Airborne Brigade 27

Airborne Brigade 27 - LLBrig 27 - X
Association badge
active	Apr. 1, 1970 to  March 31, 1993
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Airborne Brigade
Insinuation	1st Airborne Division
last staff seat	Lippstadt

The North German Airborne Brigade 27 was the third brigade of the 1st Airborne Division . From 1991 she was subordinated to the I. Corps in Münster , like the other brigades to the respective corps. The headquarters of the brigade staff and parts of the brigade units was Lippstadt . The brigade was decommissioned in 1993 and merged with Panzergrenadierbrigade 31 to form Luftlandebrigade 31 in Oldenburg .

history

Army structure 3

Kraka of Airborne Anti-Aircraft Company 270

The brigade was set up in Army Structure 4 in 1970 as Paratrooper Brigade 27 in Lippstadt from two existing paratroopers and renamed Airborne Brigade 27 in September 1971. The brigade was subordinate to the 1st Airborne Division and assigned to the 1st Corps as a corps reserve.

The formation takes place by amalgamation of the paratrooper battalion 313 and the paratrooper battalion 291, which were previously subordinate to tank grenadier brigades as operational reserves.

• The paratrooper battalion 291 , which was set up in the Heuberg camp in July 1960 and was subordinate to the 29th Panzer Grenadier Brigade (10th Panzer Division), was renamed Fallschirmjägerbataillon 271 on November 1, 1971 , subordinated to Airborne Brigade 27 and on July 1, 1972 to Iserlohn to the Winkelmann- Barracks moved.

• The later paratrooper battalion 272 was set up in 1960 from the grenadier battalion (mot.) 313 Wittekind barracks in Wildeshausen as paratrooper battalion 313 in PzGrenBrig 31 of the 11th PzGrenDiv through reclassification and subordinated to the newly established airborne brigade with Army Structure 4 and renamed. This resulted in today's Paratrooper Battalion 313 as well as the former Parachute Battalion 272 in different army structures from the Panzergrenadier Battalion 313. The battalion's motto was: "Take it easy, never let go."

Army structure 4

In Army Structure 4 , the Brigade surrendered its Airborne Pioneer Company 270 in the Peace Structure in 1982, which was disbanded and reorganized from parts of the Pioneer Battalion 110 in 1982.

• The paratrooper battalion 273 , initially set up as a mobilization unit in Iserlohn in 1970/1971 , was renamed the paratrooper battalion 274 in the 1980s and the paratrooper battalion 273 was reorganized as the third active unit of the brigade in Iserlohn from contributions from the two existing battalions.

• The paratrooper battalion 274 as a mobilization unit was also stationed in Iserlohn in the Winkelmann barracks. His staff were supplemented from the brigade's three active battalions. In contrast to the active battalions, it only had hunter companies and in its staff and supply company a field cannon train with 6 FK 20 mm on special single-axle trailers with 2 to Unimog. The battalion was mobilized regularly every year and then went into its battalion exercise. The battalion motto according to its battalion coat of arms - an ax on a parachute - "Strike hard, never give in".

At times, from the early 1980s and in the 1990s, the paratrooper battalions were divided into two paratrooper companies with 4 PARS Milan each and two anti-tank anti-tank companies with 10 PARS TOW each in two platoons and 12 field cannons in two platoons on Kraka . These were later replaced by the weapon carrier Wiesel as a transport vehicle.

