NEW VOLKSPOLIZEL UNIT IN SCHWERIN: POLITICAL COMMISSARS OF THE ROSTOCK VOLKSPOLIZEI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012300290003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT .REPORT No.
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COUNTRY t~ei~many (#~uasian Zane)
SU6JECT dew ~~'~ll~spol,izei CYnit in Sehwerin; Political
Co~amissars. of the Rostock `Jolkspolizei
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1. Anew ~elkspoli~ei. unit of about regiiaental strength and organized: along
Sc~v`iet lines I~a,s arrived at Schwerin. It is quartered, in the Ludendorff
~a~rra~ks . !Ihe members of this unit are: not over t~tenty-f?ur years old.
I'he unit; consists of eighty-five officers and `3.,200 men. At present, it
Y~a:a no transport . 'i'wo-thirds of the men are Saxons or refugees from the
~a.st. C~ortu~xunication:a troops, anal engineers are included in the unit.
2. T'he following men have beep identified as political comu~issars of the
ft:ostock '~olkspoli2ei~ Georg Guenther Schabert, wha cafe back from the
Soviet Limon in 19+9; Franz OlsChewski; Harry I~leinsehmidt~ who came
beck from the Soviet tTn.ion in 1950; encl. Eberhard Stenbrecher, born in
Koenigsberg.
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