Kasernierte Volkspolizei

Garrisoned People's Police
Kasernierte Volkspolizei
MottoFür Volk und Vaterland ("For the people and the Fatherland")
Founded
  • 1948 (as Bereitschaftspolizei)
  • 25 August 1949 (as Verwaltung für Schulung)
  • 15 October 1949 (as Hauptverwaltung für Ausbildung)
  • June 1, 1952 (as Kasernierte Volkspolizei)
Disbanded1 March 1956
HeadquartersAdlershof, East Berlin (1948-1954)
Strausberg (1954-1956)
Industry
Foreign suppliersSoviet Union

The Kasernierte Volkspolizei (KVP; German for "Barracked People's Police") was a paramilitary force in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1948 to 1956 that served as a precursor to the National People's Army (NVA). Their original headquarters was in the Adlershof borough in East Berlin, and from 1954 in Strausberg in modern-day Brandenburg.

The KVP was founded in the Soviet occupation zone and tasked with internal security operations since at the time, the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany was still mandated to provide external defense. They ceased to exist after 1956, having been transformed into the NVA, but are often confused with the later paramilitary police units, the Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft.

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