The brigade comprised around 2200 soldiers in the peace structure in the autumn of 1989 . The planned growth force in the case of defense was around 3,000 men. For nursery which was convened by reservists and the mobilization of non-active units provided. In the autumn of 1989, the brigade continued to be managed by the staff of the 1st Airborne Division . The brigade was directly subordinate to the commander of the 1st Corps as a reserve. At the end of Army Structure 4 in autumn 1989, the brigade was roughly divided into the following units :

• Staff / Headquarters Company Airborne Brigade 27, Lippstadt
  • Airborne Mortar Company 270 (partially active), Wildeshausen
  • Luftlandepionierkompanie 270 , Minden (in peacetime until January 1990 to Pionierbataillon 110)
  • Airborne medical company 270, Lippstadt
  • Airborne Supply Company 270, Lippstadt
  • Paratrooper Battalion 271, Iserlohn
  • Paratrooper Battalion 272, Wildeshausen
  • Paratrooper Battalion 273, Iserlohn
  • Paratrooper Battalion 274 ( GerEinh ), Iserlohn

See also : Division of the field army in the army structure 4

Army structure 5 until disbandment

In Army Structure 5 , Airborne Brigade 27 was separated from the 1st Airborne Division and in 1991 it was subordinated to the 1st Corps .

In 1993 the brigade was merged with the Panzergrenadierbrigade 31 and reorganized as Luftlandebrigade 31 in Oldenburg . It was the only brigade of the Bundeswehr that lost its number in the course of restructuring.

The paratrooper battalion 274 was dissolved in the course of the merger and the other battalions were reclassified. The paratrooper battalion 272 became the anti-parachute battalion 272 with 62 weasels , the parachute battalion 273 consisted of three paratrooper companies and one anti-parachute anti-tank company with weasels and the parachute battalion 271 of three parachute companies and a command company . The Airborne Engineer Company 270 was again placed under the command of the Airborne Brigade.

Troops

	designation	Listing (off)	Location	Whereabouts	comment
	Staff and staff	1970	Lippstadt Lipperland barracks	1993 Merger of PzGrenBrig31 Oldenburg to LLBrig31
	Paratrooper Battalion 271	from FschJgBtl 291 Heuberg	Iserlohn Winkelmann barracks	merged with / to PzGrenBtl / FschJgBtl 313 Varel	Btl coat of arms acc. his origin "Württemberg lion"
	Paratrooper Battalion 273		Iserlohn	merged with PzBtl 314 to FschJgBtl 314 (Oldenburg)
	Paratrooper Battalion 274	Set up as Fallschirmjägerbataillon 273 (MobBtl) 1973/74, as 274 apr 1982	Iserlohn	Dissolution in 1991	n / A
	Paratrooper Battalion 272	1960 from PzGrenBtl 313	Wildeshausen Wittekind barracks		later LLPzAbwBtl with LLPzAbwKp 270
	Airborne FErs Battalion 277 (later 140)		Erwitte / Minden	Mob Btl	Listed in 1971 - dissolved in 1993
	LLMrsKp 270	1971 from 5./FschJgBtl 291	Iserlohn / Wildeshausen	then one train each in the 5th / FschJgBtl
	LLPiKp 270	apr 1973	Lippstadt / Minden / Wildeshausen
	LLVersKp 270	1970	Lippstadt		2002 incorporated as a company in LLUstBtl 272
	LLTrspKp 270	1970	Lippstadt	October 1971	Tle as TrspZg in LLVers270
	LLSanKp 270	1970 from 2.VersBtl. 206 (SanKp)	Unna-Königsborn until 1993 Lippstadt / then Varel	subsequently 9. LLSanKp / FschJgRgt 31
	LL AufklZg 270			ust Pz AufklBtl?	subsequently set up again as LL AufklKp 310
	LLPzAbwKp 270	1970	Munster / Wildeshausen	apr 1982	only in HST III, drawn up from FschPzAbwKp 909, Munster, ust PzLehrBrig, trains to 5. / FschJgBtl
	Education 270	1971	Wildeshausen / Iserlohn	apr 1973	from Ausbildung 6/11, ust FschJgBtl 271

Exercises

The 27th Airborne Brigade took part in the exercises of the superior I. Corps (subordinate both logistically and for operations) and the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division subordinate to it (subordination for operations), as well as those of the II Corps and the subordinate 1 Airborne Division (subordinate to troops ).

