Border guard

The Border Guard is the governmental and supranational sovereignty. The protection of lying within the boundaries of the area, which is defined by international law, is to be ensured by the monitoring, control and defense of borders and their surrounding areas. Thus, persons or goods checked at the border crossing by police or military organizational units to fend off threats.

The Border Guard is not to be confused with the border supervision of customs.

Germany

More specifically, the term means including:

  • As a collective term for 1918/1919 established German associations, see Border Patrol East.
  • As organized paramilitary police force of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1951, see Federal, it has been renamed to the Federal Police.
  • Bavarian border police (15 March 1947 to 31 March 1998)
  • Hessian border police ( between the surrender of the Wehrmacht until the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany )
  • For the East German border guards, an armed body of the German Democratic Republic
  • For the constructed under the government de Maizière in 1990 police border guards of the GDR Ministry of the Interior of the GDR.
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