STRUCTURE OF THE EAST GERMAN MINISTRY OF MACHINE CONSTRUCTION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003700930008-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germany DATE DISTR.
28 April 1954
SUBJECT Structure of the East German Ministry of NO. OF PAGES
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Machine Construction
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As of late November 1953zthe structure of the new East German Ministry
for Machine Construction was as follows:
Minister - Heinrich Kau
Deputies to the Minister A
Helmut Wunderlich
HV ABUS
HV GUS
Ernst Lungewitz
HV Dampferzeugungsan
and Turbinen
HV Polygraph and Textima ;(Mach's k textile and
(Equipment for mining and heavy
Yrundrv products)
(Steam generating installations
polygraph c s y
Machine tools)
VLeichtmaschnenbata_. Lit machine constructs
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i oZ_late November 195 it had not ye,t been decided unifier
sand HV Feinmechanik and Optik (pro11
mechso3 3 ~t d would
it he placed, but it was thought that Helmut Wunderlich.would.be in
hazrge of them.
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Otiz
Halle`Seale
Mitteldeu.tscher ft Holzhausen bei Leipzig
Feuerungsbau Greiz-Doelau
Rohrleitungsbau Aschersleben
-Rohrleitungsbau Bitterfeld
ft ohrleitungsbau Finow
Cessel- and Apparatebau Rathenow
4pparatebau- and Kesselbau Berlin-Niederschoenhausen
xu0Qwe.rke Meissen
Ventll?torenbau Erfurt
Rostbeschickerbau Bautzen
Foerderan.lagen Leipzig
Konstruktionsbuero at Kraftwerksbau Berlin
The following are the leading personnel in HV Ka-aft- and Arbeitsmaschinen:
Chief Not known - (probably will be
Sehlesingei Tau) j formerly. w$thlbhinger ((f nu), formerly with
the Zwickauer Maschinenfabrik)
Technical Director Not known
Production Manager
Planning Department
Personnel Department
Commercial Department
Material Procurement
Sales Department
Labor Department
Technology
Chief
Technical Director
Production Manager
Material Procurement
Labor epartment
Pe1rson el Department
P.anni~g
ommerbial Department.
echno..ogy
Sa1es
Bergmann-Borsig
Eerimr
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De,mpfkesee Meerane
Dampfkessel A'eumark
Dampfkessel Hohenthurm
Dampfkessel Gera
Damyfkessel Dresden-Uelgigau
Buechner (fnu)
Erich Apel
Kurt Kumke
Willy Koedderitzsch
Heinz Schmidt
Visinger (fnu)
Dr. Knoch (fnu)
Neumann*(fnu)
Guenther Hermann
Wolfgang Gress
Jaeger (fnu)
Dr. Riemer (fnu)
Selig (fnu)
Schoe
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5. The following plants were under the jurisdiction of HV Kraft- and
Arbeitsmaschinen:
Karl Liebknecht Werk -- Magdeburg
Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde
Dieselmotoren Rostock
Dieselmotoren Leipzig
-Motorenwerk Cunewalde
Elbewerke Rosslau
Bremsenwerke Berlin
Pumpenfabrik 0schersleen
Apollowerk Goessnitz
Praezisa Chemnitz (Karl Marx Stadt)
Pumpenfabrik Salzwedel
Sprio Holzhausen.bei Leipzig
.Maschinenbau Halberstadt
Konstruktions- and Entwicklungsbuero Halle/Saale
Motorenbau Brandenburg will be taken out of operation
on 31 December 1953.
omoment: Kohl enscheidungs-Gesellschaft.
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