VOLKSPOLIZEI DIENSTSTELLE 2942 IN GOTHE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100810001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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:i.., Prior to 28 April 1951, Volkspolizei t)ien.ststelle (VPD) 2941.2 in Botha was located
in the Flak k ase:: ne and in the barracks installation in the fuerryerau, All officers
of the Bereitschaft without assign nnt1 especially Unterkomrrissare, were billeted in
the installation in the Buergerau wham they received special training?
2,, The VPD was organized into 3 infantry I orr:..m~rlos of 300 to 3.5)0 police each, 1 artillery
Kom:rtando of about 330 policf and 7 bondcrabteiluLn ;e:n of C to CO _ olicen each From
Jan nary to Aril 1%.1. the unit received about 100 new police recruits,.
The 1st of the seven bonderabteil?tn ;tin vas an AMU, unit, the 2d an AT artillery unit',
25X1 A le .3d. an armored unit,, the 4th a radio unit, the jth a bicycle units the 5th a
motorcycle unit, and the 7th an engineer unit.
14 t, 'her artillery Ko nancio was organized into Lt Abteilul,_,ezn and 1 headquarters Zug;, thr_
1st and 2d Zug of each Abtei.lung composed of -fin crews and the 3d Zug a heat quart,:rs
,unit. .teach =ibteil--ing was to be equip^ed with four ,r.: nso
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1 1'I o: ficers of the UPD included VP fnspekteur Vo-,el, (fnu), con nding, officer, a
veteran of the )panish Civil "gar; VP Oberrat Just, (fnu), PK officer; VP Oberrat
,r.chober., (fnu), director of training, VP Oberkonn scar Krueger, (fnu), cornianding
officer of Lj.th Kora7:ando and instructor of artillery training; and VP Korxmissar Josef
Aius.snn, PK officer of Loth Komc:rando,
6. The VPD was equipped with infantry arms of all types, 1 Soviet 76.2--mm gun, 1 Soviet
122-.m,i gun, 1 3err-.an 88 run AT gun; 1 T--3L6 tank, 1 German SP gun aid 1 Soviet armored
reconnaissance car? The heavy ocapons were used only for trai uing purposes, -Lt was
saiu that the u-iit would immediately be issued all weapons required in case of
eiaer encyn it was also said that the VFD would be allotted soviet itemm of equipment
upon. completion of the, soviet maneuvers at Ohrdruf,
7.< The artillery Kor ndo was scheduled to move to a toot camp near Altendavvibach
(.M 51,J 12) in late i:;ay 1953 for three or foryr weeks in orcic'r to receive field
training, there, Upon completion of this training the infantry Kor:c-a;nxios and the
so.~derabtei] nn en were to move to the tent camp, .:-.~
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8, flew personnel for the VPDs tare processed in the Henne Kaserne in , 'forty
'sphere they have been arriving at a rate of about 50 per day since late
December 195 The now VP recruits were subsequently reassigned to the
various VPDa
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Cormient.. 'hie information on location j equi ent and officers of VPD
25X1 A Ml=n uo agrees vith provious infor -tion
(Xvevor3 they organization of tiro soven Sondccrabteilunt cn ncntionc in the
present report deviates from that of other VPDs, it is believed that,,
although the VPD had only tisree Sonderabto7..uriren at first, it now has attained
the standard or aanizati on Bicycle AbteilunC and
25X1A motorcycle Abteily~c probably nor constitute two Zueco of the reconnaissance
Sonderabteilung. t is believed that one of the L~or1terabteilungen is a mortar
unit
25X1 A Cor lent. Tl nothod of movin; the VPB ele:ients to a tent camp for
ram`; Fyces has been previously observed with other VPDs, such. as the VP')s
in : eissenfels and Gera. This method is an adoption of the Soviet practice of
sting summer trai:iing at canes.
25X1 A Comirent, The arrival of about 50 recruits pcr day for the six VPDs in
Le. 1iuran would constitute a total of 6,000 recruits, i,e, an increase
by 1y0O0 police for each VPD, from January to April 1951. This figure
therefore appears grossly exaggerated,
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