1. GERMAN SPECIALISTS IN PODBEREZYE, SAVELOVO, AND KALININ 2. CONSTRUCTION AND APPEARANCE OF SOVIET TANKS IN DESSAU

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• Publication Date: February 16, 1954
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title IS. Sections 793 and 794. of the U.S. Code, se
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contense
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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USSR/Germany (SovZone) REPORT
SUBJECT 1.
German Specialists in Podberezye, DATE DMUL
16 February 1954
Savelovo, and Kalinin
2.
Construction and Appearance of NO. OF PAGES.
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Soviet Tanks in Dessau
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Savelovo should be read for Salvo throughout the report.
2. On page 2, under'Kleinschmager, read the USSR for Russia. :
3. On page it, under Zeisel read Lukhovitsy for Lukovitze
4. In paragraph 31 page 4 read Opytno-Zavod for Opithi-Zavod, and Kimry
for Khimry.
5. In paragraph 6, read (Stolovaya) for (Stalovaya).
6. On page 51 paragraph 7, read Deputy Minister for Aviation Industry
for deputy aviation minister.
7. On page 51 paragraph 9, read Aviation Industry Ministry for Aviation
Ministry.
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PRESENT STATUS OF GERMAN TBCHEICAL PERSONNEL AT PODBEREZTE. NOWA AND DESSAU
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1: The following is a list of German personnel known to have been
at Pedberezye until recently: (Explanation of Symbols:
d - fully still/in Pedberezys; F - only the family has returned.)
AIKELE, Karl
ALBRECHT
ANTOEI
BLADE, Brunolf
BACKHAUS, Dr.
BALLERSTEDT
BALLUF
BAER, Horst
BECKER
BECHER (Sisbel)
BENZ
BERGMANN
BESIEGER
BITTNER
BLANK
nthin.
4?
BOCK (died)
BORN, Helga
BORCHERT
BONIN
BORDIN
BRUSKE
BISBEE, Kurt
BUSSE
DIENER, Max
DU BOIS
DUEKEN? Dr.
E1TEER
ESTHER
FOELLBACH
FITZHE
FREITAG, Fritz
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FREURDEL
MICHALEK
FROHLICH
MINDACH? Boris
:FRECKMANN
MIX ?
GbRISCH
MOSBACH
GOEDICKE
MOSES, Walter
GOLLNIK
MOTZFELD
GREMSER
NEUMANN (Siebel)
GRIEBSCH
PAASCH:' "
GROLLE
PAPENDIEK
GROMES
POHLE
GUNTER, Siegfried
RAP?
GUNTHER (Junkers)
RENTEL, Rudolf
HOFMANN, Ludwig
REUSS
HACKENBERO
RICHTER, Otto
HANDKE
RIEDEL
HARMS
RIEK
HARTZ .
RINKE, Fridolin
HARTMANN
ROCKSTROH, Rudolf
HASELOFF
d'
!LOEHR, Paul
HEINSON
R6SSING, Hans-Heinz
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HEISELER, Nally
ROTHE
HEISIG, Josef
RUFFERT
HEMPEL
RUST
HEERLING, Paul
v, HILPERT
SCHEIEL
SC HELL
HERZOG
SCHELLER
HOCH
SCHLESIGER, Ernst
HORN, Fritz
d.
v. SCHLIPPE, Boris
HORN, Otto
SCHLOSER, Rudi
HRUSCHKA, Paul
SCHMIDT (Junkers)
KAHOFER? Richard
SCHMIDT-STIEBITZ
KAMMER, Franz
?
SCHMIDT, Paul
KAPPE
SCHMITZ, Dr.
KARSTEN
SCHbNEMANN? Walter
KUHNE, Richard
SCHREYER
KECK
SCHRECKER, Martin
KELLER ? .. ?
a.
SCHRbTER, Minter
KINDLER; Lothar
KLETSCH
d,
SCHUMANN, Dr. Georg
STECHERT
KOBER ? ?
STEGBECK, Helmuth
KOREMbLLER
a.
SPECK
KLAR
a.
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KbLIING *
STEIDLE
KbNIG, Siegfried
STEUERLEIN, Gustav
KbNIG (only children
STILLER, Fritz
, are back)
STOLBERG, Gerhard
KOSCIELNY
STEINHARDT
KRAMER, Fritz
SCHUHMACHER
KUNZEL
KUHRERT
SCHUBERT, Franz (only
children are back)
LAMMEL
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STOTTMEISTER
LANGE, Karl
a
STRAUSS, 3r.7Kuno
LAHMANN, Willi
STROBEL, Franz
LOSCH
LEU
a.
