INFORMATION ON TERRITORIAL [ ] 12 (NORD)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003400290007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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were assigned to TV 12 (Nord) in Pasewalk;
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the followi g officers 25X1
Major General Hermann Rentzscb, comsnsndtng general of the ?14
Lieutenant Colonel Reimann, deputy;
Lieutenant Colonel Oelmanin; deputy;
Colonel von Witzleben chief of staff;
Colonel Neitsch, political officer;
Colonel Geiger, chief medical officer;
Colonel Rickwin; in charge of engineer matters;
Major BrandstaettGr, ' state security officer;
Major Skabanial. ., motor transport officergl
Z, The headquarters of the TV included the following departments;
let Department;.operations;
4th Department; otganization;
5th Department: personnel, officers;
6th Department: coding;
7th Department; classified material;
8th.Department; finances;
10th Department; topography.
Other departments available included the Supply Departments the Motor Transport
Department, the Medical Department and Legal Department.
Officers assigned to Staff "B" of the TV included;
Lieutenant Colonel Petter , , chief;
Major Becker (fnu), deputy chief;
Captain Rother (fnu), deputy chief in charge of S-5 matters.
TV 12 included the following independent units$
S?5 Kommando,'Pasewallk, with 3 heavy AAA batteries each equipped with 4 x 85-M
'Soviet AA guns; and 3 light AAA batteries each equipped with 4 x 37-smn Soviet AA
guns. CO of this unit was Captain Schellenberger (fnu).2
Sao Kommando, Stallberg, with 6 batteriesa3
Boi(oinmando, Viereck, with Major Gaertner (fnu) as its COr4
D=-.1 Abteilung, Pasewalk. tW. _ _. ,? ,
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D-?2 Abteilung, stationed at an undetermined p aced
Headquarters battery. Pasewalko
The Jaegerbrueok firing range was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Pietzuch
(fz ii)
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5? The following units were assigned to TV l2a
vision ,Preizlav~? under the comand of Colonel Riedel , with
A-Sommendos in Prenz au, Droegeheide and Pinnow; and S-1., S-~-i,)-l
and D-2 Abteilungen.
Division.Prora. with the let A-Kommanndo at Prora, the 2d A-Kamnando
at Rostock and the 4d A-Kommando in Schwerin; the stations of ?Jhe other
units were unknown.
dogbBalud sign gg, U, under the command of Colonel Siegfried Weiss,
with a heavy C-Regiment, a medium C-Regiment and a C Instruction
Regiment in Spechtberg; a 5-5 Komznando at Altwarp; and a B-Kcmmnando and
3 A andoe in Eggesin08 The 5.5 Kommmundo at Altwarp was under the
command of Major Boerner (fnu) and consisted cf 3 heavy AAA. batteries
with 4 x 85-m Soviet AA guns each, and 3 light AAA batteries with
4 x 37-mm Soviet AA guns each. The undo at Eggesin consisted of
3 heavy batteries with 6 x 152-mm Soviet guns to each batters and 3
medium batteries, each equipped with 6 x 122-cm Soviet guns~
1. I ornmentn Major General Rentzsch, Colonel von Witzleben,3 Colonel 25X1
?ltsc and Lieutenant Colonel Patter were confirmed in their previously
known assignments. Datailed information on von Witzleben was reported
previously. According to another report 25X1
of November 1953, Lieutenant Colonel Riedel, von :fs c:;.; ~::n' predecessors
was promoted to the rank of colonel and made chief of staff of Mechanized
Bereitschaft Potsdam,
2,, LCOmmantz,. According to another report of August 1953, the two 25X1
Koraanddos, after transferring three AAA batteries each to TV 24 and
Mechanized Bereitschaft Potsdam about late June, corAsted of 6 batteries
each0 If it is assumed that the present report is corrects the two
Kommandos involved must have undergone a complete re-organization in
the course of which the two AAA Kammandos which previously were
homogeneous in their equipment were remodeled after the pat-ern of a
Soviet mechanized division.
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5 This unit is still stationed at FuenfeichenQ
6, The infantry Bereitsohaft Prenzlau also includes l
mixed artillery Kommando, 1 tank SP gun Kommando, 1 AT Abtei:lung at
Daoegeheide and units of the rear services in Prenzlaua
70 I9~nQ Division Prora was deactivated in September 1953. Its
units were rasa god with Mechanized Bereitsehaft Potsdam and TV 24 or
transferred to TV 12 newly organised in Schwerin. The A asmmandos
of Bereitschaft Schwerin are stationed in Schwerin-Sternbuchholz9 Rostock
and Prora; its headquarters, reconnaissance and sigw,l A'oteilungen In
Schwerin, while all the other component units of the Bereitschaft are
believed to be still stationed in Frorao CO of the Bereitschaft is Colonel
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This unit has been previously reported. .
Major Gaertnar9e unit is stationed in Stallbsrgo
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C t The ArKamnndos and B-Kommsrdos of Mechanized Bereitschaft
Eggesin are not located in Eggesin but it Karpin (Installation 111I); the
same applies to the mortar Kamr?,ando of the Fereitschaft, The rec:orn aissance
Abteilunga signal Abteilung and the rear services of the Bereits-ck :ft are
still stationed in Eggesin, There isa possibility that the engineer
battalion vacated Fuenfeicheno
9.l C . t, According to the last report on B-Kawando Eggesain
dated surmier 1953, this Kommando of Aechanized Bereitsachaft Eggesin was
exclusively equipped with 122--man guns. Only the B-:Komaaando of TV 12 had
l52-nm gum, Just as the Koanxnandos mentioned in Field Cent 2,, the
B-Kcanaaando of Mechanized Bereitschaft Eggesin transferred 3 batteries in
early July, According to the, above-mentioned report the B--rdo
retained 3 battalions with 3 batteries each,, Each of the batteries was
equipped with 4 guns,
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