GST AND SED KAMPFGRUPPEN (COMBAT GROUPS)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900170010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 13, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION S-1-C-R-F,-T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY at Germeny
DATE OISTR. 13 Tune 1555
SUBJECT GST and SED Kanmfgruppen (Combat Groups) NO. OF PAGES 2
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On occasion of a meeting of functionaries of she uesel3 schaft fuer
Sport and Te(.hnik ((ST) on 20 i:iarch 19 in E:a lc, it was announced
that the GST was no longer financed by the 1) but exclusively by
the iiinistry of tho Interior. Sine January, the L_> _-T ft .s teen directly
vrubordinate to this ministry.
:bout 1 Liarch. Richard Stainer, sonmin--law of i'ieeck., a Ls, nominated as
chief of the GST. The former first secretary, Berthold;, as made chief
of administration of the GST. On 4 i.Larch, the new chief was installed
on occasion of a meeting in Halle which was ai oo -.ttended by two
representatives of the Czech Svazar.m, o union for cooperation with the
srmy. Resolutions which were passed at the meet: Lr_", concerned intensified?
political and ideological indoctrination.
3taimer as new chief of the GST delivered the main spe !ch at the Halle
meeting on d Q arch. He criticized the lax working procedures within the 25X1
:.sST. he stated that the GST lost 4, 000 members in 1954. Ten percent of
all ;roups had no leader. Only 60 nerce:nit of the contributions were
actually id.,
according to an order by the Central Headquarters of the CST of early
;.:arch 1955, the GST had at once to take over pre:ai.1itary training of the
I?di.J and the workers s"combat "roues". lirigadie:r general Staimer was
responsible for the entire premilitary training in the GDR.
Staimer had initiated the preparation of a plan, according to whic
000 selected GST members were to be trained as tank drivers. Between
Aeril and June? 2-week courses were to be hcl6 for reliable tractor
drivers. Between July and Isovember, the courses are to be attended also
by other members of the GST. r_VP tank train:..:.,; units are to be employed
in the traiiiix;.
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6. BBetwee" I d2 November 1954, a course for SL D _Kampf,,.ruppen of t?ir:.
Tir.istry for Heavy industry was held in luerstenwalle. General ta::k;3
of the "KaMpf : uppen" were declared to bet al ertinp of coworkers a ainst
provocations, support of state executive agencies, security of
important meetings, important buildings rd plant installations, t d
political indoctrination within the enterprises. 25X1
the total strength of the "Kampfgruppen" in the LOAD
GDR was to be increased to approximately 530,000 members.
7. On 2Q January, employees of the cooperative shops and the HO (trad.&?
organization) in Bad F'reienwalde allegedly had to report at the SI.D
Kreisleitung. Most of the persons concerned were NCOa of the former
German army who were under 40 years old. They learned that they were
to be inducted in mid-February for a 2-rionth military- training cour
. it vas learned that S ED mesbers who had been 2ICOC., in
the former German army had to report at the SED Kre.sleitungen where
they were told that they had to participate in military training cct.:.rses.
9, On 28 February. P-week courses for selected SED members started in
ST schools. Infantry training was held in l,auenhai.n near Chemnit:c4
motor vehicle training in the Motorsportsohule of the GST in Bautzen,
naval training at the Seesportschule of the GST in Rechlin and radio and
toiephore training in Laucha near Halle.
10. Since the majority of the "Kampfgruppen" in he an.I.ex-orise8 of tho
Frankfurt district have existed only on the paper so 1 sr, the ;S.ED
announced in mid--February that the GST was to take charge of t:he
training of these groups. According to the new organization plan,
a "Kaupfgruppe0/ was to number a men and a " aar1,yfzug" 13 men.
11 ? At about 1000 an Llarch,_ 80 men in civilian c? othin with red
brassard>s drilled without weapon. near Iluehlenberg in Neisseafels,,
The instructors appeared to be KVP so.ld:ier o. The civilians were natives of
Wei: senfels?
Comment. Intensified remilit;: y trr.ininr? in the G3T was stt,r_tOed 25X1
seve al month.: agora Fi=t indication;) 25X1
of short course9 for former , U s were prey- ous._y reported.. Staianer m
probably coordinate all prey and .acrd.-military training : f
:'OT amid othor orp-,an'iz_tt'ro.ns.
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