DERUTRA BRANCH OFFICE IN GREIFSWALD

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000620008-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Derutra Branch Office in'Grelfswald
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
DATE DISTR.
4 I'hY 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.,
HIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
STATE ,t
ARMY T
l GThe eseblschaft)*ineGreifsald (Deutsch-Ruasische
responsible Transport
to the
h~:
,1 c:?utr. lief: drt?arte_r's for 1. ecklenburg in Scbv'erin. Chief
of the latter office is the Russian (fnu) Chernov. Chernov
'.,as held this post since 1 Lu-ust 1952, Drior to which date
Yae was in cn`.:rre of tne Cottbus br. nch office of Derutrc
The ;7reifswald branch office is res-onsible for all Derutra
shipments by r,.it crossin into o1L nd vi..,
Trn otir-Seheune-
:;tettin. It is also ren-r;onsibie for vari. us inl,,nd waterway
s-Yhipr~ents, but only v:ithin ast Germany.
2. Shipments via Greifsv?ald to the USSR :taring the period from
1949 to 1952 inoluc?ed Diesel oil, gasoline, machine parts,
!;riculturt.l machines, medical instruments, copper wire, ball-
be;-rings, su2.c.r, etc
3. The following Soviet supervision exists over shipments destined
for the USSR through Greifsv ld/Tantow:
A Soviet officer,o rith a detachment of 20 soldier. is
st.'tioned in Ta.ntow to check all fret .~ht le:..vin. East
Geri. any at that ~7cint. This officer is :~.,~? d to 'oelon;~
to the Border Police, be,-rin.- the designation "KP-Offizier40
;control-point officer?). The officer on this duty until
r^id-Febru."ry 19`3 Was
Lt. (fnu) Chuikove The name of the
present officer is uniky:own. This Ise'-officer is said to
be resn t;nsible to the Border command point ((T'renzko m, and-
cntur) loc4ted in Loecknitz. The latter is under the
command of a Russian baptain. Another K:P-Officer located
in Grrnbow is .lso subordinate to the Loecknitz office
Loecknitz is in turn alleged to be directly responsible
to the Soviet; r uthorities in Berl in-Karl shorst.
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'ithere is also o. Soviet transport detachment (Transport-
,omme.ndantur) located on the tremises of the Grei:~sviald
Railway Fiend uart' rs (RBD-Greifsvi. id) . This detachment
checks '11 shi' r_ments ~Da: sing throe;-h Greifsv:ald to the C_
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1J jR . The KP- officers, hog}sever, are not subordinate to
this detachment. Chef of the Transport Detachment is
a Colonel (fnu) Or.iov, assisted by a T a jor (fnu) Pushkin,
-three soviet c.vilio.ns, ^nd four German interpreters.
The following border points are now in use for freight
traffic to and fror~, the territory east of East Germanys
T.antowfSchwlerin
Prn..nkfurt,'`Oder
Kuestrlr
IIorka.
Bad Schand< u
Specifically, Forst, Gub-en, and Goerlitz are not used for
rail freight traffic to the east,
5. Soviet train escorts have been or,onized in the following,
w ~.ys on ,,he Greifsvwald-Stettin line
From 1.945 to 1949, all freight shipments destined for
the USSR (mainly rerarations) picked up Russian train
,_escorts at the producing factory. The escorts then
?.ccomranied the trains throu ;h to the USSR.
b., From 22 flay 1949 to 1 September 1952, there existed an
of;.ice in Pasewalk called the Pasewalk Train Assembly
Point (IR.sewc lker Zugbildungpste1?.c~~ responsible for
1 Soviet s ipments destined for shipment through
Srtettin Harbor. During this period) s,.> ch transports picked
up Soviet escort detaehr;ents in Pasewalk. Since September
". 952~ the practice hats been for the trains containing
goods des tined for the USSR to pick up a detail of one
r.:~
Soviet noncommissioned officer and two soldiers in the
East German station, Tantow. This detail. rides
only as far as Stettin.
6 , Russian checks r- nd controls on rail shipments destined for
p.e USSR are rou -T~y the same a L the o ' he.s cross ixl points
as they Mare in the Grei:fswcld area. In F'rankfurt/Oder, for
there is a Soviet export and import headquarters
on, the rren-i.ses of the Frankfurt freight station (Gueter-
ta irr{.:f
7., For each export shipment to be h,.:ndled by :Oerutra Greifs-
vv< ld ., the Derutra oil ice ir. Schwerin for. .rds to the
office a cover r. document called. a "Versand-
u v:f.?t-Tit , The rrroducing factory itself furnishes Derutra,
copies of the >xport order and of the export waybill
' ;. ;nbe leitsch ina, as made out by the pertinent DIA
.3,Ano tional office,,
Comment: Shipping order.
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