ACADEMIC AND TECHNICAL TRAINING FOR THE 18TH ADMINISTRATION OF THE MINISTRY OF MACHINE CONSTRUCTION

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2008
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• Publication Date: March 14, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL I1.FTTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
This m3tefiai contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States within the
meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel-
ation of which in any manner to an unauthorized
,Nro^^ is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Academic and Technical Training for the
18th Administration of the Ministry of
Machine Constructions
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to After the Main Administration for Transport Machine ConstructionI was
founded in 1953, the East German government invested large funds in the
Technical University of Dresden for the establishment of an institute of
aerodynamics. The main tasks of this institute were to carry out
aerodynamic research for the 18th Main Administration and at the same
time to educate trained specialists who would later be affiliated with
the work of this Administration. Funds amounting to 405 million DME
were allocated, and the construction of the institute was carried out in,
1953 as a priority government order under the direction of Heinz Uhlmann,
manager of Bau-Union Dresden0- When Uhlmann completed the construction
at-the prescribed time he was nominated a "Hero of Labor" (Held der Arbeit).q.
20 When.,after the events of 17 June 1953,the 18th Main Administration' was`
temporarily dissolved, the institute chiefly did research on its own on?a
small scale and only a small number of aerodynamics specialists were
trained0
30 In the summer of 1954, the-18th-Main Administration was reactivated. As
a part of this reactivation, the aerodynamics inatitib of Dresden Technical
University will again assume its role as a research and training center
for the Main Administration. It is to start its activitieswith the be-
ginning of the spring semester 19550' In 1953, work was begun at the
Dresden-Klotz echo airfield, which was to be cleared of debris and put at
the disposition of the aerodynamics instituted As of late January 19 ,
work on this airfield had been resumed. According to the plans, the
Main Department for Research and Development of the 18th Main Administra-
tion will be located at the Dresden-Klotzsche airfield and will cooperate
closely with the aerodynamics institute of Dresden Technical University.
4. The aerodynamics institute of Dresden Technical University has a small
wind tunnel in its basement, which will be used for experiments. These
-experiments are to be carried out in close cooperation with Dlaminik (fnu)i,
a specialist in wind tunnel problems, who was located at the Pirna-Sonnen-
stein Material Office of the 18th Main Administration as of late January
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Co t s Known as the 18th 'Main Administration-in the Ministry
for Machine Constructions which was dissolved as an
aftermath of the 17 June 1953 events and reactivated
in 19540
In December 1954, Prof o Brunolf .v . Baade, technical head-ofhe
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Administration, had a meet?*g-with those students of the. aerodynamics
institute of Dresden Technical University who were to finish their
studies and leave the institute"in 1955. The'purpose of this meeting
was to determine the number and-assess the qualities of the-specialists.
whom . the- institute would.. be able' to ,provide to the 18th Main Administratiion
in-1955- Baade a e visit > revea] ed' ,that= not.- more than 12 young 'technicians
6o In addition-to the need-of the ,18th Main ,Administration for trained..
at the mo-st? would be available for,this -purpose..
aerodynamics .technicians, there is an urgent need for other technical--... personnel, such as assembly engineers, foremen and skilled mechanics F-The-Main Administration therefore reactivated"its old 1953 plans, {
according to which two professional schools for the education of trained
technicians for the Main Administration were to be established.- According
to present plans, these schools are to be eatablished'in the Faehschule
fuer Chemie in Koethen and the?Ingenieuraohrile fuer Energie and Kraft >.
masohinenbau, in Meissen. Students for these to schools are being reeruited0 '
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