THE REORGANIZATION OF THE MINISTRIES FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY AND MACHINE CONSTRUCTION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011000280005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
'oJENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
- U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
5E R FORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO
COUNTRY
G?::rma::a.y (Russian Zone)
DATE DISTR.
20 March 1952
NO. OF PAGES
2
NO. OF ENCLS.
25X1 SUBJECT The Reorganization of the Ministries for Heal
Industry and. Machine Construction
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The Ministry for Heavy frdu.s bry w:i.11 he disbanded at the end of 1951 s and
the new Ministry and State Secretariats will be formed as follow:
a. M inisterium. f D Hfi t;tenwesen and Erzbergbau (Ministry for Smelting and.
Mining) Minister, Fritz Selhh ann.
't. B't awtssekreta ?iat (hemie, Stei.ne u:ad E rden (State Secretariat, Chemistry,
Stone and Earth) Secretary of State, Dirk van Rickelen.
c o StaAssekretas: i.at Kohle and Energie (State Secretariat, Coal And Energ )
Secretary of State, Max F?ri'tsch.e
Si;aatssekretari.at Rau?:nndu.strie (State Secretariat, Building Industry)
Secretary of State, Willi Mayor.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
The SFD also wished, to split up the Ministry for .Machine Construction into
several Ministries, or at least independent State Secretariats. However.
the present Minister Gerhard. Ziller, has obtained the support of Otto Grotewohl
for the following new organization, which will probably be Introduced early
in 1952-
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lyiste- for Machine ne Construction.
a. Mini;, t erium fU MaG c_hinenbau, Hauptverwaltungen Allgeineiner Maschinenhau
Eiektrote4.h:cik, :Feinm c.hanik una Optik, and Fahrzeu.gbau.. (The Ministry for
Machine Construction supervising the main administrations for general
machine construction, electrotechnical machine construction, precision
machine construction and optics, and. vehicle constriction).
t0 Staatssekreta:r?iat Schwvrmaschinenhau (State Secretariat, Heavy Machine
Construction) which will. include the factories, at present mainly in V B
Nagema, which make equipment for the chemical industry. It will also
control 'the Hoch seeschi.ffbau Dieselmotorenwerk Rostock. This State Secre-.
tae?iat,e will not be independent, but will come under the control of the
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c. Staatssekx etariat Sch jf f?bau (State Secretariat, Shipbuilding). State
Secretariate will also not be independent, but will come under the control
of the Minister for Machine Construction.
The legal status of the V T s and V s will also change on 1 January 1952.
After that date each nationalized factory (VE"B) will have greater indepiendemce,
and the plant manager greater responsibility. Each factory must become self-
supporting financially. Corporations (VVBs) will lose their legal status
as proprietors of the V7+ s and will tecome outstations of the Ministry, respon-
sible only for the technical and admtntstrative control of the VEBs. It was
originally proposed to d1sband VVr+B. Uochseeschiffbau. It has now been. decided
that it should. continue to exist.
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