THEOBALD, Jakob
THIEDEMANN, Dr.
A
a.
MARKS, Bruno
8.
TROMMER
MULLER, Hans
TREUTER; Karla.
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ULRICHp Rudolf
WALZEL
WEBER.
WESTERBELBIG
BERDTI.Rudolf
BEYGAND
WIDE, Dr.
WESSEL
WILMSEN
Podberespe Personnel
2. In addition
Personnels
.BUTTER,
brother
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WITTKIMPER
WINKLER, Fritz
WHITLER, Richard
WOCKE, Hans
WOLF, Erich
WOLF, Kurt
WULF
WOGECK
ZUHLES
store specific information is known aboUt the following
Karl, engineer in the OKB 119 founded with his
the explosive riveting method at Heinkel.
EICHMER, mechanic
KLEINSCRMAGER, mechanic,1
THIEDEMANN, Frau (Dr. THIEDEMANN in the OKB II). r
THIEL, Erika, interpreter
she.was sent to the USSR as interpreter with the Junkers
group. She was arrested there in September 1950.
for espionage.
WULFF, Frau, (husband is a statistician at.OKB /)\
She was senfenced to 25 years forced labor
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ZIESE, Wolfgang, the pilot of the DFS-346, bailed out with
a parachute in September 1951 and was seriously injured.
Heavy Railroad Paris Produced At The Solva Plant
Some of the German specialists belonging to the Opithi-Zatod
No. 1 (experimental plant) were. separated and now work in a
.plant at Solva, south of Khimry on the right bank of the Volga.
Heavy railroad parts chiefly are produced in this plant. If
_ / remember correctly, this plant produces very large railroad
well wagons (tic).
there are a total of 120
families in Solva. From the names of the German specialists
who are working there it appears that they have ordered the
.majority of the workshop personnel and industrial engineers to
Solya from Plant No. 1 in Podberezye. The names of the men
working in Solva (insofar as they are known) axes
BAER, Horst
BECrER
BERGMANN
BLANK '
BONIN
GOLLNIK
HERZOG
HOFFMANN, Ludwig
HORN, Otto
KLAN, Fritz
ELETSCH
KOELLING
KRAMER, Fritz
MENEM'
MICHALIK
PASS CR
ROME, Paul
RUPERT
RUNT, Karl
SCHLESIGER, Ernst
SCHLOSSER
STEIDLE
WOGECK
Technician
Mechanic and "Plexiformer"
Designing?Engineer
Designing Engineer.
Designing Engineer
Engine Mechanic
Engineer and Test Direntor
Pilot
Engineer
Designing Engineer
Designing Engineer
Aircraft Mechanic
Dipl. Ing.
Locksmith
Dipl, Ing.
Designer
Plant Engineer
Plant Engineer
Locksmith
Head Foreman
Designer
Designer
Designer
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? Of the 70 sieitialisil remaining in Podberezye with their families,
the majority are scientific specialists and especially qualified
designers and .statisticians. Umtil June 30, 1953 the latter
were employed in the plant as a separate construction group with-
? .out any contact with the Soviet workers. This was in .contrast
to the preceding years.
?t The whole work area has also been soreened off from the German's
view by a high wooden fence. Contact with Soviet workers can
only be made secretlY. The German group has been assigned a
certain part of the plant which is not screened off. Since
July 1, 1953, the group ham not worked and is not allowed to
enter the plant., .However they have continued to receive their
? full salaries. This is paid twice a month in the factory
dining room (Stalovaya) outside of the plant.
7. 'The school for German children. in Podberezye has been closed for
? some time. Sixteen other German families were supposed to be
transferred to Solver. in June 1953 so that the children could go
? to the small SerminOchool there. Towards the end of June, how-
' ever, :the deputy aviation minister, Major General LURID, one
and said that the work of the German specialists in Plant No. 1
would be finished, on June 30th and it would not be necessary to
transfer these 16:families.
S. According to General MID the next transport of returnees would
depart in February/March 1954. (The last transport left
Podbereiye on May 15, 1952 with only women and children.) Based
on various signs and observations, the Germans in Podberezye
feel that perhaps the first.transport will be able to leave for
Germany in December.
