Fast forces division

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Fast forces division
- DSK -
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Association badge of the DSK

Association badge
Lineup April 1, 2001
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Army logo army
Type Airborne division made up of intervention and stabilization forces with special and specialized forces
Subordinate troops

Headquarters / Telecommunication Company DSK
SAR Control Center (Land) TrspHubschrRgt 10 TrspHubschrRgt 30 KpfHubschrRgt 36 Command Special Forces Airborne Brigade 1 11th Luchtmobiele Brigade
TrspHRgt 10 (V) .jpg
TrspHubschrRgt 30.png
KampfHRgt 36.jpg
Special Forces Command (Bundeswehr) .svg
Airborne Brigade 1 (Bundeswehr) .svg
Embleem 11 Luchtmobiele Brigade.svg

Strength 9,500 men ( Germany )
2,300 (Netherlands)
11,800 (total)
Insinuation Association badge KdoH Army command
Seat of the staff Coat of arms Stadtallendorf.png Stadtallendorf , Herrenwald barracks
motto ready for use, anytime, anywhere in the world
Web presence Website DSK
commander
commander Major General Andreas Hannemann
Deputy Brigadier General Andreas Pfeifer
Deputy (NLD) Brigadier General Maurice Timmermans

The Rapid Forces Division ( DSK ) with an authorized strength of 9,500 German and 2,300 Dutch nationals is a Division of the Army of the Armed Forces with the seat of the rod in the Herrenwald barracks and subordinate military units in the states of Lower Saxony , Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland and Baden -Wuerttemberg .

The division, which was established at the beginning of 2014 through the restructuring of the Special Operations Division to incorporate parts of the Airmobile Operations Division, bundles almost all airborne forces , army aviators and special forces of the army. The division is thus an essential carrier of landing operations for the army as well as operations for airmobile and air mechanized forces. Due to the integrated special and specialized forces, the division is particularly capable of special missions that do not correspond to the classic high-intensity struggle against militarily organized forces. Parts of the division were temporarily classified as intervention forces of the Bundeswehr. The best known subordinate large unit is the special forces command .

assignment

The DSK is assigned four main tasks:

  • armed repatriation , i.e. the evacuation of German citizens and persons under protection, possibly citizens of other nations, as well as the rescue of German soldiers under acute threat
  • Fight against irregular forces and protect troops and facilities of the armed forces from irregular forces
  • Carrying out quick initial and final operations , which includes the quick acquisition and monitoring of mission-critical infrastructure as well as covering one's own forces as part of an orderly return after the end of an operation
  • Execution of operations in depth , including reconnaissance and fire control in the depths of the enemy space as well as the deactivation of targets of operational importance

Since the takeover of Army Aviation, the division has been controlling and coordinating flight operations and flight operations for Army Aviation, including the SAR service of the Bundeswehr .

structure

Structure of the rapid forces division.

The division currently consists of the following units / associations:

Division troops of the Rapid Forces Division:

Special Forces Command

Association badge of the KSK

The Special Forces Command (KSK) is a formation or unit at brigade level and not in separate military units divided .

Airborne Brigade 1

Association badge of the 1st LLBrig

The airborne brigade 1 (1 LLBrig) is in two parachute regiments and several independent companies divided .

11th Airmobile Brigade

Internal association badge of the 11th Luchtmobiele Brigade

For training and exercise, the DSK is subordinate to the Dutch 11 Luchtmobiele Brigade (11th airmobile brigade) from Arnhem and is divided into several battalions .

history

The division follows the tradition of the 1st Airborne Division established in 1956 in Esslingen am Neckar (from 1964 Bruchsal ).

The division was used in the first contingents from the beginning of the foreign missions. After the Kurdish aid in Iran, one of the first missions abroad was in May 1993 as security for the advance command in Somalia to investigate the conditions of deployment for the German armed forces as part of UNOSOM II by the command company of the paratrooper battalion 261 .

