page_title: Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde
section_title: Post-war recovery
hierarchical_section_title: Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde / Post-war recovery
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Zentralbild/Ulmer/Schmidt 4.3.1958, Leipziger Frühjahrsmesse 1958 Luftfahrtexperten der sozialistischen Länder trafen sich in Leipzig Uneingeschränkte Anerkennung zollten sich am 4.3.1958 die technischen Leiter der Luftfahrtgesellschaften Polens, Ungarns, Bulgariens, Rumäniens und der CSR während eines Empfangs in Leipzig den Leistungen der DDR Flugzeugindustrie. Ubz: Der Chefkonstrukteur und Werkdirektor des VEB Entwicklungswerke Pirna, Prof. Ing. Scheinost (5.v.l.) erklärt den ausländischen Experten das Turbinenluftstrahltriebwerk für das Passagierflugzeug 152 53500/185 N
context_page_description: Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde is an automotive factory in Ludwigsfelde in Brandenburg, just south of Berlin in Germany. The factory is part of Daimler-Benz AG and since 1991 it has made Mercedes-Benz vans. It is also the producer of the Multicar line of automobiles.
context_section_description: Brandenburg was part of the Sowjetische Besatzungszone (SBZ or Soviet occupation zone) from 1945 and the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR or German Democratic Republic) from 1949. The Volkseigener Betrieb Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde was founded on 1 March 1952. Initially it made marine diesel engines, machine tools and machine elements. Assembly of Multicar M21 Diesel-Ameise ("diesel ant") vehicles was transferred to Ludwigsfelde from the Schmiedewerk Roßwein ("Roßwein Forge Works") in Saxony. In 1953 IWL became involved in the development of motor scooters, which entered production in 1954.
  In 1958 IWL began production of drop forging, precision-casting, jet engines, agricultural machinery and one-off special machinery. The jets were 32.3 kN (7,300 lbf) Pirna 014 engines for the Dresden 152 airliner, whose first prototype made its first test flight in December 1958. In 1960 VEB Flugzeuge Dresden was building 20 aircraft to enter service with Deutsche Lufthansa der DDR (which in 1963 became Interflug), for which IWL had begun series production of the Pirna 014.
  However, the first 152 prototype crashed in March 1959 killing its crew, and the second prototype was grounded after a fuel tank malfunction caused a dangerous reduction in fuel supply to the engines. During ground testing in September 1960 the third prototype also suffered a fuel tank fault, and its ground tests were ended in December. In February 1961 the SED Politbüro decided to terminate aircraft production, which brought Pirna 014 production to an end at IWL. One engine was tested on an Ilyushin Il-28 aircraft until June 1961 but this did not lead to the Pirna 014's further use or production. In about mid-1961 all Dresden 152 aircraft were scrapped.
  Cancellation of the 152 left IWL with 30 completed jet engines and a gap in planned industrial production. The engines were later used to power minesweepers for the Volksmarine.
caption: Pirna 014 jet engine at the Spring Leipzig Trade Fair in March 1958
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