OCCUPATION OF THE MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN NEURUPPIN AND UNLOADING AT THE DOEBERITZ RAILROAD STATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005800060002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
CLASSIHICATPI N SECRET
East Germany
Occupation of the Military
REPORT
in Ne~=UA& 44d
Unloading at the Doeberitz Raiirpad Station
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTE
DATE OBTAINED.
REFERENCE
PAGES 3
REMARKS
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23 December 1954
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE).
1. Between 23 and 27 November 1954, the military installations of the
'euruppin post were occupied as follows:
Kaserne
Post hospital
(2202)
Fridericus Kaserne
(2205) X
Fridericus Kaserne
(2205)
Fridericus Kaserne
(2205)
Fridericus Kaserne
(2205)
Fridericus Kaserne
(2205)
Fridericus Kaserne
(')2o5)
Friedrich-Franz Kaserne
(2201)
F iedrich-Franz Kaserne
(2201)
Friedrich-Franz Kaserne
(2201)
See K_aserne
(2203)
See K_aserne (2203)
Supply Officer
Major Duiko
Lieutenant Colonel
Mitrofanov
Lieutenant Colonel
Buikovski
Lieutenant Colonel
Kovalenko
Lieutenant Colonel
Dronov
Captain Toropov
Major Salikov
Lieutenant Colonel
Sultanov
Lieutenant Colonel
Balayev
Lieutenant Colonel
Besruchko
Lieutenant Colonel
Stetsenko
Major Semjonov
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Kaserne
Supply Officer
Gentzrode estate Major Khrom
(2206)
former birth school
for girls
(2204)
Major Dshuromski
Wulkow estate Major Kusmenko
(2500)
Soldiers wearing black=bordered black epaulets with signal insignia
were seen -ith the unit of Lieutenant Colonel Besruchko in the Friedrich-
Franz Kaserne.l
2. On 1 December, 4 dark-green ta.nksl (left the Friderious
Kaserne for the Gentzrode training area. During the transfer, the
approach road was blocked by a major detail of soldiers wearing red-
borderFd black epaulets. The tanks practiced driving in the training
area. On 2 December, the tanks fired at the firing ranges over distances
of approximately 1,600 meters. From a distance of approximately 200
meters, it was observed that the tanks were of a new type with a chassis
similar to that of a T-74 tank, but with a round turret with unusually
slanting armor. The turret was turtle-shaped. The gun barrel was long
and thin. The tanks were slightly smaller than T- s.
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3. On 3 December, guns were unloaded from 6 flatcars at the Dallgow-Doeberitz
r-ilroad station. Two of the guns were described as follows: similar to
12?-mm field howitzers, but lower, with smaller wheels and a longer barrel.
The muzzles of the barrels were covered by muzzle caps. The guns, which may 25X1
have been 152-mm model 19#3 field howitzers, were the same which were
unloaded in Doeberitz on 28 December and we
usly taken for 120-mm
field howitzers. Trucks owed the guns to
Altes Lager (2061) in Doeberitz.
Comment.
Div in Neururpin until 27 November:
following units of the 12th Gds Tank
Unit
18th Gds Mtrcl Bn
48th Gds Tank Regt
Hq 12th Gds Tank Div
66th Gds Tank Regt
75th AAA Regt
186th Gds Sig Bn
205th Engr Bn
unidentified Motor Trans Bn
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Unit
59th Tank Tng Bn
226th Mort Regt
A year ago, the 186th Gds Sig Bn was transferred from the Friedrich-
Franz Kaserne allegedly to the See Kaserne. Information in the
present report indicates that the battalion, in the meantime, returned
to the Friedrich-Franz Kaserne. The officers mentioned are known.
10 to 15 tanks,
rived in Neuruppin on 13 November.
Observations in the present report confirm this
i-.formation.
Comment. I 24 x 100-mm AT guns,
which cat only belong to the 2d Light Arty Bri , were entrained in
Doeberitz on 8 December. , The turning
in o these guns tends to indicate that the 24 field howitzers.
presumably of 152 mm caliber, which arrived prior to 3 December, were
assigned to the brigade in connection with the reequipment which was
previously mentioned. Similar observations were made at the artillery
brigade of the Fourth Gds Mech Army in Bernau. It is believed that the
guns vroceeded to Olympisches Dorf (2067).
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