The Central Band of the NVA Land Forces was no reorganization such as the Stabsmusikkorps of the Bundeswehr, but it was taken over in 1956 by the KVP and at this time could look back on a seven -year history as a symphony orchestra or symphonic wind band. Of all the active bands, it was the most senior band of the entire NPA. The development of the Band ran until 1959 in normal tracks and without special features. Then Major Gerhard Baumann, former director of the Schwerin People's Police Band, came to Berlin via Leipzig and took over the leadership of the ZO from the hands of Major Hans-Helmut Hunger. In the "era Baumann", which lasted until 1983, the Central Band of the NVA became a term for solid military music and an extraordinary ensemble of sound. However, the uniqueness of the orchestra was not based solely on its position as the largest and most important music corps of military music of the NVA, because the official music - up to extraordinary representative performances - was, as with all top brass corps of a state, integrated into predetermined framework conditions, albeit Here, of course, his style and the treatment of the profession not only make the connoisseur sit up. In 1983, Colonel Gerhard Baumann handed over the baton to Heinz Häcker, who led the ZO until the time of reunification. The fate of the ZO was ultimately no different than that of the NVA as a whole. As a full blown Bundeswehr band in its final months the central band was disbanded under its last director, Major Bernd Zivny, who performed the band's final Berlin concert on 2 November 1990, the only time it performed wearing Bundeswehr uniforms as part of the unification of the band services of the former two Germanies, it was rebadged briefly as the local band for the now reunified Berlin city garrison.
Band of the National People's Navy
The Band of the National People's Navy was the only band supporting the ceremonial activities of the Volksmarine.
The Regimental Band and Corps of Drums of the Friedrich Engels Guard Regiment also known in an official capacity as the Stabsmusikkorps Kommandantur Berlin was the official regimental band of the Friedrich Engels Guard Regiment, the official guard of honour regiment of the NVA, which served during ceremonial occasions like state visits, guard mountings at the Neue Wache, military parades, oath taking ceremonies of new conscripts, the Großer Zapfenstreich and wreath laying ceremonies. It also supported the activities of the Guard Regiment Hugo Eberlein, the non-public duties guard unit of the Ministry of National Defence.
The Band and Corps of Drums of the Felix DzerzhinskyGuards Regiment was the official regimental band of the Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment, the armed internal security regiment within the Ministry of the Interior.
The Erich-Weinert-Ensemble, named after communist writer Erich Weinert, was a professional army ensemble of in the NVA that was the equivalent to the Alexandrov Ensemble in the Soviet Union and the Representative Ensemble of the Bulgarian People's Army. Originally a unit of the Kasernierte Volkspolizei in 1950, it was transferred to the NVA 6 years later and was transferred to the Bundeswehr in 1989, defunct by 1994. It consisted of a male choir, a ballet, an orchestra, and a theatre troupe, all of which were based in Berlin-Biesdorf.
Common repertoire
Präsentiermasrch nationalevolksarmee
Parademarsch № 1 der Nationalen Volksarmee
Präsentiermarsch des Wachregiment "Feliks Dzierzynski"
Präsentiermarsch der Volksmarine
Unsere Volksmarine
Paradefanfare
Parademarsch "7 Oktober"
Marsch "Oktoberparade"
Generalmusikdirektors
The band has been led by 3 Generalmusikdirektors over its more than 30-year history.
