Defense District Command 61

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Defense District Command 61
- VBK 61 -

No coats of arms.svg

(did not have an association badge )
active approx. 1963 to 2001
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type District Defense Command
Insinuation WBK VI.svg Military District Command VI
last staff seat Donauwörth
Location of the staff in Augsburg: the Prinz-Karl-Kaserne

The defense district command 61 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the rod least in Donauwörth . The main task of the command was the territorial defense in its defense district.

history

Lineup

The Defense District Command was planned to take over Army Structure II in the 1960s as part of the Territorial Army and subordinated to the Commander in Defense Area VI . Based on the civil administrative structure , the defense district roughly corresponded to the (government) district of Swabia . The location of the Augsburg staff was accordingly .

Relocation to Donauwörth

In 1993, following the closure of the Prince Karl barracks in Augsburg, the staff moved to the Schellenberg in Donauwörth .

resolution

In 2001 the territorial army was disbanded. The military area commands and defense district commands were subordinated to the newly established armed forces base . The defense areas and defense districts were fundamentally reorganized and their number reduced. Defense District Command 61 was decommissioned and its command area was incorporated into Defense District 63 .

structure

Like most units of the Territorial Army, the Defense District Command consisted of only a few active soldiers. Only in the case of defense , the defense district command could by the convening of reserve and the mobilization stored and civilian material to a troop strength increase , which is about a brigade of the Army corresponded. For the longest time of its existence, the defense district command was roughly subdivided into subordinate defense district commands with subordinate homeland security companies, derived from the civil administrative structure . The homeland security companies and the directly subordinate Homeland Security Regiment 96 "Swabians" formed the core of the infantry -style homeland security force .

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

The Defense District Command did not have its own association badge due to its planning as a predominantly non-active unit . The few active soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the superior military area command.

As a "badge", the internal association badge of the staff and the staff company " pars pro toto " was sometimes used imprecisely for the entire defense district command. As a reference to the stationing area, it showed the imperial eagle with sword as a figure on the right, similar to the historical city arms of Kemptens , Kaufbeurens , Donauwörths or Memmingens . A clover-leaf cross was shown on the left , as shown in the coat of arms of Merching , as well as in the coats of arms of the Regensburg districts of Haunstetten and Inningen . It is probably taken from the coat of arms of the imperial abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg and is thus an indication of the location of the defense district command.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military District Command VI. BArch, BH 28-6. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ "Fernmelder" can celebrate their 40th anniversary without fear of the future. In: https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/ . Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH; Verlag der Augsburger Allgemeine, January 31, 2008, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  4. ^ Defense area command I - Coast - (Kiel). BArch, BW 68-1. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 (includes representation of all four WBKs).
  5. ^ OW Dragoon: The Bundeswehr 1989 . Territorial Command SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. Territorial Command NORTH. Territorial Command SOUTH. Appendix: Territorial structure. 4th edition. 2.2 - Army, February 2012 ( religte.com [PDF; accessed July 10, 2018]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 22.8 "  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 36.6"  E