GLOEWEN VP SCHOOL-MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

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• Publication Date: May 4, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1.
Strength,:
On Duty
Officers:
46
120
Non-Corns:
87
Students:
1245
1000
2.
Personalities:
(School Directiop):
School Chief: Inspekteur Teloh: SED, Member Society for
German-Soviet Friendship, former German
army major, previously stationed at Dfteln
School as Chief of Staff.
Deputy School Chief and P/K Chief: Inscekteur Herbert Thiele,
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Secretaries assigned to School Direction: PolizeianwIrter
Hermann Michel and Kommissarin Ivett Haupt.
Personnel Sectioz_nanzle:
Chief: Polizeirat Heinz Neubert
Deputy Chief: Oberpolizeirat Kaselowski
Assistants: Kommissar Herbert Gutscher and Folizeimeister Moll.
Secretary: Anyhrter Penske 50X1
Civilian Employee: Frau Langfeld.
Quartermaster Section:
Chief: Kommandeur Larisch
Deputy Chief: Polizeirat Volf
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Next Review Date: 2008
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Finance Chief: Oberkommissar Kieffel
Accountant: Kommissar Schwarz
Secretary: Oberwachtmeister Rittig
Assistants: Hauptwachtmeister loschke and Oberwachtmeister
Klapschinshi.
Mail Clerk: Wachtmeister Manfred Gebhard
Uniform Section:
Kommissar Fluegge
Oberwachtmeister task
Wachtmeister Fribel
One civilian employee
Materiel and Tools:
KoMmissar Mehlhase
Wachtmeister Terfeld
Hauptwachtmeister Berger
1 Civilian employee
Kitchen ?
Chief: Kommissar Fichte
Fri. Bareuthin
Oberwachtmeiter Berries
Wachtmeister Fuchs
Chief Cook: Polizeimeister Radke
Kitchen Help: Oberwachtmeister Winert
Ebel
Scherf
Armorer:. Kommissar Poelchen
Deputy: Oberwachtmeister Bauer
Assistants: Two Wachtmeisters
In additicn, approximately 12 police candidates have been
assigned to this section for training.
InfirmarY:
Chief: Polizeimeister Bossle
Oberwachtmeister Coertler
Oberwachtmeister Unverzagt
One ar,sistant
One secretary.
Instruction and Training Section:,
Chief:. Kommandeur Karl Pietzuch
Planning Assistant: Poli7einbArrpt vnri Pne4-smn4.m
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Kommissar Pankau
Wachtmeister Block
Two secretaries
Polizeimeister Ellger
Wachtmeister Scholz
Instructors:
Artillery:
Kommissar Kloth
Oberkommissar Baumann
Oberkommissar Reikert
Oberkommissar Koczulla
Polizeimeister Kilian
Oberwachtmeister Scheiniz
Polizeimeister Besthorn
Two assistants.
Engineers:
Polizeirat Thiele
Polizeimeister Metern
Hauptwachtmeister Schreer
Tactics:
Oberkommissar Zakohitz
Hauptwachtmeister Kisch
Map Reading:
Oberkommissar Leinert
Heuptwachtme5.ster Novalczyk
eS,eizIrt :
Oberkommissar Wilke
Stgnal.:
Kommissar Rotig
Kommissar :Briest
General Education:
Oberrat Eckert
Hauptwachtmeis ter Spangenberg
Hau.ptwachtme-ts ter Ziem
Ilauptviachtmeis ter Brosh
)instructional Aids Section:
IfauptwachtmEis ter litarket.?)1 tz
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Political:
Oberrat Mehle
Oberkommissar Lehmann
Hauptwachtmeister Schindler
Hauptwachtmeister Stender
Company Commanders and FA Chiefs:
1st Company:
Commander: Polizeirat Sonnenburg
F/K:. Kommissar Uhlig
2nd Company:
Commander: Kommissar Band
P/K: Polizeimeister Fischer
'rd Company:
Commander: Oberkommissar Dressler
P/K: Unknown
ASh Company:
Commander: Kommissar Keiling
P/K: Kommissar Rothe
5th Company:
Commander: Oberkommissar Steinberg
P/K: Kommissar Grabs
6th Company:
Commander: Oberkommissar Lerche
F/K: Unknown
7th Compasay:
Commander: Kommissar Hopfer
P/K: Folizeimeister Zapf
8th Company:
Commander: Polizeirat Radloff
P/K: Unknown
9th Company:
Commander: Oberkommissar Bork
UK: Unknown
20th Company:
Commander: Oberrat Schuerer
F/K: ? Unknown
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The former comparv commander of 7th ccmpany, OberkommJssar
Gottschalk, has been arrest.A by the "NITD" agency sta-
tioned at Perleberg on suspicion of espionage. The comrany
F/K chief of the Oft company, Kommissar -tlartig, fled from
the Gloewen ,School on 21 February 1950 with 15,000 Ost rark.