In 1994 the 1st Airborne Division merged with the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division , which was set up as the 4th Grenadier Division in Regensburg ( Nibelungen Barracks ) in 1956 , to form the Air Mobile Forces Command / 4. Division . You were initially under three airborne brigades . In 1995 the KLK / 4. Division used in Croatia as part of GECONUNPF and GECONIFOR 1 . In 1996, Airborne Brigade 25 was reclassified to Special Forces Command. In 1997 the association was deployed in Sarajevo as part of the German SFOR contingent. Also in 1997, units of the Association of Germans evacuated from Tirana ( Operation Libelle ). In 1998 parts of the association moved to Tetovo in Macedonia . In 1999 missions in Albania ( AFOR ) and Kosovo ( KFOR ) followed.

On April 1, 2001 the association was reclassified to the "Special Operations Division". In 2002, the division was the lead division for the ISAF mission in Afghanistan . On January 1, 2003, Airborne Telecommunication Company 100 was reorganized.

In 2003 the telecommunications regiment 4 changed to the division air mobile operations , in return the airborne telecommunications company 9 from Dillingen, renamed to the airborne telecommunications company 200, switched to the division on October 1, 2003.

The remote monitoring company 200 was transferred to the DSO on July 1, 2006 from the international remote monitoring school. The light anti-aircraft missile battery 100 was placed under the DSO on October 1, 2006 and renamed the anti-aircraft missile battery 100. In December 2006 the battery was moved from Borken to Seedorf .

On January 1, 2008, the airborne telecommunications battalion DSO was reorganized in Stadtallendorf . Parts of the personnel of airborne telecommunications companies 100 and 200 from Regensburg and Dillingen were used to set up the airborne telecommunications battalion DSO until the end of 2008. The two airborne communications companies were then dissolved. In addition, forces of the to be disbanded Panzer Brigade 14 ( Neustadt ) and the logistics battalion 51 (Stadtallendorf) were used for the formation.

The move of the division headquarters from Regensburg to Stadtallendorf was completed on October 1, 2010.

Structure of the Special Operations Division (DSO) as of September 18, 2013

Structure of the DSO

Association badge of the DSO Special Operations Division

Division troops Special Operations Division

Association badge special forces command Special Forces Command

Association badge Airborne Brigade 26 Luftlandebrigade 26 Note: Brigade is nicknamed "Saarland"

Association badge Airborne Brigade 31 Luftlandebrigade 31 Note: Brigade is nicknamed "Oldenburg"

Realignment

As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr and the associated stationing concept in 2011 with the division of the army (Bundeswehr, Heer 2011) , the division was reduced to two paratrooper regiments and the KSK and reclassified to the Rapid Forces Division (DSK). The army aviation regiments were subordinated to the DSK as further forces of a large unit. In this way, infantry forces for operational and strategic missions are brought together with transport and combat equipment of the tactical depth of operations that were previously connected to the other infantry forces. The Air Force's transport aircraft, which the MTHs have also taken over, are available to them after they have been assigned by the Air Force.

On September 18, 2013, the assumption was made of alternating Heeresmusikkorps 300 (HMusKorps 300) to the Joint Support , Military Music Center of the Bundeswehr . On December 17, 2013 in Fritzlar, the Airmobile Brigade 1 was decommissioned by Brigade Leader Colonel Michael Mittelberg. At the same time, the remaining helicopter units of the army, the 10th transport helicopter regiment , the 30th transport helicopter regiment and the 36th combat helicopter regiment in Fritzlar, were placed under the special operations division in Stadtallendorf.

The Special Operations Division was renamed with effect from January 1, 2014 and has been called the Rapid Forces Division since then . The headquarters company of the division was simultaneously renamed the headquarters and telecommunications company of the Rapid Forces Division. She is still stationed in Stadtallendorf.

The 11th airmobile brigade of the Dutch armed forces was integrated into the Rapid Forces division in mid-2014 , so that a second permanent binational unit was created below the corps level in addition to the Franco-German brigade . Already at the turn of the millennium, the 11th airmobile brigade in the Multinational Division Central, which was dissolved in 2002, was intended to work with the German airborne troops.

The Parachute Regiment 31 was, after withdrawal of the 31st Airborne Brigade , reorganized on September 18, 2014, a large part of the soldiers of the brigade.

