Defense District Command 73

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Defense District Command 73
- VBK 73 -

No coats of arms.svg

(did not have an association badge )
active around 1991 to March 31, 1999
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type District Defense Command
Insinuation WBK VII.svg Military District Command VII
Staff seat Gera

The defense district command 73 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the bar in Gera . The main task of the command was the territorial defense in its defense district.

history

Lineup

After reunification , the territorial structures known from West Germany were quickly created in the former military district III of the land forces of the National People's Army (see the structure of the territorial army around 1989 ). The defense district command 73 was to assume the Heeresstruktur V of the early 1990s as part of the Territorial Army deallocated and the commanders in the Military District VII assumed. Based on the civil administrative structure in West Germany, the defense district should roughly correspond to a (future) administrative district . When setting up, however, the layout of the new defense district was initially roughly based on the Gera district known from the German Democratic Republic . The location of the Gera staff was accordingly .

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. The Defense Districts 72 and 73 (according to the former Suhl district of the Democratic German Republic ) were dissolved to already March 31, 1999 and the Defense District 71 incorporated.

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. The internal association badge showed as a reference to the stationing area as figures with a connection to the region: The Plauen lion from the city ​​arms of Geras and the colorful lion of the Ludowingers with the stars similar to the Thuringian state arms . The Iron Cross is the national emblem of the Bundeswehr.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corps and Territorial Command East / IV. Corps. BArch BH 7-4. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Military area command VII / 13. Panzergrenadier Division. BArch, BH 40-7. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 32. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  5. ^ 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).

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '28.8 "  N , 12 ° 5' 12.7"  E