Organization
- Personnel: At full strength, the regiment consisted of over 11,200 personnel, including 2,500 officers, 8,735 NCOs and enlisted men, and nine civil staff. Its commander was a Major General after 1956.
- Subunits: It comprised the following:
- Three combat groups with six motorized rifle battalions and three training battalions,
- an artillery battalion and
- engineer, medical, support and reconnaissance companies.
The Regiment was subdivided into commands as of 1980 to 1989:
- Kommando 1 – Standort Adlershof, Standorte in den Bezirken Command 1 - Location Adlershof, locations in the districts
- Kommando 2 – Standort Erkner - Erkner
- Kommando 3 – Standort Teupitz - Teupitz
- Kommando 4 – Standort in Eberswalde-Finow later (mid 1980s) in Erkner, Prenden and Biesenthal
- Kommando 5 – Standort Berlin until 1982, then Freienbrink Ahrensfelde
The site was acquired by the Ahrensfelde guard regiment until mid-January 1989. Until then he had formed of accommodation facility for UAV units of the Ministry for State Security (e.g., backup units of VRD, BDL, HA VI, AGMS). These units were uniformed as well as the guard and security units of the counties of the Stasi (BV) no subdivision of the guards regiment. Part of these units were merged in January 1989 into the guard regiment, which is why the site was taken over by the Ahrensfelde guard regiment. Until 1989, the guard regiment had no "locations in the districts. The service objects there were guarded by the WSE, which were placed under the respective BV.
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