7th Artillery Regiment

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Artillery
Regiment 7 - ArtRgt 7 -
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active July 1, 1960 to October 11, 2002
(not active after that)
Country Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Logo Heer with lettering.svg army
last seat of the staff Dülmen
(as an active regiment)

The Artillerieregiment 7 is an association of the army of the German Federal Armed Forces . As divisional artillery it was subordinate to the 7th Panzer Division in Unna (from 1994 in Düsseldorf ) until its dissolution in 2006. As a non-active unit, the regiment was subordinated to the intervention division / 1st Panzer Division in Hanover on July 1, 2006 .

history

On July 1, 1960, the staff and the staff battery of Artillery Regiment 7 was set up in Ahlen / Westphalia as the first unit of the unit. In the period from 1966 to 2002, the association was in the St. Barbara - barracks in Dülmen . In 1993 parts of the regiment were reclassified. At the same time, this priority order ended with the withdrawal of tactical US nuclear weapons for ArtRgt 7. In 2002 the ArtRgt 7 initially handed over the units that remained active to the Artillery Brigade 100 and was itself reclassified to the device unit based in Düsseldorf. With the dissolution of the 7th Panzer Division , the regiment was subordinated to the 1st Panzer Division.

Troops

Stick and stick battery

    • Abbreviation: St / StBttrArtRgt 7
    • Set up: July 1, 1960 in Ahlen, relocation to Dülmen on August 20, 1966
    • Disbanded: Device unit since October 12, 2002
    • Locations: Ahlen / Westphalia, Dülmen, Düsseldorf
    • Sponsorship: City of Paderborn
    • Traditional bearer: Cleve's field artillery regiment No. 43
    • Mission: Ensure leadership of the regiment
    • Weapon system: motor vehicle, all-terrain; Command support vehicles (e.g. MTW )

Artillery Reconnaissance Battalion 71

    • Abbreviation: Art AufklBtl 71
    • Former names: Field artillery battalion 71 (FArtBtl 71), observation artillery battalion 71 (obs. Art. Btl 71), observation armored artillery battalion 71 (obsPzArtBtl 71)
    • Subordination: ArtRgt 7 until 2002, then ArtBrig 100
    • Erected: November 1st, 1962 in Lippstadt
    • Disbanded: October 1, 1993
    • Locations: Lippstadt, Dülmen, Coesfeld
    • Sponsorships: 45th Medium Regiment Royal Artillery, 40th Regiment d'Artillerie, Versailles
    • Traditional bearer: for field artillery battalion 110 and from 1977 for the Westphalian foot artillery regiment 7
    • Order: initially conventional direct defense through fire support, tactical nuclear defense, from 1993 fire control and reconnaissance tasks.
    • Weapon system: heavy self-propelled gun M107 175 mm (until June 1981), field howitzer FH155-1 155 mm, howitzer 203 (nuclear), field howitzer 105 mm, self-propelled howitzer M109 , self-propelled howitzer 2000, drone CL 289 (from 2002), drone KZO (from 2007) .

Missile Artillery Battalion 72

    • Code: RakArtBtl 72
    • former name: Raketenartillerielehrbataillon 72 (RakArtLBtl 72)
    • Subordination: ArtRgt 7, meanwhile missile school in Eschweiler , later Geilenkirchen .
    • Set up: April 20, 1960 by levies from the 195 Field Artillery Battalion, set up completed on January 2, 1965 in Handorf near Münster . Relocation to Dülmen on December 6, 1966. On October 1, 1981 relocation to Wuppertal , Colmar barracks (except for the 4th battery, which remained in Dülmen).
    • Disbanded: On January 1, 1970, this battalion was disbanded and parts of the 1st and 3rd batteries were relocated to Geilenkirchen, where they formed the Missile Artillery Battalion 72 with parts of the Missile Artillery Battalion 1. The 5th battery remained at the Dülmen location and became the 7th Panzer Grenadier Division Assumed, the main task was the guarding of the special ammunition depot Dülmen-Visbeck. The rest of the battalion was part of the field artillery battalion 110 as a corps unit. Dissolution of the battalion on July 1, 1993
    • Locations: Eschweiler, Warendorf, Geilenkirchen, Wuppertal
    • Mission: Combat the rear enemy troops conventionally and tactically nuclear; meanwhile teaching assignment
    • Weapon system: Honest John , the LARS light artillery rocket system in the mid-1970s , replaced by the MARS multiple rocket launcher system
    • Traditional bearers: Bergisches Feldartillerieregiment 59 and the artillery regiment 26
    • Traditional association founded in 1993 with RakArtBtl 150 in Wesel

