THE GRD TRANSPORTATION COLLEGE IN DRESDEN

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• Publication Date: February 15, 1955
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CLASSIFICATION C-O-2d-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-~-L
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO ?BROADCASTS
German Democratic Republic
Socio].:;,ical - Education, transportation
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PUBLISHED Sep 1952 ,Mar 1953
LANGUAGE Gerr:,cu,
REPORT
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DATE D[ST. /$ Feb 1955
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
THE GDR TRANSPORTATION COLLEGE IN DRESDEN
(Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.]
On 6 2?farch 1;52, the GDR government issued the Decree Concerning the
Establishment of Training Institutes for Technical and Scientific Personnel
in Transportation. The essential element in this decree was the establish-
ment of the Transportation College in Dresden [opened 8 September 1952)?(1)
Organization
The organization of the new college has been adapted to present-day trans-
portation needs. At the head of the college is the rector. He is assisted by
the senate of the college in all scientific and organizational questions, and
by two prorectors in matters relating to the basic social-science courses,
student affairs, teaching, research, and doctoral candidates. The college will,
at first, have txu faculties, one for transportation technology and another for
transportation economics. Each faculty xill be directed by a deary who will be
advi^,ed by the faculty council in all scientific and organizational questions.
Students who have satisfactorily completed their studies under the Faculty for
Transportation Technology will be granted the decree of Graduate Engineer
(Dipl. Ing.)? those studying under the Faculty for Transportation Eco?_c:nics,
the degree of Graduate Transportation Specialist (Dipl. rer. oek. fuer Ver-
kehrswesen).
The Faculty for T:?ansportation Technology frill cover the specialized
fields of operations and traffic, machines and vehicles, construction technol-
ogy, and safety devices and telecoamrunications. A planned special division
for mathematics and natural sciences 1:~?hin this fatuity, will conduct lec-
tures and class exercises for the students of both faculties.
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In the field of operations and traffic, students wily. be trained as engi-
neers for the following technical fieldst railroad operations an:: traffic;
highway transport operations and traffic, including city transportation; and
water transportation; port traffic, and transshipping operations.
In the field of machines and vehicles, the engineering students will be
trained to engage in construction, maintenance, and repair of Reichsbahn lo-
comotives and cars. Another possibility open to students who have corpl.eted
their studies in this field is to :rork to develop new types of locor..otives
and cars. If necessary, in the future, the college may also train en~ineerc
for the development and maintenance of vehicles in city transportation.
In the field of construction technology, students will be trained in
railroad, highway, and waterway construction, including both t.,e engineering
and the economic aspects of these subjects.
The Faculty for Transportation );conomics will teach basic transportation
economics, and particularly transportation planning. Its members will also
give the important lectures constituting the basic social-science courses to
be taken by students in all fields. This faculty will train students as
economists for the Reichsbahn, and for water transportation, motor transporta-
tion, highway administration, and the postal service. In addition to their
teaching functions, some faculty members will engage in scientific research
on the political and economic characteristics which distinguish transporta-
tion from other industrial production.
The Transportation College will serve not only as a scientific teaching
insti;,u~ion but, as soon as the various institutes have been set up, it will
also engage in considerable research and developmental activities in all fields
of transportation.(1)
Facilities
To provide adequately for the numerous teaching chairs, institutes,
administrative offices, and other facilities, planning on a generous scale
has been inaugurated. The facilities of the college will include a dining
hall, a library, end a boarding house for students. The buildings, designed
by Professor Henn (fnu), doctor of engineering, will be constructed on grounds
bounded by the Reichsstrasae, the Strehlener Strasse, the Ackermannstrasse,
and the Reichenbachstrasse,which the Lord Alayor of Dresden has made avai;able.
Tl:e total capacity of the ccllege has been planned provisionally, during
the period of initial development, at 1,~C0 students, including boarders.(1)
Living Allo:rances
The success of ;:oat students is no lenyer jeopardized by economic con-
siderations :md difficulties. idorkers, peasants, members of the ?,rorking
intelligentsia, and their children, as :roll as activists, will receiv_ a basic
allowance of l~C Dld per month plus a supplement cf 20 Dtd. In addition, those
students whose secondary-school certificates or annual intermediate examina-
tions sho~r grades of 2 (good) or 1 (very good) will receive a monthly per-
formance bonus of ~c0 or i0 DDI, respectively. Those students not entitled to
receive a basic allowance according to these provisions will be paid n per-
formance bonus if their secondary-school certificate carries the grade of 2
or 1, or if ti:eir grades in annual intermediate examinations average 2.2
(good) or 1.5 (very good). The monthly basic allowance in this case will be
ij0 Dld for students with a grule of good and 150 DDI fora made of very good.
