MAIN ADMINISTRATION OF GERMAN BORDER POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003000480003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 20, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE ACENCV
INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT' Main Administration of German Border Poliee
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THIS` IS Ut" FNt ?:TED INFGRtA'1O 1
1. Between 10 September and 10 October 1953k I I the following
personnel were assigned to the Hauptverwaltung Deutsche Grer.zpol:Lzei
(Vain Administration of the Gerran Border Police) (HVDGP) :
Chief, Major General. Harm .= Garthmann, prior to late September 1953
Garthmann used sedan No VP 00 - 0410, after that date, he used sedan
K CT iafaaf and nd deputy cor.nanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel r:~e = ?' ,~ f
sAdans ugnd by hint
Chief of Staff, Colonel Smolorz,, sedans used:
e. azn ng, Colonel. Stnckg, sedan
Chief of the Secretariat, Major Eckert;
OP I I-lain Administration JS
Chief Ida for FIar~mernann~
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OP IT Main Administration (Operations DeDartrrent).
the sare car also
Chief, Colonel Mansfeld,, used sedan
Chief of Section "Nord" (coast), Lieutenant Colonel P'aseberg;
Chief of Section "Sued/Ost", 2"a;!or Kubaila;
Section "West,", Lieutenant Colonel Wagner, used sedan
Chief of Section "Ring jean Berlin",, Lieutenant Colonel Krar.erg,
used sedan
Chief of the Sec ?..on,
PK ?lain Adr inis'tration
Lieutenant Colonel Kettnerq
Chief, Lieutenant Colonel Ftandwerk;
assignment unknown, Major 11ox th;
SED secretary, Captain Lehmann;
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M in Administration for Train gg,,
Chief, Lieutenant Colonel Engelkep sedan used:
assignment unknown, Lieutenant Colonel Hoppe;
ing Department, Major Raupach? sedan used:
attached o e Planning Department, Lieutenant Uhr;
Chief of the Administrative Department,' Lieutenant Colonel wl~
sedan used: the same car also used
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Chief, Lieutenant Colonel Lindner;
assignment unknown, Lieutenant Kallweit;
Chief of the Health Department, Colonel Blankmeister, sedan used
Chief of the Veterinarian Section, Senior Lieutenant Markward;
commanding officer of the Headquarters Company? Lieutenant Hummeig
ed'tor in chief of the-newspaper "Der Grenzpolizistw, Major Tretscher,,
sedan used
This administration, although receiving its orders
d ea y. from the State Ministry for State Security (SfS), was officially
suxaordinated to the HVDGP. The PK Main Administration,, details on the
organization of which were not known, supervised the political
indoctrination of all East German border police units. The Main Adzninistratio
for Training exercises central ,control over all schools of the border police
2. The motor pool of the HVDGP consisted of about 45 vehicles. including . F-- 7
busses
a sedan o f thessS used as courier veiicleo
3. On 10 September 1953, Bereitsehaften assigned to HVDGP were stationed at
thr following places:
a. Northern border (sea), Rostock, s special unit which comprised both
land and s forces..,
b; k1ev.ern border (D-line), 8choenbez,g, Grabow, Salzwedel, Garcielegen,
Halberstadt, Nordhausen, Muehlhausen, Dermbach, Meiningen, H ldburg.
hausen (prior to May 1953 in Wittenburg), Koeppelsdorf and Plauen
c. Southern border '(Czechoslovakia)? Chemnitz, Perna.
d. Eastern border (blend),, Goerlitz, Frankfurt on the Oder River,
Loecknitz,
e. Ring around Berlin, Rlumberg,. B.ankenf elde, Gross-Glienicke.
The conm,anding officers of Bereitschaften ranked as majors or lieutenant
colonels. 2
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known Izreviously as holding the assignments stated o
2. ~Cormentt The data on the distribution of border police
Pereitschaften agrees with previous information 'i' le or of
a Grensb?reitschaft front Wittenbur to Hildbur hausen
on the transfer o er pro, ce
;mi f:s frem }fecklenbsrg to Thuringia o
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