11th Panzer Grenadier Division

11th Panzer Grenadier Division ; - 11th PzGrenDiv - ; XX
	; ; Association badge
active	May 1st, 1959 to Sep. 30th 1994
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Panzergrenadier Division
last seat of the staff	Oldenburg
commander
last commander	Major General Karsten Oltmanns

The 11th Panzer Grenadier Division was a division of the army of the German Armed Forces with headquarters in Oldenburg . The division was dissolved on September 30, 1994. The troops were stationed in north-western Lower Saxony between the Ems , Weser and Aller as well as in Bremen .

history

Army structure I

The 11th Panzer Grenadier Division was set up in Oldenburg in 1959 as one of the last major formations of the army. The division was subordinate to the I. Corps in Munster . After its formation, the division (with staff / headquarters company) was subordinate to the following troops:

Major associations

Panzer Grenadier Brigade 32
- Headquarters / headquarters company
- Panzer Grenadier Battalion 323
- Panzer Battalion 324
- Supply Battalion 326
- Tank Reconnaissance Company 320
- Tank Engineer Company 320
- Panzerjäger Company 320
Armored Brigade 33
- Headquarters / headquarters company
- Tank Battalion 331
- Panzer Grenadier Battalion 332
- Panzer Battalion 333
- Armored Artillery Battalion 335
- Supply Battalion 336
- Tank Reconnaissance Company 330
- Anti-aircraft battery 330

Division troops

Telecommunications Battalion 11
Engineer Battalion 11
Medical Battalion 11
Field Artillery Battalion 111
Armored Infantry Battalion 311
Supply Battalion 316
Panzerjäger Company 310
Repair company 11
Feldjägerkompanie 11

Army structure II – III

In 1961 the division completed its restructuring as part of Army Structure 2. The division (with staff / headquarters company) was now subordinate to:

Large associations - as in HST 1 in addition

Panzer Grenadier Brigade 31
- Headquarters / headquarters company
- Armored Infantry Battalion 311
- 312th Panzer Grenadier Battalion
- Paratrooper Battalion / Panzergrenadierbataillon 313
- Tank battalion 314
- Field Artillery Battalion 315
- Supply Battalion 316
- Field Replacement Battalion 317 ( equipment unit , inactive)
- Panzerjäger Company 310
- Tank Reconnaissance Company 310
- Tank Engineer Company 310
- NBC Defense Company 310
- Anti-aircraft battery 310
- Armored Reconnaissance Train 310
Panzer Grenadier Brigade 32
Armored Brigade 33

Division troops:

- 11th Artillery Regiment
- Telecommunications Battalion 11
- Army Aviation Squadron 11
- Air Defense Regiment 11
- Engineer Battalion 11
- Panzer Reconnaissance Training Battalion 11 (only in case of a defense, otherwise Panzer Training Brigade 9 )
- Medical Battalion 11
- Repair Battalion 11
- Supply Battalion 11
- NBC defense company 11
- Army Music Corps 11
- Telecommunication training company 1/11

In 1961 the division was incorporated into NATO .

Army Structure IV until dissolution in 1994

In Army Structure 4, the division (with staff / staff company) was assigned the following units in the 1980s:

Major associations

Panzergrenadierbrigade 31 - Henning-von-Tresckow-Kaserne Oldenburg (Oldbg)
Panzergrenadierbrigade 32 (Schwanewede)
Panzerbrigade 33 (Celle)

Their former field artillery battalions had been converted into tank artillery battalions.

Division troops

Artillery Regiment 11 - Hindenburg Barracks Oldenburg (Oldbg)
Anti-aircraft regiment 11 - Steuben barracks (Achim)
Pioneer Battalion 11 - Lower Saxony Barracks (Dörverden)
Telecommunications Battalion 11 - Hindenburg-Kaserne Oldenburg (Oldbg)
Panzer Reconnaissance Training Battalion 11 (Munster)
Medical Battalion 11 (Leer)
Repair Battalion 11 (Delmenhorst)
Supply Battalion 11 (Delmenhorst)
Army Aviation Squadron 11 (Rotenburg / Wümme)
NBC Defense Battalion 110 (Emden)
Army Music Corps 11 (Bremen-Grohn)

inactive units

Field Replacement Battalion 111 (equipment unit)
Field Replacement Battalion 112 (equipment unit)
Jägerbataillon 116 (equipment unit)
Jägerbataillon 117 (equipment unit)
Security Battalion 118 (equipment unit)

After Army Structure 5 was announced, the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division was decommissioned on March 3, 1994 and dissolved on September 30. Associations and units that were not disbanded were largely subordinated to the 1st Panzer Division .

Calls

Parts of the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division were deployed in the flood disaster in February 1962 and in aid in the summer of 1975 in the major fire in the Lüneburg Heath . In connection with the Lindwurm campaign in September 1990, parts of the division, in particular paramedics from Leer (East Friesland), were on duty in Nordenham for a few weeks . During the First Gulf War , the division supported the transfer of US and British troops from November 1990 to July 1991 with transport, repair and security services in the ports of Emden and Nordenham .

Association badge

The division's association badge shows three wave crests on a blue background in the lower part of the undivided shield and two golden (yellow) crosses in the upper part . The plug-in cross reminds of the solidarity with the stationing region in the Oldenburger Land . This symbol was already shown in the coat of arms of the State of Oldenburg and is still used today in many coats of arms in the region, for example in the coat of arms of the Cloppenburg district . Apart from the margins, the association badge corresponds to the brigades assigned to this division. The silver cord with interwoven black thread testifies to the division status of the large association.

Commanders

No.	Surname	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment
12	Major General Karsten Oltmanns	April 1, 1992	March 31, 1994
11	Major General Hubertus Senff	November 18, 1987	March 31, 1992
10	Major General Ernst Klaffus	October 1, 1985	17th November 1987
9	Major General Hans Hoster	April 1, 1983	September 30, 1985
8th	Major General Hans-Henning von Sandrart	October 1, 1980	March 31, 1983
7th	Major General Meinhard Glanz	1st October 1977	September 30, 1980
6th	Major General Gottfried Ewert	1st October 1974	September 30, 1977
5	Major General Hans-Heinrich Klein	1st October 1970	September 30, 1974
4th	Major General Werner Ebeling	15th January 1968	September 30, 1970
3	Major General Otto Uechtritz	April 1, 1964	January 14, 1968
2	Major General Cord von Hobe	January 1, 1961	March 31, 1964
1	Major General Heinz Gaedcke	November 1, 1959	December 31, 1960

Trivia

On the occasion of its association badge, it was said about the division - "Did you see their crosses standing by the wayside" - what was meant by this was that the division and its brigades were subordinate to the 1st GE Corps, but are subordinate to the 1st Dutch Corps as advance forces in the event of a defense should.

literature

11th Panzer Grenadier Division (ed.): The eleventh in the land of Weser, Ems and Aller. A chronicle. 25 years of the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division. 2nd expanded edition, Oldenburg 1984.
Norbert Hartwig: Chronicle of the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division. Oldenburg 1994.

Web links

History of the division on www.relict.com
Information on Division on the Oldenburg website
Finding aid for inventory BH 8-11 “11. Panzergrenadierdivision ” in the Federal Archives

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