SCHICHAU SHIPYARD IN KALININGRAD

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010800060004-6
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The Schichau Shipyard in Ea1in:1,,,xaddld not suP7er eny serious damajo
daring the war, The boiler shop in Departraela 16 was destroyed b7_4,
,laf3 reconstructed when the yard essared operation, The shipyard cfno
onid to be a naval yard.
2, The shipyard was divided into 1C depsrtments, including the weldinc de-
parta3nt? Acnown as Department 3, and the precision workshop, knov% as
Department 7, The &.hey! departNents were not identified. The wedding
department was equipped with 16 or 17 welding sets ard 20 oxygen welding
devices, and employed 80 workers, half of whom va)re Genion,? -"11 the workers
in the nreciAon workshop were Clrglari and most of thel,_ were wcuen Thi.sh2x-
yard was also mquip)ed rith one flontin dock gld vwr rr &ohs having a to1:41
ctloacity of 20,000 torst as wel3 as a carpentry 'thop r electric?al do-oar
ment, i department for interior fitting and assembly, a plant-owned coal-
fired pm:er plant, spur tracks vsd shunting locomot!!_ves, Two new cran,,s wove
1,-,talled in 1945 and tyro trve1in :raaes were instnlled in 19h7, On the
docks were three 25-ton crmaes, The re were thre;,, old WIS8 pumer.msauxiliarv
md a lar7e assembly bmr,,: (:laatanprahm;,
,hen vork Tres renumd, after the :7151-0 had been cared of deltls resultin
from -mar dartmce? repair work was done on Soviet wnrship, destrovors and
torpedo boats, inclading the destroyars Umazevska and WIlanedoT Th bbr,,pe
of both thess ships hpd been daTIT3d by mines, -Thess sElDs hac tnottcal
uticIrkings (taktische Zeichen) Torpedo tubes and lliffit AA guns had been
fhere was always a naval fT2ard detail aboard both ships and one
boiler on mash ship was in operation. An old cruiser of the GermanNEw
ilarbor Basin 5 and 'eras ased to billet crews,, Minesweepers' and
auxiliary vessels, but no sbmarines, were reprired in the 7-ard? It
was not until 1949 that a cruisf-x wa!Aaid down in this yard and even than
slow progress was made on the construction of this vcosel, **
About 2s,000 employees remined in the 'shipyard durinc the battle of Ko,3nigeberg
eAnd were interned in camps alonP with other civilians vihen the city WW1 fAn.-
tIred. After being released on 4 June 19)15 they were organized into groups
of 26 mon, wirking under Gere- foremen, and were billeted in hntment3,
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3'.6&rUng in 1547, soviet warkera? including women wile eorked :La the
precision shop, were brought into the shipyard. If more than two .
or three Germans were doing welding work aboard a vessel, they were
accompanied by Soviit workeee to prevent sabotage. HaiteVOr, with
groups working an the lend, these precautions were not as strict.
Employeee worked iretwo shifts of Ili hours each including one heur
for lunch and half an hour for breakfast. Living conditions for the
Germans gradteelly impreved, but were still unsatisfactory in March 1950
when source left the, nhipyard,
German engineers and foremen employed in the yard included Engineer
Frank (fhu), of Dresden, who joined the yard in 1947; Engineer
Kupschewski (feu), a technical official of the former German Navy;
Chief Foreman ninelwitz (fnu)? Who, together with Kupsdhewski was
in charge of the welding shop; Chief Forethen Ilatschulait (fnu)? whe
returned from Soviet captivity in 1947-; Foremen Siebert (fnu), head
of the precision workshop; and Foreman Deptula (fnu), Soviet manager
of the yard was Kulumuchenko (rim), who was about 50 years of agp.
There were also other -'oviet engineers and foremen working in the yard.
The tube workshop was headed by Brenowski (fnu)?, a Pole.
6, The shipyard TAMS surrounded .by a barbed wire fence, 21 meters high, guarded
by Soviet naval personnel, There was also a Soviet uniformed plant guard
detail, The fire service detail, who wore black uniforms, consisted of
three fire?fighting units. The air raid shelters of the yard were eal
destroyed by the Soviets in 1945 except for one she)ter which was only
partially damaged. The three lower stories of this shelter were intact
and the building VAS locked ar uarded. Three guns eere mounted on each
of the two German AA towers bui:, no 2/r raid drills -were held, An under?
ground arimunition depot was built in the shipyard by the Soviets.
25X1 Comnent. From the names Umaeevska and Kranceevet it would Ippear
that these vessels are torpedo Viiate or possibly large-minesweepers.
25X1 1 Comment. It is not believed that the new ship could be a cruiser
since the water depth in front of the yard mould not suffice for launching
either a cruiser or a Modern destroyer,
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