The brigade troops as well as the airborne engineer company also participate in the exercises of the respective superior engineer regiment or battalion. Until 1978, the Hohenfels training area was mostly used for the brigade and battalion exercises . After that, from 1973 onwards , the Senne military training area , which became a "second home", and the Daaden military training area in the Westerwald, usually twice a year . Combat shooting and combat exercises, airborne operations, parachute jump services and free-fall jump camps, command post exercises and telecommunications exercises were carried out. The Brigade's reservists also regularly took part in all exercises. Corresponding places were coveted, but required annual readiness to practice.

An airborne bivouac was carried out every year after it was set up. From 1986 in Diepholz / Ahlhorn, later in Wunstorf. Paratroopers of the brigade were usually exchanged company-by-company with units of the English and Belgian paratroopers for combat exercises and for the acquisition of the respective jumper badge. Parts of the brigade trained with American paratroopers in Fort Bragg USA in 1987 . The field cannon trains practiced regularly on the Putlos military training area , the anti-tank trains on the Bergen military training area , while the paratrooper companies trained the local and house combat in Bonnland on the Hammelburg military training area.

• 1976 Corps exercise Big Bear
• 1979 Corps exercise hard fist
• 1982 Corps exercise Strong Defense
• 1985 Corps exercise Trutzige Sachsen
• 1989 corps exercise open visor
• 1991 Certain Shield multinational division exercise (full force)

Commanders and personal details

(Rank when taking command):

No.	Surname	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment
8th	Colonel Volker Loew	April 1, 1991	1993
7th	Colonel Hans-Dietrich Kams	April 1, 1987	March 31, 1991
6th	Colonel Ernst Richstein	April 1, 1985	March 31, 1987
5	Colonel Dr. Günter Roth	April 1, 1984	March 31, 1985
4th	Brigadier General Ernst Coqui	April 1, 1980	March 31, 1984
3	Colonel Frank Schild	October 1977	March 31, 1980
2	Colonel Wolfram Ibing	April 1972	September 1977
1	Colonel Reino Hamer	March 1970	April 1972

The brigade's freefaller became division champion, German champion and vice world champion in four and eight formation jumping under the direction of StFw Werner Glose, with Ernst Riechstein, Lothar Lippold, Willi Gutsche, Wolfgang Giese, Peter Dieckmann, Hans Elders and Reinhard Thies in 1975/1976. The brigade and its battalions' freefall teams were often used in public relations. For years, the Duhner Wattrennen in Cuxhaven was part of the public relations program of the Paratrooper Battalion 272.

The freefall officer of the sergeant-major brigade Werner Glose of the parachute freefall group of the airborne brigade 27 Luftlandeversorgungskompanie 270 had a fatal accident in 1988 during a civilian parachute jump at the Lippstadt airfield. By then he had completed almost 6,000 parachute jumps. After the accident became known, jumping operations were canceled at all jump sites in Germany.

Lieutenant Colonel Erich Lepkowski set up several parachute jump records as first lieutenant in the parachute battalion 313 Wildeshausen, including a. in the night altitude jump from 7500 m and in the group altitude record 7200 m.

Lieutenant General a. D. of the Army of the Federal Armed Forces Hans-Otto Budde , from 2004 to 2010 the 17th Army Inspector, completed his training as an officer from October 1966 at the 313 parachute battalion in Wildeshausen. From 1969 to 1974 he served in the same association, later renamed Fallschirmjägerbataillon 272, as platoon leader and intelligence officer (S2). Subsequently, he took over the 3rd / of the Wildeshausener battalion as company commander until 1978. During this employment he was promoted to captain in April 1975.

Brigadier General Ret. D. Reinhard Günzel served in the Bundeswehr from 1973 to 1982 a. a. as company commander in Wildeshausen and from 1982 as deputy battalion commander of the paratrooper battalion 273 in Iserlohn.

