STATUS OF SHIPBUILDING IN EAST GERMANY

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY East Germany
Status of Shipbuilding in East Germany DATE DISTR. 27 August 1954
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. VEB Warnowwerft Warnemuende
a. SOVIETSKI SOYtJZ (ex HANSA) is 97% complete. The total cost has now reached
130,000,000 eastmarks. Recently it was discovered that 400 in. of high tension
lead-covered cable has been broken or damaged by workmen employed on the vessel.
VEB Kabelwerk Oberspree will have to replace this cable. Also it was found
that there is considerable corrosion in the pinions (Ritzeln), turbine shaft
(Turbinenzapfe), and in the main engine bearings. The turbine oil from VEB
NftemmlWlwsrk.-Luetrkebdorf rasa and tJ have such an alkaline content that an electrical
field (chemische Elementbildung)has been set up in the copper pipes. It will
take three months to overcome these new difficulties. The present plan is for
trials to begin on 15 June 1954, and the delivery date has been set for 15
September. However, it will be impossible to keep to this schedule.
b. YURY DOLGORIIKI is only about half finished. She is scheduled to be delivered
in December 1955? The gear machinery is still in VEB Maschinenfabrik and
Eisengiesserei, Dessau, and the turbines are still at VEB Maschinenfabrik Goerlitz.
c. ADMI#kAL NAKHIMOV is being neglected because of a shortage of material including
plates, rivets, pump equipment, and power units (Aggregate). The starboard
engine was delivered from Magdeburg in December 1953, andup to April 1954, some
60,000 hours of work have been expended on it. The port engine is being installed
in the vessel, as are the four main boilers from VEB Dampfkesselbau Hohenthurm.
d. Of the seven river passenger ships, each 65 in. long, only two have been completed.
There is a general shortage of material.
e. Of the three floating cranes of 50 tons lifting capacity, one pontoon can
be floated ., the other two are not assembled. They are scheduled for
delivery in July 1954. The cranes for these pontoons are to be delivered direct
to Russia from Bleichert Transportanlagenfabrik, Leipzig.
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f. VEB Schiffswerft Rechlin is delivering the parts for the construction of five
floating cranes,each with a lifting capacity of 15 tons.
The slipway installation (Kabelkranenlage) should be completed by the end of
195- at a total cost of 25,000,000 eastmarks.
h. VEB Warnowwerft Warnemuende is at present producing household metal goods;
this will bring in 14.00,000 eastmarks.
2. VEB Schiffswerft Neptun, Rostock
a. BU,SHKA, a former boom defense vessel, is undergoing repairs to the hull plating,
the installation of a new shaft, and an overhaul of the engines.
b. KULOI, a former escort vessel, is undergoing extensive overhaul.
c. CASTOR, an ice breaker, which has a leak, is undergoing extensive overhaul.
d. B.7, a former supply ship, is undergoing extensive overhaul.
e. In regard to the contract for fifteen freighters,each of 3,000 BRT
(and Of which two are earmarked for DEUTRANS); boilers for eight of them have
not yet arrived and the steam engines (type L.E.S.) for all fifteen, have not
been delivered.
It is planned to convert these vessels
f. Some five recovery vessels with salvage gear to take 35 tons are to be built
here during this year.
g. Trawlers are being built, and luggers are being repa.red. 25X1
3. VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft, Wismar
a. LENSOVIET (ex-MARIENBURG), is still awaiting the turbine assembly from VEB
Bergmann-Borsig, Berlin-Wilhelmsruh.
b. KRASIN, an ice breaker, is to go into dock in Leningrad at the end of April.
c. KALININGRAD is still there, as are also VORONEZH, VOLOGDA, and SESTRORETSK,
freighters of 3,000 BRT, which are in dock for repair,
d. Of the three river passenger ships with a length of 95 m., one has been delivered,
No.2 has been built, and No. 3 was launched on 17 April but fouled the slipway.
In addition, the FRANZ (sic) bureau in Warnemuende has prepared drawings for the
construction of passenger/cargo vessels of 1+,000 BRT. The project was authorized
a year ago, and although the drawings are complete, they have not been put
through to the yard.
1-. A department for shipyards (Hauptabteilung Seewerften) has been set up in the Kur-1-
hausat Rostock-Gehlsdorf. This is subordinate to the HV Schiffbau and is under the
direction of Breekwotd, who was until recently the chief of VEB Schiffbau and
Reparaturwerft, Stralsund. He has a staff of 20 men.
5. Personalities at the various shipyards are as follows:
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a. VEB Schiffswerft Neptun, Rostock
b. VEB Warnowwerft Warnemuende
c. VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft, Wismar
e. VEB Elbewerft Boizenburg and
Schiffbau and Reparaturwerft Stralsund
f. VEB Rosslauer Schiffswerft, Rosslau
Tecbn.
Werftleiter Leiter iwym
Herzig Dunkelmann Miethe
Druf Geist Kienert
Roesse Guthard Not known
(Arrived early
April from SRS2
Ziehsenes
Homburg
Hinrichs
Schimke Klewitz
(junior)
Mix Herrfurth
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Kuenzel
(at present
on leave)
7. Approximately 56,000 people are now employed in the East German shipbuilding industry.
8. A certain Kossack3 of Kiel has offered M.A.N. marine engines to HV Schiffbau to be
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1. Probably Spillingwerk, Werftstrasse 5, Hamburg) as listed in the 1950 Tele-
graphic Directory for the Federal Republic of Germany and Western Berlin.
2. Probably VEB Schiffsbau and Reparaturwerft Stralsund.
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