1. 1953 PRODUCTION OF THE EAST GERMAN MAIN ADMINISTRATION RADIO AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (HV RFT) 2. EAST GERMAN PLANS FOR EXPORT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

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• Publication Date: August 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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East Germany/China/Hungary
REPORT NO.
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1. 1953 Production of the East German DATE DISTR
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3 August 1954
Main Administration Radio and Telecommunications
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2. East German Plans for Export of Telecommunications
DATE OF INFO.
Equipment
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1. The radio industry achieved 100 percent of its 1953 production quota in all fields
except the production of television sets. While the tube-producing industry
fulfilled its production plan 100 percent in the field of general tubes, it was
not able to meet the plan targets for miniature tubes because the development was not
yet completed and raw materials such as wolframite, molybdenum, cathode nickel
and fink-type wires, were scarce.
2. The following main targets were fixed for the HV R-F-T1 production in 1954:
a. Supply of the KVP with telecommunication devices. VEB Fernmeldewerk
Arnstadt was scheduled to deliver special mobile and stationary selector
sets. Plants scheduled to produce radio and decimeter sets for the KVP,
VPL, and VPS, included: Funkwerk Koepenickwhich was scheduled to produce
portable and stationary radio equipment especially for VPS, and decimeter
sets; Funkwerk Dabendorf; Sachsenwerk Radeberg,which was scheduled to deliver,
decimeter sets to VPL and the USSR on reparation orders; and Funkwerk Dresden,
which was also scheduled to produce decimeter sets under the direction of Kutsche
(fnu), a national prize winner.
b. Program for building high-power transmitting stations. Funkwerk Dabendorf
was scheduled for this production program in addition to Funkwerk Koepenick.
c. Production of tubes. Funkwerk Erfurt was scheduled to become the main center for tla.e
the production of miniature and transmitting tubes.
d. Other main centers were scheduled to be organized by HV R-F-T for testing the
aeronautical properties of sets and for developing radar equipment. '1ae epit?b-
lishm?nt of these centers was allegedly in connection with the foundation of
aerodynamic research stations}(planned by other offices). The Pirna- onnensteiri;
Schkeuditz and Welzow institutes were to be involved in these tasks.
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3. The main export effort of 1 R-F-T was aimed at the fulfilment of the China
agreement which provided for the construction of telephone exchange with 40,000
to 90,000 call units each. This export order had been endangered by better offers
25X1 from ungary (Tun sram). Another obstacle was the fact that the
technical development of +.r autornc.tic switching telephone system had not yet been
completed in Arnstadt. In order to secure the order for East Germany in spite of this
difficult situation, a commission directed by Hegemann, manager of HV R-F-T, was by
order of Minister Wunderlich sent, to China tr,+ assist the delegation under the
direction of Kreckowl which wao already In China, Hegemann had been ordered to
negotiate with the Chinese Ministry of Postal Services and Telecommunications
and to conclude the trade agreement. He was moreover made responsible for the.
construction work in China. Another leading member of the commissioi .was Koeppe
(fnu), the manager of the research and development department. According to plans
available at the Ministry for General Machine Conatruction,complete factories
for the production of radio tubes, radar equipment and radio equipment were to
be delivered to China. German experts, especially construction and other engineers
were also to be sent there. All these projects are matters of very long planning.
Source knew that the deliveries to China executed so far amounted to about
25X1 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 eastmarks. the trade agreement with Finland
had failed to materialize because the rau; :c switching telephone system had
not yet been completely developed.
4. Since 191+9, a six-year trade agreement has existed between the USSR and East
Germany. This agreement req?;d Last Germany to deliver yearly to the USSR 1+0,000
T 2-Leningrad type television receivers at the price of 750 eastmarks each. or7
reparation orders, while the regular selling price was 1,950 eastmarksi'L1.T-29s
mere to be replaced by the new FE 852 type in 1954. The imported receivers were
re-exported by the USSR to China and Hungary. Tun scam, however, intended to
start its own. production in 1954. For East German domestic supply, a total of 18,000
FE 852 type receivers was earmarked with the selling price fixed at 1,450 eastmarks.
These sets were scheduled to be sold by HO, and the Deutsche Notenbs.nk (East German.
}ink o:i Issue) was willing to pay 500 eastmarks per set to support the price.
DHZ Flektrotechnik was requested to start a propaganda drive to increase the sales
of television and ultrashort wave sets.
5e In April 1953, DIA Elektrotech:nik concluded two contracts with W/O TekhnoprOmimF-
port in Mo-scow fa? the sale of a total of 36,000 tubes which had already been de-
livered in 1952 at a totbl price of rubles 335,000.
6. In early 1953, the post of special official for railroad signals and safety
problems was created at the Ministry for General Machine Building, and occupied by
Lehmann (fnu), former deputy minister of Irv R-F-T.
7. In September 1953, Posch (fnu), special official of 1W Funk, traveled to VEB
Glashuetter Uhrenbetrieb (watch producing plant) to get informed on the possibilities
of producing vernier drivers for ultra short wave transmitters and receivers.
8. In mid- 1953,. .,.ccordin~ to ;1z, orgy lnizcti.on t,_ L t e) I{ 'T.-F-T h