USIVA FOOD AND LIQUOR TRANSACTIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: July 25, 1947
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Lager Fortue, Heyoeraassse 2, View 17. This is the main warehouse, Of the GOD:-:v
izal adinintration of US 'A.
Lager Aakhlexko, Panig1gesv a l8-2O, Vien '. The warehouse of the
tussian purchasing department.
Lager d hr lanst genoaeenschaft Wiedener T aupstraeas 57, Vievas IV.
For employees of Soviet organs ties in A. tr .a,
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Lager Neisse, Tolbuchinstrasee 115, Vienna 1. This is the former
isse & Co. X.G. X ziranffabrik, now administered by IV& and,
according to sour?cc, open to Austrian as well as 'soviet consumers.
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1~ U IVA operates the follo*ing warehouses for storage and distribution of
food and. consumer goods:
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hu es are recorded by the general accounting office of the
Food Industry Section of USIVA,, so it r assumed that goods
distrthuted here are for the use of the Soviet occupation forces
or for export.)
A large quantity of aicohel, for the t am3facture of spirits as U as for
induetr .al uses, is the subject of monthly trensactions tweon StAritme-
und LikerfabrIk Wol tr , Vienne 11, and USII'A. Wol, Tare re 3 '-rte'.
materials., primarily molasses, from the Sorriet.-controlled . TT Y uakerfabrik
in Brack s~fd Leitha. The figures foUowi indicate the quantities of alcohol
a spirituous liquors delivered in May 1947 through these channels to the
various depots:
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Lager Fortus
Lager Rakhlenko
3000 liters rum
15000 liters vodka
Lager der Konsumgenossenschaft 3000 liters vodka
Lager NNeisse 240 liters industrial alcohol
100 liters rum
00 liters vodka
100 liters liqueur
Soviet 2000 liters rum
5000 liters vodka
Soviet I I 300 liters vodka
In the absence of exact figures on the quantities received br each
concern, source reports the following totals received by the firms
listed belows
18930 liters industrial alcohol
3515 liters pure alcohol
400 liters vodka
100 liters liqueur
Chemosan Union A.G., Klosternouburg
P. Beiersdorf & Co. G.m.b.H., chemical factory, Kemarschgasse 52, Vienna I
Sghimmel & Co. G.m.b.H., chemical factory, Liesing.
Gunther Wagner, pecking -plant, Tolbuchinstrasse 52, Vienna X.
Lackfabrik r1egerle, Christian Bucher. Gasse 35--37, Vienna XXI.
Lackfabri.k Herbig-faarbaus A.G., Wollzeile 22, Vienna I.
Optische Anst?;lt C,P. Goers, G.m.b.H., Sonnleithnerstrssse 5, View e TX,
During "ay 1947 the following firms each received from 500 to
1000 liters of industrial alcohol.
Chemische Industrie, Rannersdorf.
E.T. ulsitsmann, graphic art colors, `iebenstein.
Gebruder Schmidt, colored printing inks, 7iienerstrasse 95, Vienna XXV.
7allenfels & Co., chemical factory, 3chwai;ergasne 6, Vienna XXI.
Hausernann Fabrik chemischer Gravilien, Gars am Kamp.
The following prices for the above products, were aged by USIVA:
Industrial alcohol. 00.93 schiltings p+er liter
Pure alcohol 8,40 a a "
Rum 50?00 n sr ~~
Vodka 42000 1$ n n
Liquor 50010 I1 n n
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During the month of 11'ay 1947, 60,000 kg of sugar, at 162x63 schillings
per 100 kg, were delivered from the Brucker Zuckerf.rbrik to Lager N isse.
From November 1946 through ,;;ay 194.7, a total of 1,151,405 krg of suit r was
delivered from the Bruck 4factory, through U3IVA, to various Austr-.an whcle-
sale food firms in Lot.-,Pr :!ustria.
I Comment: The a -mentioned 60,010 l are not included in
gore, presumably because Lager Neisse is a Soviet warehouse
open to both RRussisn and Austrian buyers.)
The sugar intended for Austrian wholesalers, according to directions from
USIVA, is sent to individual. Firms rhich are required to make ;r-yrsent in
advance to U$ITh . Included in the .vrchase price is a commission for USIVA
of 2,50 schillings per 100 kg of sugar. this amount corresponds to the
4.5% price increase which USI".VA puts on the items sold frcfia its wcreho eco
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after the 1945 sugar beet harvest, the Soviets
2tored up large quantities of sugar in aC sealed warehouse near the
,acker Zuckerfabrik. ON~
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the following commodities were delivered to Lager Noisse in iay 1947
from the firm of Dr. A. Oetker in Baden:
X88,888 forty-five-'gram packages of unsweetened pudding powder,
at 17 groechen each. This powder is sold ration-free to the AustFUn
buyer.
