INFORMATION ON THE EAST GERMAN STATE SECRETARIAT FOR MOTOR TRAFFIC AND ROADS

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Content Type: REPORT

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N FORMATiNN REPORT CD NO.
East Germany
Information on the East German State
Secretariat for Motor Traffic and Roads
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U. S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR. 29 March 1955
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these agencies
had to return a certain percentage of their appropriations to the
state budget. The State Secretariat for Motor Traffic and Roads had
to refund 3 percent of its budget or 790,000 Eastmarks. The monay had 25X1
to be returned by 30 September 1591. In the letter it was further
stated that all expenses for administrative and cultural purposes were
to be suspended effective immediately. Except for engineers, no new
personnel was to be hired. 4
that construction work on the Strausberg-Eggersdorf highway be
discontinued. the sum of 1.8 million
eastmarks made available for this project had been spent and O t'~e
remaining allocation of 3.5 million eastmarks had not yet been appropriated
by the Ministry of the Interior. Since the wage fund of V ' ~3trasserbau
Potsdam had been exhausted, loans had to be raised from week to weer
in order to be able to pay wages and materials recuired. 5
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Commend `For'-draft and motivation of proposals, see Annex 2. The
installations mentioned in Section IT were included in the 1954 highway
construction program . The bridges mentioned are socalled "Folgevorhaben",
which means that construction wo^k on them was started in 1952 and 1553.
These bridges were scheduled to be completed in 1954. The draft throws
significant light on the financial plight in the GDR and the clumsy
bureaucratic procedure prevailing in government agencies.
itt: A yearly budget of 35 million
eastmarks will be inadequate for the actual requirements. Originally, a
sum of 80 million ecretariat
in 1955?
These
figures In i.ca e that the physical status of bridges and highways
in the GDR is bound to deteriorate.
Comment. Georgino was previously known to hold the assignment
o deputy state secretary at the Ministry of Finance.
omment. Referent Giersberg was reported for the first time.
Leiser was previously known to hold the assignment mentioned. The
Strausberg-Eggersdorf highway is being built by order of the :;Tini:frr
of the Tntericr. Ton-1aiP1 I= agencies are located at Straucberg.
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