In this case also, the student.rill be paid a bonus of 20 DAi per month. Dur-
ing the first year ~f study, perforr,.ance bonuses will also be paid to tt:cse
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students who have passed the special entrance e;:emination or who, after having
left secondary school, have qualified in special fields through practical ex-
perience or through attendance of night schools, plant schools, and other such
schools. The payment of allowances will be administered accordinG to tare De-
cree Regulating 5cho1^.rships at Universities and Colleges of 20 September 1951
(Legal Gazette, page $(,g) and its impler.:enting reGvlationa.
+ Students registered as Vorprakti}:amen (students registered pending com-
plc.ion of required practical erperience~ gill also receive a mont}rly subsist-
ence grant which will make them inlependent of other support.(2)
Requirements for Admission
Admission to the Transportation College requires that the candidate be
technically suitable and give assurance that he r+il.l collaborate actively in
the fulfillment of social tasl~s connected with the building of the bases of
demonstrated byeexhibiting~a certi~icate1of~coreparatory education must be
ary school, an evening secondary school, a six~emesterotechnical schooleCOrd
a IJorkers and Peasants Faculty,
If the candidate is unable to obtain such a certificate, he may apply 1'or
permission to take a special examination, given by the Transportation Cone e.
In this case, the candidate should submitrwith his application for
certificates from schools wlrich he has attended, certificates of g
in courses, such as ni admtssion,
to ers. ght-school courses, and reference letters from hispemiott
to Y It is important that such applications be submitted early. Prepara-
ry courses for Reichsbahn employees erho are to take the special entrance ex-
amination are already being organized. The Transportation College will deter-
mine,through consultation, what fields of lmowledge require special emphasis
on the part of candidates who are preparing for the special examination.
Physical suitability is anotkrer requirement for admission. Tire so-called
':1" condition for service in the Reichsbahn is required in all technical fields
of railroading. T'ne physical examination is arranged for by the Transportation
College after all documents supporting the application have been submitted.
The candidate must present a police certificate showing that he has never been
convicted of n crime. It should also be rxntioned that candidates coming from
school faculties also require a certi~icate of release from the ;+Iain Division
-for Schools and F:lucation of the Bezirk administration having jurisdiction,
Adrission application forms are to be obtained at the directorates gen-
eral and directorates of the transportation enterprises, at secondary schoni;,
a? "^"~''*s' and Peasants' Faculties, or direct from the Transportatica Col-
lege.(2)
The ecceptn.nce cf students is L'ovarned by tn% General rules elr_;_Lyir:S to
u:;ivarsities anti colleGes, A ccrsiucrable nur:bcr oi' the students t::il' be
ctra:nr i'ror. the ranks of experienced workers in the transportation ficla,
who already gave extensive operatinG experience and ~diro will secure re;a erci.
specialized scientific }:ne:aedge in ti.eir fills at ti:e college. For the
stulents of the Faculty fc,r Transportation Tec:molo~,?, one year of precollege
practical experience in actu,ri transport operations is required, Unity of
theory and practice and n close relationship bit:reen the students and t}rc
workers in the transportation enterprises will be assured by a,signinG ono7:
sturient to a job in his particular i'icld fnr c ::~~;;~ oP caeir year. Tiro e;lu-
ei~+iC.^.al .-
pla,~ for fire precolleGc practical e,;perience and for the field ti:ork
assi?nments have already been completed.(1)
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Field Training
The candidate for admission to the Trar:eportation College wil.!. decide in
advance on a specialized field of transportation and will be mtztriculated be-
fore beginning his studies. ge will then take a year of precollege practical
e;:perlence as a transportation employee before beginning his theoretical train-
ing as a student. In addition, he must cotrtplete a G-week work assignment in
the field after each of iris first ;; years of study. In these field assign-
ments, the student, with his year of study behind him, is e.?cpected to absorb
and, if possible, originate new ideas in transportation operations. Accord-
ing to general instructions issued by the Ministry of Trarspoz?tation, the
transportation authorities x111 develop field-trai.ni.n~ i,lar.s f r students.
