REAL ESTATE PROPERTY OFFICE OF THE SOVIET TRADE DELEGATION (IMMOBILIEN-KONTOR) BERLIN-PRENZLAUER BERG

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• Publication Date: August 15, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This material contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States within the
meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel-
ation of which in any manner to an unauthorized
person is prohibited by law.
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SUBJECT
East Germany
Real Estate Property Office of the
Soviet Trade Delegation (Immobilen-
kontor)s, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
DATE OF INFO.
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15 August 1955
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE. ,
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1. The Real Estate Property Office of the Soviet Trade Delegation
(Immobilienabteilung der Handelsvertretung der USSR in Deutschland),
commonly referred to as "Immobilien-Handel", is located at Berlin C2,
Weydingerstrasse 24, Telephone No. 42-97.-07. The director of this
office is Kasimovskiy .1 The Immobilienabteilung controls all
real estate holdings throughout BergE-717=M-75=-Teffie of Germany
which are under Soviet control or used by the Soviets for billeting
and/or office purposes. Branch offices of the Immobilienabteilung
exist in Dresden and Leipzig, exact addresses mit known*
2. Inside the Karlshorst Compound in Berlin, the following properties fall
under the control of the Immobilienabteilung:
Koenigswinterstrasse 12 through 14a and connecting buildings at
Ingelheimer-Strasse 19 la, 222a, 3. These properties are PCS
billets used by Soviet officers and civilians with families.
Koenigswinterstrasse 26 A, B, C, D, and 27 - PCS billets for
officers and civilians.
The comple of buildings fronting on Koenigswinterstrasse 23, 24,
25;Andernacher-Strasse glir 5a, 5b, 6;and Rheingoldstrasse 14. Hotel
for Soviet transient billeting.
Rheingoldstrasse 309 31 (directly across ?the street) - Annex to
transient hotel.
Rheingoldstrasse 21 and 22 - Hotel "15".
Loreleystrasse 339 349 35, 36 - Polyclinic of the Soviet Trade
Delegation, formerly a part of USIG.
Rheingoldstrasse 14A, 159 16, 17,18 - private villas, vacant as 50X1-HUM
of April 1954, but being redecorated.
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Drachenfelsstrasse 11 rind 11A - formerly occupied by the ?elyelinic,
but vacant except for basement rooms since spring 195/;., Olen the
polyclinic moved to l'ore1eT7trasse.
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3 As of 1 January 1954, the date on which USIG officially ceased 6o exist,
the polyclinic and housing administration of USIG, with subordinate support:
offices, were transferred to the Tb O of the Immobilienabteilunicof the-.
Soviet Trade Delegation,,
a. The M;;IG polyclinic, which now serves the Soviet Tradie Delegation,
5/Ylu,inally was moved from Askania Haus to Drachenfelsstrasse 11 and
IIA some time during the summer of 1953. However, in the spring of
1954, as a result of a boiler failure in the heating plant for these
building, the polyclinic was moved to Loreleystrasse 33, 34, 35 and ,
36, where it occupies the entire group of buildings. A portion of the
basement of Drachenfelsstrasse 11 and 11A was turned into a furniture
storage area, under the jurisdiction of the branch office of the Immo..
bilienabteilung (the former USIG billeting section), run by Waldemar
Winterfeld. Although vacated in the spring of 1954, these buildings
still fall under the jurisdiction of the Immobilienabteilung, and as
far as is known, the basement facilities are still-11En by Winterfe1d0
130 With the exception of a small number of Germans employed in the poly-
clinic, the staff of about 20 or 25 people is mainly made up of Soviet
nationals, both physicians and nurses. It serves only Soviet nationals
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c. The USIG Billeting vffice and Household Furnisbings Office run by
Waldemar Winterfeld at Koenigswinterstrasse 14 still survives in the
same location as when under the USIG TAD The furniture storage facil-
ities available to this office in Askania Haus as of April 1954 were
located in the basements of Drachenfelsstrasse 11 and 11A, and to some
extent in the basements of the buildings at Koenigswinterstrasse 12-
14. Additional furniture storage facilities were located in the base-
ments of the apartment houses at Ingelheimer Strasse 1, 1A, 2, 2A and 30
4. The main office of the Imp:11112&allAl.uz_at Weydingerstrasse 24 was
greatly expanded as of January 1954, at which time many of the officials
of USIG were transferred to this location. The number s:3f such officials
transferred or whether such Soviet officials were transferred to the T/0
of the Immobilienabteiluaa?was not known, but many Soviet officials for-
merly seen in the V,aldowalloo offices in Karlshorst were seen entering
and leaving the Leydingerstrasse premises in the spring of 1954. The main
office now occupies the entire block of buildings along Weydingerstrasse,
including houses 20, 22, and 24, and may possibly also occupy the buildings
at Weydingerstrasse 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Included in these buildings are
both offices and billet facilities. The jmiolrrpz.taiklnz_ supplied fuel
to the property at 2 and 4 Weydingerstrasse, in which the Babylon theater
is located, and this supcly would only be authorized if the Properties
themselves came under Immebilienabteilung_control. No vehicles formerly
assigned to the USIG Motor i'ool were ever seen parked in the vicinity of
the main office on Weydingerstrasse, nor are any German ch&:uffeurs formerly
employed by USIG known to have been taken over by either the Trade Dele-
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The following following persons were employees of the Weydingerstrasse 24 main office
of the Immobilienabteilun as of April 1954. It is believed that these
persons still were emp oye there as of June 1955:
a. Soviet Nationals:
(1) Kasimovskiy
office.
