, following installat'Lons were scheduled for the nlantt
One steel works equipped with 10 open-hearth furna,z..:?3 with a dail,capacity
of 100 tons. each and 1 electric furnace with a daily capa-
city of 40 tons
One fuel installation with gas producers and 12 blowers
One dolomite',Dunker
One water works
One -1ste heat boiler
One pneumatic irstallation with three compressors
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One rolling miii for billets and sheet bars with main blooming train, in ex.-
mediate bIloving train, four-frame continuous billet and sheet oar 7,rain4, and
a s%c..t bar cattf..n.7, machine
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One medium plate and sheet plate rolling mill
One machine shop
One locomotive shed and railroad car repair shop
One laboratory
One administrative building with a kitchen
Power was to be drawn from the general network. The scheduled
connected load was 9,680 kwn for the open-hearth steel works with
its subsidiary installations, 10,000 kws for the electric furnace,
15,900 kws for the billet and sheet bar rolling mill, 6,100 kws
for the nickel and steel metal roiling mill? and 2,320 kws for the
machine shop, the locomotive installations & the laboratory, the
administrative building, etc. The total power requirements, there-
fore, wire 44,000 km.
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The first open-hearth furnace was put into operation in July 1950
and the second in September 1950, The third open-hearth furnace
was scheduled to start operation in mid-October 1950. Although the
installation of 10 open-hearth furnaces was originally planned, this
figure was reduced to four in September 1950. 7hen reconstruction
fell short of the initial elans? the plant manaeement decided that
three open-hearth furnaces would have to suffice for /95% The
foundations of the fourth open-hearth furnace had already been built
and were scheduled to remain until the furnace could be set up. The
rolling mill equipment was delivered by the U.3.S.1L. and by the
Schloemann A.G. in Duesseldorf (K 52/F 39)..
4. The plant was scheduled to produce about 5,000 tons of steel ineots,
blooms or billets in August 1950. The SAG Plant in Hettstodt (r 52/
D 64) was to receive 100 tons per day of this plant's production,
the Ilsenburg (N 52/b 06) millingMU hO tonal and the Thale GT 52/
? 25) SAG Plant 25 tons. According to an order of the Ministry of
Industry, the plant was scheduled to produce 140000 tons of steel
ingots in October 1950 of which 40000 tons were to be delivered to the
Krunp-Grneor SAG Plant in Nagdeburg (7 53/f 60), 5,000 tons to the
Hennigsdorf (1; 53/z 76) steel works and rolling mills 1,000 tons to the
raximilian iron works in Unterwellenborn 510 63), and 4,000 tons to
the Kirchmoeser 53/Z 12) rolling mill. *
5. The chief eanaeer of the plant was Greif (fna)? the commercial manager
!zz (fnu), the chief accountant Dietze ? (fnu)? the operational manager
Seger (fnu) and the planning manager Greiner (fnu). The number of
employees, was estimated at about 3,500, work was done in three shifts.
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6. The plant was to have been under enforced euard control of the
SSD (Soviet ..;one security service) and of the iniD since 15 September 1950.
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* Ooment. The production quota demanded by theoviet Zone Anis try
of industry was probably not achieved in August or in October, since
the reconstruction of the plant obviously had not progressed on schedule
by October 1950,
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