ESTABLISHMENT OF A MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT AT THE REGIONAL RAILROAD HEADQUARTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006400470002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFOR i'IATION REPORT
SUBJECT Establishment of a $Uana ,esi nt Deparbne :it"
at the Regional Railroad Headquarters
COUNTRY Germany- (Russian zone)
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
i. The .."evict 21,o-)e Directorate yen?ral, l -.ilroeAs, has decreed t'iat effective
1 September 1950 a new department "1!anaL oment" be set up at all re ional
rail.roac. headquarters. 1' or the time being this new department will be
assi,;ned to Department XI (finances). Its missions include:
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as Study of nana.;;enent problems in the technical and financial fields.
b. Introduction of business principles for the making up of balances and
the koepin; of accounts.
c. Trairi i. , of railroad nor onrel.
d? : eor-anization of all railroad shops al on the lines of modern husineA s
and production principles.
e. Introduction of the princip'?.es of sound production en,;ineering in coopera-
t:i.or. -with Department XII (Labor and a:,ves).
f. Introduction of modern book-keeping principles and methods.
Procurement of vouchers and book---keeping forms.
h. Pandering of assistance to the railroad offices in making up accounts.
i. Collection and evaluation of port inent statistical data.
2. The nerdy established "; ,anaZement Department" carries the nw :erical designa-
tion 113 at the Berlin regional railroad headquarters.
3. The Soviet Zone railroad offices will be reorganized effective 1. January 1951.
The main features of the new organization will be:
a. rFvory train assembly station will be given,Within its specific district,
the authority of a "eiciibahnarat" (railroad office) and will be headed
by a director. The newly created administrative railroad unit will be
called "V'131 33otriob ?. eic,isbahn" (:.ationalized T.,nterprisa, railroads).
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ba These new enterprises will have to operate on a self-supporting
basis and will follow established business principles. * *
he conversion' .ierir aiir?a~co e the into an association of nationalized enterprises is planned.. The
pertinent organization measures are to be executed ]Zr late December
1950 so that by 1 January 1951 the former 3rorman State Railroads
will be replaced by 111iationaUzed &iterprises, failr. oads," As .
as is k T own, the Central and the VL:'ious re f oval railroad head-
quarters will be deactivated, ,very nationalized railroad enter-
a specific district and the individual enter-
prise will be assig
prises will be joined into an "Association of Nationalized Enter-
prises, Railroads". **
omment0 It seem-is that the trips to Moscow made in L' ay and
Jun b-FPro essor Reingruber, . Minister of Traffic, and
vin. Kramer, Deputy Director eneral, R1a3.lroads,were connected with
the intended reorganization of the German State Railroads into an
"Association of Nationalized Enterprises" patterned after -the Ooviet
railroad system and along the lines of the nationalized Soviet one
industry. Pertinent information pamphlets have already been circu-
lated and the organization of the Rail y+orkers' Union was exploited
for propaganda0 lowaver,.the intended reorganization is meeting with
considerable skepticism ince the old German railroad system, vthich
d on extensive experience, has proved satisfactory.
om mente The setting up of a new " Tanagement" department is pro-
bably a measure connected with the intended reor ani ration of the rail-
road system.
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