MILITARY ACTIVITIES AT ZOSSEN-WUENSDORF

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: May 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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'Military Activities at Zossen-
,, Wuensdorf
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This is UNEVALUATED Information
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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
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- 27 May 1954
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2. Movements of Units g
a. On 3, March 1954, 70 trucks filled with troops left the Vaensdorf-Zossen area
. for summer cats .
be At 3 p.m. on 20 March 1954, 15 T-34 tanks were on flat-cars at th
Wittenberg station. They were destined for Dessau,
3.
Res t ri tedd eti gs.
A restricted meeting on 15 and 16 March 1954 in the "House of Officers" was
attended by high-ranking officers, including an unknown number of generals. All
Germans were kept away from_ the._area of the House of Officers during this meeting.
There is no information as to what was discussed. After the meeting, however, a
lieutenant-colonel talked of the probability of war "for which we are ready".
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He added that "only the Russians, the Japanese and the Germans are real soldiers.
The Americans will never dare to start a war, except with the help of the Germans?"
4. Suspected Divisional Headauarters
It is reported that there is a divisional headquarters in Wuensdorfa The reason
for this assnption is that officers have frequently been heard to say "call the
Commander of the Division."
5 Planned Accomunodationst
Accommodations for a mechanized division are to be built at Vogelsang. A work-
shop for tanks is being built at Neukloster between Rostock and Schwerin.
Recording of Telephone Conversations,-.
A recorder has been seen in the office of the Senior Communications Officer in
housd 94B. Wuensdorf, which contains the communications center, This has led to
speculation that such -recorders may be used in monitoring telephone conversations.
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INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 16, 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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Ship Construction in Gdansk and
Gdynia Shipyards
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Gdansk Shipyards
1. The Gdansk (Danzig) Shipyard.began laying keels for oeean-going ships in 1948.
The first series of ships for ore and coal transport was followed by a second
the Poles.
series of greater tonnage; these ships are used as barter items by
For instance, Poland obtains from the Soviet Union complete metallurgical in-
stallations for the Lenin Iron and Steel Work? (formerly Nowa Huta) and other
plants.
2. During the current year the Polish government has allocated over 635 million
zloty to the shipbuilding industry. Auxiliary industries received X000 machine
tools imported principally from the Soviet: Union and East Germany.
3e The Gdansk Shipyard is now a large combine thich manufactures a variety of its
own products.' It produces semi-finished goods, ship hulls, mechanical equip-
ment, including auxiliary machinery and equipment for ships, and also produces
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6, Work in shifts was begun in the second half of 19529 each shift working 10
hours. The workers are grouped in brigades which work as a unit.
Skilled workers received additional training in the yard"s own schools. There
are two classes a week. At present courses for ship electricians and model
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Productive capacity is gro ng y
the number of workers employed. The shops are being modernized and enlarged by
the acquisition of new machines. The improvement in tooling was followed on
1 July 1953 by a 350 percent increase in the norm.
fully equipped ships.
The yard employs 4,200 workers and. a small ntiiber of skilled workers. Fifty
percent of the workers are youths who have gone through a trade school.
i fran ear to year according to plan and with it
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carpenters are being held.
8. The ships are being built in seven drk docks equi pod with electric cranes.
This area is known as "teren All (formerly Werft 1). Halls for the mounting of
ship's hulls and an assembly hall were built on "teren B", These supply docks
on "teren All with ribs and moulded plates for hulls. Ship's boilers and machin-
ery are ass ere are three steamships in d dock;
are 4,800 tons; the third
3,500 tons. 25X1
Construction of a fourth shi
of the NORA 1UTA type, 25X1
has been started. The first ship o s type was egun a year ago. Steamships
numbered of the ore and coal transporting type are under 25X1
construction in the docks. Two docks are available for repair work.
9. The depth of the fitting-out wharf is 10 meters, but the bottom is covered by 86
tons of iron scrap and wood waste. This is being removed by divers of the PRCiF
(Frzedsiebiorstwo R6b6t-.Czerpalr;ych i Podwodrych,Dredging and Submarine Enter-
prise), not by the shipyard's divers. When the work is finished the basin should
also be 10 meters deep.
10. Placards calling for increased production on the part of the workers are fastened
to the hulls under construction. Special brigades composed of Party members have
undertaken to fulfill the norm for eight hours in six hours and to work on the
norm for the following day during the other two.
1.. Seventy percent of the time between the laying of a ship's keel and its delivery
is taken by actual construction work and 30 percent for repairs after the first
inspection by the acceptance commission. Experience has shown that as a result
of faulty processes in the course of construction, insufficient checking of parts,
and the speed demanded by the norm, substandard parts are incorporated into the
ships which are then rejected and have to be replaced. Another cause of these
deficiencies is the technical leadership's incapacity to plan ahead correctly
and comprehensively. The lack of adequate experience is obvious. Another obvious
handicap is the shortage of skilled labor.