Colonel a. D. Fritz Zwicknagl was commander of the paratrooper battalion 272 from 1985 to 1987, then commander of the airborne and air transport school from 1996 until he was recalled in 1997. He was organized in the Hannibal (network) .

Lieutenant Colonel a. D. Max Klaar commanded the paratrooper battalion 271 in Iserlohn from 1984 and founded the traditional community of Potsdamer Glockenspiel with the aim of restoring the glockenspiel and the Potsdam garrison church.

Major General of the Army of the German Armed Forces and since March 14, 2019 Commander of the Rapid Forces Division in Stadtallendorf Andreas Hannemann began his training as an officer in the Paratrooper Battalion 272 in Wildeshausen in 1981 and completed this with an officer course.

Brigadier General Ret. D. Günter Roth , later head of the Military History Research Office , was in command of the 27th Airborne Brigade from 1984 to 1985.

Brigadier General Ret. D. of the Army of the Federal Armed Forces Hans Günter Engel was commander of the paratrooper battalion 273 in Iserlohn from 1991 to 1993 and subsequently commanded the 31 airborne brigade from 2002 to 2003.

Association badge

Woven association badge for the service suit

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

The blazon of the association badge for the uniform of the members of Airborne Brigade 27 read:

Gold bordered , in blue an open silver parachute with an attached arrowhead pointing downwards .

The association badge showed a parachute, which stylized the main motif in the tactical symbol of the paratrooper troops . The paratroopers were the infantry core of the airborne troops . The association badges of the division and the subordinate brigades were identical except for the shelves . In the tradition of the Prussian color sequence , the association badge of the Airborne Brigade 27 was given a yellow border as the “third” brigade of the division. The Luftlandebrigade 31 initially continued the association badge as the "successor association" of the Luftlandebrigade 27.

Since the badges of the division's brigades differed only slightly, the internal badge of the staff or the staff company pars pro toto was occasionally used as the brigade's "badge" instead . It showed the parachute known from the association badge, the Lippische Rose as in the Lippstadt coat of arms and a helicopter . As " air cavalry " parts of the brigade could also move with helicopters .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Remarks

1. ↑ Shown are the internal association badges, for which a wearing permit was officially granted until around the mid-1980s. Inactive units (equipment units, partially active, cadre units) are shown in italics .
2. ^ "First" Brigade: Luftlandebrigade 25 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Airborne Brigade 26 (= red board). "Third" Brigade: Airborne Brigade 27 / Airborne Brigade 31 (= yellow board).

literature

• 1st Airborne Division (Ed.): Paratroopers . The history of the 1st Airborne Division 1956-1994. 2nd edition. Ubstadt-Weiher, Enforcer Pülz, 1995, ISBN 3-939700-30-4 (413 pages, first edition: Barett-Verlag, Solingen 1995, Hempel estate, Bundeswehrsozialwerk eV).

See also

• Lipperbruch air base former barracks LLBrig27 staff / staff company and LLVersKp 270

Web links

• Paratrooper Battalion 273rd Jochen Lauter, 2019, accessed on February 29, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad. In: Website of the Military History Research Office . Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , Military History Research Office , accessed on February 17, 2020 (For technical reasons, direct links to individual search queries or search results are not possible. Please use the “search form” to research information on the individual departments). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} O. W. Dragoner (Ed.): Die Bundeswehr 1989 . Organization and equipment of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of the Cold War. 4th edition. 2.1 - Army. Army Office. I. Corps. II Corps. III. Corps, February 2012 (167 p., Relektiven.com [PDF; 747 kB ; accessed on February 21, 2020] First edition: 2009, overview of the series at Relict.com).
3. ^ Uwe Walter: The structures and associations of the German army . 1st edition. Part 1., I. Corps: (1956-1995). Edition AVRA, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946467-32-8 , pp. 104 (260 pp.).
4. ↑ Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-27 / Luftlandebrigade 27. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Supervisor on the basis of special instructions through training and qualification for each soldier in the special assignment

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 47"  E