MEETING OF POLICE SCHOOL COMMANDANTS

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• Publication Date: October 17, 1949
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Goz ny (Ru,:;ian Zone)
SUBJECT ;feeting of Police ^'chool Go_ ndants
DATE DISTR.
17 Oct. 1949,
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25X1 l.. a meeting of the commandants of the paramilitary
schools was held In Berlin at the headquarters of the I"Verwaltung f1r
Schulung bei der DVdIt'. In addition to the commandants themselves, General
Petrakovsky was present, as well as Chief Inspector Willy Zaisser and In-
spectors lloitsch* (successor to llerr>ann Rentzsch as chief of the parar:ilitai',
police), Zorn (in. char a of Abte i lunr Inspection), and l1ans 'Julz (in charge
oe ?trainini) 6 The discussion covered a nusrlbor of topics, including the status
of the schools, the results of a recent inspection trip by Zorn, training
methods, parsoaool t14" , the enforcement of the disciplinary coda, furloughs,
and the economical adzninistration of the schools.
2. An introductory talk ems ?ode by Zaiasser. He declared that the insistence
of the Allied 'lith Com -issioners upon reservinr' the final decision on the
trade treaty between the eastern and western zones signifies that the Allies
themselves consider East Gerarsy a foreign state, and that this in effect corn
firms the final. ? plit bet'reon East and 'Test. The creation of the East Gorman
state wee a necessary corollary of thin :lovelop*tent. lie said that it is incum-
bent upon the political parties to rtc a increasing efforts to render the Na-
tional Front an effective instrument, and that all ronsible concessions 7,411
have to be -ade in furthering this end. Applying this principles to police
affairs, he pointed out that it is i rortant not to repro:rent the y*lice force
as an instrument of the RED. An illustration of this 1^o? icy 'as a recent occur-
rence in Saxony, whore Bone nor-bare of the paramilitary police applied for ad-
rtission to the GATT in order to provoke dismissal from the force; in line T,rith
the .dational Front policy they were retained.
3. Zaisser rorarked that the croation of a aoverei' n vast Gorzan state will result
in the reduction of soviet r ,ronentative?s to more control or-n- nn. The soviet
officers attached to the schnola are to be a?(apax ad as such eont?'f...6 or'ana.
Their presence should be thou?Thtof as syrtholiziri" the close friendship between
the Sovi st Izrq and the Fedp e's Police. In this connection, an tm ecltmivocal di-
rective has been i -isued stating that no local intorL'orence in paramilitary
affairs will be tolerated; Soviet officials are to be admitted to the various
installations only Frith special credentials oi'nod by General Petrakovsky.
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4. Zaissor was very er~p nnemninr~ axity in discipline. He criticized
4the habit of addressing superiors as "Con:ads", and pointed out that this
practice had long since been discarded i!Lthe Soviet Union and the satellite
countrias.
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it was brouft out at the meeting that fc'- purposes of SED control the Verwal-
tunp; fur Schulung is considered as an SED lircetorate on a level with the
Landesleitungen, direcirbly under the SED Cu ttral Secretariat. Thus the SED
state organizations hive tao authority over e-aramilitary personnel within
their territorial jur7editttion; the zonal dice mz.y be said to form a seventh
I,tndesleitung. It bra suldivisions 7A for regular pollen personnel and 7B
for paramilitary per onne'l. The chairman t ,j 7B is Chief Inspector (feu) D313ing,
:.ho is first deputy to Zai.sser in charge of olitku].tur personnel. Youth affairs
are under (fns) tea:wanton; personnel o' the Vert ltui.g ffr Schulung are forbidden
to join orpanizat'ons like the FDJ, and 73 w.111 include branches of such
organizations.
6. All training eirectivaa atd zchedt:.les iss aed 1 the Vertaitung Mr Schulung
are translated from Rusaiaa; this leads 13 numerous mistakes and in at curacseso
Source reme.' z that Tussiaa practice is 13llot ed also in that the tcaininrt
schedule p',)r type "A" scho,rla prov::Gdes ft r fifteen hours' training per day
(the i mx rum in the German Army via eig1 hours).*"
7. It as possible to obtain Biome inftt tioz concerning; the .,cboola themselves.
The following is said to be a compl-te lis. of the paramilitary eehoolst
Rostov' -- Type A; com andant, Inspector Pill,
Prora lP76) - Type C
Prim weld (sic)
Grew:r; (sic; per laps G18" On)
Eg,e;in (Q28)
Frerizlau
Ziteau; commandant, Inspector Baltl asar, former y a colonel in the 11ehrmacht
To 'ggau y - Type E; commandant pro A. . , Inspecto:- Schwab
tae u [lbw. g
Pi'na; commandant, Inspector t3eiz, as engineer ?ho '-se been prasideatt of the
Jaxon State Administration for Envrg r, but i.% on lea'q of absence 'chile
Serving with the GAI.
S. F.iramilitary Bereitschaften are not located as follows '?
Linea
Frankenberg (177) (2 Bereitschaft(a)
I.,angensalza
.;rfurt
Su hi
Apolda
'kleissenfels
Koohstedt
lirchm5se r
Potsdam-Eiche
Ifatrin-Kietz
Rostock
Pinnow
Burp;
Deneau
Mall
tla].hausen (H89) (2 Bera:tt..-tuften)
Goti1a .
jMei.ninr;en
Aiollensdorf (E37)
Leipzig (3 Bereitsehaftfa)
Quedlinburg
HohenatClcken (7 )
Treuenbrietzen
Kuek osee (sic)
Sternhchholz (sic)
Boizenburg
Grossenhain
Berlin
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9. Courier message centers are located at Dessau, Grossenhain, Apo]da9 and Burg.
25X1 # mwtt 119itsch is a former General Staff officers ,out 3 5 years old,
o, was recently discharged from a PW camp frith very high recormendationa.
C = The number of units listed in pares. 7 and 8 would indicate
a strength of about 45,000. The steps taken thus far point to the creation
of a cadre for a "People's Arr!,q", but current combat potential is very low.
The state of housing and equi}xnent is extremely poor and there is no izmnediate
prospect of improvement; the meth's morale is largely determined by material
factors. The rigors of the training schedule and the infrequency of furloughs
(granted only at Easter and Christmas) are likely to loner morale still, further.
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