East German border guards

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/East_German_border_guards
GPTKB entity
Statements (29)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military_unit
gptkbp:activeYears 1946
1990
gptkbp:country gptkb:East_Germany
gptkbp:disbanded 1990
gptkbp:dissolved gptkb:German_reunification
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Potsdam,_East_Germany
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label East German border guards
gptkbp:main_task guarding the Berlin Wall
guarding the border with Czechoslovakia and Poland
guarding the inner German border
gptkbp:motto For the protection of the socialist homeland
gptkbp:notableCommander gptkb:Klaus-Dieter_Baumgarten
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:shooting_of_Peter_Fechter
involved in Berlin Wall security
shoot-to-kill orders
gptkbp:officialName gptkb:Grenztruppen_der_DDR
gptkbp:part_of gptkb:Ministry_of_National_Defence_(East_Germany)
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Soviet_Occupation_Zone_border_police
gptkbp:role border security
preventing escapes from East Germany
gptkbp:size about 47,000 personnel (at peak)
gptkbp:subordinateUnit gptkb:Ministry_of_National_Defence_(after_1973)
National People's Army (until 1973)
gptkbp:successor Bundesgrenzschutz (in unified Germany)
gptkbp:uniform distinctive green uniforms
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Berlin_Wall
gptkb:Checkpoint_Bornholmer_Straße
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5