MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON FUNKWERK ZITTAU-OLBERSDORF AND OTHER TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLANTS IN EAST GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
DATE DISTR. 18 -June 1954
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Information on Funkwerk NO. OF PAGES 3
Zittau-Olbers rf and other Telecommunications
Plants in East Germany
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of the plant's capacity. In August 1953, the planning section of the Main Administra-
tio production program which envisaged an out-
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by the Interior in June 1903, it was not planned to make full use
and
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atus to the value of 6,000,000 eastmarks
ction to the value of 2,500,000 eastmarks.
The re to be based on the sales made at the
Lei paration account were executed by the Zittau
radio plant-, but no orders for reparation. deliveries to be made in 1954 had been
received by October 1953.
2. The Fernmeldewerk Zittau (Zittau telecommunication engineering works) was merged
with Funkwerk Zittau-Olbersdorf in the late summer of'1953 under the new title
of RFT-Funkwerk Zittau and under the management of Blasig, the former manager of
the Zittau-Olbersdorf radio works. In January 1954, the labor force of the radio
plant amounted to about 800 persons as against a personnel of about 230 in January
1953.
3. In March 1953, the order
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of the Buero fuer Wirtschaftsfragen (Bureau for Economic
radiotelephone sets was reduced from 3,100 to
on of the order was possible because the unilktaI_ B
ion. In O inistry of the Interior,
In October 1953, the Gesellsehaft fuer Sport and TechniJAthletic and Technical
Association), which had shown interedtin the Liliput-type radiotelephone set for
A some time, placed am order for 500 sets which were to operate on 60 kc/s. The
sale of radio equipment to the VP was continued in NRvember 1953. However., no
ILl E GIB new development orders for radio equipment had been placed with the Dresden, Leip-
zig and Zittau radio manufacturing plants. New directives on the distribution available Liliput-type radio setsiiewere issued by Belz (fnu), head of the Planning
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for civilian use and disclosed
would be placed in the future
agencies wanting to buy the Li
Postal and Telecommunications
-type sets had been received by VEB Ve-TIM power supply gr
42/44 Mohrenstrasse, Berlin W 8, which would, use adiotelephone for line con-
struction work and on large building sites the sets were 34.2 and 34.3 kg/s
frequencies)and VEB Freiberger Praezisionsmechani~ (precision mechanics works) at
2 a Hainichenerstrasse, Freiberg,,,.,. Saxony. This plant had received from the MIX-
-istry of Engineering an order for hypsometric surveys, in which the communication
between the initial and terminal points of the measured distance was established
by means of the Liliput radiophone set.
In late May, five artillery "polygons" (training sights) were ordered by Levchenko
(fnu), who was in command of Artillery Unit I garrisoned in Luebben.
On 30 October 1953, Minister Wunderlich )%W, at a meeting of the main administra-
tion chiefs, disclosed that VEB RE'T Entwick ung (radio development office) at
17-19 Heinestrasse, Leipzig, headed by one Riemann would be dissolved again, and
that the tasks assigned to this development office would be taken over by central
development offices to be established at all large radio engineering plants.
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6. Lange (fnu), head of the Research and Development Section of the Radio Main Ad-
ministration, at a meeting on 3 November 1953, informed the managing engineers
of various radio plants that in the future radio development orders for the KVP
would be placed exclusively through the Main Administration of Radio and Telecommu-
nication#Engineering of the Ministerium fuer Allgemeinen Maschinenbau. Some of the
development experts of the former Bft and the radio plant had therefore been
transferred to this main. administration. Lange told that he had met great diffi-
culties in getting away from the Auftragserteilung Abteilung of the Ministry of
the Interior, because this section was facing new important tasks as a result of the
new situation in the German Democratic Republic created by September 1953 elections
in the German Federal Republic.
7. The issuance of new radio regulationsfor East Germany caused great difficulties
for the majority of the existing ship radio installations because most of them
did not meet the requirements of these radio regulations. In October 1953, various
conferences were held to discuss the necessary modifications to be made on ship
radio equipment, At a meeting held on 4 November 1953 it was stated that the supply
of ship radio sets in 1954 could be assured only if the postal administration would
change its radio directives and give permission to use the previous. frequencies.
Work on the orders for marine radio sets was stopped at the Dabendorf and Zittau
radio plants until this problem was solved.
8. Until September 53, the development by the Koepenick radio engineering plant
of a fish f inda 9or the fishing industry had made slow progress. The Main Admi-
nistration of the F' ing Industry therefore tried to buy a fish finder from the
Hagenuk firm in KieWExperiments with limit wave direction finder for the East
German fishing fleets had not reached any results by late September 1953, but
were continued.
9. In August 19 the telecommunication plant recently erected in Grossbreitenbach
in Thuringi j received orders for the manufacture of tumbles switches and Kellog-
-type switches,which previously had been made by the Stern-Radio firm in Berlin,
and also for jack plugs, which previously were manufactured by the Zittau radio
and telecommunication engineering works.
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10 Prior to September 1953, no-workers had been dismissed at East German radio
engineering plants. On the contrary, additional workers. had to be hired by the
Sternradio Plant in Stassfurt and the Grossbreitenbach, Bad Blankenburg and
Zittau radio works,
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