600,000 fifty-gram packages of baking soda.
1308f38 p .ckages of Seidlitz powder for Russian purchasers only.
7,7777 fortty-five-gram packages of sweetened pudding powder.
This oroduct is sold only to Russian purchasers.
75,000 ten ;ran packages of baking powder; this is also ear-
marked for Russian purchasers, allegedly because of the shortage of
tartaric s.eid necessary for the manufecture of this item.
1,600,000 ten-gram packages of "Backhilfe" (baking ingredient),
costing 3 groschcn and sold ration--free to Austrian purchasers,
24,000 one-,from pack-ages of "sauce powder" (presumably used for
making salad dressings and gravy) reserved for Russian buyers.
6,000 kg of grade 1-A malt extract, 5 schillinr ?or kg. re-
served for Russian purchasers. This product was supplied b xtalz-
fabrik Schviecha t, Br. Karl Hugendubel, Eyismayrstrasse 6, Vienna XXIIIL
Sr? a_eliveies t
The following quantities of scup were received in ?'ay 1947 at Lage^ Neisse
from Bruhn & Schweitzer.Unterlea. 63, Vienna XXIIIa
4,%-00 kg toilet soap (sue fat content)
28.70 schillings per kg
1,380 " laundry soap (40% " it )
9.55
16,, 536 " sand soap (~ r " )
1.74
19,030 0 washing powder
1.05
The Neisse depot also received 2,000 kg of sand soap (25% fat content) at
3,12 schitlingsper kg from Kalodorman ?e.rf"umerie - u. Toilettenseifenfabrik+
GmbH, K61lnerhofgasse 6, Vienna I. I
are gtto; ar eafi e nt
All goods contracted for throu:h USrlA must be paid for by the recipient
at the Russian ili Lary Bank 42111 in Starhembarggasse, Vienna VI (USIVA) .
So far, no discrepancy between the -prices' charged the
A.ustr&an and Soviet civilian purchasers. However, a great dit?,exw ?exists
between the consideration accorded the Austrian and Russian firms. The
former are often obliged to wait weeks for deliveries which they Lave been
0 the case of an "ustriar_ firm in Leobert which had ordered 12.,000 kg
of liquid soap; the purchsise price had been paid and barrels had been sent
from Leoben to be filled Finally, -.-m d.eliv.:ry w t s not forthcoming, the
oyiner of the fi'm app ied to USIVA and, after considerable discussion,
received 1000 kg instead d the 12,000. ;7hile he was still in the USIV+
office, a representative of the Konsu,mgenosserschaft, a Soviet-a!'fili.ated
firm in Austria, -as given a deliv ry certificate for 3,000 kg of so? soap,
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- era.l Corrnunist Party district headquarters in Vienna have received Vary
mounts of spirituous liquors through USIVA as follows; In the period
1 April through 17 dune 1917, 457 liters of vodka, 15 liters of rum, a
~f liters of liqueur were received by the aforementioned Communist headquarters.
ri.ces carged were 42-50 sehillings per liter, or about half the current blacks
erket prises for these beverages. The Central Committee of the Aus tri a:1 Cam
t.,unist Party at Wasagasse 10, Vienna IX, which is also the headquarters for the
!arty in the city of Vienna and Land Miederoeesterreich, receives about 200 liters
.f vodka every month through USIVA. Proof of these t x us mtione with the Austrian
'am-muniet Party, such as delivery slips and claim checks, is removed from the
'*Iles almost immediately by the Soviet department heads in USIVA.
1uatr3sazi ~ymIozrces-Ar UAIV1,
Austrian employees in USIVA are forced to study Russian
with an interpreter provided by USIVA, and the time spent on these 1'assons
must be made up in unpaid overtime cork on Saturday afternoons or Sunday. Few
?xa,ra rations come from the Soviets; in one month, an Austrian em-
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-'eceive a little dark flour, a few bt ked goods, a few packe gem of riding powder
a yid bakin aids, sev?3ra1 decagrams of sug r, and, infrequently, a rm*ll quantity
of maralade.
This document co"kains information
affecting the nati.n al defense of the
11i,O.ted States within the meaning of
the Espionage Act t-Cs U.B:C. 31 and
32 as amended. Its transmission or
the revelation of 11.-!- aontbnts in any
manner to an unsut..;;rized person is
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