SAG PLANT IN MAGDEBURG FOR MEASURING INSTRUMENTS AND FITTINGS

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• Publication Date: April 25, 1951
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Germany (Russian Zone)
SAG Plant in Magdeburg for Measuring
Instruments and Fittings
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1. ThePG ilant producins mensurins instrumnts end fittinss in !asdeburg Cs 53/Y 60)
wns t' ie former !3chaeffer and fludenberg l':lant at 7/3 Schoenebeckerstrass; in
:7asdeburs. A subsidiary pinnt was on 7reiestrasse in :-agdeburg-Duclsau.
2. T' is slant was one, of t],c oldest specisl enterprisee o: its kind in the Soviet
7one of Cermany. ilfter the Soviets expronriated the plant in 191'5 it became
an enterprise of the ;ribor SAG. After the dissolution of the kribor nho on
1 Janwry 1950 it vas assicned to the 'A.ansmasch SAG.
3. This plant casprised a steel foundry, equipped with tuo electric furnaces, an
iron founsry, a nonferrous metal foundry equipped with an unspecified nuMber of
crucible furnaces and electric furnaces for iisht-metal castinssg a department
for '11c, construction of measuring instruments, a department for the construction
of ,eneral fittin s and h,avy fittirs.s, e. department for the construction of
valves snd a Terse equipped with a screw press of 500?J00 ks capacity. *
The pinnt also a d pattern-nnkins shop; a depot for raw castinss; an acceptance
atation wl.th test stands for heav: fiftin's, for hi;h-prossum fittings, and for
storv :Dumps; an acceptance station, equipped with a test boiler of 100 atmospheres;
a chemical-physical laboratory; apprentices' workshops; a printing shop; and a
residential settlement. The plant had sur tracksg The subsidiary plant in :asde-
burg-buckau had a *"oundry.
4. The Lasdeburs Plant wns a special enterprise for the production of fittings,
mcasurins instrunents, and purrs. Tc followins is a list of the spedific
items produced in ti n plant:
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a. Leasurins Instruments - "nnometers.
Spring-pressure ,au-es.
P.esistering manometers with capsule spring, plate sprint:, metaltube
spring sr steel tube spring for excess pressure, low pressure or
excess pressure-low pressure in all designs and rars.es from minus
1 kg per square m to plus 2,500 kc per square an.
Special manometers.
Precision manometer for rars.os up to 1,000 per square cm; testing
manometers up to 100 kr per square cm; large manometers for use
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in boiler houses for ranges up to 400 kg per square cm;
manometers for refrigeration plants _ror ranges up to 25 kg per
square cm; safely manometers far high-pressure gases.
Supplementary equipment for manometers,
Llectric high-tension contact devices for All kinds of signal rind
remote control installations, and electric tele-transnittere for
telemeters (elektrische Fernsender fuer Ilcrnmessanlagen)
:enometer accessories.
Shut-off and test faucets or ralves, connecting pieces, throttling
devices,
iiecordine manometers0
jith capsule spring, plate spring, metal tube spring or steel tube
spring as meter for excess pressure, law pressure, difference of
preeeure, or ,ension dynamometer, single and double recorders
writing on a -easurine disk or runnire measuring tape. Indicator
ran os from minus 1 kg per square centimeter te plus 1,000 kg per
square centimeter.
Liquid nanometer.
:ension dynamometers verth vertic-1 or inclred measuring tubes and
varicolored ncasurin- liquids, used for measuring slight pressures
or differences of p_ce,urc of air or eael for 1 to measuring
points. Indictor rrnees ran minus 200 to plus 100 nn
:ercury difference manometers,
For indicator xanees up to 400 mm s or 1 kg per square centimeter,
for static preseure up to 63 kg per square centimeter. **
b. :*easurine Instruments - Thermometers.
Class thermometer.
Straight and angle thermometers in round or flat casing with larees
scale, *white or colored background, graduation from minus 20 to 600
degrees centigrade. Submersible and protective tubes for all pur-
poses and test thermometers with graduation from minus 20 to $00
degrees centigrade.
