ORGANIZATION AND PRODUCTION OF VVB OPTIK AND V[V]B CARL [W]EISS, JENA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2011
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• Publication Date: August 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL I LLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION 'RE-P
COUNTRY Gertany (uss an Zone)
SUBJECT Or;; ii at on and Production of VVB Optik
and. VTD Carl Jena
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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were taken over by VVI3 Optik in late February 1951 under
the recent reorganiz
Seventeen factories
a The 1'71,'1. i;'C7 .}- 'JLrtcCT2c)7atSplafl ' an of conomy) C11V_: arca an incronac aver
L91,0 of 33,i in the ;.rays pro!_uction of the "v 13 as it uas under the old or;:arii-
zat on to ll , 252,000 a? rovisi oral product on fJ. urc tar t_ic f lx-ms
rnnuly : ansferrcd to the V'4J is 26,119,000 :F? e
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` e present plan for 1951 for the Tv' :i3 envisages export orriers to a to
000 r Ts, including 15,000 000 to Eastern counr: e ., 12,000,000
and 6,000,000 to other count: ics ? A mw plan is being pre-
sr ,rc zi ch -ill allow for exports to a total. value of 62,000,000 D 50X1-HUM
ation of the nationalized industry of the Russian Zone n-_
4. ,foifen is unable to
esti_,.1ated annual re
will be recrailed
produce t ho amounts of Azet film vtwch are rcr;u LJed0 The
q.,?recent is 12 ,000 square ray ?ors 0 16 .mm and 35 : am f it m
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Special roc ct on Ramps are gar; ently r+e{~i~ d for the 1G Agfa and Siemens
projectors, since these are not manufactured in the Gcr`i n Jemocr :tic :Zo1nblic a
'17n, is to f-i 7.1 the ~co(raircrmcnts of. Xenon lamps o
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DATE DISTR. 30 1,44:U;,,-3t 1951
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Lixcroplhotography of technical periodicals has not yet progressed so far that
scientists and designers can be supplied with foreign literature in the form
of microfilms,
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T. The main tasks of the Special Commission (F'ach1com mission) for motion picture
techniques are: Zahntrormnein (Masse ) (sprockets) Dia- Positiv-faehmchen
(positive frames), Stohbildm rfer 6 x 6 mit Rahmen fuer Bildausechnitt
58 x 50 (still projectors 6 x 6 with 50 x 58 masking frames).
VE13 Carl Zeiss, Jena
Official figures for production of this factory in 1949 and 1950 are as follows:
1242 1 0
Planned Actual Panned
(in millions of Dtt East )
9.
Production (1944 prices)
31,7
34,9 -
Production (1949 prdces)
4592
4998
Repairs and for use in the
factory (1949 prices )
7,3
9,P4 -
Total production (1949, prices)
52,5
59,2
Turnover
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440 61,5
Reparations
14,9
14,9 5,3
Export -- East
-
1,,,2 16.93
Export -- !lest (including
interzonal trade)
-
4,4 10,0
Financially-, the most important products of the factory in 1949 nre the
Photographic and motion picture accessories: 9,,900,000 DM
Motion picture apparatus: 6,900,000 DM
"lire-drawing dies and machinery: 5,600000 ])M
Microscopes: 2,700,9000 DM
Training apparatus: 2,500,000 Dpi
(The figures are based on 1944 prices).
fo3lo:ring:
10,* In March 1950, it was expected that production of regular instruments and
apparatus by the factory total 13,000,,000 DU loss than it might have during
the year 1950, because of the follo%ving two special orders *zich had inter-
rupted normal production:
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a. Russian order for 200 A-1 trainers. (The order for the 200 machines was
placed on 5 September 1949; a sixteen-claA Russian coxnission headed by
a Russian colonel was still present at the factory in March 1950 making
daily modifications on the prototypes 'which were being Produced)-
Sample instruments and apparatus for exhibition at the Leipzig Fair.
(The development of these now apparatus was essential because the existing
lines of the factory were obsolescent).
11. It was decided in March 1950 that a capital expenditure of 80,000 DM was
essential to put the refrigerating plant in the South Factory (Werk Sid) in
working condition. This was to be used to test special instruments at a
temperature of -- 600C for the Soviet authorities,
12. The factory encountered serious financial difficulties during the first half
or 19r%4s mainly because of the reduction of sales, resulting from the difficulty
of obtaining raw materials, and to the work on the A-1 training devices, which
brought In no income, During July 1950, various creditors refused to mare
delivery of further raw materials until outstanding payments in for deliveries
had been made.
On 10 .August 1%O, the DDR Goverment
issued an order authorizing additional credits of 1;0,000,000 J.I to cover the
debts of the factorya
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The production of epidiascopes has been stopped because there
is no.sheot metal available. One hundred orders are held up. The production
of mw-ion picture machines has also come to a standstill, because of the
shortage of cutting steel and sheet metal. 50X1-HUM
Zeiss is now using and finding satisfactory Decelith spools for 16 mm film.
Corraents The following factories were incorporated into VVB Optiks
NO Halberstadt - Betriebstaette Metall.
Voss and Stange, Halberstadt
IT FA, :lerdau
MMassindustrio, Reiehenbach (scheduled to be merged with Masai, 1erdau)
Metallbau Doebeln
Freiberger Praezisionsmechanik, Freiberg
Technisch-Physikalsche 4erkstaetten Thalhein
Ekektromedizin Leipzig
;Tclta--Kamera- 7erke p Freita?, Sachsen
Jcfo-.;crlstaetten fuer Feirmechanik and Optik,, Dresden
Pr9mar-Kaane-ra-,'lcr'.ae,s Goerlitz
Belca-'Yerke, Dresden
Filmosto-Projektion, Dresden
Vorgroesserung,geraetewerk Dresden
Ka urra ;ior=:e, Niedersodlitz
Fabrik fuer Kranlcenfahrzouge and Krankeneinrichtungen, Dohna,, near Dresden
Roentgen-E3.ektr medizin,* Dresden
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