THE RAILROAD POLICE (TRANSPORTATION POLICE)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500130004-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2002
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• Publication Date: December 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT The Railroad Police (Transportation
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On orders of the Gornan Ac:niriistration of the Interior the Railroad
A olice was redosi.-natod Tr:ans?ortation olicc on 10 October 19490
':.lthou.;h the nevi doei;;nation is :runs )orta)olizeiaeazter {,;.e ional
Trens})ortation ,'elide Offices), the for:^.or title, :;isesiba u polizoii
ae:nter (-:i;_;ional ;~ai.lroad 2olicu aff'icea (EPA), grill. be used below.
2, 1'h3 : oniation of a Gran police in the boviet ,ono of Ger iany, ine:luadin,
13 :rain, was ordered by the soviet Occupation -.uthoritios a few months
after the war. In co: ali.anco with this order, the ,soviet zone ?ailroad
Directorate General in Perlin bean to organize aimultancously with
a Railroad Police and a Railroad Criminal a'olice which were to perform
regular police duties at railroad installations of the Soviet 'Lone of
Ocrmany and of Berlin. A n x;anpolizeihauptamt (Railroad Police Head
Office) was established in Berlin as superior head:juarters to all APRs
Generally, the .)resent st?stus of theRailroad .?olico organization is the
s ,me as that of 19t 0 The u::ilroad z'olico Head Office, the counterpart
of the R ilroad Directorate General, ms or ,anizod in Berlin and an -,
was attached to each ro-ional railroad directorate. The chief of an EX'A
was si: uita.neously head of iaoction No 19 of the ro4onal railroad di-
rectorate concerned and subordinate to its )rasidont,, The building ua of
the ;la lroad Police organization made little progress at first for lack
of qualified. porsoranol, particularly since railroad technical experience
is required in addition to the usual police trainin,-n
3. Up to late 1943 the 71ilroad `olicc was subordinate to the :,.ailroad
Directorate General, and prior to 1915 the equivalent police had always
been under the control of the Reich Liniotry of Trsnsport and never under
the 14inistry of the Interior,. In lath 1947 the German ;Artni.stration of
the Interior (11I) was organized in Berlin-~ *Alholmoruho among, others,
the function of directing t to German ,Splice) in the ~ovi.,t gone o Gerriany.
&I-wit that time the first nei;otiati"ens :gore held between the central hcae,
quarters of the Railroad -:elide and the M.1 with the vieAi to transferring
the control of this _>olice to the, 3,11. Ho rover, thovo no otiations failed
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due to the peculiarity of the internal noli.tioal situation existing at
that tiro The 1 ailroad Police bead Office? it is true, was dissolved
and a railroad. _'oli.ce Department was established in the QAI in early
1248. Thus the central agency of the iailroad 'olice ,ras attached to
the GA.I,, but the various uPlAs still rca:mainod with the various regional
railroad directorates.
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A closer integration into the OAT occurred in the sprint of 1948
From then the ii_iilroad Police was given its orders j.-y the The special.
ailrood Police school in Luotzma had to be dissolved,, and the U.ailroad
Police per; onnel wore forced to attend the JnkI 7olice schools. Ler^irership
in the FDCP (Free German Labor Union) and participation in pass demon-,
strations ore obligatory. Political indoctrination was intensified, and
all recalcitrant elements were immediately discharged. In accordance with
the Gill pattern, a 1: 5 Department was also established in the lailr,o:ad
Police, thus partially transferring the police activities from a crir,rinal
to a political sphere.
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On 1 January 19149 the : ailroad 'olice was completely detached from the
railroad administration and incorporated into the III, which had already
es ta' ii:hed its Department 1; tw?1ract this police. At that time the if rrier
chief of the Railroad Police, Loll, was discharged and re?,lacod by d.)uenther,
a militant Oommunist and chief of the N?rlin 'JI. R. The system of political
co lzissars e?ras introduced at the saris tide, and. an a ;D functionary, function-
ing as a ~'olit-Kul.tur (I'K) officer, was attached to the chief of each office
or headquarters
6. throe--year -tcrm of service was introduced for the Uailroad. Police in late
L 7t}", All those who refused to sign up were discharged . .",ll :- ersone with grades frCe
:'olizeimn ster upward wore oibbligcu to be members of the 3 DQ The 1{I ire
proved the an ent and equipment by delivering submachine >,ns and also
machine girls, while up to late 1943 only piotols and sore c rbines had been
in use a The OAT also tried to i.:mrove the zi? road 'oli cc e s motorization,
which is very primitive even today. The nut ber of the c'.o ;-guirds as also
increase.:,. The surveillance by the !:VD and its cooperation Wraith the K 3
Dope rtnont was intensified.
7. The follow.-in g table shows the strength of :oli ce oo s t 0
Oschatz precinct station without criminal police post.
riaebeln precinct station without criminal police -post,.
Nessen precinct station :without criminal police po tQ,
:IF Inspectora.t? IV ,-rith attached Criminal Comm,.i.,sariat 17. in ylie:a~zitzo
.'1ssignod stations
Freiberg precinct station with criminal police )ost.
Clauchau precinct station ~:'rith criminal police po:-t0
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