Border Command Central

Listed below are the regimental and support units of the Command. These units manned the Berlin Wall and border crossing points going in and out of Berlin. Patrolling the Berlin Wall on the opposite side of the Wall were units of the French and British armies and the U.S. Berlin Brigade.

Border Command Central (Grenzkommando Mitte)  

Unit Honor Name Location
Grenzregiment 33         “Heinrich Dorrenbach”   Bin-Treptow
Grenzregiment 34        Hanno Guenther Gross Glienicke
Grenzregiment 35       “Nikolai Bersarin” Bin-Rummelburg
Grenzregiment 36 Rummelberg
Grenzregiment 38          “Clara Zetkin”  Henningsdorf
Grenzregiment 42        “Fritz Perlitz”   Blakenfelde
Grenzregiment 44        “Walter Junker” Babelsberg
 GUEST – Regiment 26 “Walter Husemann”  Bin-Niederschoenhsn
Artillerieregiment 26        “Otto Neide”    Bin-Johannisthal
Mechfachraketenwerferbataillon 36   “Bruno Kuehn”   Schildow

Training  Regiments

Grenzrausbildungsregiment 39   “Ho Chi Minh”   Bin-Wilhelmshagen
Grenzrausbildungsregiment 40 "Hans Coppi”    Oranienburg

Support Units

Security Company 26 Klein Machnow
Chemical Company 26 Gross Glienicke
Transportation Company 26 Gross Glienicke
Engineer Company Gross Glienicke
Gross Glienicke
Intelligence Battalion Rummelsberg
Music Corps Berlin-Karlhorst