3. Structure of the SM) Organization:
The chief of the Party organintion within the school is the
Party Secretary, eberrat Paul Blrnstein. Also included in
the Party organiation is the miin Vorstand of the FDJ, headed
by Oberwachtmeister Heiner Schultz, who is assisted by two
members holding the rank of V;achimeister.
4? The following Eighting devices have been delivered to the
Gloewen School;
Panoramic sight:;:
20
Aiming circles :
15
Field glasses
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20
B. C. scop.
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10
5. According to a recent inspeetiol survey of all the schools,
made by the HVJ4 the Gloewen School was adjudged the worst.
in training ei.liciency.
6. The Soviet ?laison officer assgned to Gloewen, Lt. Col.
Popovich, as spent little tine at the school during the
past several weeks. Recently lls practice has been to come
to the &goal twice a week, go directly to his office, and,
after a fel/ hours, return to Pedeherg. In November, 1948 it
was un,1erstood that an officer of the Soviet Army was to be
assigred to the Gloewen School to superviee training. To date
no representative of the Red Arty has appeared at Gloewen to
asswe this position, the only soviet to maintain contact with
the school being Popovich. His task consists of the politi-
cal Eopervision of Gloewen perzlinnell and his office is given
aE 1-erleberg, Lindenstr, AmtsgLricht.
7, ffimunition and Armament:
Ammunition is issued on the following scale to units at
Gloewen:
Up to 120,000 rounds per company
Up to 125 rcurs per machine gun
16 rounds per pistol
65,000 rounds for practiee firing
No artillery ammunition.
2 deavy Field Howitzer, 105mm
5 Light Infantry Gun, 15mm
3 Heavy Infantry Gun, 105mm
3. Anti-tank Cannon, 88mm (144 model)
4 Anti-tank Cannon, 75mm
Heavy Mortar (number unknown)
25 Pistol 08
3 Light field howitzer 105mm
8. Signal Equipment and Communication Lines:
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6C0 Carbine 98
66Rapid fire rifles 41
14:; Machine pistol (43/44)
20 Machine gun 34
72 Machine pistol 41
10 Pistol 38
16 Pistol FN
8 Pistol Vialt'ler
Teletype communication is maintained with Potsdam-Eiche.
Local battery communication links the Ichool with both
Potsdam-Eiche and Perleberg.
The following signal 5.tems are used fa instruction pur- ?
poses:
1. Portable switchboard(1)
2. Held telephones (model 33)(5)
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Vehicles:
1 Diesel truck
1 Horch truck
1 Opel truck (on loan)
1 Borgwardt truck
1 Opel 6 cylinder passenger car
1 Opel 4 cylinder) both in repair shop
1 Volkswagen
1 Motorcycle with stdecar
aithin the school a fuel storage dump has been established
in a former aid raid shelter and is normally stocked with
between 2,000-3,500 liters of gasoline brought to the.
school from a tank in Ferleberg. This notwithstanding, sup-
plies of fuel are usually short of the desired amount.
