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GSG 9 der Bundespolizei, formerly Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (German for 'Border Protection Group 9'), is the police tactical unit of the German Federal Police (Bundespolizei). The unit is responsible for combatting terrorism and violent crime , including organized crime . [ 1 ]
The GSG 9 counter-terrorism group is directly subordinate to the BPOL HQ. The BPOL Information and Communications Center is now a department of the BPOL HQ in Potsdam. Most special units of the Federal Police are subordinate to the unified command of Federal Police Directorate 11 .
A grand strategy wargame or simply grand strategy game (GSG) [1] [2] is a wargame that places focus on grand strategy: military strategy at the level of movement and use of a nation state or empire's resources.
The GSG 9 was not integrated into any of the existing groups. It won world attention when it rescued ninety passengers on a Lufthansa Flight 181 airliner hijacked to Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1977. BGS canteen made in 1957 BGS Cap, in use until 1976. June 1990 saw the elimination of border patrols and control of persons at the Inner-German border. [1]
Established as a counter-terrorism unit by the Bundesgrenzschutz in 1972 following the Munich Massacre, the GSG 9 served as a model for the formation and alignment of the Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK) in 1996. Their counterpart at the state police level (Landespolizei) is the Spezialeinsatzkommandos (SEK).
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The tomb of Michael Newrzella at Nienstedten Cemetery Hamburg. Michael Oskar Newrzella (September 15, 1967 – June 27, 1993) was a German police officer and member of GSG 9, the counter-terrorism and special operations unit of the German Federal Police, who was killed by the Red Army Faction.
The CTC was initiated in 1983 by the former GSG 9 commanders Ulrich Wegener and Uwe Dee in order to improve cooperation among the different units and to encourage the exchange of ideas and experience.