VOLKSPOLIZEI DIENSTSTELLE 2915 IN HALLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100820003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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?r or to 26 April 1951, Volkspolizei Dienststelle (VPD) 2915 in Halle nuabered
about 2100OO '-police, about 200 of whom having been recrLited from January to
April 1951 it was organized into a headquarters; 3 infantry Ko,'arandos rr7 th
5 AbteiIr :en each, including a mortar Sanderahteilung v
and 7 Son?erabte;.lun~ens , l .artillery I.orr.ando;
the 1st bei nE, a motorcycle un' t, the 2d a siCna1
unit, V o 3d an engineer unit, the 1th a reconnaissance unit, the 5th a motor
transport unit, the 6th an undeterrainod unit, and the 7th an armored unit..
2t. The officers of the VPD included:
VP I o. arldeur ?einz Ki.en, comrcandinr officer, an ex-officer.
VP Komrmissar Juergen V,erner, adjutant.
VP Ixorr.mandour '."chle, (fnu), PK officer.
VP 0berkornis;ar Gippe, (fnu), n secretary,
VP Komrga eur? Schwarz, (fnu), chief of staff.
VP Komr issar 4gchulze, (fnu), adjutant to chief of staff?
VP Kosrmandeur Danschke, (fnu), director of training
V.P I{ownandeur Larisch, (fnu), administrative officer?
V.P uberkora*zissar Bruermer, (fnu), quartermaster officer.
VP Rat Lr hnebach, (fnu), mess officer0
Ya'. Pat fendrich, (fnu), ordnance officer?
Vt:' Kot.m;iissar ;.i ckbold, (.fnu), rotor transport officer.
VP Xonrnissnr Kreienbrink, Phi officer of the motor transport Aht,,eiluz ;.
V I Oberkormiss ar Paul ''oeche2, liaison officer
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_. T :e vehicles m' t?e }D included 7 trucks? 1 delivery- vah, I a" r:ulance, 13
711a m nr.cer care and 15 rotorcycleso
VP Oborrat Urine, (fnu), cotes-andinr_ of'icer of lst nc?o.
VP Ober at ":'ilurin, (fnu), Soviet liaison officer supervi sinz; artillery
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,11'-' ?;o andev'r F'arashov, (fnu), "c riot liaison o_ "icer supertrisinr; armored
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r'?'its :inidf:ntif.!Ud !Ioviet liaison o:: 'icers vr:ith the rank o VP :ior. ^iandeuro
yi,e 741--D awras equipped v.-? th Infantry venpons of all t?es, Cerran and Soviet
'0=-r cnd 120 x? -1ortars, ScviA runs of about "0~-m and 12Orn, 1 T-34 tank,
2 SP Cans, one of u~ orir;ina
oint trai nine with Soviot un' to in the pear future, A new uniform, similar
to that of the Sovi. t tank troops, vt s issued for this purpose, it
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a SIP rUj1 'Or ca :ip -ms under con trilction in the Zeitz i' orest m st of Lonzig
5.0-v, 07), a=ore unr.ts of t' he VPUa in sera, r`ei ssenfels and "alle were
probably to be tra ned it is nossthle that Soviet instructors frill ba
"i.irni s zed by t: e 67th Gds ?'ecz :aent in Zottz o
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