Observation Battalion 73

    • Abbreviation: ObBtl 73
    • Subordination: ArtRgt 7
    • Set up: April 1, 1980 in Dülmen from parts of the disbanded field artillery battalion 110 (before 1970: rocket artillery battalion 71) and observation battery 7 (from 1966 it was subordinate to artillery regiment 7 as a sound measurement and radar battery 7)
    • Disbanded: October 1, 1993
    • Locations: Dülmen
    • Mission: battlefield observation, fire control support
    • Weapon system: Green Archer on MTW, CL 89 drone

Missile Artillery Battalion 150

    • Abbreviation: RakArtBtl 150
    • Subordination: until 1993 I. Corps, then ArtRgt 7
    • Erected: January 15, 1961
    • Disbanded: October 11, 2002
    • Locations: 1965–2002 Schill barracks in Wesel
    • Assignment until 1993: use of tactical nuclear weapons Sergeant , Lance ,
    • Weapon systems: Sergeant , Lance , after dissolution of I. Corps 1994: LARS , MARS
    • Traditional association founded in 1993 with RakArtBtl 72 in Wesel

Drone battery 100

    • Abbreviation: DroBttr 100
    • Assumptions: I. (Ge) Korps, ArtRgt 7, Art AufklBtl 71
    • Established: 1987
    • Change of position to ArtRgt 7: April 1993
    • Reclassified: 2002 as 3./Art AufklBtl 71
    • Release from the flying contract: November 2006
    • Resolution: October 2008
    • Locations: Coesfeld
    • Mission: Far-reaching enemy reconnaissance using drone missiles
    • Foreign missions: SFOR, NKAVM, KFOR, ISAF
    • Weapon system: CL 289 drone on MAN 7t gl

Backup battery 7

    • Abbreviation: BglBttr 7
    • Subordination: ArtRgt 7
    • formerly: 5./RakArtBtl 72
    • Established: 1987
    • Disbanded: 1993
    • Locations: Daaden , Dülmen
    • Mission: Securing the NATO nuclear warheads
    • Weapon system: field cannon 20 mm (FK20)

assignment

The 7th Artillery Regiment was the main weapon of the 7th Panzer Division , especially during the Cold War . This expressed itself in particular through his ability to bring NATO's tactical nuclear weapons to use. Furthermore, the regiment possessed capabilities in the context of direct defense in the flexible response strategy. Another job was to support the brigade artillery through reconnaissance and fire observation.

After the end of the Cold War, the range of tasks of the Bundeswehr changed rapidly, which ultimately resulted in the regiment being decommissioned and the main artillery forces being merged into Artillery Brigade 100.

Commanders

  • July 1, 1960– March 31, 1965 Colonel von Schönfeldt
  • 1.4.1965–30.9.1966 Colonel Zschoch
  • October 1, 1966– March 31, 1971 Colonel Bahr
  • April 1, 1971 to September 30, 1975 Colonel Leggewie
  • October 1, 1975 to September 30, 1981 Colonel Oppermann
  • October 1, 1981– October 5, 1984 Colonel Nüske
  • October 5, 1984– March 25, 1988 Colonel Dr. by Gyldenfeldt
  • 25.3.1988–23.3.1994 Colonel Reimer
  • 23.3.1994–11.4.1996 Colonel Bergmann
  • April 11, 1996– July 2, 1999 Colonel Fischer
  • 2.7.1999–18.10.2002 Colonel Hitscherich

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Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 58.9 "  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 34.7"  E