Abteilung P 1: Planning human resources, personnel management of the officers Abteilung P 2: Disciplinary matters of the officers Abteilung P 3: Staffing of the General Staff officers; transferred to the central department of the General Staff of the Army in 1935 Abteilung P 4: Personnel management of the officers of the special careers; was renamed P 3 on 1 April 1939 Abteilung P 5: Order, decorations and awards department