12. Engineer Ogrodowski, head of the planning section, is in charge of blueprints for
the entire yard. One of his tasks'is to calculate the necessary labor costs and
time. Drawings for separate parts are made in his office for divisions, brigades,
and individual workers. They cover monthly, 10-day, and, in exceptional cases,
single day projects.
13. Lukomski, master of engineering, is construction chief of the Gdansk Shipyard and
works under the guidance of Professor Jaroslaw Naleskiewicz. The latter is chief
technical adviser of the shipyard and has also occupied the chair of Higher
Problems of Technical Mechanics and Testing of Materials at the Gdansk Institute
of Technology since 1945. Besides, he is frequently entrusted by the Polish
Government with tasks in connection with technical problems, especially those
having to do with shipbuilding, which entail travelling abroad. Engineer Jerzy
Klott is Lukomski's assistant. Besides the men already mentioned, engineers
Wasawski, Mausolf, and Mihalik are also members of th'e technical office.
14. Socialist competition is the driving force for the fulfillment of the shipyard's
planned production, It is directed by the PZPR (Polish United Workers' Party),
headed by Party Secretary Scierko',who is assisted by Party activists, by the ZMP
(Union of Polish Youth), headed by Tadeusz Lenart, and by the trade unions who
have proved themselves to be the chief Party tools in influencing the workers.
The main office of the Transport Workers' Union is at Gdynia, Kaszubski Square
11, tel. 2821, but it has branch offices in Sopot and Gdansk. The latter's
address is Bojowcow St. 5/6, tel. 312 93, and there is another branch in Nowy
Port, Na Zaspy 53, tel. 423 81.
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15. The Polnocna (Northern) Shipyard in Gdansk has four dry docks and is equ.ipped'to
build fishing boats, dredges, and tugboats, and repair small craft. At present
two fishing boats of the supertrawler type (numberin and other details unknown),
one tugboat, and one fishing boat, type Trawler are under construction.
Andrzej Zacharski is the director of this yard.
the Central Bureau
Gdynia Shipyards
16. The Faris Commune Shipyard in Gdynia was entrusted in 1949 by
of Ship Construction (CentralnegoBiura KonnstrruhkojpieOkretodsc trade. ) with the task of
the plans for a new type of ship for displace-
ment was to be of 820 tons.
17. The keel of the first steamship of this type was laid in 1951 and the ship was
ready the following year. At the present time ships of this type are being built
on three slips, two of which have electric crane
with a crane that has to be moved by hand.
Engineer Andrzej Robakiewicz is respons responsible for~the
Engineer Stefan Pup, employed by the shipyard since 1937, is rconstruction of ships of this type.1
18. Andrzej Robakiewicz, who took his master's degree in engineering in 1948, is tech-
nical manager of the shipyard. As operating engineer he is responsible for the
execution of the work according to the plans of engineer Pup. Boleslathe Przybylski
is the technician responsible for the hulls. He has been employed by shipyard
since 1934. Piotr Dabrowski heads the woodwork section.
19. Skrzymowski, Party member and activist, is the director of the Gdynia Shipyard.
It is equipped with four dry docks,suitable for the construction of smaller ships
for deep-sea fishing and for the Navy, and started production the latter part of
1952. At present, three fishing boats of the lugger trawler 500-gross-register-
tons type,,equipped with refrigeration, and a 45 gross register tons torpedo' boat
for the Polish Navy, equipped with two torpedo tubes and diesel motors, are under
construction. The Six-Year Plan provides for the construction of 10 trawlers of
the same type. The number of naval craft to be built is? not known, as they are
ordered by the Ministry of National Defense according to need and are not included
in the Six Year Plan. The Machine Mounting Section is headed by Jerzy Skowronski;
Hildebrant, Zilonka, Kaleta, and Czerwinski head other sections.
General Remarks
20. All new ships built in Polish shipyards are delivered to the Department for Tonnage
Allocation of the Ministry of Navigation which distributes new tonnage among the
following firms:
a. PLO (Polish Ocean Lines with main offices in Gdynia, 10-go Lutego 24, director
Lukowaki.
b. Arka Fisheries, Gdynia, Swietojanska 23.
c. Dalmor Deep Sea Fisheries, Gdynia, Hryniewickiego 14.
d. ZPGG (Gdynia-Gdansk Port Administration), Main Office address: Wrzeszcz, Morska
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e. To the Soviet Union and Communist China on a barter basis.
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21. The PLO has a regular service line to Tientsin from Gdynia and Gdansk, for com-
mercial reasons. Poland exports locomotives and machines for the sugar industry
to China, and imports from Chine high-grade iron ore, textiles, and various raw
materials. Ten ships are employed on this run, including the BALTYK, WARSZAWA,
KOSCIUSZKO, GENERAL WALTER.
1 (Comment:
No 2 -(Central Bureau of Ship Construction, o.
Deputy D rector of the C.B.K.O.
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