"GERMAN BORDER POLICE UNIT IN GERSTUNGEN-VACHA AREA, THURINGIA"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005300490002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 25X1 REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germany (Soviet Zone) DATE DISTR. 19 July 1950
SUBJECT German Border Police Unit in Gerstungen. NO. OF PAGES 2
Vacha Area a Thuringia
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data on border guard units
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All enlisted personnel of the Volkspolizei xrenzkom-
ansndos in the ',erstizn_ern-Dermbach/i hoen area were re-
lieved and transferred to Sondershausen (t` 52/D 11)
for political tr?ainin ; on 24 is larch 1950 The person-
nel of the ;~,erstuntren arenzkommand?antur rode on a
truck to the Marksuhl (L 51 . 75) railroad station
where a special train was waitinf;. Polizeirat : ala-
mann, chief of the i3renzkotunandantur, re:,:ained in of-
fice . The replacements came from the Sondershausen
VP school;; about E30 percent of them belonged to the
1930 and 1931 classes o
rirenzkommandantur '_;erstun7an: CO Polizeirat Sala-aiann
Four Kcmzmissars
Forty police
Grenzkommando Untersuhl: Two commissars
Thirty-six police
Grenzk=,nando ferka//"Verra : Two Kommlissarss
Forty-six police
The Grenzkommondantur, en and Grenzpolizeikornmandos in
the GerstunTen-Dermbach/Rhoen area are subordinate to
the TRihla (nN 52/H 87) Polizeibereitschaf .
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a, Crenzpolizeibereitschaft "'ihl.a/Werra controls the
?3renzkommandanturen in Arenshausen (L 52/C 51), VVihla
and Creuzburg (L 52/11 77) and the Gnenzko?rrnandos in
Arenshausen, l rankenber---, "fihla, Cr. euzhurg and V.artha
(L 51/H 76).
b, Gren.zlDolizeibereitschaft Dermbach/Rhoen controls the
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i;r nzko rtandantu ran in ^]rstun ran and Vache and the
`. esnzko~n it ndos In Lauchroed+'n, G, rstunCen, Untersuhl,
Berka$ A'bteroda and Vitzeroda.4 An avmrage Grenzkom-
mando is manned by two Korm dssara and 35 police,
4a Polizeirat Salamann was reollWed by Oberkorniissar Kutze
as chief of the `Jrstun;re^n Green ,polizeikoy riandantur
in )aid-April I.)50. Korwnissar John was idmntifiPd as
chie~ ' of they 'Untersukhl `ire4nzpolizeikommando,
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