Main news center of the Ministry of National Defense
HptNZ of the MfAuV / MfNV |
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active | 1949 to October 2, 1990 |
Country | German Democratic Republic |
Armed forces | National Peoples Army |
Armed forces | |
Branch of service | Telecommunications force |
Type | Telecommunications Regiment |
structure | see structure of the HptNZ |
Insinuation | MfNV |
garrison | Strausberg |
Head of HptNZ | |
last head of HptNZ | Colonel Joachim Kampe |
The main message center (HptNZ) was a telecommunications facility with regimental status of the Ministry of National Defense (MfNV) and the Ministry of Disarmament and Defense (MfAuV) of the National People's Army of the GDR. It was subordinate to the chief of the main staff of the NVA and was professionally led by the chief of the news administration in the MfAuV / MfNV. She was deployed in Strausberg Nord within the boundaries of the MfNV.
assignment
The task of the main news center consisted of securing all types of communication connections for the leadership, interaction, warning and notification for the ministry, its operational command center and all departments at the Strausberg site . As an independent agency, it was deployed directly in the area of the barracks of the ministry . Their technical basis consisted of the Strausberg and Kagel news bunkers .
Location, meaning
The bunker in Strausberg was built as part of the GDR's first bunker building program in the 1970s and went into operation in December 1979. It was officially put into service by the Minister for National Defense on June 13, 1980. The bunker in Kagel is the first bunker built in the GDR from 1958–1962. It has been reconstructed several times over the years.
Both bunkers represented the MfNV's message center - the last code name was “Vostok” . In the NVA's secretly prepared message system for the event of war , the headquarters played a dominant role, was integrated into all active and passive message networks of the NVA and connected to all central command posts .
Main tasks
Taking into account their dominant role in the well-prepared communications system in the event of war, their function as a management tool of the Ministry of National Defense and their cooperation in the communications system of the countries participating in the Warsaw Pact , the main tasks for securing communications were formulated and ordered for:
- the cooperation with the headquarters of the United Armed Forces in Moscow ,
- the reception of signals Monument from the alarm system of the staff of the United Armed Forces,
- the cooperation with the general staffs of the armies of the participating States of the Warsaw Treaty,
- the cooperation with the staff of the Western Group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany in Wünsdorf near Zossen,
- the cooperation with the central organs of the government of the GDR: the Central Committee of the SED , Council of Ministers , Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of State Security, Central Administration of Civil Defense and the Society for Sport and Technology of the GDR,
- the leadership of the NVA armed forces with the
- Civil defense of the GDR ,
- the operational command center of the Ministry of National Defense ,
- all offices at the Strausberg site,
- all guest houses of the Ministry of National Defense,
- Ensuring communication links during maneuvers , troop exercises, troop inspections, vacation stays of the minister and deputies of the minister, social highlights in Strausberg and Berlin ( honorary parades ) and other measures.
In the implementation and fulfillment of these tasks, the main message center (HptNZ) of the MfNV was integrated into all communication networks (including: the command network, narrowband radio network , emergency and emergency telephone network, the networks of the armed forces, etc. as well as the tropospheric message system "BARS" ), operated communication links to a plurality of message centers (including the main executing body of the MfNV bunker Harnekop , the bunker complex 5000 , the Operational computer center of the NVA , the message center "RANET" the group of Soviet forces in Germany , with the tropospheric radio exchanges 301 , 302 and 303, the main command post Ticino the People's Navy of the GDR).
Preparation of German unity
In preparation for the establishment of the unification of Germany, direct voice / data communication connections were established, maintained and operated in 1990 between the Ministry for Disarmament and Defense of the GDR in Strausberg and the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn . This was preceded by talks between the Head of the Main Intelligence Center on May 4, 1990 at the BMVg in Bonn with representatives of Staff Division VII, Telecommunications Services. This concerned both an open telephone and a VS-GEHEIM telex connection with the T-310/50 encryption device . The last-mentioned connection only existed for a period of four weeks. A corresponding set of equipment was transferred, installed and put into operation in the Tomburg barracks by members of the main intelligence center in Rheinbach, where it was then the Office for Telecommunications and Information Systems of the Bundeswehr (AFmISBw) .
structure
The main news center had the status of a part of the news force or news regiment because it was on a par with a general regiment. Their battalions in the tactical sense were the individual elements referred to as headquarters. Officially, the main news center of the Ministry of National Defense of the GDR was assigned to the central facilities of the Ministry and was directly subordinate to it.
The designations for the leadership, the deputies and their areas as well as the individual centers, which had to fulfill specific tasks according to their technical equipment, were adapted to the special features of an intelligence unit. With the elements, groups and crews assigned to them, they ensured the establishment, maintenance and operation of communications links and, in parallel, the exchange of information for the Ministry of National Defense as an operational technical service. The personnel for the news center in the Hubertusstock hunting lodge, which operated the center around the clock in shifts, and the MfNV command train were integrated into the position plan and equipment verification of the unit . The technical facilities themselves were part of the basic resources of the hunting lodge. Investments, technical maintenance and repairs were carried out by the main news center. In the preparation and implementation of political highlights in the Hubertusstock hunting lodge, the operating staff of the HptNZ was replaced by members of the Ministry for State Security .
development
Its development took place in dependence on that of the Ministry of National Defense , since its task has always been to ensure the security of information for the army command.
- 1949 Formation of a message center for the staff of the main training administration (HVA) Berlin-Wilhelmsruh
- 1951 Formation of the HVA's intelligence control center at the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR in Berlin-Adlershof
- 1954 Formation of the "news hub" at the main staff of the Barracked People's Police (KVP) of the GDR in Strausberg
- 1956 Creation of the "news operations department" of the Ministry for National Defense of the GDR
- 1961 Formation of the radio reception and transmission center from the existing radio office
- 1969 on May 1st the "main news center" of the Ministry for National Defense of the GDR was established
- 1979 December, the first elements of the news center start working in the new bunker
- 1986 takeover of the troop flag and 1988 award with the title "best troop unit"
- 1990 in May, establishment of the first direct voice / data communication to the BMVg in Bonn
- 1990 October, transferred to the Bundeswehr
The main communications center was transferred to the German Armed Forces on October 3, 1990 , and performed the function of the Strausberg telecommunications center , later as the telecommunications center of the Defense District Administration East and VII. The telephone exchange facilities in the bunker in Strausberg were used until the mid-1990s , after which the technology was expanded , the gutting of the structure and the closure in 2002. The bunker in Kagel was privatized after it was cleared.
literature
- Joachim Kampe: Wostok - the news center in the center of the military power of the GDR . ISBN 3-932566-60-2 .
- Hans-Werner Deim, Hans-Georg Kampe, Joachim Kampe, Wolfgang Schubert: The military security of the GDR in the Cold War . ISBN 978-3-932566-80-6 .
- Joachim Kampe: The tropospheric communication system BARS and the bunker facility Wollenberg , ISBN 978-3-932566-90-5
Web links
- The narrowband radio network of the party and the NVA
- Documentation "Directional radio network of the party"
- Spiegel / history: German rapprochement in the headquarters of the class enemy
- Homepage to the main news center
- The news center "Vostok"
- The MONUMENT alarm system
- Telephone surveillance in the MfNV
- Bunker Strausberg, the center of the MfNV's news center
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '36.4 " N , 13 ° 55' 16.6" E