Military District Command II

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Military area command II
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Association badge military area command II

Association badge
active January 24, 1956 to February 1, 2013
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Military area command
Last seat of staff Mainz

The military area command II was a military area command of the Bundeswehr . The task of this command authority was the territorial defense in Defense Area II.

Military District Command II was set up in Hanover in 1956 . Between 1994 and 2001, the management of the military area was carried out by the merged staff "Military Area Command II / 1st Panzer Division ". Defense area II comprised Lower Saxony and Bremen until 2001 . In 2001 the defense areas were reorganized. In Mainz , the Military District Command II was restructured. The “new” military area command II took over the management of the “new” military area II, which included Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate , North Rhine-Westphalia and the Saarland . The Military District Command II was decommissioned in 2013.

history

The "old" Military District Command II (1956–2001)

The headquarters in Hanover was the Kurt Schumacher barracks

The military area command II was set up in January 1956 in Hanover as part of the territorial army. Defense area II comprised the states of Lower Saxony and Bremen . The Military District Command II was subordinate to the Territorial Defense Command until 1969 . From 1958 to 1961 TV rods (territorial defense rods ) were set up, which were reclassified into defense district commands from 1963 and were subordinate to the military area command. The following defense district commands were set up:

From 1964, the establishment of subordinate defense district commands began in the defense districts . The military area command was incorporated into the army from 1969 to take over Army Structure II and subordinated to the Territorial Command North .

After the end of the Cold War , the territorial army was significantly reduced in size. In Army Structure V , the military area commands and division headquarters were merged. The Military District Command II merged with the 1st Panzer Division on March 31, 1994 . The merged staff was called "Wehrbereichskommando II / 1st Panzer Division". The merged staff was under the 1st Corps . The separation between a field army subordinate to NATO and the territorial army , which remains under national command even in the event of a defense , was thus organizationally softened in the peace structure. Only in the event of a defense would the merged staffs have probably been separated again.

On July 1, 2001, the merger was reversed and the Territorial Army as a section of the army dissolved. The 1st Panzer Division continued to exist as an independent division .

The "new" Military District Command II (2001-2013)

The headquarters of Defense Area II in the Osteiner Hof in Mainz
The location of the “new” military area command II with subordinate defense districts

In 2001 all military area commands were fundamentally reorganized. The "old" Defense Areas III (North Rhine-Westphalia) and IV ( Rhineland-Palatinate , Hesse , Saarland ) were merged in 2001 to form the "new" Defense Area II. The management took over the staff of the "old" military area command IV in Mainz , which received the new designation military area command II after the reclassification in 2001 and integration into the newly established armed forces base . The "old" Military District Command III with headquarters in Düsseldorf was dropped.

The organization of the territorial defense in the "old" Defense Area II, ie in the states of Lower Saxony and Bremen, was assigned to Defense Area I "Coast" in Kiel . The "old" Military District Command II based in Hanover was dropped.

The main focus of the Military District Command II was command support . The defense districts were partly reorganized and reduced. The following defense district commands were subordinate to the "new" Military District Command II:

In 2007, the regional commandos were reorganized as units subordinate to the Military District Command II . The previously subordinate defense district commands were dropped. The following state commandos were reorganized:

In addition:

resolution

The Military District Command II was decommissioned in 2013 and its territorial tasks were transferred to the Territorial Tasks Command of the Bundeswehr and the previously subordinate regional commands .

structure

Association badge

Woven association badge of the military area command
Internal association badge of the staff of the "old" military area command II with the Lower Saxony horse , federal eagle and Bremen key
Internal association badge of the staff of the "new" military area command II with the Palatinate and Hessian lion , Westphalia horse , Mainz wheel and Trier cross

The military area command carried a union badge with the following blazon :

" Tied by a silver cord with woven black thread, divided into black, red, gold in a golden central shield a one-headed black eagle , the head turned to the right, the wings open, but with closed plumage, beak, tongue and fangs of red color ( Federal eagle); the middle shield below accompanied by the black Roman numeral  II. "

The shield division corresponded to the flag of Germany . The motifs of the association badge were also similar to the coat of arms of Germany . The federal eagle was the German heraldic animal . He was depicted similarly on the troop flags . The close reference to the coat of arms and the flag of Germany made it clear that the territorial army and its military area commands remained under the authority of the national commander even in the event of a defense and were not assigned to NATO .

The association badges of the command authorities in the territorial army were particularly similar. In particular, the association badges of the higher-level territorial commands and the other military area commands differed only in their labeling. Also, the Badge of the Ministry of Defense was up on the board almost identical. The silver / black braided border of the military area commands symbolized the position below the Federal Ministry of Defense, which accordingly had a "higher quality" golden cord.

Commander

The last commanders in the military area were:

No. Rank Surname Beginning of the appointment
1. Major general Christian Otto Eduard Millotat 2002
2. Major general Bernd Diepenhorst March 1, 2004
3. Major general Gerhard Stelz December 12, 2008

literature

  • OW Dragoons: 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]).
  • Rudi Meiszies: Timeline of the history of the military area command II in Mainz . Ed .: Press Office WBK II. 2011 ( streitkraeftebasis.de [PDF; accessed on July 20, 2018]).

Web links

Active and former corps with the participation of the German army
Active corps

1st German-Dutch Corps  | Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps  | Eurocorps  | Multinational Corps North-East

Former corps

I. Corps  | II. Corps / II. (German-American) Corps  | III. Corps  | IV Corps  | Headquarters of the Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland

Corps equivalents

Territorial Command East  | Weir area command I · II · III · IV · V · VI

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '  N , 8 ° 16'  E