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in the same manner as hitherto by the Ordnance Office of the High
Command of the Army.
For the orders in regard to the building projects
mentioned above a special code number will be supplied, which I shall make
available to you exclusively for the orders pertaining to the above building
projects. You are responsible to me for any misuse of the code number.
The iron-producing and iron-processing industry has been instructed by
the Control Office Iron and Steel that all orders bearing this code number are
to have priority over all domestic orders. In case your orders interfere with
the suppliers' export orders, I request you to contact me at once, in order to
clarify immediately the case in question, in agreement with the Reich Ministry
of Economics, and to decide the sequence of execution.
I have created a
staff to assist me and charged Dr. Ahl with the management of the work in the
field mentioned above.
Furthermore, with the consent of the Ordnance
Office of the High Command of the Army and the Military Economics Staff of the
High Command of the Wehrmacht, I have commissioned Dr. Max Wittwer *
Ludwigshafen/Rhine, to give technical advice and to supervise all building
projects in the sphere of organic chemical preliminary products. Dr.
Wittwer is responsible to me for correct planning concerning output and
technical procedures, and he has to see to the technically expedient execution
of the projects in regard to location and the layout of the factories. He has
to advise and support you continually concerning the construction of the
plants. Basic changes and expansions of the plants have to be discussed
beforehand by you with Dr. Wittwer.
I request you to name the leading
technician whom you have charged with the construction of the plants mentioned
above. He is responsible for the completion of the projects as per schedule and
has to inform Dr. Wittwer or Dr. Ahl at once of possible obstacles, such as
delivery delays, difficulties in negotiations with the authorities, procurement
of manpower etc., and keep him currently informed. I also should like to
mention that in accordance with an order by the Field Marshal, future planning
will take place under my direction in close cooperation with the Wehrmacht, and
I therefore request you to inform me immediately of any questions arising in
future in the field of production of organic chemical preliminary products. The
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* Dr. Max Wittwer was an
official of Farben, Ludwigshafen Plant. Between 1936 and 1940 he was an adviser
to the Office for German Raw Materials and Synthetics, and to the Krauch
Office, concerning ethylene chemistry. Beginning in 1940, he was manager of the
Gendorf Plant of Anorgana G.m.b.H. See testimony of defendants ter Meer and von
Knieriem (K 3 below) regarding Montan plants.
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