[3] Foundations for what would become the Friedrich Engels Military Academy were set in February 1949 by the University of the German Administration of the Interior, which was relocated from Berlin to the village of Kochstedt in Saxony-Anhalt.

[4] On November 15, 1949, the teaching company opened and was renamed to the Kochstedt Officers' School of Central Administration Training of the Ministry of the Interior, under the leadership of Chief Inspector of the Barracked People's Police Walter Freytag.

Colonel Wilheim Adam, former adjutant to the commander-in-chief of the 6th Army of the Wehrmacht, post-1945 Minister of Finance of the State of Saxony, and member of the Volkskammer, took over the post of commander of the university.

The former Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich Paulus used to give lectures at the university after his return from captivity, and by 1954, he led a small working group called the War History Research Center in Dresden.

The university was commissioned to raise the scientific level of training in all subject areas in order to create the conditions for a military academy.

In addition to the two-year courses, in which officers who were already experienced in the troop service were trained as regimental commanders, their deputies and chiefs of staff for motor gunner, tank and artillery units, heads of special troops and services, the university carried out one-year qualification courses for senior officers.

The founding of the new military academy was not an instant decision, but more of a reaction to the arms race during the Cold War and the establishment of the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College.

The term special status also extends to the fact that the military academy, together with the others universities of the National People's Army, Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic, the other protection and security organs as well as the social organizations in the state official representations (statistics, yearbooks, UNESCO reports) about the university landscape were left out.

[11] Head The military academy was subordinate to the Minister of National Defense of East Germany, who entrusted the duty supervision to one of his deputies.