The Deutsche Volkspolizei (DVP, German for "German People's Police"), commonly known as the Volkspolizei or VoPo, was the national uniformed police force...

The Volkspolizei-Bereitschaften (VPB, German for "People's Police Alert Units", sometimes known as "Barracked People’s Police" or "Alert Police") were...

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...

II, Schumann enlisted in the East German Volkspolizei-Bereitschaften (Paramilitary Unit of the Volkspolizei) following his 18th birthday. After three...

Deutsche Volkspolizei Rostock. The second team of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Schwerin became the new first team instead. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Schwerin...

Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam. The history of SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen originally begins with sports community SG Volkspolizei Berlin. SG Volkspolizei Berlin...

The Volkspolizei (German for "People's Police") served as the armed forces and the national police of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from...

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...

(English: Service Unit 9) was the tier one police tactical unit of the Volkspolizei that specialized in capture high-value target, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism...

1956 from the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People's Police), the military units of the regular police (Volkspolizei), when East Germany joined...

SG Volkspolizei Potsdam, also known as SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam was an East German sports community based in Potsdam, Bezirk Potsdam (present day...

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...

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...

article: Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft The East German Ministry of the Interior maintained the independent Department of the Alert Units of the Volkspolizei known...

1987. The NVA was formed on 1 March 1956 to succeed the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People's Police) and under the influence of the Soviet Army...

Korean War. The main aim was to have a counterforce to the Kasernierte Volkspolizei of East Germany in case of a Korea-like scenario if the East attacked...

Former Volkspolizei Barkas B 1000 van...

der Kasernierten Volkspolizei Leipzig SV Vorwärts der KVP Leipzig 3 April 1953 Sportvereinigung Vorwärts der Kasernierten Volkspolizei Berlin SV Vorwärts...

forces. The NPA itself was created on March 1, 1956, from the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People's Police). The LaSK had a peacetime organisation since...

September 1947) was a German journalist, communist, and head of the Volkspolizei in Mecklenburg. Kahle was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, the son of a...

Staatssicherheit ("state security", the secret police) and VoPo for Volkspolizei. The phrase politisches Büro, which may be rendered literally as "office...

colloquially, was formally established. In the same year the East German Volkspolizei See (literally People's Police Sea) became the Volksmarine (People's...

Schutzpolizei in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany (the East German Volkspolizei had until 1990 similar rank insignia, only with a bit different number...

Germany's Volkskammer. In 1952, Adam became a colonel in the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (KVP) ("Barracked People's Police"), the forerunner of the East German...

1990) received the GT and GS prefixes, respectively. Vehicles of the Volkspolizei were furnished with plates bearing the VP prefix. Although they were...

Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018. "9. Volkspolizei-Kompanie a Diensteinheit IX: Protiteroristické jednotky východního Německa"...

right in the DDR-Oberliga was given to SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden only played in the lower tier Stadtliga Dresden...

communist party rule, including the following: East Germany – Stasi, Volkspolizei and KdA Soviet Union – KGB Czechoslovakia – STB and LM Bulgaria – KDS...