AAA INSTRUCTION UNIT FOR TV 5000 (KVPD KIRCHMOESER)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400260001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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TV 000 in Schwerin was the superior headquarters of KVPD in Kirchmoeser, which
was officially designated as'' 1S.-5 instruction unit of TV 5000,
2. The S-5 unit was organized in a headquarters with 20 officers; a supply platoon
with 3 officers, 6 NCOs and 10 Et,; a 1st Bn with 25 officers, 28 NCOs and 109 EMS;
and a 2d Bai with 27 officers, 32 TNCOs and 157 F W1. The lst Bn was organized into
the headquarters with 4 officer 1 NCO and 1 E1 and 3 companies equipped with
37inm guns., Each company was organized into a headquarters with 4 officers, 1 NCO
and 2 E ; a command group of 1 officer 4 NCOs and 6 Eli and 2 gun platcoms
with 1. officer,, 2 NCO and 14 EM to each platoon. The personnel of the 1st Sn
was newly recruited in June 1953. The 2d Bn was organized into a headquarters with
4 officers., 1 NCO and I EY; 2 companies'with 7 officers, 9 NCOs and 36 EM to each
company; and a third company with 9 officers,: 1.3 NCOs and 84 E;., The 1st and 2d
Cos of this battalion came from the AAA regiment in Altwarp in early July. The
companies had the same composition as the three companies of the 1st Bn, The 3d
Co of the 2d Ba wasp however, equipped with 85 imn AA guns and had been detached
from the AAA regiment in Pasewalk on 2 July. This company consisted of a headquarters
with 4 officers, 1 NCO and 2 EM; a command platoon with 1. officer, 4 NCDs and 23 EMI;
as ordnance platoon with 1 officer, 3 NCOs and 13 EM; a radio platoon with I
officer, 1 NCO and 6 EM; and two gun platoons'with I officer, 2 NCOs and 20 1Z,
to each platoon, A course for range finding techniques was administratively
attached-to the KVPD in Kirchmoeser0
25X1:=),, Officers of the unit included Major Braeutigam, comu.anding
officer, who came from the KVPD Frankenberg; Major Fritsch , PK officer;
Lieutenant Wil.fried Schulz, commanding officer of the 3d Co of the 2d Bno One
Soviet lieutenant colonel and a major who wore KVP uniforms were assigned to the
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The unit was equipped with 4 x 85 -mrr. and 20 x 37 nun AA guns; 20 G-5 (H?6) trucks
to tow the 37-air gunk S 15 15C trucks assigned to the 3d. Co of the 2d Bn;
I BMW sedan; and a P-1 staff car. An undetermined number of motor vehicles was
under repairs,
Ten percent of the effectives belonged to the 1935 class,, 40. percent to the
1934 class, 25 percent to the 1933 class, 10 percent each to 1932 and 1931
classes and 5 percent belonged to older classes. Forty percent of the personnel.
came from Saxony, 30 percent from Thuringia, 5 percent from Saxonv/Anhaltg 10
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per ,-,ant fry. Brandenburg and 15 percent frora P?ieak1 enburg., Ten pe::cent of
the f ti es we a fatttri'ar 1 sts-5, 40 percent were indi ere ~.t,;
wk-lie 5C percent were opponents of the regim e,,?s
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L[ e ~, The transfer of two light companies fro-Fi the AM
egiiaent of the Neez Div Eg resin and the prcvious1y reporrtred traansfe2 of
a ex- a ny equipped with 15= mm AA guns from the regiment Ian Pa ewddk
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