List of Soviet military sites in Germany

Badge of the GSFG/WGF
(1945-1994).

The List of Soviet military sites in Germany contains all military installations and units of the former Soviet Union on German territory. In correlation to Russian native document, original site designations of the Soviet armed forces are used as deemed to be necessary (e.g. later changes of site names are avoided). The units and formations were subordinated to the WGF Supreme Commands in Wünsdorf.

Baden-Württemberg

Berlin

Hessen

New states of Germany

Dislocation map HQ WGT and HQ of the WGF Armies on territory on the former GDR

The tables below contains the location of military unit and formation of the Western Group of (Soviet) Forces (WGF) on territory of the New federal states of Germany with particularities as follows:

• The English designation of military units and formations of the WGF (column 1) is in line to these in NATO, as deemed to be necessary. Honorary titles, names, or distinctions are omitted. In case of doubt, the original designation in Russian language is authoritative.
• Column 2 contains the original site's designation, in accordance with – Soviet troops in Germany 1945 to 1994, memorial album, edition Moscow, published by «Jang Guard», 1994; ISBN 5-235-02221-1, pages 15 to 22.

Supreme Command GSFG (WGF) and direct subordinates

The Supreme Command GSFG (WGF) comprised the staff divisions and direct subordinated units, formations and facilities, as follows (in 1991):

1st Guards Tank Army Saxonia

2nd Guards Tank Army Brandenburg / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

3rd Combined Arms Army Saxony-Anhalt

8th Guards Army Thuringia

16th Air Army

20th Guards Army Brandenburg

Units directly subordinated to the GSFG

The following units were directly subordinated to the GSFG's headquarters.

References / sources

1. Soviet troops in Germany 1945 to 1994, memorial album, edition Moscow, published by «Jang Guard», 1994; ISBN 5-235-02221-1.
2. Constituted on 30 July 1945 initially at the US Forces headquarters in the American sector. The Soviet Union rejected the originally planned seat, the former Reich Aviation Ministry on Leipziger Straße in the Mitte district (along with every other proposed location in the Soviet sector). The Allied Control Council for Germany met 82 times before the Soviet Union walked out of the council on 20 March 1948. The principle of unanimity prevailed. Between meetings, the coordinating committee and control staff with 12 directors managed the work. Not a German executive body.
3. Feskov "The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War," 2004, p. 105.
4. Feskov et al 2013, pp. 401–403.

References

• Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.
• "Soviet troops in Germany 1945 to 1994", memorial album, edition Moscow, published by «Jang Guard», 1994; ISBN 5-235-02221-1, pages 15 – 22.
• "The Radar Control Troops of the German Democratic Republic's Air Defence Forces", history and stories, by Wolf-Rüdiger Stuppe and Siefried Fiedle, 1st edition 2013 (p. 89-95, author L. Pflügner, Colonel r.), Publishing House Steffen/Steffen GmbH, ISBN 978-3-942477-39-0.