Border Command South
| Listed below are the regiments, battalions and support units of Border Command South. Patrolling the fence on the opposite side of the Command’s border troops were the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, and units of the 3d Infantry Division. |
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Border Command South (Grenzkommando Sued) |
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| Unit | Honor Name | Location |
| Grenzregiment 1 | “Eugen Lewin” | Muehlhausen |
| 1st Battalion | Hildebrandshausen | |
| 2nd Battalion | Herda | |
| 3rd Battalion | Muehlhausen | |
| Grenzregiment 3 | “Florian Geyer” | Dermbach |
| 1st Battalion | Suenna | |
| 2nd Battalion | Kaltennordheim | |
| 3rd Battalion | Derbach | |
| Grenzregiment 4 | “Willy Gebhardt” | Heiligenstadt |
| 1st Battalion | Klettenberg | |
| 2nd Battalion | Mengelroda | |
| 3rd Battalion | Heiligenstadt | |
| Grenzregiment 9 | “Konrad Blenkle” | Meiningen |
| 1st Battalion | Roemhild | |
| 2nd Battalion | Eishausen | |
| 3rd Battalion | Meiningen | |
| Grenzregiment 10 | “Ernst Gruebe” | Sonneberg |
| 1st Battalion | Tschachermuehle | |
| 2nd Battalion | Gefell | |
| 3rd Battalion | Plauen | |
| Grenzregiment 15 | “Herbert Warnke” | Sonneberg |
| 1st Battalion | Schalkau | |
| 2nd Battalion | Sonneberg | |
| 3rd Battalion | Probstzella | |
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Training Regiments |
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| Grenzrausbildungsregiment 11 | “Theodor Neubauer” | Eisenach |
| Grenzrausbildungsregiment 12 | “Rudi Arnstadt” | Rudolstadt |
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Support Units |
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| Security Comapny 27 | Erfurt | |
| Staff Battalion 27 | Erfurt | |
| Engineer Company | Meiningen | |
| Music Corps | Erfurt | |