Spring thermometers.
Recording spring thermometers, straight and angle thermometers, tele-
thermometers; supplementary equipment for spring thermometers,
electric heavy current contact devices for all kinds of signal and
remote control installations; recording spring thermometers and mano-
thermometers,
laectric thermometers.
Reistance thermometers.
For temperatures ranging from minus 100 to plus 500 degrees centi-
grade; temperature tracers (Temperaturfuehler) for all kinds of
operations in connection with Ortex indicating or recording instru-
ments of various designs;
Thermoelectric pyroneters.
For temperatures ranging from minus 20 to plus 1,500 degrees centi-
grade, thermoelements for all kinds of operations in connection with
Ortex indicating or recording instruments of various designs.
Ortex temperature indicating instruments.
Ortex telemeter station.
with Ortex indicating instruments and. Ortex selector switches all
on the same front plate with resistance thermometers, pyrometers or
Ortex tele-trenenitters;
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Ortex tenperature recorder.
Ortex selector switches.
Ortox tele-transmitters.
for mechanicel indicator reasurine instruments (eeicerneseeereete)
end stationary indicators (3tandzeicer) for electric telo-trens-
mittine of the measurinc datz.
aectro contact instruments.
easurin: instruments with heavy-current contact devices.
:anometers? thermometers and other mechanical indicator measurine
instruments for the operation of electric signal installetions,
snitch or control gears for all kinds of varnine or remote con-
trol installations.
rechinery equipment.
7ncludes techeeeters, ""Creheendel"-hand-tachometers, and meters.
:lscellaneous cauges.
'.are eressure gauges for motor vehicles and motorcycles, compression
causes for Diesel end carburetor engines, pump gauges?and density
gauges for all kinds of gas pipe lines.
c. Fittings - Shut-off Valves.
Shut-off and check valves.
Drop-forced valves.
Shut-off and check valves, small valves for nominal pressure ranging
from 25 to 500 atmospheres in nominal widths ranging from 3 to 50 mm.
Srecial valves.
For the chemical industry. Made of cast iron for ammonia, for neinal
preosure up to 25 atmeapheres and in nominal *widths from 15 to 300 mm.
For the mineral oil industry (hot oil). Made of electricrl steel
castings or forged steel.
Membrane operated (meml.ranLetaetigte) valves and piston operated
(kolbenbetaeticte) valves for compressed air, compressed water, or
oil control.
Stop slide valves.
High-pressure seperheated steam slide valves.
For temperatures rencine from 400 to 520 decrees centigrade, nominal
pressure from 25 to 320 atmespheres read in nominal widths from 30
to 500 mm.
Special slide valves for the mineral oil industry.
fade of high-erede electric steel castings for oilfields, refineries,
hydrogenation plants, and oil pipe lines.
c. Fittinge Cenrellinc Agents.
Stop cocks.
Lubricating cocks.
Pressure-reducing valves.
For air and water with membrane and spring weight for nominal pres-
sure up to 16 atmospheres and in nominal widths from 20 to 65 mm.
Pressure-reducing valves for saturated axe euee-rheated steam.
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Hydraulic regulator 'valves.
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rabu regulator valves.
71th impulse amplification (Inpuls-Verstaerkung) b, coepressed meter
Nater pipe line), oil or compressed air, precision reLulator for
pressure, temperature, flow volume etc mith direct-installed or
remote controlled regulator valve.
Safety valves.
Lee lift eafety valves (dederhub-Sicherheitsventile), full lift
salty valves (Vollhub-Sicherheitsventile), auxiliary controlled
(?ilfgesteuerte) safty valves mith large blow-off capacity for
steam, water and other liquids;
e. Fittings - 7easuing Instruments.
Level indicators.
Glass tube indicators with valve head made of forged steel for steam
boilers and containers up to nominal pressure of 25 atmospheres;
Reflection water level zauges with hinged tube holder made of steel,
for steam boilers and containers up to a nominal pressure of 40
atmespheres) high-pressure water level gauges and water level distant
reading indicators for nonpressure containers used to indicate the
oil level in transformers, oil switches, oil tanks and gear boxes.
