CARTOGRAPHY IN EAST GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600370002-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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'CLASSIFICATIO hCitr,'
I F TI C REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Cartography in East + ermany
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DATE DISTR. 30 October 1953
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F ~ou 22 June r } cough July :152, a g x1etic c of r oau; of , rep}?ele!lt t,ives
of FRastern Bloc States was held in Sofia. The conference aas also s.t?ended
by representatives of the Mair. Department for surveying and Mapping of the
East German Ministry of the Interior, At this conference the Soviet
delegation dexanded.that topographic maps of the Satellite states and
East Germany be adjusted to the make-up of Soviet maps. The preparations
of this adaptation were scheduled to be started in 1952 and the adjustment
of maps on a scale of 1:25,00K, 1 s 50,000, 1:100,000 and 1:200, 0CC was to
he completed by late 1955. Fox this adjustment the grid net previo..sly
based on the Gauss Crue?ter sy..tem was to be retkced by the Soviet grid
which has its point of origin at Pulkovo n Altitude reading on the revised
ura?)s was to be given in relation to the Kronstact level instead of the
Amsterdam level previously used.
2, In October 1952, the Department for Topographic I-lapping of the Main
Administration for Surveying and Mapping was reorganized. Polizei-
Oberraete Nieder (fnu) and Gensch (fnu) were assigned to this department
which handled orders for the delSvery of maps for areas outside Fast Germany-
In the course of 1953, plane table sheets of West Germany were to be revised
and reprinted. For the time being orders for maps of East German territory
were to be handled by the Main DE:partrlent for Surveying and Mapping as
before. However, this depa. tment was to be subordinate to the newly
founded Department for Topographic Mapping,
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In early October 1952, State Secr,;tary Groetsohel. (fnu), chief of the
Commission for Surveying, was ordered by Karlshorst to ?mark all
trigonometrical points in Fast Germany,
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In January 1953, the Main Department for Surveying and Mapping drew up a
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esuance of all x.;50,00 maps in 4--ccio:[' prir~.lnf; and p oductio?1
;Yi.ng to execute the follot!?ing pz'o jects by the and of 195
On 7 October, it was resolved at a neet]i[?; of the Corr.ission for
new l:25,, OC 0 r vs on the basis of the latest ian.f ox .ation and
teCr tic; ea available.
[revision of all nape betwe+ "i the scale i' 1-53,ooo and. C0Cy '00
the Soviet pabte.-,.-'n.
` n3.Tt of new C arto ?L' V I-01 e per eomie]
Esril.argene;nt of the Go,- yetlc Institute by the attachment of a new
. u tit ate for lip-plied Geodesy,
+,en'C has a..r e,3,dy xraC e ?r-iailabit ;re ans for the production of
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to ;e or ;a-a3 ra for
Y- :.:t fl!' titsu are to be given c`3,CIdit.iC3l'Y:.l
tabli e1' .en of a technical ^cien i f'i c council of 12 sciertis is
so include ?rrof a Dr Pesthel (M r#7.z) and. Prof a r B:ac? .olz (Thu) r both
the Ore den Institute of `T'echrto).o?:y; Graduate Engineer P .c ,elneye3
'?u) fi"s.'a s~ u be Ministry c the lrte ioY'? Gr"aduate Engineer Koitsoh fn4!.
C3 abi ai: En="ineeA '~=ust (feu) from he
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cs The Dresden Institute of Technology was to be ordered to train 30