The Hugo Eberlein Guard Regiment, officially Wachregiment "Hugo Eberlein" (also as NVA Wachregiment 2 ) was a military unit which provided security to the East German Ministry of National Defence. It was formed in 1956 as the Wachregiment der Hauptverwaltung Ausbildung (Guard regiment of (NVA) Training Headquarters). It had its location at the Ministry of National Defense of the GDR in Strausberg suburb near Berlin. The regiment was named after the Communist Hugo Eberlein who was a victim of Stalin's purge.
Last commander of the guards regiment was in September 1990, Colonel Steinkopf.
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It did not serve the purposes of protocol, such as the Friedrich Engels Guards Regiment, but provided for the security of installations and buildings of the Ministry of National Defense in Strausberg-Nord. Until 1962, this included guarding other properties in Berlin. Later there were troops that were part of three so-called honor companies. These were removed in 1962 and it formed the guard regiment Friedrich Engels, who also assumed those Honor Guard duties.
The guard regiment was organized as follows:
Its uniforms were nearly identical to those of the those of National People's Army (NVA) and were distinguished primarily by the honorary cuffband on the left sleeve bearing the regiment's name.
Each guard battalion was equipped with 27 BTR-60 armored personnel carriers and an FlaKAbt (Anti-aircraft Detachmant with 27x 23mm ZPU-2 twin barreled 23mm antiaircraft guns.
Hagen Koch, Peter Joachim Lapp: Die Garde des Erich Mielke - Der militärisch-operative Arm des MfS - Das Berliner Wachregiment "Feliks Dzierzynski", Helios-Verlag Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938208-72-4