INDUSTRIAL PLANTS AND PRODUCTION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100020013-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

DEC 1951 51-46
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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY rxermany (Soviet Zone)
SUBJECT Industrial Plants and Production
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1. Zeiss Optical Works.
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a. A considerable drop in production at the VEB Optik Carl Zeiss, Jena,
followed the disturbances of 17 Jun 53 and delayed until mid-July the
delivery to the USSR of 35 aerial topographic instruments which should
have been shipped on 30 Jun 53.
b. It has just been learned that Zeiss is to construct an infra-search radar
apparatus developed by a firm in Dresden during the past year. According
to unverified reports, four to six pieces are currently to be shipped
weekly.
c. Optical sighting devices continue to be produced. of the same types as
formerly, chiefly for delivery to the people?s democracies. The manufacture
of curve pontentiometers in serial production has been suspended.
d. Emphasis is being placed on export articles, including microscopes,
polariscopes (with synthetic nickel prisms), spectacle lenses, operation
lamps (a new product, completely heat=absorbing), motion picture projectors,
and photographic equipment (chiefly Praktika. with Tessar objective).
e. The production of field glasses (mainly 6 by 10 and 10 by 50) has been
raised to about 12,000 pieces per month. Telescopic sights for light
guns are also being produced.
f. The manufacture of infra filters and iconoscope disks (Bildwandlerscheiben)
continues.
g. About 2,000 lenses are delivered monthly to a Soviet works in Kiev which
manufactures the German Leica. They have inscriptions in Russian.
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2. VFB Gust Leipzig
a., The VEB Gus (formerly Mayer & Weichelt) at Leipzig is currently producing
castings for the Soviet Union electrical engineering works., S. M. Kirov, as
reparations goods. Eight stators and accompanying parts for hydrogenerators
have been cast, finished, and shipped to Rostock for this Soviet works.
From Rostock they reportedly are shipped to Leningrad.. The stators have
an inside diameter of 8 to 12 meters,
b. Further orders for heavy lathe basins (Becken) and other machine tools
have been filled for the Meuselwitz heavy machine factory. Since 1 July,
11 lathe basins, several drill press stands and two large milling machines
have been delivered to this factory. These machines leave VFB Gus in an
unfinished state and Meuselwitz complains continually that the delivered
parts are largely unusable for export because they contain blisters.
c. Chain drive parts for catepillar vehicles are being delivered as formerly
for the VFB Masohinenfabrik Salzungen. Production was interrupted for
l1 days; the Ministry of Machine Construction proposed to discontinue
it, but the Soviet authority would not agree. About 30 tons of these
chain parts are manufactured monthly,, of which a part is finished in
the plant and the other, part is delivered to Salzungen. The individual
links are 40 cm wide.
d. There has been no change as to numbers and. kind in the production of
castings for shells*
a. There are no difficulties with the supply of steel and iron. The financial
position of the works is anything but good, however. There is an annual
deficit resulting from reparations deliveries which has to be made up
by a subvention of three to four millions from government funds.
3? Gerltebau Sch8nebeck?aElbee
a. Up to 15 Jul 53, the Geritebau Sch8nebeck-Elbe had installed 132 charging
stations on cargo trucks. The trucks were partly IPA and partly Soviet
types. They are fitted with special bodies$ the separate parts of which
are delivered by I'P'A Halle. The charging stations have a. 50 hp Diesel
engine which is manufactured in the plant. These engines are also
delivered separately to the Soviet Union at the rate of about 25 per monthe
b. Besides IFA Halle, Lindner of Ammendorf and VFM Magdeburg are concerned
in the manufacture of these charging sets. VEM Magdeburg delivers
installation material. Some of the cars receive their switch installations
directly at Magdeburg.
Lenz Paint Factory.
a. The Lackfabrik Lenz at Zeitz at the beginning of July received an order
for the manufacture of 12 tons of camouflage paste. The plant heretofore
has produced mainly nitro paint and anti--rust material.
5. Benzinwerk B8hlen.
a. During the past month the Benzinwerk Bghlen, of Leipzig, delivered 3,200
tons of jet fuel from a gasoline basis and. about 8,000 tons of airplane
gasoline to the Soviet Union.
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