REORGANIZATION OF BAUUNION FIRMS IN EAST GERMANY

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
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DATE DISTR. 3 February 1953
Reor anization of Aauuni.on grin East Gem any NO. OF PAGES
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On 1i ^'ust 19152.1 25X1
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special Bauunion firm for executing airfield construction projects was
to be established before the end of the year,
2. On 27 September, it was officially announced that four new .'auun :on firr,s
i.ncludina the a otnion Nordost in i'renzlau and the auunion Sueag had been
established for the execution of special construction projects.1
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Dresd?an had a branch enterprise in
Zrrna charged with an undetermined :tssion.
4. On 1 September, the 22auunion in Dresden was split into the Dauutlio-i Droodon
and the Iauunion Suc,' .
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On 17 September, personnel of theauunion in frander.hurg wore under the
is,)ression that a reorganization of the rbuunion Lime was ire:iinenta Lost
of the various P'auunion firs were to be converted into so-called Building
Combines (Raukombinate) equipped with a machine park of them- o nn, wh>,:reas the
rauunion firs usually had to }tire the necesc' ry construction-r chines from the
V 1? 1aumechanik (Nationalized Construction ?:achines Stations). The 'euko~ibinate
would represent larue nationalized construction firm 0 So fare,it has 'become
known that three 3auconbinaite .re to be forr.~d, including the BaWconbinat :lord
for the execution of the naval construction project onuegen island and the
Bauunion Sued in Dresden for the execution of airfield construction pr.)jects"
`ihe desig- Lions :lord and Sued were, allegedly, not chosen with reference to
a regional der rcation of mission, because the various Ha(ukombinate were to
specialize 6n specific types of projects.3
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6. On 11 October, the "ruunion Firms Nord,, 119ordost and. Sued., hi.ch .previously
vm. are assi ed to ?.h~ Construction De~oartrsent of the East +3F~,raan :.:3.ra"stry
of the Interior, were reattached to the State Socreta:iat "or the 'ilding,
::nduatry.9 because r.;) budgetary means had been provided for 'i.houjat the
Construction Depart wl.t0 The three Bauunion firms ihich
charged with the exe^. Lion of 17? construction projects werc: to he placed
tinder the adrninistrat_cm of the Construction Department on 3. J;;nuary 193,
the heginnitg of the n w fiscal year.1
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I :. aerzth The rezri rt in i.icates that aftor the end Of i 2 all
construction projects ' ,nrncted with the formation of an ?,a: t xerrin Arr-PJ
will be plannod by the Construction Doi art' nt of the East nor: '-inistry
of the Interior and executed .v the Pauunionn Fir:.s More', :i(,x-iost, and Sued4,
Aocordiri to available inform .tion, the future ::inistry fcr the .Jational For_-es.,
for reasons of conceal^.dnt, ii ctfll incorporated in thi Last. ser: an ,3.nistr-'r
of the Interior. It is therefarc believed that rilitary so truction projects
handled by the Cpnctrz ti on Dopartnent of the !'inistrJ ,f the Interior; are
aszi, ned to a special action of this departr.-ent, Avail. blo irifor ?hation
indicates that the Pau wnion F :rn?.s ?.lord, k ordost and S. ec? are char,,, with
the execution of naval, army, and. air force construet`.on projects reepeetively,
For the execution of t is E sin-Prenziau constructica project, the. Pau'm ran
Nordost is assisted b~ some other Pmunion f ir:rs.
25X1 2. Comment ..1t was -prev; ously reported
that the 5o nenstei;z astle near Perna houses an Fir force deof n bureaus
which prirnirily e^plo-s Gem ran specialists ret;urred i'rori the U 5.S.R0
Loreover, work on the construction of an aircrafu plant is said to be started
soon in Pima,, The coistruction xox?`k connected ;ith these projects -7i-,l -probe; ~:! r
25X1 be executed by the P?~rri hraach -31ant of the Lruunion in :Dresden
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Cwmentu This medicates t?"Dat the Fwuurfy'_on Firs Nord, iordest, and
Le w l ravideF with an extensive ,park of construction. Y, s chi: iez yw
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