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German schools and training-centres in the USSR 1922 – 1933
part 1
Sondergruppe R (Rußland) (*00.00.1921)
In Soviet documents was called the "Vogru" (Voennaya gruppa (En - Military group))
Gruppenleiter
00.00.1921 - 00.00.1924 – Oberst Walter Nicolai
00.00.1924 – 00.00.1928 – Major Herbert Fischer (Deckname Frank)
Offiziere
? – ? – Hauptmann a.D. / Major a.D. Dr. Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer (Deckname Neumann)
? – ? – Major Friedrich (Fritz) Tschunke (Deckname Teichmann)
1.01.1922 – 31.10.1925 – Obstlt. a.D. Wilhelm Schubert (Assistant of the Firm Junkers, Dessau)
Sondergruppe Moskau (Zentrale Moskau (Z.Mo.)) (open Winter 1923/1924, Began the work 00.06.1924)
(Moscow, Ulitsa Vorovskogo, 48)
Gruppenleiter
00.00.1923 – 00.00.1928 (Was ill) – Oberst Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen
00.00.1928 – 00.00.1931 – Hauptmann a.D. / Major a.D. Dr. Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer
00.00.1931 – 00.00.1933 – Hauptmann a.D. ?? Major a.D. ?? Lothar Schüttel
Stellvertreter
00.00.1924 – 00.00.1928 – Hauptmann a.D. / Major a.D. Dr. Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer
Adj.
30.04.1926 ? – 31.03.1928 ? – Oberleutnant a.D. Hans Joachim Rath
Assistant ?? of Oberst von Niedermaier ??
01.08.1926 - 00.00.1932 - Oberleutnant ?? Hauptmann Alfred Gerstenberg
Offiziere
?? - 00.00.1924 – Major Herbert Fischer
? – ? – ?? Vogt
? – ? – ?? Arnhold
GEFU (Gesellschaft für Förderung gewerblicher Unternehmungen G.m.b.H. – Company for the Development of Trade Enterprises)) (*9.08.1923 г.)
from 28.02.1925
WIKO (Wirtschaftskontor)
(Berlin ??, Moscow, Khlebny pereulok, 28)
The industrial capital of company - 75.000.000 Goldmark (18 million dollars)
chairman of board
Vorsitzende der Regierung
- Hauptmann / Major Friedrich (Fritz) Tschunke
Members of board:
Mitglieder der Regierung:
- Direktor T. Eckhardt
- Obstlt. Wolfgang Mentzel (the chairman of the supervisory council)
Problem of a society - military-industrial cooperation with the USSR
- Construction of an aviation factory in Fili near Moscow (at participation of firm "Junkers"),
- Construction chemical factory "Bersol AG " on manufacture of poison gases near Ivashchenkovo / Samara area (at participation of firm "Stolzenberg" (Hugo Stolzenberg Company)). A plant to produce Bersol, an explosive salt, and Phosgen and Lost, two types of poison gas. In 1923-1926 the Germany Stolzenberg Company was supposed to deliver, set up and start equipment for producing yperite. However, the company failed, and all plans fell through. From 1927, plants were constructed independently under the direction of Ye. I. Shpitalskiy.
