ESTABLISHMENT OF MAIN MILITARY REGISTRATION OFFICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800220003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRYp4+.
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.........REPORT NO. .
?!i1PIC :Lstablishi ant of 1 ai.n Eilitarv Registration Offices
VALUATION I 25X1 . PLACE OBTAINED 25X1-
DATE OF CONTENT.
September 1952 to
DATE OBTAINED 25X1 DATE PREPARED 1 June 2,953
PAGES 1 -ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE),
REMARKS..~a
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1. . In September 1952, 14 rain registration offices were o;;tablished !a East
=ermat':y abd assigned the mission to registar. all persons Subject to the
draft as well as to complete preparations :`or the introduction of universal
rilitary service by 31 March 1953, The red.,is:rstion e fives wire ll.aced
under Colonel Goehringer, chief'of the I'Ve_r.aaltung Rel:-utier+ng (Central
Draft Foard), who again is directly sub rdi,-Ate to Ge:ieral Nfueller, Chief of
Staff of the VP army. The main registration offices., which may be compared
with the former German 1'rmny Wehrbezi rkslcor s nd9s (recx uiiting district head-
quarters) have a branch office in each Kreis.
2. -Main registration offices-ire established at the foliowing.places.- Frax,ir'iart/
Oder (chief; Lieutenant Colonel Robert Jahrs)# Rostcc+k (chief- Lieuten .at
Colonel Johannes E dmann) Chemnitz (chief Lieuterant Colonel Schmue,-:r (: nu)) p
Erfurt, Gera. Neubrandent-urg, Leipzig, Dresden (chie'?:Lieutenant Color.=aa. Reyher&.fnu'~?
Cottbus, Sc werin Potsdam, Halle ( Chi e~' Colonel ermann (fnu)) , F it and
Magdeburg.
3. According to an order of the SED Central Committee 41 vsued in fecemb3- 1952 or
3anu' 1953, firs-. serges.n t; aL.d former officers u to the rank o:L' coione i may
;..e edni''ited into the KVP, _ .rd wa _., be given the. rorr!e.r rank -.nd their l.+ey
shall in no case below their previous income.-' E:.iorts are to Y.e made to rec,,uit
a sufficient number of former first sergeants so that at least cr.e such first
serr,eant is availa le in each 'battalion. All the -acrultments e , e to be effected
through the main registration offices,,2
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1.
Go
ranent;, Reg
istra
tion offices wer
e a
lso es
tablished in Kre
ise;.
t
hese
Pre
boar
is re
ds)
gistration
offic
es correspond to
th
e form
er German 4earne
ldeae
mt
er (draf
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2.
jCo
rrent, Sin
ce th
e fall of 1952,
inc
reased
efforts have be
en ma
de
to
recruit former offA.cers and NCOs for the VF a iy:. Professional soldiers are
urgently needed for the nw*erous military un5.' s to be orga,:iized in. Fast Germany.
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:';f _.AS IF'Ir TM
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early Fe1 ruary 1953 1
CO*?FIPENTIAL
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