Kasernierte Volkspolizei
Klaus Henkes volunteered for military service on 23 May 1952, and was commended to attend training till 1953. This was a training programme instigated at the end of 1951 by the Soviet authorities which involved special training at Syzran, by the Volga River for approximately 220 East German future military pilots for that country's future military air force. (The country's army was only officially designed an army in 1956, prior to which quasi-military activity took place under the auspices of the Peoples' Police based in Barracks (KVP / "Kasernierte Volkspolizei").)