AIR FORCE CONSTRUCTION OFFICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002800050002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Air Force Construction Offices
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1. The Construction Office at 7 Pushkin Allse, Potsdam, had previously been
in charge of the Special Construction Offices located at 134 Eisenbahn-
strasse in Werder and also offices in Neuruppin and Witteaberg. These
special construction offices handled air force construction projgcts ee-
elusively. On 1 July 1953, the special construction offices at Neuruppin
and Wittenberg were deactivated by order of the KEO. The personnel of the
closed offices were then discharged.
2. The Special Construction Offices of the air force received their orders
from the "Keehn Offices of the air force in Werder, Neuruppin and Wittenbere.
It is believed that along with the Special Construction Offices, the corres.
ponding "Kech" Offices were closed. After the Kech office of the air force
at Werder had been closed, the 'erder Special Construction Staff had to co-
operate with the Potsdam Army Kech Office.
3. Prior to 1 July 1953, the Special Construction Office at Werder Was in charge
of the following air bases: Werder, Falkensee, Elstal, Rangsdorf, Schoenwalde,
Koenigswusterhausen, Pad Saarow, Schoenefeld, Strausberg, Werneuchen, Erand
Finsterwalde and Welzow. After 1 September 1953, these air bases were reor-
ganized with regard to construction work. Werder, Falkensee, Elstal, Rangs-
dorf and Sdhoenwalde air bases remained assigned to the Werder Special Con-
struction Office. Brandenburg-Priest airfield was also subordinate to Warder.
Air bases which were assigned to the Army Special Construction Office at Frank-
furt/Oder included those at Koenigswusterhausen, Bed Saarow, Schoenefeld?
Strausberg and Werneuchen. The air bases at Brand. FinsterwaIde and ''elzow
were assigned to the !my Special Construction Office at Luckenwaldeo
4. The Werder Special Construction Office worked with abut 70 employees including
engineers and draftsmen, including the construction and repair of barracks,
as well as the construction of sanatoriums, officer houses and some hangers
were handled by theeffice. There was no cooperation between this Special
Construction Office and the Central German Administration for the Construction
of Airfields.1
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Lieutenant Colonel Engineer reteshkov (fnu) was chief of the former
erder Air Force Construction Kech, and Major Engineer Mikhailov
(fnu) was his deputy. Lieutenant Colonel,Eagineer Kononov (fnu) was
chief of the Army Kech Office at Potsdan.4 Major Engineer Eolderev
(fnu) was his deputy.
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