PASSENGER CAR BATTALION OF THE EAST GERMAN MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR IN BERLIN-ADLERSHOF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003700150005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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_REPORT_
Passen *er Car Pattalion of the Dist German Ministry of the Inter Lr
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he passenger car battalion, which s station $4 nn , fora er Act,onautia:
Test Station _(Luftwaffenversuch sanstalt) in Ferljn-Js~lhann3,sthal Is
subordinate to the East German Tinistry of the Inter, o .. Officer assigned
to this ministry included:
Lieutenant General Vincenz Fueller,
Lieutenant Co 1 Zi.tochke
Fa j or Ge nera[Igner
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Colone ~He farm
Colonel Reinhold ,
Lieutenant Colonel Bulinin
chief of staff, living in H-rlin-Johannisthal;
deputy chief of staff;
chief of the operations staff, living on
Heinrich-Mann Allee in Berlin-Pankow;
chief of the Signal Covarjunic tion Section;
chief of the Finance Section..
chief advisor financial natters:
he uses car
2. The organization and strength of the unit is as follows:
Officers N
CO M
Headquarters 12
headquarters company 1
25 2
1st through 3d COs each 6
13 73
r, rotor repair shop under the command of an officer, at which 20 civilians
were employed, was also assigned to the passenger car battalion,. Officers
assigned to the latter unit included:
i a j or Kuehnel (fnu), CO;
I.ub.?Lieutenant Engelmann (fnu), chief of staff;
Lieutenant Wolf (fnu), technical-commander;
en ,or Lieutenant Hainsch. (fnu), SST? officer;
ub-Lieutenant lreitfeld (fnu), chief of the rotor vehicle repair shop;
v,ub.-Lieutenant Schmidt (fnu), CO, 1st Co;
w.ub--Lieutenant Looser (y nu) , CO, 3d Co.
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. The equz.pr(jent of the unit included about 150 ty
selans _ sedan.F
4. About 10 percent of the personnel 4 lon ed to t.ac 1935 c1a's. 30 cr En' to
.the 193. class, 40 percent to the 1933, 10 pert to the 1932 clan' n(. 10
percent to older year classes. About 90 percent of the soldiere ha u rer ed
up to 3 years, and 10 percent from 3 to 5 years. About 25 pcrcerit of the
per ; onnc l came from Saxon Anhalt, 30 percent fr?c_n Saxony, 20 percent f_r.?cm
Thuringia, '10 percent from 1 eck1en g, 7 percent fro +'t rTanden73urg and E
Percent from Berlin. About 10 percent were followers of the :regime, 3C
percent indifferent, and 60 percent were secret opponents. The morale o ` the
soldiers was poor; this was due to irregul duty ho s and in!vffa,ciwnt levers.
5. The individual companies had to serve the follmdng. offices:
let Go, offices on Clint a Strasser 'Beh.: en Gtras c and In Berl in-4Tohanriritha1;
2d Co, the office for Soviet advisorif In Berlin-Adlershof;
3d Co, '::,he office on ach eller Strasse
CO) 3FID IAAL1
Comment; The Paseger Car Battalion is. a component
uiit o e V ht= ? Tram-port Regiment of tba Ministry of
the Interior.
COP DENTIAL,
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