DEVELOPMENTS AT FUNKWERK KOEPENICK OSZILLOGRAPHENGERAETEWERK ZWOENITZ FERNMELDEWERK BAD BLANKENBURG AND FUNKWERK ERFURT

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2009
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• Publication Date: April 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Developments at Funkwerk Koepeniak,
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
0sZl 09r9% ie rAeteWe. _ Zwoenitz,
Fermneldewerk Bad.Blankenburg, and
Funkwerk Erfurt
REPORT
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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J, VEB Funkwerk Roepeniek
la. The buildings in'the Wendensohioss Strasse area are being , enlarged "so that
eventually part oe al,l of Plant No. 2, now located' on Edisonstrasse, may be'
a .al.iddated with the main plant on Wendensohloss-Straese,'
b
velopment of the anti-collision equipment (Mollisionseohue'sgeraet
2e ZThe AFTdNoe K2-35). is the only work on any type of radar e(luipiaent kn'ov to
..have ''taken 'place at the Koepeniok plant 'during the last sour years.
3. During the past four years no work on radar , , been -known ta
laggs has b have taken place; furthers so far as id ?known, none is at present 'under
development, Were suoh developmental work to be undertaken by the Boepeniok
plant, it .is prb sable that it .would be under the. supervision of Dr Jrioh
Sohuettl
oe'fel.
49 The only work on, navigational aids is under the direction of Wilhelm Griirmf?
this work is still in the preliminary theoretical stage,,and hd further de-
tails .,are known.
50 The mobile 20 'kw medium wave transmitter ' constru
eted by the lloepeanidk lint
which has been transmitting on a freauenov very olose to that used]
6. Funk,rerk Koepeniak al-so-includes-the Meesphysik Zernedorf (Mess-rhysik Dr.
?8oerensen { ribH), Zernadorf nos.;:
Sorlin (liear Unigswusterhausen), Breite
r
Strasse 101, telephone &oenigswusterhausen 381/382. This plant,produois
measuring instruments of various typos, particularly loop oscillographs
(S.ohleifenoezillographen)?
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7, Germans repatriated from the USSR
ao Sohn,idt (fnu) ~
1, 9141 Zeletzky (phonetic spelliing),
o /went o Hintze (phonetic spelling),
3o Dr,,,Ibser (fnu).
4o'Dro Lange (fnu)
be In mid-February 1953, it was rumored in the Koepenick plant that another._.
large shipment of Germans was on route from the USSBL The rumor"'was based
apparently on letters received by plant employees-o. Vibotronic specialists
were reported to be included in the group of returnees, but neither Dr.
Kotowski (fnu) nor any other member of his group were included.
Qszillographerigeraetewerk Zwoenitz 1
In January 1953, FYi'edrioh and Gaertner (fnu), from the laboratories of the
Zwoenitz Qscillograph Equipment Plant, visited the Funkvrerk Koepeniok. They
said that the Zwoenitz plant had manufactured approximately 300 switchboards
recently and had delivered them to an unspecified destination by the end of 1952.
The men stated that the equipment' was probably for tele-recording munition
dump temperatures, but did not mention on what grounds," if any, they based this
information.
0, VEB Fernmeldewerk Bad Blankenburg
In January 19530 the Bad Blankenburg plant was engaged in the production of
several thousand field telephone sets," among -other unspeoif` ed T items It was
believed that this equipment was for the East German Government;
D. VLFB Funkwerk Erfurt
A publication of this plant lists its 1953 produotton, including among other items
the followings
to Megohmmeter, type 00x6
2 Industrial 11heatatone bridge (Indu'strielle Mesabryeoke), type 219
3, HF.measuring generator (HF 3iessgenerator , type 159
4, UHF radio signal general (URIC Empfaenger-,Pi?uefgenerator), type 184
5o Vacuum tube voltmeter (Roehrenvoltme#er) type 114a
et testing equipment KabelsuohgeraetS, type 238
6CCable
70 p .H type 158
8. Ultrasonic generator 150 kw (Ultraschallgenerator), type 807
9o Ultrasonic material testing equipment (Ultrasohall Material4Untersuohungsgeraet
type 608.
25X1
25X1
25X1
to Coffin Probably VEB Messgeraetewerk Zwoenitz, formerly Siemens and 25X1
Halskeo
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