The covered goods wagons of classes Glrhs Dresden and Gltrhs Dresden were first placed in service in Germany by the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft in 1937. The wartime (Kriegsbauart) wagon, the DRB Glmhs Leipzig, and the wartime passenger wagon, the DRB MCi-43, were based on the Dresden classes.
The vehicles were of welded design and could be used in trains travelling at up to .
The suspension comprised nine-layered leaf springs with a length of and a cross section of . The springs were attached to their supports by means of rectangular suspension rings. The vehicles had an axle base of . The external sole bars had a strut frame as additional bracing.
The wagons were equipped with a heating pipe and constructed so that they could be converted for use on Russian broad gauge railways.
Both sides of the wagon had three loading or ventilation hatches and a sliding door measuring . Its loading length was , its width and its loading height to the highest point of the roof. The side walls were high and the loading area was . Its loading volume was including the roof space and to the height of the walls.
The carrying capacity of the goods van was , the maximum load .
The wagon was also deployed in a variant with double end-doors, the Gltrhs on which the hand brake had to be omitted.
These vehicles had a length over buffers of and an unladen weight of .
After the war these wagons went into the West German Deutsche Bundesbahn as Class Glrhs 33 and East German Deutsche Reichsbahn as Glrhs 12.