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Wachregiment Feliks Dzierzynski was a Stasi unit (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit) which among other things provided the honor guard for ceremonial occasions within the Berlin city limits where NVA troops were forbidden to be stationed according to agreements between the allies after the end of the Second World War.


Commanders 
Oberstleutnant (?) Werner Barth   (Nov 1954-1958) 
Generalmajor Günter Wolf   (1959-1962) 
Generalmajor Dipl.-Mil. Heinz Gronau   (1962-1972) 
Generalmajor Dipl.-Mil. Bernhard Elsner   (1972-1987) 
Generalmajor Dipl.-Mil. Manfred Döring   (1987-1990) 

Manpower strength 
1952   1.900 (est.) 
1955   1.475 
1960   4.372 
1965   5.121 
1970   7.924 
1975   9.245 
1980   10.082 
1985   10.298 
1989   11.426 

Wachregiment Feliks Dzierzynski recieves its honor title from Generaloberst Erich Mielke 15 December 1967

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Soldier from Wachregiment Feliks Dzierzynski during the ceremony to mark the renaming of the Tilsiter Straße to Richard-Sorge-Straße on 6 November 1969

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Soldiers from Wachregiment Feliks Dzierzynski during the ceremony to mark the renaming of the Tilsiter Straße to Richard-Sorge-Straße on 6 November 1969

 

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Reference material on this unit

Hagen Kuch & Peter Joachim Lapp - Die Garde des Erich Mielke: Der militärisch-operative Arm des MfS / Das Berliner Wachregiment "Feliks Dzierzynski"



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