Transportpolizei
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The Script error: No such module "Lang". (German for "Transport Police", sometimes known as Trapo[1]) was the transit police of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), whose officers were commonly nicknamed TraPos. It was part of the Script error: No such module "Lang". and dealt with all modes of transit, but primarily with trains and railroads.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. It supervised all larger train stations and controlled the travellers, particularly at the border with West Germany, and directed traffic.
Before the building of the Berlin Wall, the Script error: No such module "Lang". controlled the S-Bahn in West Berlin (as the Deutsche Reichsbahn controlled the S-Bahn in both East and West Berlins).Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. In the 'interzone courses' (later called 'transit courses'), there was always an escort party of the Script error: No such module "Lang". present. The service training school of the Script error: No such module "Lang". was in Halle.
History
The Transportpolizei was founded in 1953.[2] From January 1953 until February 1957, the Script error: No such module "Lang". was part of the Ministry for State Security, in turn part of the Office of the Secretary of State. Starting from March 1957, it was transferred to the Script error: No such module "Lang"., whose supervising inspector was Otto Auerswald.
After the German reunification of 1990, the Script error: No such module "Lang". was dissolved, with some 1,200 of its personnel transferring to the (West) German Script error: No such module "Lang".. On April 1, 1992, the Script error: No such module "Lang". was taken over by the German Federal Border Guard (now called the German Federal Police).
Organization
The Transportpolizei consisted of approximately 8,500 men that were organized from a national level and at district level, with each Deutsche Reichsbahn district: East Berlin, Cottbus, Dresden, Erfurt, Greifswald, Halle, Magdeburg and Schwerin. They wore dark-blue uniforms (that were colloquially called “blueberries”), instead of the standard green Script error: No such module "Lang". uniform. They were organized into sixteen companies and equipped with small arms and RPG-7 shoulder-fired antitank grenade launchers.
Ranks
The following ranks were observed in the Trnasportpolizei:[3]
- POLICE MAJOR GENERAL
- POLICE COLONEL
- POLICE LIEUTENANT COLONEL
- POLICE MAJOR
- POLICE CAPTAIN
- POLICE LIEUTENANT FIRST CLASS
- POLICE LIEUTENANT
- POLICE LIEUTENANT SECOND CLASS
- POLICE SERGEANT FIRST CLASS
- POLICE SERGEANT MAJOR
- POLICE MASTER SERGEANT
- POLICE STAFF SERGEANT
- POLICE CORPORAL
- POLICE LANCE CORPORAL
- POLICE CANDIDATE
- Officer student of the VP - 4th academic year (From 1984)
- Officer student of the VP - 3rd academic year
- Officer student of the VP - 2nd academic year
- Officer student of the VP - 1st academic year
- Student officer in professional training
References
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Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wolfe, Nancy T. (1992). Policing a Socialist Society: The German Democratic Republic. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0313265303.
- Wolfgang Mittmann (1998); Die Transportpolizei (1945–1990), Berlín: Links, Forschungen zur DDR-Gesellschaft.
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