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Finally getting around to it, here are all the West German BGS photos I've accumulated.
A large portion of them are from, and many more can be seen at:
https://www.beim-alten-bgs.de/Zu_den_Kameradenseiten/92_Hans-Jurgen_Gienke/92_hans-jurgen_gienke.html
Again I claim zero credit to any of these photos, simply reposting them here in a collection for collectors to use as period uniform/gear/weapon reference and for their historical value.
There may be a few regular Polizei/GSG-9 photos mixed in there, intentional or not.
As per last time there may be some duplicates, or reposts of ones from other threads, and I will try to include relevant info that came with the photos if it is available, but
as you've seen I often get things wrong and some of the included captions may be incorrect which I may have not noticed, so please feel more than welcome to add your own corrections/observations!
Anyway, enjoy!
-Nate
Anschiessenweb
04-1967_Grenzstreife_BGS_HEF_Gerstunger_Forst
6-2-1958_ski-streifen-ausbildung_im_hessischen
With MP1 SMG
13th HU, the MG1 gunner is called Forjahn
Hauserkampf
16-1973 Blindicide 101mm
101mm
Seite
The following are actually Bundeszollverwaltung officers, but thought I'd throw them in because they are neat pics anyway.
1960
1961
1975
And a couple from 1980
Back to the BGS:
1977, at the border
This man appears to have a Kampfmesser 68 on his belt.
I think these are actually reenactment pics
A selection from the above linked site:
These were in my folder as misc Polizei, not sure which unit they are.
Pretty sure these are regular Polizei. Check out those weapons though!
Not sure about this one
A group on the orientation march.
A motorized patrol
A rearmed BGS Greyhound with additional equipment fitted and a non-standard, possibly local, camouflage turret wrap.
Ausbildung ca. 1979
Ausbildung-Pzabw-G-101mm
Ausrichtendeswerfers
MP1
BGS border patrol squad in the mid-1950s, with MG-42 machine gun and 98k rifles. The radio may be a SCR-300.
MP1 range qual
Sonderwagen 1960
Traffic controller and MP1s
1957
After NBC training
Bilder vom Zugführer - Lehrgang Putlos 1981
Bilder von der Hundertschaftsübung im November 1983
Hans-Jürgen (Hansi) Gienke on the 1st orientation march - slim 16 Lenze old
Lüneburg department takes on cattle transport in the GDR and directs it to the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
Comrade Dietzel is sitting on an old tank that was shot at for training purposes
Conferring_with_other_officers_during_military_exercises_in_Nurnberg,_Germany_1986
Entfern
Gefechtsschießen Munster ca. 1980
Geländeausbildung ca. 1978
Gorleben Bohrstelle 1003 - im Jahr 1982
Granatwerfer
Granatwerfer2 Peter W., Arnold M, Peter O
M81 grenade launcher. Manfred Gnad,-,Kossmann, Biberger
Military_exercise_1986_in_Nurnberg,_Germany
Officers of the Bundesgrenzschutz on duty at the Inner-German border Jan 1980
Panzerknacker2 Kopie
Reforger '86 in Nurnberg 1986
Schneider Horst
Treibladung
PzAbwG 101mm
And ending with some older pics of special units, most of these should be GSG-9/Grenzschutzgruppe 9 with some regular Polizei teams mixed in.
A large portion of them are from, and many more can be seen at:
https://www.beim-alten-bgs.de/Zu_den_Kameradenseiten/92_Hans-Jurgen_Gienke/92_hans-jurgen_gienke.html
Again I claim zero credit to any of these photos, simply reposting them here in a collection for collectors to use as period uniform/gear/weapon reference and for their historical value.
There may be a few regular Polizei/GSG-9 photos mixed in there, intentional or not.
As per last time there may be some duplicates, or reposts of ones from other threads, and I will try to include relevant info that came with the photos if it is available, but
as you've seen I often get things wrong and some of the included captions may be incorrect which I may have not noticed, so please feel more than welcome to add your own corrections/observations!
Anyway, enjoy!
-Nate
Anschiessenweb
04-1967_Grenzstreife_BGS_HEF_Gerstunger_Forst
6-2-1958_ski-streifen-ausbildung_im_hessischen
With MP1 SMG
13th HU, the MG1 gunner is called Forjahn
Hauserkampf
16-1973 Blindicide 101mm
101mm
Seite
The following are actually Bundeszollverwaltung officers, but thought I'd throw them in because they are neat pics anyway.
1960
1961
1975
And a couple from 1980
Back to the BGS:
1977, at the border
This man appears to have a Kampfmesser 68 on his belt.
I think these are actually reenactment pics
A selection from the above linked site:
These were in my folder as misc Polizei, not sure which unit they are.
Pretty sure these are regular Polizei. Check out those weapons though!
Not sure about this one
A group on the orientation march.
A motorized patrol
A rearmed BGS Greyhound with additional equipment fitted and a non-standard, possibly local, camouflage turret wrap.
Ausbildung ca. 1979
Ausbildung-Pzabw-G-101mm
Ausrichtendeswerfers
MP1
BGS border patrol squad in the mid-1950s, with MG-42 machine gun and 98k rifles. The radio may be a SCR-300.
MP1 range qual
Sonderwagen 1960
Traffic controller and MP1s
1957
After NBC training
Bilder vom Zugführer - Lehrgang Putlos 1981
Bilder von der Hundertschaftsübung im November 1983
Hans-Jürgen (Hansi) Gienke on the 1st orientation march - slim 16 Lenze old
Lüneburg department takes on cattle transport in the GDR and directs it to the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
Comrade Dietzel is sitting on an old tank that was shot at for training purposes
Conferring_with_other_officers_during_military_exercises_in_Nurnberg,_Germany_1986
Entfern
Gefechtsschießen Munster ca. 1980
Geländeausbildung ca. 1978
Gorleben Bohrstelle 1003 - im Jahr 1982
Granatwerfer
Granatwerfer2 Peter W., Arnold M, Peter O
M81 grenade launcher. Manfred Gnad,-,Kossmann, Biberger
Military_exercise_1986_in_Nurnberg,_Germany
Officers of the Bundesgrenzschutz on duty at the Inner-German border Jan 1980
Panzerknacker2 Kopie
Reforger '86 in Nurnberg 1986
Schneider Horst
Treibladung
PzAbwG 101mm
And ending with some older pics of special units, most of these should be GSG-9/Grenzschutzgruppe 9 with some regular Polizei teams mixed in.
