KVP BEREITSCHAFT ROSTOCK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400710001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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KVP Bereitschaft Rostock
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1. The KVP Ber. eitschaft }'.ostock was subordinate to TV 5000 Schwerin and. headed
by Colonel. Bleck. It was quartered in the former Panzer. Kaserne at, 1-
Konernikus Strasse and, at the time of observation, numbered about 300
officers and 1.,100 E41;ho were organized into headquarters, motor vehicle
company with driver coarse, Bereitschaft Schulo with NCO course, S-1
Company, 5--2 Company, S-3 Company, S-5 Company, first through third
infantry regiment, aml the Selbstaendige B Abteilungo The third infantry
regiment had the following organization:
Headquarters
15
4
NCO course
19
Motor vehicle platoon
2
8
I Bn.
38
170,
Il and III. Bn, Qach
38
70
The I Bn of tiv> third infantry regiment had the following 'organization;
Headquarters 8 5
Supply Platrson
Heavy mach. Lne gun platoon
S-1 z:latn)n
S-2 platoon
S-3 ploi?a:.oof
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5.4 AT platoon
3
17
B.a medium mortar platoon
4
24
First through third rifle
companies, each
5
24
20 Officers of the Bereitschaft included Lieutenant Colonel Wildner (fnu)
a Komr)andeur of the Bereitschaft, Lieutenant Colonel Schaefer (fnu) as
deputy, Major Wicke (fnu) as deputy supply officer, Captain Marx (fnu)
as deputy corrander, Major Fraundorf (fnu) as chief of staff, Captain
Rost (fnu) as commanding officer of the second infantry regiments; and
Captain Nebert (fnu) as commanding officer of the third infantry regiment
Only one Soviet advisor was detached to KVP Bereitschaft Rostock. He
hold the rank of colonel and exclusively wore KVP uniform,
The Bereitschaf t was equipped with 130 H-3--A trucks
_10 BMW sedans, 2 aenomen jeeps, 2 11-3-A ambulances, 2 tank trucks with
trailers, 4 five-ton trailers, 3 large H-3-A workshop trucks 1 small
workshop truck, 20 BMW motorcycles, 3 A motorcycles, and 1 Java motorcycle
4. The FV included 40 percent of the 1935 classq 40 of the 1934 class, 10 of
the 1933 class and 10 of the 1932 and older classes. Twenty percent came
from the recruiting district of Saxony, 35 from Saxony-Anhalt, 10 from
Thur ngia, .25 from Mecklenburg and 15 from Brandenburg Sixty-five percent
were releaable Comaunists while 35 percent were against the regime.
The unit was alerted at about 10 p.m, on 17 June, Sixty soldiers were loaded
onto three trucks and brought to Warnemueride a Fire command was given by
Lieutenant Colonel Wildnor on 18 June 1953. No changes with regard to
A raining ac,i.vity, structure and political indoctrination were macl,E. prior to
15 July 19538
.omment. The information confirms previous reports on the infantry unit
in Rostock? Seel I n:orma:tion of
early August, although contradictory, tends to indicate at reorganizations
may have occurred in the meantime a .
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