KVP CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900490003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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East Germany
KVP Construction Projects
27 August 1954
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
This is UNEVALUATED
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Comment. The Panzerjaeger Kaserne in Spremberg quarters the
tank SP artillery regiment under Major Brandis (fnu), the
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1. In July 1954, it was determined that a. total of 210 million eastmarks
were to be spent for KVP construction projects in 1955. The sum was to
be broken down as follows: 134 million for KVP army, 51 million for
KVP air force and 25 million for KVP navy. Twenty-eight millions
were hudgeted for buildings'of the,KVP Department with the Ministry of
the Interior in the Strausberg area and 30 million for officers' billets
in the GDR. Two corps repair shops were to be built in Erfurt and
Drocgeheide and 17 troop workshops and a total of 1,200 garages at
other posts. Gasproof rooms were to be established in all barracks
installations.1
.2. A barracks installation was to be constructed opposite the Panzerjaeger
Kaserne in Spremberg. Fift';en low temporary buildings with a quartering
capacity of 960 men were to be constructed for the medium tank regiment
under Major Jung (fnu) by 1 November. A barracks installation was to
be built subsequently. The costs were calculated as follows: about
3 million easbraa^ks for the first construction stage in 1954, about
4 million eastmarks for the second construction stage in 1955 and
about 4 million eastmarks for the third construction stage in 1956.2
3. A large ammunition depot was being established in Gorgast west of
Kuestrin.3
At a conference hold in the innzistry of the Interior on 29 July,
it was agreed that Bauunions Sued and Kueste would be merged. The
new. organization was to be put in full charge of future military
construction projects.
om:,lent. The 1,200 garages are double booths, 12 or 16 or
24 meters long, for armored vehicles, motor vehicles and guns. The
planned construction of gasproof rooms indicates that the KVP makes
of f_o t to intensify ,as d efens , training.
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medium tank regiment under Major Jung (fnu),, and the tank training
battalion on I?iechanizad Division Dresden under Major Matthes '(fnu).
The construction of an addition bai-racks installation indicates that
these units will be reinforced.
3. Comment. Information by other sources indicate that the
filling of the depot has already started.
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