ANALYSIS OF APNS AND UNIT DESIGNATIONS OF HEAVY TANK SELF-PROPELLED REGIMENTS-

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2003
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Regisment
73d Iiv Tank Sp Regt
714th Tank aP Regt
Unidentified Gds Iiv Tank SP Regt
70th Gds Tiv Tank bP .Regt
76th Gds Hv Tank SP ltiegt
78th Gds Hv Tank SP Regt
81st Gds Fiv Tank Sp Re
82d ids Hv Tank SP Regt
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70th Ode I-iv Tank SP %gt
71st Ode Iiv Tank SP "Rtegt
72d Ws IIv Tank SP .Refit
73d Odds Iiv Tank SP Itegt
74th Tank SP Refit
75th (I-Iv ?) Tank SP Refit
76th Gds Hv Tank 6P Regt
77th Ode IIv Tank SP Regt
78th Ode Iiv Tank SP %-g t
79th Ode Iiv Tank SP Regt
80th Ods IIv Tank SP Iiegt
81st Ods Iiv Tank SP Igt
82d Gds Iiv Tank SP Rogt
83d Ode Iiv Tank SP Refit
84th Gds Ihr Tank 5P Regt
11th Tank Div
94th Gds IMtz Rifle Div
9th Mecz Div
9th Tank Div
20th Tank Div
6th Geis Tank Div
10th Gds Tank Div
6th ads ,cz Div
Location Subordinate to
Riesa 9th Tank Div
Neuruppin 12th Gds Tank Div
Doeberitz let L ecz Div
Unlocated 11th Tank Div
Schwerin 94th Ode ltz tifle Div
Unlocated Unidentified
Neuhaer 20th Tank Div
Proskurov Unidentified
dttenberg 6th Gds Tank Div
Rosalau 7th Ode Tank Div
Spremberg 9th Mecz Div
Unlocated 10th Gds Tank Div
b'berswalde 6th Gds Mecz Div
Prenzlau 25th Tank Div
Frankfurt/Odor 7th Ode Necz Div
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a Previous, re-oo is rd.ght belong to the 70th
Gds Hv Tank SP Rog, a over, since available information
25X1 belonging to the 23d Tank Refit of the 9th Tank Div, and since a coz-
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25X1 23d Tank Regti has not boon substantiate .
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25X1 the 70th Gds IIv Tank SP Rogt0
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the fridericus Kasorne in
euruppin, it is believed that the 71st Ods Iiv Tank SP legt is stationed there.
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in in January 1951 as belonging to a tank unit in the Adler Kasexne there.
According to the it belongs to the 72d ads IIv Tank SP Regt
25X1 of the let Mcz Div. However, reported it as belonging
25X1 to the 61st Ode Tank Regt of the 10t s Tank 1iv in Doeberitz?
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information available which furnishes any leads as to
61st .Ids Tank Regt.
Jut since motor vehicles of this division a)pear in Doeberitz only
sporadically., it is believed that the present division billeting
area includes only the barracks installnt.ions in Kranpnitz and Gross
Glienecke and the Pionier Ka.serne in Brandenburg. There is no other
da I the 73d Ode IIv Tank bP ;Z,eg;t
25X1 of the 11th Tank Div in ~"pril 19 7, when the division was still sub-
ordinate to the Third Shock Army. The division was transferred to the
25X1 r 9SOS0R0 in the surnwr of 1947 and has not been reidentified since
o, "he 74th Tank SP ieg t is the only tank self-propelled regiment, which,
25X1 being an organic component of a rifle division rather than a heavy tank
self-Propelled re=giment
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i reported several times from 'ittenborg in connection with
rotor vehicles of the 6th ads- Tank Div. The 78th Gds Iiv Tank SP Iie,t is
still believed to be stationed there.
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It,, According to a report of April 1947 the 385th Gds
bP Arty I3e t in Ku rsdorf,, However, since self-propelled artillery
regiments no loner exist in their previous organic structure, it is be-
25X1 lieved that the regiment was reorganized into the 79th Gds IIv Tank SP fiogt
25X1 at the order troop training grounds ib. October 19 0, the re ;iment is now
carried as being stationed in Roselau.
1. reported from Spremberg9 The unidentified
Iiv Tank SP dot of the 9th iecz Div which is believed to be stationed there
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ml. 0 has been mentioned in several reports from the Duch laundry,
Concomitant data on the location
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longed to a tank re iaent of the 10th ads Tank Div. On the basis of the
25X1 this rtg.iment will henceforth be carried as the 31st Gds
IN Tank Z)rP eta It was pr :viously believed to be stationed in Gross-
25X1 li.enecke and Krampnitz, but a report of early ':.arch 195:1 indicated that
25X1 the re iment allegedly moved ix S taaken.
no The 82d "ids iv Tank SP iieg t s been known for several years
as a component of the 6th Gads iaecz Dive It is quartered in the lrtil,l.erie
Kasorne in ~I rs-ra1dco
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or, I Iwas on two letters, one of which. as found in Pronz1au and the
other at the Tcrsyrlin troop training; 'rounds. Periodic re-)orts from 'renzlau
porn:i.t the conclusion that two tank regiments of the 25th Tank Div are
stationed there, namely the 175th Tank Rogt and, possibly,, the 83d "Ids LIv Tank
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25X1 the 7th Gds Lecz Div -in Frank ur /0dero According, to
25X1 it belongs to the 84th Gads Fiv Tank SP 1iegt, which is
oca either in the Horn Kaserne or the Ziethen Kasernev
6 Unit deeimvitions
include those of the heavy tank self-propelled re!fitr nts of the 113th
25X1 ?,Tecz Div, the lti.th Gds T ecz Div.. and the 20th and 21st ads 1tecz Diva;
those of the three other tank self-propelled regiments of the motorized
rifle divisions, and those of the heavy tank self-propelled regiments
which are directly subordinate to the army headquarters. It is believed
that these regiments were activated from independent tank brigades and
self-propelled regiments of ?`aorld War II and retained
25X1 There have been no indications whatever as to
si ,oration of the unidentified Div Tank A>F Hagt of the 9th Ode Tank 1v,
25X1 It is believed that, like the rds tank breakthrough regiments of 'x{orld
,.ar II, all heavy tank self-propelled regiments are automatically assigned
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units of other types,
unit do sit,gnations can be established for
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