INTRODUCTION OF THE STANDARD STRUCTURE PLAN INTO EAST GERMAN INDUSTRY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008200130004-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germanly
SUBJECT Introduction of the Standard Structure Plan
into East German Industry
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DATE OF
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27 October 1955
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. 4 _.Ama n grown of soft Aiuamt ation ft?
Radio and Telecommunications Technology (HV RPT), which took place in mid-June
1955, the reotor of the Planning Department of HV RPT, Rudolf Heinze, gave a
lecture to each of the consultation groups in which he explained the new Standard
Struoture''Plan (Rahmenstrukturplan). Heinze explained that, because of the
existing overpayment and confusion in payment of administrative and technical
personnel in Last German plants, the Standard .,Structure Plan was to be instituted.
HV RFT is not the only main administration which will have a Standard Structure
Plan; the Standard Structure Plan is to be instituted for all enterprises in
East Germany.
2. The Standard Structure Plan is designed to reduce both the number and the wages
of commercial and technical personnel currently employed in East German enter-
prises. This will be done in the following manner: The Standard Structure
Plan limits the number, and fixes the wages, of commercial and technical personnel
employed by each indidividual plant in East Germany. The number of commercial and
technical personnel and the amount of their wages will be dependent upon the size
of the factory in which they are employed. Technical personnel are engineers,
technologists, dispatchers, etc. The number of commercial personnel and the wages
of commercial personnel for any given plant will be rigidly fixed under the Standard
>rueture Plan according to the number of workers employed in the plant. For
instance, only plants with more than a certain (unspecified) number of workers
may have commercial directors.
3.yTeohnieal personnel are also to be limited both in number and in salary by the
Standard Structure Plan, but the individual necessities of the enterprise involved
will be taken into consideration and treatment of technical personnel will not be
as rigid as that of commercial personnel.
4. In late July or early August 1955, Standard Structure Plans were sent to the
individual East German enterprises. They were worked up by the main departments
for planning of the individual Beat German Ministries. They were then forwarded
to the planning departments of the various main administrations under the Ministries,
Aim
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no written correspondence concerning it is to be carried out.
The Standard Structure Plan for a given Best German enterprise contains detailed
informsion on exactly how many commercial and technical personnel the plant may
,
what the salaries of the commercial and technical employees may be.
i employ and,..
A plant collective, consisting of the plant manager, the cadre chief and the
labor djr.otor, is to confer with each employee who now receives more money tb*
the Standard Structure Plan calls for in order to induce him to voluntarily
rencunoe all money in excess of the amount scheduled for his job. In hiring new
carleroial personnel, the salaries set in the Standard Structure Plan may not be
exceeded. In the ease of technical personnel, however, the limit may ben needed
in special oar only, but this is the be decided duiriag private secret discussions
between the plant management and emplane inrelvsd.
6. Mw plant memagement may only continue to pay OR extremely important employee a
salary which amermts to more than test gists lislwd in the standard Stveetu re
PUB if approval is iP4tiom to which the plant is
between whit employee
for is great,
7. Plant mmeagm were rs u red to submit to their main administration a list of ttiose
persona in their factory who currently receive more money than the Standard Structure
Plan calls for. In every "so the excess amoYmt received by an employee is to be
staled. The lists of employees who cea'rs%tly receive morn than is called for in
the Standard Structure Plan have alreadp been submitted to the main administrations
under the ministry for General Machine Comstrme^tian.
8. Introduction of the Standard Structure Plan is based on a decision of the East
German Couaeil of Ministers which has not be*% will not be, made public and
which is valid for all mistrial enterpariseS sum Germany. Ply the end of 1955,
the oaameroial and technical employees in all East German plants are to be paid
in accordance with the salaries established in the Standard Structure Plan.
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