CRITICISM OF VEB FUNKWERK KOEPENICK AND VEB SACHSENWERK RADEBERG AND COMMENDATION OF VEB WERK FUER FERNMELDEWESEN HF

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INFORMATION REPORT
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This material contains information afecting the Na-
tionai Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18. U.S.C. Seca. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY East Germany REPORT
SUBJECT Criticism of VEB Funkwerk Koepeniek and DATE DISTR. 9 December 1954
VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg and Commendation
of VEB Werk fuer Fernmeldewesen HF NO. OF PAGES 1
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
2. The performance of VEB Funkwerk Koepenick has given cause for complaint to
such an extent that official circles are suggesting a review of the financial
preference enjoyed by the enterprise as a key industry (Schwerpunktbetrieb).
Representatives of the Ministry for Machine Construction have approached the
management of the VEB Werk fuer Fernmeldewesen HF, Berlin-Oberschoeneweide,
with the request that a committee of experts be set up to sunervise the
development work of VEB Funkwerk Koepenick. The suggested committee would
include Plant Director Bormanne Dr. Phys. Walter Rohde; a member of the
Planning Department;and an executive officer of the Ministry. The names of
the last two members are not known. Bormann and Rohde have been bound to
strictest secrecy in connection with this matter.
3. There are complaints of serious negligence in the work of VEB Sachsenwerk
Radeberg, which has caused valuable employees to leave. The Ministry is
consic,ering taking action against people who continually change their jobs
(inside East Germany) and imposing an absolute ban on transfers from one
enterprise to another of the same type.
4? On 4 October 1954, Johannes Gradeoki, the chief of the East German Main Administra.-
tion for Radio and Telecommunications Engineering (HV RFT), visited the VEB Werk
fuer Fernmeldewesen HF and, in the presenoe of Director Rudi Mueller and the heads
of the main departments, stated that he had revised his views on the relative
efficiency of the three plants and now considered the HF plant to be the best.
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