Transportpolizei
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The Script error: No such module "Lang". (German for "Transport Police") was the transit police of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), whose officers were commonly nicknamed TraPos. It was part of the Script error: No such module "Lang". and dealt with all modes of transit, but primarily with trains and railroads. It consisted of approximately 8,500 men, that were organized from a national level and at district level, with each Deutsche Reichsbahn district: East Berlin, Cottbus, Dresden, Erfurt, Greifswald, Halle, Magdeburg and Schwerin. They wore dark-blue uniforms (that were colloquially called “blueberries”), instead of the standard green Script error: No such module "Lang". uniform. They were organized into sixteen companies and equipped with small arms and RPG-7 shoulder-fired antitank grenade launchers. The Script error: No such module "Lang". supervised all larger train stations and controlled the travellers, particularly at the border with West Germany, and directed traffic. Before the building of the Berlin Wall, the Script error: No such module "Lang". controlled the S-Bahn in West Berlin (as the Deutsche Reichsbahn controlled the S-Bahn in both East and West Berlins). In the 'interzone courses' (later called 'transit courses'), there was always an escort party of the Script error: No such module "Lang". present. The service training school of the Script error: No such module "Lang". was in Halle.
From January 1953 until February 1957, the Script error: No such module "Lang". was part of the Ministry for State Security, in turn part of the Office of the Secretary of State. Starting from March 1957, it was transferred to the Script error: No such module "Lang"., whose supervising inspector was Otto Auerswald.
After the German reunification of 1990, the Script error: No such module "Lang". was dissolved, with some 1,200 of its personnel transferring to the (West) German Script error: No such module "Lang".. On April 1, 1992, the Script error: No such module "Lang". was taken over by the German Federal Border Guard (now called the German Federal Police).
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- Wolfgang Mittmann (1998); Die Transportpolizei (1945–1990), Berlín: Links, Forschungen zur DDR-Gesellschaft.