KIRCHMOESER PLANT TO START TANK ASSEMBLY WORK (1 P; GERMAN; 12 OCT 51)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R010600170006-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2002
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• Publication Date: March 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
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German Democratic Republic
KIRCHMOSER PLANT TO STAR`1' TANK ASSEMBLY WORK (1 p; German;
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Comment: The report refers to the plant as Blechwalzwerk V Tilly Becker
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SAG
Soviet-Corporation). According to other available information, the plant is a
VEB (people-owned plant) subordinate to the VVB 1i `Z (Federation of People-Owned
Rolling and Drawing Mills).
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tion on the Willy Becker SAG Sheet Rolling Mill in Kirch-noeser:
Tank assembly operations are to be started in this plant, in addition to the tank
repair work which is being done there at present. The tanks to be assembled are not
of the type of former German tanks, but seem to be of Czech origin because all the
incoming shipments of tank parts have been arriving from Czechoslovakia. These parts
are stored in the shop adjacent to the tank repair shop; the shop has been included
in the Soviet-controlled area and is under guard. Before the tank parts were stored,
the shop was cleared of its installations, equipment, and machinery. This shop con-
tained a thin-sheet rolling milli which has been transferred to the Brandenburg Steel
and Rolling Mill.
The tank parts which arrived from Czechoslovakia do not belong to any tank type
which the Soviets have employed in East Germany to date. Armament Zo-f the tanks to
be assemble will consist of^ 105 mm gun with exhaust-gas recoil brake. The tank parts
are not yet being assembled, but shipments of parts continue to arrive.
The motor vehicle repair xbu& shop in Kirchmoeser has been transferred to the
former Opel-Blitz Truck Plant) now called SIS fIS Assembly Plant, in Brandenburg/
Havel. Discontinuation of the motor vehicle repair shop at Kirchmoeser has increased
the tank repair capacity to the point where, at present, 26 tanks can be handled for
general repairs while at the same time light repair work can be done on an equal
number of tanks. It is planned to transfer all sheet-rolling mills of the former 5i 7
Willy Becker plant to the Brandenburg/Havel Steel and Rolling Mill within the near
future, thereby further increasing the Kirchmoeser plant's capacity for tank repairx.
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