CONSTRUCTION OF SLIPS AT WISMAR AND WARNEMUENDE SHIPYARDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R012600050005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURTTY INFORvIATION
German Democratic Republic
CONSTRUCTION OF SLIPS AT WISMAR AND WARNEMUENDE SHIPYARDS
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In accordance with negotiations conducted at the beginning of 1951 by the inistry for
HeavXMachine Building, the Office of Reparations, the SAG(Soviet Corporation)Bleichert,
in Leipzig, and the officials connected with the Five-Year Plan, it was determined that the
construction of two slips, one at the Wismar Shipyard and one at the Warnow Shipyard in
Stralsund [apparently a mistake; the location should be Warnemuendej, is to be started as
soon as possible. The dimensions of the slips were also established,
The Bleichert Firm undertook the task of technical designing. Because of the shortage
of qualified designing engineers, the firm had to procure additional technical designers
from other firms, including Grohmann and Frosch,, in Leipzig, Pfeffer, in Gispersleben, and
Stahlbau (Steel-Construction Firm), in Wismar. The technical designs for the first stage
of construction have already been completed, and construction is under-ay in the workshops
of the various steel-construction firms, II
Because the required steel sections and wide-flanged steel I-beams are not available
in the GDR, smaller sections must be combined for use in construction work. Other material
shortages, especially of rivets, are causing further construction problems,
Installation of the first construction stage is expected to be completed sometime this
year(19%1?). A slip of such large,. dimensions has not yet been built in Germany; the
slip at the German Shipyard in Hamburg will be small in comparison with the ones under 25X1
construction at Wismar and Warnemuende,
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