Strausberg bunker

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The Strausberg bunker was built as part of the GDR's first bunker construction program in 1968 in the 1970s in the property of the main intelligence center within the boundaries of the then Ministry of National Defense and was put into operation at the end of 1979; its official commissioning by the Minister of National Defense took place on June 13, 1980. Together with the Kagel bunker, it represented the technical basis of the MfNV's main news center . The main facilities of the "Vostok" news center of the GDR Ministry for National Defense were installed in the bunker . In the "integrated staff network of the party and state leadership of the GDR and the armed organs", commonly referred to as special network 1 or integrated staff network of the NVA , there was close cooperation with the main switching center 2 of this network in the bunker Strausberg (Deutsche Post) .

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Intended use

The bunker in Strausberg, a structure with two floors and the basic dimensions of 70 × 30 m, secured all kinds of communication connections for the MfNV, including the Operative Command Center (OFZ), as a node and end switching center. As part of the Warsaw Pact, the news center was declared a prime example. From an operational and strategic point of view, the bunker system in Kagel was operated separately from the main building in Strausberg. He provided all radio transmitters with an output of up to 5 kW required to operate radio links . For this purpose, a total of 40 different antenna systems were available on an area of ​​approx. 40 ha, including the underground terrestrial antennas.

The main news center was an intelligence unit that was directly subordinate to the MfNV. The bunker corresponded to protection class "E", had a floor area without the ancillary facilities of 70 × 30 meters and two floors. The operational command center of the MfNV was connected to the news bunker underground via a corridor system.

Voice and data communication connection

The Strausberg bunker assumed a dominant position as a communications center in the NVA's communications system. It not only represents the center of the system as a terminal exchange for the ministry, but also functioned as a node exchange in the NVA's messaging system. In this capacity, he operated a large number of direct communication links to other message (NZ), auxiliary (HNZ) and support message centers (StNZ) at the central management level, the armed forces of the NVA, commandos of the armed forces and military districts with their well-prepared command posts. Only a few are listed here:

further connections existed via the HNZ of the central management level in the north and south of the republic z. B. to (for):

  • Ministry of the Interior of the GDR, border crossing points, transmission points of the Deutsche Post etc.

photos

  • Insights into the Strausberg bunker

  • Bunker surface (left in the picture), in the background the OFZ

  • Access to the stairs

  • Downstairs to the bunker

  • Lock area

  • After entering the bunker

  • Room of the former automatic switchboard

  • Pneumatic tube control center

  • Emergency power system (diesel generator sets are removed)

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literature

  • Hans Werner Deim, Hans-Georg Kampe, Joachim Kampe, Wolfgang Schubert: The military security of the GDR in the Cold War. Contents, structures, bunkered management positions, facilities. Meißler, Hönow 2008, ISBN 978-3-932566-80-6 .
  • Joachim Kampe: Wostok - the news center in the center of the military power of the GDR. CD in Portable Document Format (PDF). Project and publishing house Meißler, Hönow 2004, ISBN 3-932566-60-2 .
  • Joachim Kampe: Cold War bunkers . Video documentation.
  • Joachim Kampe: The tropospheric message system "BARS" and the bunker facility Wollenberg , ISBN 978-3-932566-90-5

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Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '36.8 "  N , 13 ° 55' 16.9"  E