ELECTRIC-POWER PROGRAM IN EAST GERMANY FOR 1955

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT, MFOO QMAUO(M
CENTRAL INITELLIGENICE AGENCY
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This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 25X1
18, U.S.C. Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Electric Vower Program in East
Germany for 1955
DATE OF INFO.
DATE ACQUIRED
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1, The 1955 plan for extensions to the electric power grid in East Germany
has now been approved by the Council of Ministers. It allows for an actual:
increase in capacity of 626,3 mw, and anticipates that of this, 497 mw will be
on the grid by 31 ,December 19559 end the. :remainder being tested,'
The power plants at Trat,tendorf and Vockerode (Elbe) have planned increases
of .75 mw and 96 mw respectively; the Hirschfelde, Zepenhein, Bitterfeld,
lt4lldenstein, and Stalinstadt plants will also increase their capacity
substantially,
2. The detailed list of planned extensions month by month in 1955 is as followss
Januarv
Steinkohlenwerk Zwickau 8 MV
VEB Filmfabrik Agfa Wolfen 10 mw (a)
Wasserwerk Klosterbuch (Saxony) 1 mw
ZehmLau
Hirschfelde
Lauta
Braunkohlenwerk Grosskayna
VEB Farbenfabrik Wolfen
VEB Kombinat Otto Grotewohl,, Boehlen
Faserplattenwerk Griebnitz
Wasserwerk Waldenburg
Wasserwerk Liebenhain
March
Vockerode
Heizkraftwerk Dresden
Papierfabrik Kriebstein
Kreiskrankenhaus Aue
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50 mw (b)
12.5 mw
3.,7 mw
8. mw
17 mw (c)
2 mw
1 mw
0.2 mw
32 mw
22 mw- (d)
209 mw
0,6 mw
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April
VEB Elektrochemisches Kombinat Bitterfeld 12.5 mw
Sodafabrik Bernburg 3.2 mw
Zuckerfabrik Helmsdorf 1.2 mw
Chemische Fabrik Heider- 1.6 mw
VEB Eisenhuettenkombinat Stalinstadt 25 mw
Kraftwerk Pulsnitz 0.8 mw
VEB Synthesewerk Schwarzheide 12.5 mw
4ildenstein (railroad power station) 35 mw
Wasserwerk Wisenta2 0.3 mw
June
Trattendorf III 25 mw
Vockerode 32 mw
Braunkohlenwerk Profen 2 na
Deuben
3 mw
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Dresden (Cotta) 1 mw
Braunkohlenwerk Beuna 3.2 mw
Heizkraftwerk Stalinallee. Berlin 8 mw
August
Dresden (Nord)
Kraftwerk Plauen
Braunkohlenwerk Arnsdorf
Steinkohlenwerk "August Bebel" Zittau
Teerverarbeitungswerk Rositz
Reifenwerk Fuerstenwalde
Papierfabrik Gruenhainichen
Hydrierwerk Zeitz
S eptember
Vockerode
Mineraloelwerk Luetzkendorf
Kirchmoeser,(railroad installation)
Bleicherode
Stadtbad Elster
Fabrik, Neustadt/Glewe
October
8 mw
8 mw
1.2 mw
1 mw
1.6 mw
1.6 mw
1. 4. mw
10 mw
32 mw
12.5 mw
8 mw
8 MW
1 mw
1.6 mw
Trattendorf III 25 mw
Kraftwerk Forst 8 mw
Kaliwerk Rossleben 8 mw
Noymber
Trattendorf ZII 25 mw
Farbenfabrik Wolfen 8 mW
Filmfabrik Wolfen 10 mw
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Zelluloidfabrik :2ilenburg 4 mw
VE L1oi):trochemisches Kombinat Bitterfeld 25 mw
Sprengstoffwerk Schoenbeck 1 mw
Oil Plant Espenhain 50 mw (g)
Zellstoffwerk Rosenthal 8 mw
VEB Chemische Werke Buna, Schkopau 20 mw
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(a.) This figure was originally set at 20 mw, but It was impossible to get
the second boiler in time (imported), and the increase is not expected until
November 1955.
(b) See para.3 below.
(c)
This increase was originally scheduled at 40 mw, but the generator
supplied by Allgemeine Elektricitaets-Gesellschaft (AEG) is capable
only of 17 mw.
(d) This represents the remaining 22 mw of which the AEG generator is
capable; it was previously providing only 10 mw of its full capacity.
(e) This brings the total capacity of Stalinstadt up to 75 mw.
(f) Extra capacity was brought about by alterations to the boiler.
(g) d boiler 2
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supp ies current to Czechoslovakia in exchange for deliveries of coal.
3. There was an accident at Hirschfelde power station on the morning of 23 March 1955,
when a faulty connection in the oil pipe caused the newly installed 50-mw turbine
to burst into flames and seriously damaged the installation. The entire supply
of current, including that to Poland just over the frontier, was cut off for 24
hours and was resumed only when it was ascertained that the remaining
equipment was not affected. The three workmen responsible for the work on
the pipeline were arrested. It is anticipated that'repairs will take five
or six weeks.
4. The provisional plans for 1956/57 include the following:
Voekerode 1957
3 x 32 mw (a)
Trattendorf III 2 x 25 mw (b)
Trattendorf I 1 x 25 mw (c) 1 x 25 mw (e)
1 x 50 mw (d) 1 x 50 mw (f)
Lachornewitz 1 x 25 mw
1x50mw
Hirechfelde 1 x 25 mw
Pirna 4 x 12.5 mw
Pumpenspeicherwerk Wartha 1 x 21.5 mw (g)
Braunkohlenwerk Regis 1 x 12.5 mw
Kraftwerk Sonne Freienhufen 1 x 20 mw
Kraftwerk Dimitroff Leipzig 1 x 12.5
Kraftwerk Zittau 1 x 2
Note:
(a) Turbines Nos. 7,8., and 9, ee^h with 160 t/h boiler
(b) Turbines No. 5 and 6, each with 125 t/h boiler
(c. Inlet cnuplincr (Vorscholtmotor) from Bergmann-Borsig.
(d)
(e )
tlet coupling achscha tmotor) from Bergmann-Borsig.
Inlet coupling (Vorschaltmotor). Boiler to be supplied by VEB'Dampfkesselbau,
Meerane
(f) Outlet coupling (Nachschaltmotor) Boiler to be supplied by VEB
(g)
Damprkesselbau, Meerane
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5. The most serious bottleneck.in the production of-power equipment is
the lack of condensert,ubes. In_order to overcome part of the
difficulty.., the Anistry for Aea