AIR ARM OF THE VOLKSPOLIZEI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100560002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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p tALE AGENCY REPORT NO.
MATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germany (Russian zone)
SUBJECT Air Arm of the Volkspolizei
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PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF Early August to 3 September 1950
INFO.
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DATE DISTR, 30 October 1950
NO, OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. In early AuCuct 50, a former Gorman =^~ir iforco c~ficer rr?ao lives in the Soviet
Zono of Cernany asked to repor-L to -a.-n AaiLn1Otration of Ccxx:,cn Voll:spoii.-
zei in .~s'lershof (I: 53/Z' 94). his pc .rson-l cata 7'.rticularly his si r:cncs
in the air iorcc as
, sere noted. lie tr_s tole: that these c ata c+or'e ncodec because
t e table of orCanization for the c r arm o. the LFoll:upolizei mould be pub
lished on 1 Irove::~oer 1950. Upon sayi nC t::a.t lie uas no lonCer interested in fly
in he was told that he had not been asked about his personh. opinion.
2. A classifies: docunont seen at a VP headquab tors in Brat cnbur
on S ^.ucust 1i50 stated that all for:m:.:r Gen.-.cn .fir Force rierbers(t;ere/to 3e report-
ed to foie Lain ".0ninistration of German Vo= spoiizei. The document mentioned
ct all police vtho had served irr th the air force would have to be released for
special traininC In the irrtediate future.
3. A riertber of the VP said +T t
a
~.iere tans a school -.n T:iesiorfinotir II
formcr Gcrr:an Air Force persod~-xel norr serv7 nC zr ct; the VP. A Soviet Air- Force .53/V 1- ) for
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major is said to supervise this training.
On 9 11uLust 1950 the VP unit in LleininCen (b: 5I/il 32) y,ra,s told that the lain
Administration of Gorman Voll:spolizei (IIVD"YP) in D(erlin d,iederschoenhm.sen is
ass:. icd to the :i.nistry of tl-n Interior and is comprised of 10 main departnents,
one of them beinC Lain Department L (Air Police) noir beinC organized.
5.
w
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Poli..ce. is orCanizinC the Air
On 11 AuC,ust 1950 it eras learned that i.1 Frost fx?or7 Stralsund=paY a 2, 5?/p 44)
VV
has recently been in Andershof (s 55/p 5)
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6, Another source reported that ex-Oberbuergerme3.ster J?rost (SBD) 'raan
Stralsund was a-)pointed Inspector General of Aviation in the Soviet Zone of
Gexrany. Ile is said to have his headquarters in Peenemuende (I, 55/p 83),
7. On 3 3e-tember 1950, a forrncr Cexnan Air Force officer saLd that he and other
air force off cars '.id been asl.od by t1ae Ilauptabteilun;; Luftwaffe der Voll:spoli-
zei (l:ain Department for Avvi ction of German Volkspolizei (IIAL) in Klietz (Ld a, /
Y 96) to help organize a nc.xT air force.. Ile also said that chief of the IIAL eras
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M pinto. The Andershof mentioned was probably mistaken for Adlershof,
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Com@ento No information on the completed organization of VP air
units has been received. 'he present report shoves only that some sort of
air arm seems to be in the- initial stages of organization, and that former
German fir Force members are apparently beck; registereda
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