National police force of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
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Deutsche Volkspolizei German People's Police
Badge of the Volkspolizei
Banner of the Volkspolizei
Agency overview
Formed
31 October, 1945
Preceding agency
Ordnungspolizei
Dissolved
1990
Superseding agency
Bundespolizei/ Landespolizei Saxony, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt , Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Berlin
The Deutsche Volkspolizei (DVP, German for "German People's Police"), commonly known as the Volkspolizei or VoPo, was the national uniformed police force of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1945 to 1990. The Volkspolizei was a highly-centralized agency responsible for most civilian law enforcement in East Germany, maintaining 257,500 personnel at its peak. It worked closely along with the Stasi to maintain public order and identify threats to the regime.
The Deutsche Volkspolizei (DVP, German for "German People's Police"), commonly known as the Volkspolizei or VoPo, was the national uniformed police force...
communities of the Volkspolizei around East Germany on 20 June 1950. The new sports association was named SV Deutsche Volkspolizei. SG Volkspolizei Dresden was...
The Kasernierte Volkspolizei (English: Barracked People's Police) (KVP) was the precursor to the National People's Army (NVA) in East Germany. Their original...
The Volkspolizei (German for "People's Police") served as the armed forces and the national police of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from...
Deutsche Volkspolizei Rostock. The second team of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Schwerin became the new first team instead. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Schwerin...
(English: Service Unit 9) was the tier one police tactical unit of the Volkspolizei that specialized in capture high-value target, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism...
SG Volkspolizei Potsdam, also known as SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam was an East German sports community based in Potsdam, Bezirk Potsdam (present day...
1956 from the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People's Police), the military units of the regular police (Volkspolizei), when East Germany joined...
civil reserve force tied to the GDR's Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KdA was disbanded...
used by the Waffen-SS and the Ordnungspolizei of Nazi Germany and the Volkspolizei and Stasi of East Germany. In East Germany, the rank was junior to the...
3 October 1990 Shield Gules and a hammer and compass or Supporters Ring of rye Other elements Flag of Germany Use National People's Army Volkspolizei...
article: Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft The East German Ministry of the Interior maintained the independent Department of the Alert Units of the Volkspolizei known...
The following is an incomplete list of German colonel generals. Generals later promoted to general field marshal (GFM) are not included. See also: ⇒ de:...
The Freiwilliger Helfer der Volkspolizei (abbreviated FH) (English: "Voluntary Auxiliary of the People´s Police") was an auxiliary police service in East...
II, Schumann enlisted in the East German Volkspolizei-Bereitschaften (Paramilitary Unit of the Volkspolizei) following his 18th birthday. After three...
September 1947) was a German journalist, communist, and head of the Volkspolizei in Mecklenburg. Kahle was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, the son of a...
1990) received the GT and GS prefixes, respectively. Vehicles of the Volkspolizei were furnished with plates bearing the VP prefix. Although they were...
right in the DDR-Oberliga was given to SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden only played in the lower tier Stadtliga Dresden...
Staatssicherheit ("state security", the secret police) and VoPo for Volkspolizei. The phrase politisches Büro, which may be rendered literally as "office...
communist party rule, including the following: East Germany – Stasi, Volkspolizei and KdA Soviet Union – KGB Czechoslovakia – STB and LM Bulgaria – KDS...
retirement in 1962. He also held the rank of major general in the Kasernierte Volkspolizei. He died in Groß Glienicke aged 77. Michael Mueller, Geoffrey Brooks...
water police that patrols the waterways, lakes and harbours of Germany Volkspolizei, the People's Police in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)...
colloquially, was formally established. In the same year the East German Volkspolizei See (literally People's Police Sea) became the Volksmarine (People's...
supplemented with border guards from the newly established East German Volkspolizei ("People's Police"). Many unofficial crossing points were blocked with...