Orgacid

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The ORGACID GmbH was a member of the chemical industry in Ammendorf in Halle (Saale) , that on 23 November 1934 at the Berlin commercial register was entered. Orgacid was a subsidiary of Goldschmidt AG in Essen and Degea in Berlin and was funded by the state according to the Montan scheme .

Ammendorf plant

The premises of the former plant in Ammendorf, today Ammendorf / Beesen , near Halle is on today's Camillo-Irmscher-Straße. The plants were built in the 1930s. In 1935 the storage of Oxol began . During the Second World War , the plant was Germany's second largest chemical weapons factory . Up to 1942 around 26,000 tons of mustard ( mustard gas ) had been produced here and pumped to the filling station at the nearby siding.

According to information from the inspectors of the United States Armed Forces on the occasion of the handover to the Soviet occupation forces, on May 9, 1945, liquid warfare agents were on the site:

According to the German Bundestag , there are no reliable records of the destruction of the warfare agents . Around 558 t were burned in the coal-fired power plant of the Ammendorf Plastwerk and in the Dessau- Kapen chemical plant , the remaining 67 t were burned after they were brought to Kapen together with warfare-enriched water in 1953/1954. In 1957 the building site was completely cordoned off, the neutralization of the soil and the decontamination work was completed in 1958. In 1990 children exposed the bricked-up entrances to the factory while playing. Five of the 20 meter long, tiled catacombs still contained the skin poison lost, 20 tons were pumped out by an ABC train of the National People's Army , and about 600 cubic meters of seepage water containing traces of warfare agents was neutralized using calcium hypochlorite . The control center and a bottling plant, which was called the “sharpest environmental bomb”, were suspected to be under a storage area of ​​the telecommunications construction office 401 of the Deutsche Post .

In 1991, a total renovation of an area of ​​10 hectares was recommended because of "severe contamination with old war sites" and "endangerment for people and the environment" . A thorough renovation was set at around 90 million DM , and backfilling and greening at 180,000 DM. According to the reports submitted to the Bundestag in 1995, there were no longer any soil or groundwater pollution from warfare agents in the cells of the storage bunkers, and traces of warfare agents in the bunker walls were not excluded. The openings of the cisterns were closed and a single one was equipped with a sampling device. The bunker complex was covered with a 1 meter thick layer of earth and greened. Today there are still eight widely ramified, green tiled cisterns that have not been completely detoxified.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Poison gas: Particularly sensitive . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1990 ( online - Oct. 1, 1990 ).
  2. ↑ a b c d grass over it . In: Der Spiegel , No. 3, January 16, 1995, page 64
  3. ↑ a b c d Printed matter 13/2733 of the German Bundestag from October 24, 1995. Accessed December 25, 2011.

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 29.4 ″  E