At the end of the Second World War, electric train transport had collapsed in Middle Germany and many locomotives and equipment were sent to the Soviet Union as reparation. Following an agreement between the new GDR and the USSR, some of the locomotives returned to the Deutsche Reichsbahn at the beginning of the 1950s. These also included parts of the E 95 previously based in Silesia. As a result, three locomotives were rebuilt by the Reichsbahn repair shop Dessau and were mainly used for heavy duty freight transport.
