CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE INTERIOR RAILWAY AND WATER POLICE

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• Publication Date: May 12, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Germany/Russian Zone
SUBJECT Central Administration of the Interior:
Railway and water police
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25X1X -t, who pointed out the dangers inherent in the organization of a large
pars-military railway police organization under Soviet or Con unist control
as early as April 1946, stated that he viewed with great concern the Fr esent.
the Interior at ff~ilhel.tnsruhe.
an increas:.ng tendency to etaf the Railway an >Ya
hundred proof's Communists, many of them dismissed but recently from the police
force in the British and American Sectors of Berlin. It is a well known fact
that Wilhelmsruhe employs an inordinately high percentage of S SD men. That
the Railway and Water Police should insist on Communists only means to
source that there is some activity within that or
what one would usually associate with the name.
25X1X but thought it quite possible that the Railway Police is already,
or will become in the future, the part of the Central Administration used
to camouflage a secret or political police.
25X1 X the Railway Police has always.been an integral part
of the Reichsbahn system. In normal times it was a relatively small organ-
ization, used to guard railway property and to investigate routine thefts
of railway supplies and pilferage of goods en route. They had no authority
outside of railroad property and did not have the power of arrest. After the
end of the war, and in view of the increasing rate of lawlessness, it was
decided by the Soviet authorities that the Railway Police needed strengthen--
ing. A large number of additional personnel was recruited, trained, and armed
with weapons ranging up to submachine guns. To the uniformed personnel
a substantial number of plainclothesmen were added; and,after the organi-
zation of the Central Administration of the Interior, the Railway Police
25X1X ' e Reichsbahn and placed under the control of the CAI.
there was no authority under which the Railway Police
could assume normal police functions. Nevertheless, at present they consider
themselves on equal footing with the Schutz and Kriminalpolizei, exercise the
power of arrest and are de facto the only functioning Zonal Police, the juris-
diction of all other law enforcement agencies being restricted to their own
land or province.
The Water Police (Wasserschutzpolizei),in contrast to the Railway Police, has
considerable police tradition behind it. It was part of the Stantspolizei
(Stapo) before 1945, although in Berlin it was always under the control of
the Police President. It has considerable authority on all waterways, harbors,
canals, etc., and its potentialities as an intelligence gathering or repressing
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or: anizatioa are .r*reat (Srrru-'^lirln, l:idna _~ninv, f`!cilitatinr iilenal entry,
etc ) ? Its unification with the; ~t.ailway Police cane as a suprise0
4. Chi; f o f the :tr:. i l _ w a and '.at--r Police is "i niste vial i)i rige.lt Loll, former-
1` h (t '0 Police Inspectorate in Neu-l;olln, U. S. Sector.
:ors ent: Loll. was ci)smisSod from his post is the
ic rl `ioctor after he was fou:id c ui..lty b" a U. 3. 1 ut~lic
aafet" investi-ation of havirv c:.i ra-ed in unauthorized poli-
tical activity. ;another crrarrro. that of obstructi~ln orders
of the 'iilitar:; 'lover-rriont, r?enaineci unsettled.
Lo]1's deputy is ':ialst~-rialrat S.i.?:bber, -'orrneerl;,, a hitch ra.nkic^' official of
t}rc- Ho ichsbahn.
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~ Comrient: .3iebcr, 4 Dahlemer en, ehlendorf, is at
present under irivesti-atio'i b? SIC for his alleged
complicit- is the }ti.dnappi-rg of one Lorentz by the '.:VI) Troia
the Lmericari doctor.
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1 zener was '?olet:sed by t}i... U. :3. Public 3af ity Officer after
the facts of tie !-. atter were brought to hi r, attention. 11,,
ha.s since been transferred tote -rit;_sh lono of " er ?iany.
It is s ir`rnifica!nt that i?.d... Public J&f3t, was a preached by
the Ceritr,.,l ;dr,Ginistration of the Interior, who r..cluested
Pieper's i.::rr;ediate extradition.
5. That ..i1:3 arld ,later` i ollc:: is err-aerod in tm. ckinr' dew-i a:lr, a, restin g
1ndividu:ls a?c_i ist whom the Soviet euthoritios `lave objections on political
grounds was well illustrated by th case Of Pic,e,` zorr er(hief of rersoariel
in the _teichsbahn i'zmini.stration. Pi: Fror, a Social. 25X1 X
Jerroc 'at of old' staridin-, atte,:nted the or-y,'_-lization of an independent
.`,1?' in the Soviet Zone This, when discovered, displeased the aoviet
authorities, who or_iored 1 i:p is arrest. The latter evaded detention, but
was i`ollowod to th : ,. ,erier;-n Sector of llerl iii by' agents of the It-fl way 1 olico
who attempted to arrest hi!-! on the 3-liana. 1'ielp:~r resisted, and succeeded
in `.~rcin}tin awiiy, but t?u:, sliortl;' tai-:reuft?r a:'rc3stuC b;' the ':.'.rmarl Police
in the F. S? Sector, i`ii claimed t ieere was a warrant for his arrest issued
y` 1' ' lwa,, Police.
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that ;uito e 7)art from the, merits of t` e case, that is,
whether Piener ddi:r? or did not viol,:te ar laws, his atto::.pted arrest by the
1 olice for an alleged Offense political in character wras ,n arto
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