SHORTAGE OF PHOTOGELATIN IN THE RUSSIAN ZONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010100440008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Shortage of Photogelatin in the Russian Zone
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1. One of the most serious bottlenecks in the photochemical industry in the DDR is
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the 'shortage of photogelatin. The only (sic) producer of photogelatin in the
East Zone is the Chemisches and pharmazeutisches Werk Kalbe, Calbe/Saale (VVB
Variochem). According to the most recent calculation of the Secretariat for
Material Procurement, the East Zone photographic industry will require 670 tons
of photogelatin in the year 1952 in order to. .fill set production quotas. The
Calbe plant will be able to supply 80 tons of relatively inferior photogelatin,
The DDR was scheduled to receive 150 tons of photogelatin from the USSR in 1951,
but as of 1 November 1951, only 48 tons of usable ppotogelatin had been received.
Seventy-five per cent of this amou went to th VVB Photographie*** and 25 per
tent to the Filmfabrik Wolfen((SAG Photoplenka') , As of 1 November, the Filmfabrik
Wolfen'`had received 430 tons of,'photogelatin from the West in 1951. Sixty to
seventy per cent of this amount came from the Deutsche Gelatine-Fabriken, 15
per cent from the Chemische Werke Stoess &Co. GmbH, and the rest from Delft and
Rousselot.
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Uelrzy ec n. Hazidelsond., Amsterdam.
Comment: This is probably the Compagnie Centrale Rousselot, 50 rue
o eau, axis.
photographic industry are grouped, is meant.
Comment: There is no VVB Photographic listed among the nationalized
p n s o he DDR. Possibly the VVB Optik, under which plants belonging to the
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