10. New Construction:
At present a school building is being constructed to include
16 classrooms with a capacity of about 30 students each and
three rooms for approximately 100 men. In addition, plans
have been submitted to the HVA calling for the erection of a
clubhouse, an armory and additional garage space.
ll kyalatign_9/_the Students:
The composition of the student body is arproximately as fol-
lows:
(a) Approximately 5 percent satisfy the qualifications for
officer candidates in the Wehrmacht.
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(b) About 30 percent have attained a degree of training
which would have qualified them as non-commissioned'
officers in the former German army.
(c) Twenty-five percent, depending on their personal initia-
tive, might have become non-corns in the Wehrmacht.
(d) The remaining 40 percent would have hardly attained the
rank of FFC. This latter group includes both those who
lack technical ability and those who lack any personal
interest in advancement within the paramilitary police.
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Comment: Generalinspekteur Zaisser, before his appoint-
frill-WEIENTer for State Security, stated in a speech to
school leaders, deputies, and F/X officials of the HVA at
Doebeln, 25 January 1950, thct it was intended to make the
lowest 25 percent of the students at various police schools
non-corns, the next highest 50 to 60 percent platoon leaders,
and the best, about 10 percent, company commanders and depu-
ties.)
12. Instruction and iraining:
Political Instruction Themes:
The history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Questions of Leninism
National Front
Organization of the SED
Leninism and Marxism
Capitalism end Socialism
The Workers' Fight against Capitalism
The Economy of the DDR within the Framework of the Two
Year Plan
The Tasks of the People's PoliCe
German Unity
Gen=ral Education:
German Language
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Eathematics
Geography
Military Training:
Tactics: Terrain exercises, service of artillery pieces'.
General Practice in Battery Fire: Range exercises, with.
one and two aiming circles, direct fire exercises, work of
a battery position and the tasks of the forward observer.
Armored Training: Strength and weakness of armor, cepa-.
bilities of armor in action, organi7atiori of an armored
company.
Basic Training: Bringing the following pieces into action:
MG 34, rapid fire rifles, and machine pistols
Map Reading: Orientation in open terrain, nicht marches.
Engineer Training: Bridge construction, construction of
defensive positions.
13. Status of Training in the 8th Company for Period 15 January
14 February 1950:
A directive appearing ovcr the signature of Kommisser Pankau
of the Instruction and Training Section for the Gloewen School
requests the submission of monthly reports by company com-
manders, stressing the following points:
a. In which fields were the goals of the training program
not fulfilled? Why? The reasons for the failure.
b. What difficulties and shortages appeared in the implemen-
tation of the program? (Teaching aids, shortage of teach-
ing personnel, shortage of students due to sickness,
special assignments, etc.).
c. What measures for the improvement of the courses have been
taken and what measures have been suggested? (New teach-
ing methods and their results. Which net instructional
aids were completed by the cnmpany?1
d. What degree of success was reached in the theoretical
training of students?
e. That degree of succeFs was attained in practical train-
ing? (Status of basic training, etc.)
f. What degree of success was obtained in character and
moral improvement': (Discipline, attitude, number of
penal measures, etc.).
The following is the monthly report sub-
mitted by Polizeirat Radloff, commander of the 8th company:
1. Re Point a:
With regard to firing practice (aiming with one or two
aiming circles) we must face the fact that the goals were
not reached. On 14 February 1950, during a repetition
of the direct fire exercises, 30 percent cf the company
were unable to accomplish the aiming procedure, and the
same,was true in aiming with one or two aiming circles,
where the students were in part unable to obtain satis-
factory results. This poor traininv status is based on
the fact that a part of the students, due to poor school
training and general development, are unable to learn
quickly. Sc' much training material is thrown at them in
such a short time that they are not able to absorb the
instruction, although the teachers bend every effort to
present the material, in such a way that it must be under-
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short that, at best, only two or three students get actual
practice with the weapon. Then, too, even when the theory
is sufficiently mastered, there are always those instances
in which individual students cannot apply theory to prac-
tice. A further deficiency exists in that the assistant
instructors are not always able properly to aSsist and sup-
port the students. Since up tc now the teacher has had to
supervise seve-al sections at the same time, he has not al-
ways been able to supervise instruction end step in when
mistakes appear or are made, and it has been proved, also,
that material treated in basic training is soon forgotten.