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successor to Petrov as director of the
(2) Petrov ,
not known.
Kasimovskiy;
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4., official in the Immobilienabteilung, exact functions
He was director of the?ORTFWTYET17-We arrival of
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(3) Sorokin , was an official of the Immobilienabteilung, exact
functions not known.
(4) Ilesturkh
known*
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was an official in the main office, functions not
(5) Goselin (fnu)
Re has been designated as the direct supervisor
of the billeting office run by Waldemar Winterfeld
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b. German Staffs
(1) Papke (fnu) is a bookkeeper who handles the German Payroll Section
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(2) Waldemar Dott7 is in charge 7f PDGB matters. but he anDears to be
German deputy to Kasimovskiy
(3)
Hannelore Schmidt8, formerly in the USIG Cadre Section, now works
at the main office of the Immobilienabteilun . She is in charge
of the office handling the administration of buildings (Haeuser-
verwaltung).
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0 All payrolls for German personnel employed by the Licadhllianhiiilung,10idh6r
working inside thq Karishorst Compound or elsewhere, are made.up in
the Teydingerstrasse PEtyroll:Section. For those individuals who work: under
the.direction of the limobilien-Handel office in the Compound at Koenigs-?
winterstrasse 14, the. Salary payments Are prepared at the main office ? .
and:then turned, over to 17_ Verbatius7, the interpreter assigned to assist
Waldemar Winterfeld, the German head.of the Compound branch office, The .
only permanent office staff at Koenigswinterstrasse consists of Winterfe1d4
?liklrbatiumothe interpreter and aseistant? and the Soviet Supervisor, Goselin,
who is the' directsuperior of Winterfeld. Goselin.also has final authority
Over thedi*r]i,:assignmente to the firemen working on boilers inthe
buildings in thecompound under Immobilienabteilung Control-, over the team
of charwomen Available to this office, over the issuance?and.exchangeof
billet furnishings, and over the transportation of property belongihg to
the Soviet personnel assigned to these billets. The following aergion.
personne1Aarleknozon4o0aave been employed by Winterfeldos office in the
Compound as of April 1954 and believed still to be employed there as of
June 1955:
a. Paul Knochenhauer10 was head of the Transport Laborers Brigade of seven
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men .and a truck driver. The men hired as laborers 'in the brigade were
constantly changing employment because of the low wages paid. The
brigade handles deliveries of billet furnishings, transfers of equip- .
ment and supplies, including shipments of coke and coal used forfubli-,
and the transportation of baggage of Soviet officials :of the Immobilien-
? abteilling_who are returning to the Soviet Union.
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b. Ernst Kaln11 serves as a roving liaison man between Winterfeldis
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Verbatlue,
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Paul Vellert, alias
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and assistant to Waldemar Winterfeldt.
Feldtois a plu#ber and pipefitter (Schlosser
Klempner).
A decorator hired in April
A oarPenter."Theo" (lnu)
1954, name not known
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Jellinek ,
Frau Knochenhauer
of the team of
to clean the offices
Hornack (fnu)14
Kaethe Heme15ean#g
Frau Schwarz (Thu)
, functions not known.
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charwomen employed by the Dimobilienabtailunc
billets,
woman.
woman and assistant in the polyolinico
reportedly assigned as cleaning woman
polyclinic
Martha Schmidt16, a cleaning
Karl-Tesch a stoker 70 no
Willi Wegener or Wegner
woman assigned to one of the hotels.
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stoker;
Hugo Weiss, stoker.
Heinrich Reinke, stoker.
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Despite the the number of buildings falling under the administration of
Winterfeld4s office, there was no electrician on the staff; all elec-
trical repairs were handled by one/of the KECR electricians? Repair
parts for boiler repairs were dreon by the Immobilien-Rande office in
the Compound from reserve stocks held in the St. Elisabeth ?spite',
located in Treskawallee outside of the Karlshorst Compound.
8. The houses at Koenigswinterstrasse 12 and 13 were definitely a part of
the Immobilienabteiluag under Winterfeldls control9 enernotlinder-,aaoffice
of KECR.
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1. Kasimovskiy is believed to be identical with Mikhail Ivanovich Kosimovskiy,
Comments:
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Commentg Possibly identical with A.M.Petrov.
50 Sorokin is believed to be identical with the V. N. Sorokin
6. Nesturkh (fnu) is believed to be identical with N. F. Nesturkh, also 50X1-HUM
reported as Nikolay Fedorovich Nestrukh
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9. Verbatius , , is believed to be identical with Emil Verhatius, also
reported as Verbetus, who has been reported previously as assistant to
Waldemar Winterfeld.
10. Paul Knochenhauer
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11. Ernst Kaln was reportedly in charge of the USIG furniture storeroom as
Askania Haus in mid-1952.
120 Sellinek is believed to be identical with Arthur Jellinek
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13. Her full name has been reported AP rau Ella Knochenhauer.
14. gottAck has preViously. been
15. DemMe has been :
an interpreter in the polycl4nin-
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a bookkeeper in
the USIG dining roam section, under Kabanov (fnu).
16. Schmidt has ben
previously
employed in the hotel run by US.100
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