Transportpolizei
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The Transportpolizei was the Transit police of the East German volkspolizei that dealt with modes of transit but primarily with trains and railroads. Called TraPo's, with approximately 8,500 men, they were organized with a directorate at National level and a District at each East German National Railroad district. They wore dark-blue uniforms (they were called colloquially also “blue berries”) instead of the standard green VoPo uniform. They were organized into sixteen companies and equipped with small arms and RPG-7 shoulder-fired antitank grenade launchers. The transportation police supervised all larger Stations and controlled the travelers, particularly in the border area to Federal Republic of Germany, also the Binnenverkehrs. Controls were particularly inglorious of the Rapid-transit railway- Traffic before that Building of the Wall in Berlin. In the interzone courses (late transit courses) there was always an escort party of the transportation police present. The service training school of the transportation police was in Resounds (Saale).
By January 1953 until February 1957 the transportation police was subordinate to that Ministry for public security, occasional office of the secretary of state. Starting from March 1957 they were transfered to the People police, whose supervising inspector was Otto Auerswald.
After the entry of the GDR became 1990 the transportation police dissolved and according to the regulations of the Agreement contract as a “course police in the Federal Border Police” furnished. At the 1. April 1992 the TraPo was taken over by the Federal Border Police (now the German Federal police) of a unified Germany.
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