KVP TANK REPAIR SHOP AT NEUBRANDENBURG

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION S ORET
East Oeramaay
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Ici1 ' Tank Repair Shop at Neubrandenbur
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1. In late January 1954, construction work at, the tank repair shop in Neu-
lrrandenburg was stopped because of frost and was resunod during the second
half of February. The heating installation with a 25-meter chimney was
completed in late December 1'953. In January and February., the tank repair
shop was operated by about 1,200 men including; construction workers and
craftsmen. The quota of materiel to be completely overhauled in February
and the months before was 10 tanks or SP guns) On 7 February, about 40
tanks and SF guns in want of repair were at the installation; about 20 of
them were. parked in the large hall at the lake and the remainder in front
of the hall.2 A course of instruction for KVP tank mechanics attended by
about 120 men was held at the installation in February 1954. The KV'P
personnel wore blue collar patches and were quartered in two tcporary
buildings at the intersection of Fuenf'aichner 'deg and the road to Neubrandenburg.
In late October, source learned that the construction of a anultiwing, large
repair hall for the overhauling of tanks was planned for 1954?.. The assembly line
system was,, allegedly, to be used for the repair of tanks, with the tanks being
disassembled into component units. These were overhauled in special shops %
the right and left. of the middle tract. Such special shops existed for radio
and optical equipment, weapons etc. After about 100 meters, there will be a
point where the engines will be removed and taken to a special motor shop. The
tanks will leave the hall ready for loading. 3
3. In early January 1954, source photographed part of the catalog of the machinery
delivered to the tank repair shop. The catalog, classified material, is in
German and Russian, the machines w ors delivered under the reparation (jelivery
program and made available for use by the KVP. Although the otRIlaf#.sn; i`on'
all workshops had been delivered in early Janus,y 1954, only some of the
machinery had been installed.
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The following tanks and SP guns were at the repair shop between 5 October 1953
and 3 March 1954:
Q c t o b e r 1 9 , , : 7 T-34/76.2 tanks and 8 SU 76s in hall No V, 2 T - 3 1 , 7 2
tanks and 1 T-34/85 tank were parked in the open..
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ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE) a. - one envas.ope containing Y) pr oto aapn?,
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C. November- 4 T-34/76,2 tanks, 4 T-34/85 tanks, 1 JS-2 tank and 5 SU-76s.
~Decemb r: 6 T-34 tanks, 3 JS-2 tank, and. 1 SU-1CO in hall Pro V and
T>34 7 ,2 tanks parked in the open.
,20 Jar ary 195: 15 T-34 tanks, 1 JS-2 tank,
V 1 &U-76 and I SU-].CO in hall No
, T-34 tanks,, I JS-2 tank, 5 SU 76s and 1 ;U,!-100 parked in the open.
1 Eebruk : 1 T-34/76.2 tank, 10 T-34/45 tanks, 5. SU-765, 2 SU-100s, and
1 JSU-122 in hall No V, 5 T-34/76.2 tanks, 5 AU-76s and 1 JSU-122 tank parked
in the open, ready for shipment.
J ?v-P 12 T-34/85 tanks, 2 SU-100s and,, 2 JSU-122s in hail No V and
=~ T-34 tank and 1 JSU-122 parked in the open, ready for shipment.
5. incoming materiel between5 October 1953 and 3 March 1954 included:
26 October 1953:
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2
T-34/76.2 tanks and 4 SU-76s
27
October 1953:
2
T-34/76.2 tanks
28 October 1953:
2
T-34/76.2 tanks and 2 SU-76s
4 November 1953:
4
T34/85. tanks, 1 SU-~76 and 1 JS-2
6 November 1953:
4
T-34/76,2 tanks and 3 SU-76s
23 November 1953:
2
T-34/76,2 tanks
1 December 1953:
6
T-34/85 tanks
4 December 1953: 1 SUU76
5 January 1954: 7 T-34/85 tanks' d 2 $U-76s
8 January 1954: 2 SU :76s
27 February 1954:, 5 T-34/85 tanks and '2 SU-100s.
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Outgoing shipments :
29 October 1953: 3 T-34/76.2 tanks and 4 SU-76o
6 November 1953: 4 T-34/76,2 tanks and 2 SU-76s
24 November 1953s 1 T-34/76.2 tank and 4 S tJ 76 s
26 November 1953: 3 T-34/76.2 tanks and 1 SU 76
25 February 1954: 5 T-34/85 tanks and 1 SU-100
26 February 1954: 5 T--34/76.2 tanks and 9 SU-76s
2 March 1954 1 T-34/85 tank.
The tanks arrived at, or were dispatched from, the repair shop only at night.
