RESOLUTION OF PRESIDIUM OF GDR MINISTERIAL COUNCIL FOR PROVISION OF AN INCREASE IN ELECTRIC- POWER PRODUCTION CAPACITIES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R013500120005-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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RESOLUTION OF PRESIDIUM OF GDR MINISTERIAL COUNCIL FOF4PROVISION OF AN INCREASE IN ELECTRIC-
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This document is a typewritten report, dated 22 September 1952,, which i~Yi~; a reso-
lution of the Presidium of the GDR Ministerial Council to make provisions for an inereasel
in electric-power production capacitiesJhtmd includes the following information:
The Five-Year Plan provides for the construction of new electric-power installattLons
with a total capacity of 2,782 megawatts, so that the output of electric power can be in-
creased to 33 billion kilowatt hours by 1955. However, there are critical defects in the
field of e]eotric-power development. The 195 Plan to expand the power-production capacity
was not fulfilled; an additional productionapacity of only 52.6 megawatts (instead of the
planned increaEe of 159.6 megawatts) was installed. Furthermore, it can be seen from the
results of the plan to fulfill the electric-power program in the first half of 1952, that
the fulfillment of the 1952 Plan is also seriously jeopardized.
The reasons for these failures are attributed to the inadequate sense of responsibility
on the part of the directors of the appropriate government agencies, such as Fritsch, State
Secretary for Coal and Power, Adler, the director of the Main Administration for Power, and
Ziller, the Minister of Machine-Building. Details are given describing the negligence and
lack of initiative each of the key officials was accused of.
The remainder tX$ of the report contains 13 directives issued by the Presidium to the
Ministries and State Secretariats copcerned with electric-power output, that is, all agencies
involved in planning work, materialrocurement, machine-building, etc., connected with the
production of electric power. The directives specify the duties, obligations, and responsi-
bilities of each Ministry and State Secretariat, in order that the construction of electric.
power capacities totaling 340 megawatts, as provided in the 1952 Plan, can be assured.
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