ARTILLERY REGIMENT WEISSENFELS OF THE KVP DIVISION IN HALLE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500020003-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Topic artillery Re ixnant Jdaissenfel.s of the II;UP Division in Halle
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EVALUATION_._j ,,,__ -o, LACE OBTAINED___~
DATE OF CONTENT_ 25 September to 3 October 1953
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5 January 1954
1o The B-Kommando (artillery regiment) in Weissenfel.a is subordinate to KVP Bereit--
schaft Halle and is stationed at the barracks installation located at the town
perimeter of Weissenfelss about 800 meters distant from the Soviet barracks
installation. The installation involved also quartered an A-Kormnendo of BereitP
schaft Halleol
2s The Ba..Kommando consisted of a headquarters with about 10 officers and 3 Ab-
teilungen with about 10 officers, 15 NCO, and 40 EK to each Abteilung? Each
Abteilurig was organized into I headquarters company and 3 companies which were
scheduled to be brought to full strength by late 19534 2 The ELI carving with the unit
during the reporting period were being trained as N Qsa
3. The cc im]anding officer of the I'.3-Kommando was Major or Lieutenant Colonel Eckard
(fnu)o The unit was equipped with 12 x 122-mm howitzers. The 24 x 76.2,mm guns for
the 1st and, 2d Abteilungen were scheduled to be delivered from Zittau in the rear
future. No motog vehicles were available. Prime movers for the guns were expected
to arrive soonol.~
4., The unit had been.organized from a cadre of officers and personnel made availablec
by the B-Kommando. in Zittau.. Source learned that the UP installation at Baerensto.rn
was vacated in A;r it 1953; the A Unit moved to Marienbergs while the SBA transferred
to Zittau. Since recently, another b Unit has allegedly again been stationed at
Baerenstein m4
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e ssenfela, of an infantry and an artillery regiment of the Infantry Division Hal,
which was activated in September 19530
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26 I I,CarnmUto The artillery units of TV 24 in Leipzig received most of their
personnel from the former artillery instruction regiments in Zittau, Erfurt and
Gloewen.
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C enter The weapons equipment Mentioned agrees with the standard equipment
artillery regiment of a KVP Infantry Bereitsehaft.
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0_Commento So far no other information has been received on the reoccupatior.
of XVP installations at Baerenstein and Niederschlag9 There is a possibility that.
the artillery Abteilung of the mechanized regiment in Harienberg will move to one
of the installations involved,
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