Yost of the vehicles were discarded materiel of the Red Army, some of which
were in vary poor condition and had t been used for some time. Spare parts, 25X1
which were available in sufficient quantities, included engines and chains.
There was a shortage in chrome leather collars,speeia1 keys and corner
parts. About 8 trucks and 8 sedans
Duped to
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worksho other than those where they worked,,without a written permit by the
foreman or section chief, Records of an officer in-key position at the plant
indicated that units which received tanks after overhaul were.stationed in
Berlin, Leipzig II, Potsdam, Gotha, Brandenburg/Havel.. S reraberg and Prenziau.
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The administrative staff included Yajor Borndt (fnu) -ith Captain ThRober (fnu)
as deputy, and Captain Werner (fnu) as technical director. An informant from
another section of the installation that all ac: ored schiclhs were
fitted with obsolescent optical and radio equipnent. According to statements
by Senior Lieutenant Laux (.fnu) , a target range of about 150 meters for the
zeroing in tank G r, ment was to be constructed in Nenerrower Holz (woods),
just south of the installation, in the spring of 1954. A member of the
plant police 'said' that a small, low brick building with radio sots'
or a radar
sat at pat eberg hil ii the northwestern perimeter of the town belonged to
the repair shop. The building had been erected in the .mere r of 1953 and was
connected with the repair shop by telephone. In early January 1954, a letter
head with the following addresses of the installation was identified:
Postal address: VEB repair shop Neutrandenburg; telephone: 536, 537 and 538;
FOB: 334; teletype: operator: 0230; telegram address: VEB repair shop Neu-
brandenburg; banking account; Deutsche Notenbank, account No 8150, shipping
addx?ess; Neubrandenbrg railroad siding No. 3. In early February, the tank
repair shop was operated by about 750 men.
6. On 13 February 1954, a ca itonment of 8 single-story wooden buildings refth're d
to as cantonment on the Oaetenbach (brook),, which measured about 150 x 120
meters and was surrounded by a lattice fence about 13O meters high; was located
about 750 meters south of Nectbrandenburg, just south of the Gaetenbach and
east of I'leustrelitzer Chaussee. The cantonment housed the DHZ Kohie, Neu-
brandenburg, i:n building No 1; the VEB (K) Bau-Union, Schwerin, to buildings
No 2 and 3; KVP ,fin buildings No 4 and 5 ; the Peene ;asservirtschafts-Verband
in building No 6; and the administration in building No 7. It could. not be
determined what building No 8 was used for. The NVP buildings. included about
10 rooms each, with about 16 bedsteads to each room. In mid February 1954, a
KVP school for tank mechanics was said to have been located there, with the
participant being exchanged every six weeks. On 15 February, a NVF officer
wearing yellow-bordered black epaulets and 80 E Y wearing blue collar patches
marched along Neustrelitzer Chaussee ? toward the tank repair shop, coming , from
the direction of the cantonment. 1.
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25X1 A I. erYt.,_ The total number of personnel including construction workers
Itank repair plant did not change as compared with that in the last report
of September 1953.
25X1 A 2. 0- -ent, According to the previous plant capacity of 10 tanks pe ~monn h
or 4 months would be required to overhaul the tanks observed.
25X1 A 3. r onto Information confirms a previous report, according to which
e en tion w is a Di or project in the 1954 program.
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p ent. The posts mentioned are known as N:VF posts.
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Cnr pnt,. Major Berndt (fnu) and Ca to -1
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ey I)ositions at the plant
Sen-t r Lieutenant
Lax (fnu) is chief of Sector No 11 for weapons, equi7;zrent, radio equi p:i,ent
and optical instrtmnenta. Captain Werner (ftnu) was mentioned for the first
Diner '
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}roper.
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?Gent ; Information confirms the course of instruction for UP
tank mechanics mentioned in paragraph 1.
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