- Manufacture with help "Krupp" of an ammunition for artillery at various Soviet factories (Zlatoust, Tula, Petrograd, Petrokrepost) "with German technical assistance"
Junkerswerk in Fili (bei Moskau)
factory in Fili (near Moscow)
Direktor
1.02.1923 - 1.02.1924 – Obstlt. a.D. Wilhelm Schubert
geschäftsführender Direktor
1923 – 1925 – Paul Spaleck
techn. Leiter
1923 – 1925 – Hans Hackmack
Flugleiter
1923 – 1924 – Kurt Bauerhin
1923 – 1924 – Reinhold Poss
Leiter der Fabrikationskontrolle
1924 – ? – Franz Carl Walter
Vorsteher der techn. Vertriebsabteilung
? – 31.12.1926 – Franz Carl Walter
Konstrukteur
1924 – 1926 – Gustav Huss
1924 – ? – Franz Kleinhenz
Ingenieur
31.03.1923 – 1925 – E. Herbert Schade
Versuchsingenieur und Pilot bei Jfa Einflieger
1924 – 1926 – Stefan von Prondzinsky
Versuchsing. und Einflieger
1924 – 1926 – Otto Thomsen
Einflieger
? – ? – Dr. King
Pilot ?? Einflieger
1923 – ? (Killed in an air crash in USSR (starb nach einem Flugunfall in Russland)) – Fritz Kiessner
Vermittlungsstelle zwischen der Junkers-Flugzeug-Werk A.-G. und dem Werk Fili
Leiter
1.06.1924 – 1.08.1925 ? – Leutnant a.D. Heinrich (Johann ?) Arntzen
Bevollmächtigter von Junkers die Liquidation in Fili
00.00.1927 – 00.00.1927 – Franz Carl Walter
"Bersol AG "
German–Soviet private firm ("Bersol") (*30.09.1923, closed on 2.04.1927)
The industrial capital of company – 10 320 000 Gold roubles
(5 880 000 Gold roubles - "Metakhim" (USSR), 4 460 000 Gold roubles – GEFU)
chairman of board
Vorsitzende der Regierung
– Stephan Iosifovich Mrochkovsky ("Metakhim")
Members of board:
Mitglieder der Regierung:
– Hauptmann Friedrich (Fritz) Tschunke (GEFU)
– E. A. Thile (GEFU)
– D. S. Galperin ("Metakhim")
Annual productivity "Bersol" under the contract should be following:
potassium chloride - 26 thousand poods,
chloric to exhaust - 75 thousand poods,
каустической soda - 165 thousand poods,
oleum (concentrated sulfuric acid) - 250 thousand poods,
superphosphate - 400 thousand poods,
phosgene - 60 thousand poods,
yperite - 75 thousand poods (1 pood = 16 kg).
Bulk stations "Bersol" annually should "equip" on 500 thousand (!) shells of yperite and phosgene. And manufacture of chemical shells was the basic purpose, and manufacture of peace chemical production - "in passing, mainly, with a view of conspiracy".
"Gruppe Schroeder" from 00.00.1925
"Gruppe Fiebig" (the first group of German military aviation experts in USSR) (*8.08.1924, Auflösung 30.04.1926 ?)
Gruppenleiter
8.08.1924 - 00.00.1925 - ?? J. Schroeder (Dipl. Ing. Josef Schroetter ??)
00.00.1925 - ? - Hauptmann Martin Fiebig
Offiziere
8.08.1924 – 00.00.1925 ? - Hauptmann Martin Fiebig
- ?? K. Diete
- Leutnant H. Johannesson
- ?? Rudolf Hasenohr
- ?? Droste
from 01.04.1925 ? - Oberleutnant a.D. Hans Joachim Rath
A few more persons joined them later on. For some time they worked on a contract basis as consultants with the RKKA Air Forces Directorate and the Air Force Academy in Moscow, then part of the group became staff members at the German flying school's in the USSR.
Within two years German pilots transferred the knowledge and experience to the Soviet colleagues. Two from them, H. Johannesson and M. Fiebig, were borrowed in scientific and technical committee of the Air Forces. Since 1925 Fiebig worked as the instructor - teacher in Academy of Air Fleet (nowadays military - air engineering academy as him N.E. Zhukovsky) in the field of use of aircraft during operations and conducting war in air. Three technical experts were borrowed in work on designing and manufacturing of aircraft engines, one of them has created in workshops of air station in Tushino near Moscow the stand test of motors which then was many times repeated in the USSR. One more expert in the field of a small arms as the adviser was directed to Serpukhov in school, specialized in questions of an aviation small arms and bombing. Schroeder after end of annual term of the work in the USSR has refused prolongation of the contract as it was made with other members of group, and has returned to Germany.
Source :
Wala, Michael: Weimar und Amerika. Botschafter Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron und die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen von 1927 bis 1933 [
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content.grin.com/binary/hade_download/18784.pdf
Ilja Mieck/Pierrre Guillen (Hrsg.), Deutschland – Frankreich – Rußland. Begegnungen und Konfrontationen. La France et l’Allemagne face à la Russie, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, München 2000, 384 S., [
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http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/0230006442.Pdf
http://www.ju-f13.de/F13/person.html
http://www.bundesarchiv.de/aktuelles/au ... &id=0&nr=3
