VEB INDUSTRIEENTWURF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012600200009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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STMTREIT TTVCRAATTON
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
CONTRY Garmary (Eusstan Zone)
SUBJECT VEB Imdustrieeatwurf
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1. Unti...1 the beginning of April 1952,, VIED Industrieentwurf
the following enterprises:
Industrieentwurf, works
ITZB Industrieentwurf, works # 2,
VEB industrieentwurf, Leipzig
V7JD Industrieentwurf, 1.1agdeburg
VZB Industrieenwurf, Schwerin
Berlin
Berlin
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In Ipril? the group was nominally dissolved and the enterprises
vex.) put under the DDR anistry for Construction. The man now
in tharge ef the enterprises is (.fnu) :eier, State Secretar ftr
Bauaianlenkung. Yeter was with Baustab Projektierung Karlshorst,
thei at the Verwaltuncsakademie Forst?Zinna until :arch 1952.,
whea the State Secretariat was formed. :.eier is reported to be
a p3rsonal friend of 7,a1ter Ulbricht and is the SID supervisor
ove2 Ilinister Lothar Lolz. :leier's assistant is (Thu) Krause,
ols.) a member of the SED; Krause is also in charge of the Sonder?
baustab Berlin, located at Stalinallee.
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2. VD Industrieentwurf Berlin consisted, until the beginning of' 1952,
of i single works employing 300 people. In early 1952 the enter?
Prise was split into two separate adniniztrative establishments;
bota still located, however, at Am KBlnischen Part, Berlin SO. The
reasens for the split seen to have been Le encourage corpetition
and thus increase effic'ency and to reduce in size a unit rfiich
threatened to gain a ronopoly position.
3. A cmtributory factor in the separation nay have been the lack of
SD members in the enterprise. There are only 50 Part- members of
the 530 cmDloyed at works one; the number at the second works is
onl? slightly higher.
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Mien the split was made, Detriebsieiter alit Schmidt of the
old group was fired because he opposed the eeparation. The
new second enterprise incor orated Baustab ?roJektierunieKerls-
horst. present Betriebsleiter of plant # I is (2 nu) Fischer
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and Gunther Diesch is the technical director; neither is an SLD
member. F. rinnig is Betriebsleiter of the second works, Otto
Forst is technical chief. In the future betel establishments are
to employ about 500 workers,. The eeployees of both enterprises are
mostly architects, technicians, traffic and transportation exports,
engineers, metallurgists and the like.
5. Each of the plant3 enumerated above can wora in any part of the
DDR. The tasks ssigned the individual enterprises include the
planning and comtruction of all buildings or VEB's, planning and
construction of 311 Government structuree a well as those for the
SED, and planning and construction of special projects for Eaetern
bloc nations. ell projects undertaken, however, must have been
previously approved.
6. The procedure :or a construction project is as follows: the crganiz-
ation concernel submits the plan to the ninistre, under which tie
originator falls. The ministry passes the plan on to VED Induttrie-
entwurf with alded technological data. tn Endustrieentwurf, tie
project is filst put in the hands of the :Ore Preparation Depar4ment
!each sends eerveyors to the site and rkeeh negotiates necessary
contracts with the requesting organizaticu. The contract stipuLates
that VED Indestrieenteurf will be responsfble for the planning ,f the
project and eill have supervision of the coestruction
7. The next eLep is the drawing up of a roue architectural plan (Eohplan)
by the araUtectural section of industrieenewurf. Lext the project
is proceed by such technical department. as Statistics, Steel . Iron
? Construction, Cement Construction, ::etalltegy e 71achines, I;lectrec In-
stallatica, Sanitation installations Beat und Ful and Traffic Peanning.
Then the plan is passed on to other planning seceions, such as Calculation,
Laterial ano Transport Supply, and Freight Control. The result a ere-
liminare construction plan which is forwarled to NI ministry for 2pproval
or alteeations. Finally, VED Indestrieentrecf mates up a final plae.
Funds are made available by the ministry ceecernec through the Deutache
Investitiorebank.
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8. erDer a portton of the constructioa planning nneiertekee by the orgare,z-
ation is overt. Some projects are filed an proceesek by their correct
name, geographic location and designation o orieinatane office; oUers,
with authentic d3sienations,are keet in Reg'stry (Versehlussache,')
in more importare, cases, by the ehief or technical head of the "ED
(0eheine Verschlissachen). In the :atter category are, for instance,
radio transmitters, telecommunications, laree transfermEr works, etc.
9. In addition to These, the group also plate projects which are designated
merely by letteas or numbers; only a lirited number of section heads
and the head an1 technical chief know the zemplete project. No emploeee
is permitted tc knar more than the portion of the project that directle
concerns him. This type of construction project includes barracks and
other military objects and factories of strateric importance (wehrwirt-
schetlich wichtige Letriebe). Secondly, covert construction includes
projects for East bloc nations. Examples of this are a project on the
ADDS works in aldau Which manufactures gun barrels for the Russians*
the MILS plant in Derlin.Xeissensee which win. produce in 1952 00 lathes
for the turning of Fun barrels* the Daimler-Dane works in Ludwigsfelde
which turns tut tank motors. Projects undertaken for Satellite nations
Included the construction of chemical plants, Rumanian cement factories,
turbine installations and transformer works in China, and special met-
allurgical works. Letter and number designation: indicate to informed
employees the country and kind of project concerned,
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