COMMANDER OF THE DESSAU AND KOCHSTEDT VOLKSPOLIZEI POSTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005400630006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL ! TELLIGENICE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Soviet zone)
SUBJECT Commander of the Dessau. and
25X1 C Kochstedt Volkspolizei Posts
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l ry -,,x-General ;';altar . reytag, the preoent Volkspol iZe1
(y) post commander of Dessau (L,. 52/h 17) and Koch-
stedt (y.: 52/i.. 06), who is nickna::iod The Great
Llector after Frederick ,4111iam of Brandenburg,
Gras taken prisoner by the oviots in ThurinGia in
1945 f+ ;rafter six months he became a Comiunist and
was ,iven Communist indoctrinations, hen released
from p:'/ captivity in ;epterbber 1949 he was offered
a position as manager of state-ovned estates.
iventually he joined the VP. Ho is now commandant
of the Vi' school in the former flak Kaserne, Dessau-
1;ochstedt, and is directly responsible to the
:. inistry of the Interior. He wears a dark-blue uni-
form with General ? s ins i is 0 draws a lame salary,
oceans a car and has a villa, for which he was recent-
ly allocated considerable funds for romodelin