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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400700005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 12, 2017
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REPORT

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Kommando Pi:lnow of KVP Berei~,schaft Prenzlau
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REMARKS.
Officers
NCOs
F. 7
Headquarters
25
10 (women)
Kommando Schule
7
20
84
Motor vehicle company
25
Motor vehicle course.
Supply platoon
2
9
Headquarters platoon
1
3
20
Military band platoon
- 1
6
8
S-1 company
4
10
35
S-2 company
3
8
20
S-3 compar%y
4
10
50
S-4 company
4
10
30
S-5 company
4
8
25
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL,'
1. The kommando Pinnow of KVP Bereitachaft Prenzlau was subordinate to Armsegrupp.e
Nor,,'- in Fasewalk. It. was quartered in the former Luftwaffenunteroffizier Schule.
north of the Felchow-Angermuende road, about 350 meters south-southeast of
Pinuow railroad station. The unit received a new structure at the end of June
and'the beginning of July 1953? All sick and politically unreliable soldiers
were discharged or expelled from the KVP. Also discharged were KVPs with a three---
year tern of service but who had shown no interest in the service for some time
Retransfers were made, allegedly to replenish various cadre units. The new
organization and ritrength of the first Konmando was as follows:
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CCNFICFNTIAI.
Ski company
I through-III battalion, each
The three battalions were organized into:
Headquarters
Supply platoon
3-2 platoon
Motor vehhicle' platoon
First through third rifle company, each
Fourth company (machine gun)
Fifth company (medium mortar)
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33 77 279
2 4
3
15
1 2 8
5 14 63
4 8
2 10 30
Sixth company (AT and AA machine gun) 2 10
2., Officersi included the following:
Major General H jm Rentsch, cor.:r, n.ding officer of Armeegruppe Nord
Colonel Riedel (fnu), commanding officer of Bereitschaft ?renziau
Colonel Klinke (fnu), deputy;
Captain Duacha (fnu), deputy;
Captain Ernst (fnu), chief of staff
Captain Mertens (fnu),adninistrative officer
Senior Lieutenant Sonneberg (fnu), com wanding officer of I battalion
Senior Lieutenant Haack (fnu), comnanding officer of II battalion .
Senior Lieutenant Pueller (fnu), commanding officer of III battalion
Senior Lieutenant Horst Lelbe, commandant of Komnando Schule,2
The Soviet advisors of the first Kommando bade farq well between 5 and 7 July
1953. The advisor I was transferred to
Erfurt.
3. The unit was equipped with 30 H-3-A trucks, 2 Phaenomen Granit--2? arn.bulances,
12 Phaenomen personnel carriers; 10 Phaenomen jeeps, 1 ZIS-150 workshop truck,
I G-5 (H-6) tank truck with trailex, 3 BMW sedans and 30 AWO motorcycles..
The unit was made up of 5 percent of the 1936 class, 7 percent of the 1935
class, 30 percent of the 1934 class, 30 p scent of the 1933 class, 20 percent
of the 1932 class and 8 percent of the 1931 and older classes. Twenty xe rcent
came from Saxony-Anhalt, 30 percent from Saxony, 20 percent from Thuringia,
15 percent from Mecklenburg, 10 percent from Brandenburg and 5 percent from
Berlin Twenty percent were reliable Communists, 20 percent were indifferent,
40 percent were secretly opposed against the regime, and 20 percent were
openly hostile against the regime.
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 5d. From 17 to 30 June, the unit was in alert stage II."No weapons were issued,
Except fnr the special companies which were to remain as guards at the
installattion, the Korinando had to get ready for departure on 10 July 1953
It was rumored that the unit was to participate in a maneuver in lbland.
Arrmunition, equipment and luggage were loaded and, in the night of 13 July
1953, the troops were told that they would be transferred to Berlin, for
co=i. ,+ against western agents and provokate-rs along the borders of the
Eastern sector. The Ko-mmando arrived in the tent camp at Berlin-Friedrichs..
felde at about 3 a om, on 13 July A major component of the Kor mando was
driven to the Polizeipraesidium (police headquarters) in the Neue Koenig
Strasse at about 9 pm., while the second company of the II battalion was
quartered in a school on Rheinsberger Strasse. At 12 porn. on 14 July, the
company replaced a unit from Prenzlau which, allegedly since 17 June 1953,
had been employed in the area of Swinemuender Strasse and Bernauer Strasse,
Berlin, 3
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Corr 'Compare with a previous report on the same unit
Detachments and discharges reduced the strengt or
peruonne.L T 40 percent.- A report of 20 July indicated that Arlneegruppe
Ford was to discharge 20 percent of its personnel and. to detach to other
units ?0 percent. Other reports also showed that this quota had not been
reached.
Comment. The officers mentioned in the report are confirmed in their
positions, except for Senior Lieutenant Haack (fnu)o Still at the beginning
of July, Senior Lieutenant Seifert (fnu), was reported to have been
commanding officer of the II battalion.
Comment Elements of the regiments employed in Berlin were replaced
units from Prora at the beginning of August 1953.
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