In all questions of practical field traininei the aii'ice for field assignments
of the Transportation. College ir, Dresret:, will be available t., ;ivo rdvice.
Pit e::a.Lmple oT the required precollege practical experience is that re-
quired for students in the field of railroarl operations urtd traffic: 2 1;r2
months in t're operations and traffic service of a small railroad station,
1;`2 month in the railroad guard service, 3 months in the traffic service oT
a large railroarl freight ofTice, nn3 6 months in the operations service of a
large railroad. station. During these nssignn:ents the student candidate is
expected to acquire the aUility to disc?range the :'unctions cf the c?.aitchi.n~
taaster or t}:~: cispctc~er, or these relatinC to na:,seuer or frci;;ltt i,un.ilin~,.
ter otter cpec..:1 1_~.1c~ ecuival:_nt dcmand~ are made.O
Courses of Study
The study of traasportaticu requires $ years, aaC is dicideil into basic
anti tecluiical edzieation. DurinC fire first 2 ycaz?s cf st;zdy, ti-_e :student ,:ill
obtain ti7c fundamental }:no:rlcdge for ias trairini; a?, an engineer, ba;irning
with n:atitematics and i;atural sciences. Instructlonrin the broad fields of
construction, c:achinery, electrical engineering, and transportation, given in
:: series oi' ca~tre}:onsive suz?;rey lecturas, Drill round cut t}te basic edcraticn.
in the followir.;; years cf study, the student Trill taY.e up the various brarrahe:;
_ 'techt:ology ir. J.end, :,atcr, and cir trancaortatior., s:it?; syeciaxl cr,~hasis on
fire operating tee}:nolccy of transportu'~ion equiurent.
The ctu8cnt also requires 4 socisa-science and ecottontic bacl:~x?cund. s-
~,ir:nin .rit}t genera]. ::ccnoc.ics, tiro studani must Ueccr.:_ familiar ?.:it}: the
problers of a _~hnned ecoaeny and of the legal system. T}te study cf transpor-
tation eca;o::dcs :rill include .,^ecial subjects, such :"? rani ffs tams statistics.
;?oci.al-science studies will be rcurdad out ,:ita fire history of tr:rnsnortati~n,
Geo~?aphy, and its applicatirr: t.o trausnorteticn, will be taught as a special
subject extendir.~ tlu?ou;;it all 1, years cf stLtdy. Gcrmcat, Russion, .1:d .thletics
are required aubjects for ail students.
Tl:c acculerec year :;tarts at the Ue~innin;; of September and is interrn.nted
by i:he winter vucuti.on (~3 December-]."= Jarmazy). :':xit cf th_ ._ _ year:;
of sttuiy Trill en:: grit}: a practical fie].ci tsar?nr:en',., falling in ',.h+y _.:id
i'rotr. ti:~ baginrin~ oi' Jtu:e to t:dl-July. ?;::at:Sua~,;-ions ",rill Le held duz?ing the
first 2 week: attd the last 2 ?,reehs of fire springy semester.
at the end oi' the 4th year, the c::aminutions for the ciiplor.:a trill be
heir;, The preliminary e::an?~nation will include such subjects as economics,
law, geography, higher mathematics, pi;ysics, chemistry, descriptive geometry,
mechanical drn;ring, engine?ring mechanics, and trec}tanical and electrical engi-
neci-iii~.
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The examinations for the diploma will vary according to the subjects of
specialization in most fields. For the specialized field of railroad opera-
tions and traffic, for instance, examinations leading to degrees will be held
in the following subjects: economics of the people-owned economy, transporta-
tion economics, railroad traffic, railroad operations, highway traffic, and
transportation geography. In addition, examinations will be held in the social
sciences and in the German and Russian languages and literature.(3)
The examination subjects are set forth in the plans of study published by
the State Secretariat for Righer Fducation.(1)
Those who complete the course at the college are assured of being employed
cu~:erprises ~railroaas, water transportation, and motor transportation).(2)
degrees. Those who complete the doctoral requirements of the Faculty for-Trans-
gree or aoetor of economics in transportation.
There are already doctoral esndidates at the college working on their
1. Berlin, Der Verkehr, Vol VI, No 4, Sep 52 (article by Prof Dr Rans
Reingruber)
2. Der Verkehr, Vol VII, No ;, Mar 53 (article by Hermann Wagner)
3. Der Verkehr, Vol VI, No g, SeP 52
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