South Division

Division South - Div South - XX
(Did not have a federation badge)
active	October 1, 2013 to December 2014
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Division of the stabilizing forces
last seat of the staff	Veitshochheim
commander
last commander	Major General Bernd Schütt
last deputy commander	Brigadier General Andreas Hannemann

The Division Süd (spelling usually Division SÜD ) was a large unit of the army of the German Bundeswehr . The division was most recently subordinate to the Army Command .

The division existed temporarily with this name until the end of 2014 in the course of the reclassification to the structure HEER2011 . Along with the establishment of the Southern Division at the Veitshöchheim location , the Air Mobile Operations Division was dissolved, some of its troops and some of the troops of the 10th Armored Division were taken over by the Southern Division. The old 10th Panzer Division was disbanded in December 2014 and the Southern Division was then renamed the 10th Panzer Division.

history

The division was formed on October 1, 2013 from parts of the staff and the staff company of the 10th Panzer Division from Sigmaringen and the airmobile operations division (DLO) in Veitshöchheim, which is to be dissolved. The first commander was General Benedikt Zimmer , who had previously been in command of the Air Mobile Operations Division. The Southern Division serves as the formation staff for the formation of a new 10th Armored Division, which will take over parts of the Airmobile Operations Division, which is to be dissolved, and will lead the brigades of the previous 10th Armored Division. The designation south indicates the upcoming role of the 10th Panzer Division, which, like the 1st Panzer Division in northern Germany, will be the only mechanized division in the southern half of the country. In the course of the implementation of the implementation plans for the realignment of the Bundeswehr and for taking on the structure HEER2011 , the Southern Division took over the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 37 (Frankenberg) on October 1, 2013 , which was now led by the Airmobile Operations Division after the 13th Panzer Grenadier Division was dissolved. The Artillery Demonstration Battalion 345 (moved to Idar-Oberstein , formerly Artillery Training Regiment 345 in Kusel ) and the fuse Battalion 12 ( Hardheim assumed), currently both the Airmobile Operations Division were assumed on January 1, 2014, the Division South. The Airmobile Operations Division will subsequently be disbanded after further units have been surrendered. On January 1, 2014, artillery battalion 131 (formerly observation tank artillery battalion 131 ) moved from the 100 artillery regiment to its new location in Weiden ( formerly Mühlhausen / Thuringia ) for the southern division. Both brigades of the 10th Panzer Division , the 12th Panzer Brigade ( Amberg ) and the 23rd Gebirgsjägerbrigade (Bad Reichenhall), were subordinated to the Southern Division at the end of June 2014. As of July 2014, the inactive Pioneer Battalion 905 in Ingolstadt (until then Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23) was directly subordinate to the division.

The old 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen was disbanded at the end of 2014 and the South Division with staff in Veitshöchheim was also given the designation 10th Panzer Division. This new 10th Panzer Division continues the tradition (and also the association badge) of the old 10th Panzer Division. First commander of the new 10th Panzer Division became the last commander of the Southern Division.

structure

The southern division was finally divided into the following units:

Internal association badge Division South

• Staff / Telecommunication Company (St / FmKp) Division South, Veitshöchheim

• Division troops
  • Artillery Training Battalion 345 , Idar-Oberstein
  • Security Battalion 12, Hardheim
  • Artillery Battalion 131 , Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ( until 2013 observation tank artillery battalion 131 )
  • Pioneer Battalion 905, Ingolstadt, supplementary troop unit (Couleur: Mountain Pioneer Battalion 8. Not active. No large equipment of its own available or long-term storage.)
• Panzer Brigade 12 "Upper Palatinate"
• Mountain Infantry Brigade 23 "Bavaria"
• Panzer Grenadier Brigade 37 "Free State of Saxony"

Commanders

No.	Surname	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires
2	Major General Bernd Schütt	7th August 2014	December 2014
1	Major General Benedict Zimmer	October 1, 2013	July 31, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hardthöhenkurier online: deadline October 1, 2013: DLO dissolution - division SOUTH. October 4, 2013, accessed February 16, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Simon Hofmann: One success story ends - another one continues. Federal Ministry of Defense , Press and Information Office , June 26, 2014, accessed on June 27, 2014 . 
3. ↑ August 1, 2014 - Albert Rupprecht visits Artillery Battalion 131
4. ↑ Benjamin Georg Rupp: "Comrades, I am signing off" - change at the head of the Veitshöchheim division. www.deutschesheer.de, August 14, 2014, accessed on August 16, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Press and Information Office BMVg: Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. www.bmvg.de, September 24, 2013, accessed on September 29, 2013 . 
6. ↑ BMVg press and information staff: BMVg press release of July 16, 2014; Major General Benedikt ZIMMER becomes head of department in the BMVg. www.bmvg.de, July 16, 2014, accessed on August 1, 2014 . 

Web links

• Homepage of the South Division

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 28 "  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 55"  E