9. Prior to June l53, carefully outlined projects for turbine
airplanes and partial design contracts pertaining to these
planes had come from the Aviation Ministry. After the orders
were fulfilled', commissions would come from Moscow and give
their opinions. In every case the commissions said the method
of solution was obsolete and out of date. In spite of this,
all material (project documents, performance computations, and
oontruction and statistical papers) had to be sealed up and
packed to be sent to Moscow every time. At this timeothere
was a considerable increase in the salaries of the lower
salary group o For example, various times thevsalaies of Watious
Widens met* increased from 1350 to 1750 rubles. .
10. Apparently airplanes and airplane parts for other plants are
supposed to be made in the plant. Soviets who formerly worked
with the German specialists are said to become very anxious
and reserved when the conversation turns to their work or
Matters at the plant. The Germans therefore conjecture that
secret projects are in progress at the plant and that security
regulations are becoming tighter.
11. The families of the specialists who are still in Podberezye
have constantly received letters in the last few months with
requests for clothing. Because the customs rates are ex-
tremely high in the USSR, even for worn clothing, the package
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is mailed at Intourist in Germany and duty is paid ahead of
time and is somewhat cheaper. The women go to Berlin.
Intourist Office, Friedrichstr. 153a, for-this purpose. The
customs rate is at least 110% of the purchasing price, even
for worn and used clothing. According to announcements, .this
tax rate is to be increased still more. In view of this, it
is very difficult to mail- such a package.
12. The following customs had to be paid for a package which was
mailed in June. This package contained other small things and
coat altogether, including the trip from Dessau to Berlin and
back, about 1,000 East Narks.
1 suit
1 pullbver
2 sets of underwear
1 shirt
Value ;Then New stty.D
177.- E. Narks
23.; E. Marks
132.- E. Marks
45.? E. Narks
E.Narks
25.30 E.Marke
138.60 E.Narki
49.50 $.11Krkit
The families of the specialists still in the USSR receive food
card C in East Germany.
13. Seven of the specialists, the so-called Muttrey group, who
returned from Podberezye in September 1950 were arrested in the
Spring of 1951. Frau MUTTREY and the other women have not.had
any news of their husbands as yet.. Officially they have been
denied any news about the reason for the arrest, the length of
the possible sentence, or the location of their husbands. The
families do not receive any kind of support.
Aircraft Parts Factory in Kalinin
14, The German group was split up in Kuybyshev too. Some of the
specialists were taken with their families to an island in the.
Moscow Sea, -half an hour trip by steamer from Kalinin. A
factory for anyplane parts,in which the Getmanh were empiqedots
Oupposed to be- pleper The living conditions seem to be very
bad. The salaries are adjusted to those of the Soviet workers
and the food is very scarce because of transportation diffi-
culties, The families send letters to Germany and to the
Germans in Podberezye with requests for food and clothing.
Nothing is known as yet about a transport of returnees from
this group.. I was not able to find out anything myself about
the present conditions in Kuybyshev.
Construction of Dessau Airfield Renewed
.15. During the June uprisingsyconstruction work on the airfield
at Dessau was stopped temporarily. Several weeks ago the
work was started again on a small scale. The firms now
working on it include among otherst Bau-Union, Bitterfeld;
and the Firm Reuel, Dessau, August-Bebelplate. The last
named company is also working on completing the shipyard in
Wismar. The airfield, as well as the so-called skyscraper, is
finished. Other buildings and installations are still under
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construction. An unusual number of people's police units
are housed in the office buildings on both sides of the
street in Alten (Junkers Ifa and Junkers Otto-Mader plant).
16. The following returnees from Plant No. 1 in the USSR are
working at the fields'
? HOHMANN, Alfred, Engineer, director of the plant con-
struction.
KUHLMANN, Engineer, Thaelmann-Allee, Dessau.
WEDLER, Engineer; In der Flanks; Dessau-Std.'
17. The plant at Pima in Saxony has been dissolved. Some of
the workers are employed at the airfield in Dessau. The
greater number of them went to the railway oar plant in
Dessau. Refrigerator oars are still being built out of
reparation costs for.the Soviet Union.
the reparations
are supposed to be finished by January 1, 1954.
18. For some time now the construction of houses has been
noticeably increased. They are to be given exclusively to
the activists and the employees of the Wismut AO. The
construction sites are on Zerbster Stress., and Parallelstrasse
between the main post office and Albrechtplatz. formerly
Kaiserstrasse toward the theater.
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Soviet Tanks Seen
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trains without locomotives. Many Soviet tanks were on
railroad trains between Magdeburg and Wittenberge. At the
beginning of October, a large number of tanks were loaded
at the station in Dessau, in Dessau-Rosslau Soviet personal
baggage, trunks, etc., were loaded.
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