Jet apparatuses.
Injectors for steam boiler feeding.
Steam a:r suction and steam air pressure apparatuses.
Pipeline accessories.
Condensed water discharge.
f. Fittings - PUnps.
Steam pumps.
Hand pumps. ,
Pressure pumps and. test pumps.
For pressure-testine pipelines and containers with single pistons
up to 100 atmospheres pressure, with double-acting pistons up to
1,000 atmospheres pressure.
g. Autogenous Apparatus.
lelding and cutting torches.
Pressure-reducing valves for acetylene, oxygen and hydrogen.
h. Foundry products.
Electric steel eastirks.
:etal castings, nonferrous metals and light metals, sand castings and
die castings. ***
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s. The plant was given occasional special orde-c be- the Soviet plant management.
ilarly in Earch 1943 the plant management requested the production of red brass
valvcs in small sizes. The order amounted to more than one million eastmarks.
Since the middle of Larch 19249, Soviet-ordered tests more made to reach the
highest possible specific pressure. A high-pressure press and a high-pressure
chamber for a specific pressure of 13,000 kg per square centimeter more used in
these tests. Another .rder of the Soviet plant management concerned the design
and construction of safety valves and regulating devices for high-speed boats of
the Soviet 1:sv In November 1250 the plant had to deliver 120 flooding valves
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for submarines to the Soviets by 1 December 1950. The value of the production
of the Tient was 24 million eastmarlz in 1938, 43 million castnarks in 1943,
12.5 million eastmarks in 19116, and 25 million eactmarks in 1947 including
12.5 million eaetmarke for attires and 12.5 million eastmarks for eeasurine
instruments. '2he eain raw materiale supplies came from the Soviet Zone of
Germeny. The plant had a sales office in Duesseldorf and one in lunich in
order to obtain certain tools, refined steels, and nonferrous metals which cm-
not be 'supplied by the Soviet Zone of Gereany. These sales aLencies procure
the needed urstmark funds by t4le sale of vateus fittings and eeasurine instru-
ments of the plant. The Louis Strube Plant in Lagdebure-1;uckau was reported
as a plant supplying red brass to the SAG Plant in I:acdeburc.
6. The key personnel of the ...oviet managerent in the. 7agdeburg Plant included 50X1-HUM
Vatayev, ( fnu) general managers and Dimitriev, ( fnu)s technical manager.
The key personnel of the German management 'ncluded 2outner or leutler, (Thu),
technical menacers
menaeer who worked: his way up from the position e assistant in the measuring
instrument construction denartnent; and Gerlach, (fnu),, commercial reneger.
The nanaeer of the measurine instruments department etuebines (fnu)0 and the
manager of the technical office Erwin Mellor. The technical office comprised
the following technicians: ',leiter hAzo specialist for steam pressure gauges
and thermometers; ;1-erin Lrenz, expert on manometers; and Diesterwegs(fnu),
.exnert for 'tachometers and meters. The denartment for electric meesurine
instruments was headed by ite-'nz Freise, the steel foundry by engineer Draneen,
(fnu), expert on foundry production, and the nonferrous metal foundry by Weeerer,
(fnu). The total number of employees was 4,300 in 19171. and about 5,003 in
April 1953.
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electric furnaces which had a total nnrral output of 11,430 tons of electric
the steel foundry will allegedly acquire5ox1 -HUM
-additional electric furnaces.
Comment Wassersaeule abbreviated ':18 (column of water) is a measuring uni50X1-HUM
.or small pressures and is used in slight gas pressure, such as that occurrine in
the as supply system. One cm of T:S equals 0.001 atmeephere ; is an hbbrevia-
tion of ,ueeesilbersaeule (column of mercury).
Comment. The wartime production of tly plant comprised manometers, hYdr0-50X1-H UM
7=s;-.7inap fittines, torpedo stoerine eneines for the "Tiefenruder" depth
instruments, steerin .evices for the "Seitenruder", and submarine measuring
ins truments
steel.
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