POSSIBLE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY IN EAST GERMANY

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INF'01 ATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO,
COUNTRY
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East GermwW
DATE DISTR. 19 November 1952
Possible Establishment of an Aircraft Industry in NO. OF PAGES 2
East Germany
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DATE OF
INFO. April to July 1952
THIS OOCILNENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AVFZCT11O THE IIATIONAL SRPEKSR
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THN NEAHINO OF TITLE 18. 9RCTIOUS 793
AND 754. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS ARERDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVRL-
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In June :L952,
nginears were asked by agents of the fast German Government whether
ey were willing to work in a construction bureau at a r1onthly salary of 1,200
ea:tmarkso The construction bureau was to be established as part of a new aircraft
plant near Pirna (N 511F 38) which is scheduled to manufacture sport planes.
On 3 July 1952? a procurement agent of the Erfurt railroad district observed that
cargo gliders were being manufactured in Silberstein near Pirna, 25X1
In June 1952., an agent of the :., as chinenbaudirektion Dresden
for an aircraft rnlant 18 Icra from Dresden2
Engineer Mueller fnu),who returned from Upravlenchesk . 25X1
~ y-Gorad.ok, UQ6,::.Ro S in
].ate 1951, 1logodly gets a monthly salary of 800
eastmarksa June 175F7 -throe employees of an office at 1-4 Schnollerstrasso in
Berlin visited the SAG Acrtovelo Plant in Berlin AdlershofQ One of these
employees was former Lieutenant Colonel Hoffmann (fnu) who, prior to 1945, was
assigned to the High Command of the Gorman Armed Forces and, from 19145 to 1943,
served with the Voikspolizei4, These employees discussed the possibility of using
the Avtcvelo Plant to test engines. The Avtovelo Plant intended to r Bake available
for this purpose the building of the former pressure cabin test stand which is
pre- scsntly oc:.upied by the motor pool of the HVA0 (2)
In June 1952, a mechanic stated that the manufacture of aircraft and ship engines
is to start soon in the former aircraft engine plant in Genshagen (N 53fL 72),
south of the railroad line from Llichondorf to Groas-Beeren0 The plant was
dismantl A in 1915 but has been reconstructed in the meantime. Sngine specialists
are being hir.d for this plant, (3)
5. In May 1952, a special 25X1
workshop for aircraft engines was esta is the ac 155
-y area of the ~55X1
r:orks at Leh'.endor:~er Dart in Kle
In late April,
sections of four large workshops and aircraft engines from Schoenefeld airfield
arrived by truck and rail at the Askania /orks. On 28 14ay 1952, the aircraft
engine department of the Askania Works was officially opened in the presence of
about 50 high ranking Soviet. officers?
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6o In July 1952, a departmental c'lief of the construction :ureau in Koe.penick
stated that pro':li.n:nt specialists in the field of aircraft con: tructio?r in
:astern Ger. any were being contacted,, hIo mentioned Tops (fnu), formerly
::.a xager of the :ratio Aircraft Plant and :1einrich (fnu), for.-,erly test pilot
of the :ieinicol Aircraft Planto tho manufacture of 25X1
aircraft -..as started in !?irria, coroirr; to rumors, only s )ort -)lanes add
trainers were to be constructed there for the ti:nc ,tlfr :,; 130ccc amd
Anders ( nu), designers of the ;irado Aircraft Plant t:ilo retur_ie' fro a the
in June 1912, alle~;er'ly volunteered to :.or'.: in .'irnam (;.a)
7z In late June 1952, the establishment of on aircrnf't inc::-..str;;r -:a5 discus:;ed
at a conference which. :as attended by representatives of various :-:a:,t
Ger.ran ministries. At the same time r::atlers of t a; i'1 rmer azrc7?.:r't
industry were requested to participate in meotin-s in a rl?n, 11rior
Is July 1952, these experts had riot -yet returned, 25X1
the aCllr':in parsons ' ho wore ordered U:1 -;o to
Berlin- Tops ('nu)., ceomt r technical director of the Wr3 :Iochaeoschifbau,
formerly aircraft designer; IIoirricil (fnu), chief test .pilot of the
IIcink-el. Plant; Kroe er ( nu), chief test .pilot of the air. . orcc t e s tin';
station in gochlin? Accor in^ to To?)s, oa is questions rclatin ; to the
manufacture of aircraft .lore to be discus;ec' in P rlinh I 25X1
a iacetin.-, of all ferr.oor aircraft e:a-? .:ze ors in Zostoc
1s the first stn in the es t 3i: i i.r1:.gat of a_r aircraft
indus try
,I., the section for li_n'1t -otal conctructi )nl -ids ado en in: e ~endorit.
de,crt'ncmt xiiiii-i the irar e-'?ork o ,1o V'4'? :IoC':soosC'11ff'==??t1~ Accer'f -;. n" to
an ads ini trativc em pl-oyee, the riana ;a :"Grit of the ?T V9 .ioc'aseer.c'1i2l1;aal is
to be transferred to a >^^ 3 e',:ar 0 (r )
ljo..n Lents
(1) The aircraft plat mentioned is probably locate:? in "irna, about 3 fl icra
southeast of Jresden0
(2) This item of information refers to ex;ino,pr Otto :;.:e1?er, an ca zinc
specialist, who 7ras previously employed by the Bu v. Former Lieutenant
Colonel Hoffmenn is not identical 'with tie in~;-?>ector c-coral of the
Volkspolizeio The reconstruction of the Dressu.re cal-in lest stand in
Adlershof was previously reported
(3) Accordin to information
rec. _~: ist?rl~ction
o the plant in .tensha;en was w)Ian-iod aecl clearin - ..work started in the
spring of. 19524 A small portion of the plant z-, used as a motor vehicle
repair shop. Details on the production of t'.o reconstr'lctoc ~llatat are not
available. -
(4) ::;n ,ineers Alfred occe a 1c: ulnu !:zaders had boon dep:>r ed to Os ac*11cov
in the ,3.,-' ~, im
(5) 1'rese stat.Fe.: ent 3, thou h uncorafirmc. are for carded because t'.e ar:s 1:1
irr---t 1.-. f oroa ti.on on the establis?Kent of an aircraft 17;'11 i .r in act( rn
firma ny,
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