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At the side of General Mueller and Franz Dahlem stand two
Russian generals: General Kubanov and General Petrakovski, who both have
very wide authorities, and who are personal inspectors for General
Stemenkoe
Under this supreme comand, arc the branch comands of the
different services. *ha land forces are headed by H-inz Hoffmann, who
is now commander in chicf of the People's Police with headquarters in
Berlin - Adlershof. His rank is a general of the Peo le's Police. Born
in 1910, he was trained a machine tool worker. Already in his early
youth, he joined the Communist aye and was compstled to emigrate when
Hitler gained powers During the Spanish civil war, he fough in the 11th
international brigade and distinguished himself very much in several
important battles. After the end of the war, he went soon to Moscow
and lived t! «re until 1946, when he returned to Berlin to work in the
enetral Secretariate of the SED. Hoffmann is a Yoviet citizen and had
the distinction of being a member of the Russian communist Partye His
appointment is due mainly to his frienaship with J4aisser. His technical
qualifications are not great and hence, the bulk of the work in his staff
is donge by professional German soldiers of the Nazi vintage.
ihe command r of the air sorce is weneral of the Peopple's
Police, Gencral-inspector Heinz Kessler. Born in 1920 in Saxony, city
of Chemitz, he was a machine tool worker, whose father had already been
acmmunist. During the terman<iiussian war, he deserted to the Hussians
and was thereupon put for four years into a special training campe he
returned to Germany in 1947 and became head of the ¥ree German Youth
Movement, the communist youth organization. in 1948, he once again
returned to Moscow, only to return in 1950 as a member of the Central
Committee of the SEDe hessler too has practically no technisal knowledge
of his departm nt, though all his collaborators praise his intelligence
and his rapid grasp of the situation. Th e true .ork at the Air ¥@ ce
headquarters im Berlin-Johannesthal is carried out by one of the Nazi
war ores major Hgbert Freiherr von Frankenfela und Proschlitze this
rrussian nobleman, inter stingly, has become a full-fledged communiste
who genuinely and honestly believes in the moscow tenetse he is on» of
the most creditable results 8# the »noviet-sp nsored @ntifa campse
“he supreme commena of the navy is in berlin-nieuersbhoeneweide
and is headed by Admiral Waldemar Verner. orn in 1907, he vas furmerly
a decorator. An active communist under hitler, he was forced into
emigration anu later into underground activitiese sater, fter 1946,
he became head of th. Comrunist rarty in ostralsund.
The questions of supplies, army constructions ana the liaison
between the Army and the econo ic branches of the gov iment is in the
harids of Bernd Weinberger. a profes&ional communist ali his life, at tim
journalist, Weinberger got his economic training as head of the
Bureau of soviet reparations.
wirectly uncer saisser is also the political division of the
Armed Forces which orgsnizes the whole core of political te ont ds in
all the Armed Forces of the vermin » mocratic Republic. Locnteda in
berlin-Tfreptow, it is teased by vueneral vicikel, whe is assisted te
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