2. Re Point b:
A. has been mentioned in Point a, because of shortages of
teaching personnel, practical instruction has not always
been fruitful. In addition, the needed aiming devices
have not been supplied In the necessary quantities. An
ever greater number of students have been missing classes
because of sickness, on the average about 11 per week.
This has stemmed largely from the inclement weather and from
sitting in over-heated classrooms prior to going outside,
but the very poor quality shoes issued to the students is
in part to blame. The students own only the one pair, and
these are so poorly made that they must continually be re-
paired, forcing many students to wear light sport shoes un-
suited for the cold weather.
3. Rs Point c:
In order to improve the schooling, a community system has
been established in which the more advanced students work
intensively with the weaker ones; This system has been
a:gilled to general education and to artillery instruction.
Further, Saturday afternoonsand Sunday mornings have been
utilized to stress those subjects in which the greatest
weaknesses have been found. This time is spent under the
supervision of the instructors, platoon leaders and the
company commander. The use of this method has proven that
even the most backward students begin to understand the
material after sufficient repetition. Success has also
been recorded by having tho weaker students discuss on
paper those fields in which they were found deficient dur-
ing the previous week.
4. Re Point d:
There has been some improvement recently in teaching re-
sults, although much is yet to be desired. By all means
very good individual results have been seen. It has been
ascertained, however, that in spite of the competitions,
progress is not all it might be. Even members of the FDJ
make too little effort in this respect. Very poor results
have been noticed especially in the field of general edu-
cation. It still happens that in a short dictation exer-
cise 40 percent of the students make between 25 and 60
mistakes, and Many still do not finish their algebra les-
sons. In this latter subject, in fact, some have not even
mastered the simple multiplication table. Student coopera-
tion is, on the average, not bad. The real fault lies
with the partly low standard of general education and with
the slowness of the students. An evaluation of the re-
cent competitions points this.up exactly. While our com-
pany stood fairly high in the field of discipline, it was
next to the last in technical training. .
5. Re e:
The standard of basic training also leaves much to be de-
sired. Here the fault is that the company was estcblished
later than the others and too few hours of basic training
were given, and, although much was made up on raturdays
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and Sundays, there is still room Tor improvement. The
degree of student cooperation within the framework of
basic training is still fairly low, although here the
fault lies with the platoon leaders who do not know how
to instill enthusiasr in the students or how to present
their training material in a proper falion. Further,
the rihtoon leaders, because they themselves have not
completely mastered the training' material, are unable tc
see the mistakes of the students and to correct them.
6. Mb Point f:
Student morale in the company is, on the average, good,
though methodical instruction is still lackin,7 in some
fields Some improvement we.s obtained through acc:implist-
ments in extra instruction periods outside the regularly
scheduled hours. The attitude in the company is satis-
factory. Negative discussions, Yith only one exception,
were not recordigi. This one instance involved Polizei-
obervachtmeister Ruester, who saw rendering the salute
in closed formrtions as militarism. I pointed out tp
him thet an officer in the Volkspolizei is still some-
thins differen from an army officer, end also that the
salute was necessary to raise the standards of discipline,
whereupon Ruester changed his attitude and agreed with
mc. Punishments in the company for this period consisted
only one reprimand. One commendation was received
from the school director, and two were given by the.com-
pany commander on recommendation by the school director.
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