Artillery Regiment 1 (Bundeswehr)

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Artillery
Regiment 1 - ArtRgt 1 -
III

Internal association badge of Artillery Regiment 1

Internal association badge
active July 1, 1956 to September 30, 2003
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Armed forces Logo army army
Branch of service Artillery force
Subordinate troops

Internal association badge RakArtBtl 12RakArtBtl 12
Internal association badge ObBtl 113ObservArtBtl 113

Insinuation Association badge 1st PzDiv 1st PzDiv
Location Freiherr von Fritsch barracks , Hanover

Clausewitz barracks , Nienburg / Weser

Nickname Lower Saxony
Tradition 1st Artillery Regiment (Prussia)

The Artillery Regiment 1 was a federation of artillery troops of the army of the German Bundeswehr .

history

The artillery regiment 1 "Lower Saxony" was set up on July 1, 1956 as field artillery regiment 1 (FAR 1) in Hamburg-Rahlstedt. Most of the staff came from the III. Department of Border Guard Groups 6 and 7 and was housed in the Graf-Goltz-Kaserne under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Reissmüller. The equipment came from US stocks in the form of the field howitzers M2 A1 (105 mm) and M1 A2 in caliber 155 mm. In the course of the restructuring of the Bundeswehr, in particular the introduction of Army Structure II, the Field Artillery Regiment 1 was initially divided into a battalion, which was incorporated into the artillery of a brigade, and a battalion, which was to form the foundation stone for Artillery Regiment 1.

The association was renamed Artillery Regiment 1 (Art.Rgt. 1) on March 16, 1959. Since the regiment was entitled to another battalion according to Army Structure II, Artillery Regiment 1 became the rocket artillery battalion previously part of the Corps Artillery on October 16, 1964 140 from Nienburg / Weser and at the same time renamed the rocket artillery battalion 12 . During the storm surge in 1962 , parts of the regiment were involved in the relief work in the flood disaster in the Elbe area. In addition, soldiers of Artillery Regiment 1 were involved in fighting the forest fire disaster in Lower Saxony in August 1975 . The missions on the Oder during the Oder flood in 1997 and the Elbe flood in 2002 also fall into the same category . Individual soldiers from Artillery Regiment 1 also took part in humanitarian and peacekeeping missions in former Yugoslavia within the framework of IFOR and SFOR in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the KFOR in Macedonia and Kosovo as well as in Afghanistan ( ISAF ).

Since 1969, Artillery Regiment 1 had also taken over the tradition of the 1st Prussian Artillery Regiment. The epithet Lower Saxony was given to the regiment on the occasion of the celebrations for its 40th anniversary in July 1996 by the parliamentary state secretary Bernd Wilz .

The decommissioning on September 30, 2003 due to the restructuring of the Bundeswehr took place in the festive framework of a large tattoo on March 19, 2003.

See also

literature

  • Helmut R. Hammerich, Dieter H. Kollmer, Michael Poppe, Martin Rink , Rudolf Schlaffer: Das Heer 1950 to 1970. Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57974-1 .
  • Hans-Joachim Krug: 25 years of artillery in the Bundeswehr. The history of a branch of service. Friedberg 1982, ISBN 3-7909-0184-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1956 set up as FeldArtRgt 1 in Hamburg
  2. ↑ The aim was to equip the artillery units with [...] field howitzers 105 mm and 155 mm. They were American weapons.