On April 1, 2015, Airborne Brigade 1 was put into service through the reorganization of Airborne Brigade 26 .

The parachute regiment 26 and the parachute regiment 31 as well as independent companies are subordinate to the brigade.

Association badge

Association badge of the DSK
Association badge of the DSO

As a symbol of the airborne forces, the division's association badge shows a golden eagle swooping on a silver background, the border is white / silver with black thread woven into it. With the renaming to the current name, the old association badge with a blue coat of arms was discarded. The new silver / gray escutcheon is similar to that of the Air Mobile Operations Division, some of which were taken over by the Rapid Forces Division. At the same time, gray is the weapon color of the Army Aviation Troops, which are now part of the division. As a reference to the special forces of the division, a black arrow pointing upwards is depicted on the coat of arms under the eagle. The coats of arms of the (currently) subordinate brigades are, according to the heraldic tradition of the army, with the coat of arms of the division similar to the old association badge. Only the border around the coat of arms distinguishes the brigades: white for the KSK, red for airborne brigade 26 and yellow for airborne brigade 31. The special forces command will keep this association badge. The association badge of the new Airborne Brigade 1 is optically adapted to the new association badge of the division (gray shield background) and is the first brigade to have a white border.

Commanders

No. Surname Beginning of the term of office Term expires
8th Major General Andreas Hannemann March 14, 2019
7th Major General Andreas Marlow September 30, 2015 March 14, 2019
6th Major General Eberhard Zorn June 12, 2014 September 30, 2015
5 Major General Jörg Vollmer August 1, 2011 June 12, 2014
4th Major General Hans-Werner Fritz January 10, 2008 August 1, 2011
3 Major General Hans-Lothar Domröse March 9, 2006 January 10, 2008
2 Major General Rainer Glatz September 1, 2002 March 9, 2006
1 Major General Hans-Otto Budde June 2001 August 2002

Equipment, vehicles and weapons

The core of the division are the infantrymen of the paratrooper regiments, which are equipped as main weapon systems with the handguns HK G36 , HK MG4 , Panzerfaust 3 and the group telescopic rifle G27 as well as with the infantryman of the future system.

The paratroopers are made mobile with the ESK Mungo .

The heavy hunter companies are with the 20-mm automatic cannon Rh 202 (MK 20), the BGM-71 TOW , in future Spike LR (in the Bundeswehr: MELLS), on the Wiesel airborne weapon carrier and the 120-mm mortar on the Mercedes off-road vehicle Wolf for the anti-tank defense of enemy armored vehicles, for fire support of the infantry and to a limited extent for the anti-aircraft defense of all troops.

See also

literature

  • Reinhard Scholzen : Special Operations Division of the Bundeswehr: Ready for action, anytime, anywhere in the world . In: Homeland Security, National Security and Civil Protection . No. 3, 2011, pp. 19-24.
  • Reinhard Scholzen: Special Operations Division . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-613-03017-6 .
  • Sören Sünkler: Europe's elite and special units. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-02853-1 .
  • Christin-Désirée Rudolph: Eyes on Target. The tele scouts of the Bundeswehr. Motorbuch Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-02852-4 .
  • Christin-Désirée Rudolph: Ready Set Go. The paratroopers of the Bundeswehr. Motorbuch Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-613-03018-3 .
  • Helmut Michelis: eagle and sword. Special Operations Division. Merziger printing and publishing house, ISBN 978-3-938415-33-7 .
  • Sören Sünkler: The special units of the Bundeswehr. Motorbuch Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-613-02592-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strength information on deutschesheer.de http://www.deutschesheer.de/portal/a/heer/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP3I5EyrpHK9jNTUIr2UzNS84pLiEr2U4mz9gmxHRQC5S/
  2. ↑ Press and information service of the armed forces base: Solemn ceremony on the occasion of the change of subordination of the Army Music Corps to the Center for Military Music of the Bundeswehr. streitkraeftebasis.de, September 16, 2013, accessed on October 13, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Rene Hinz: The realignment is progressing - Army aviation associations are now subordinated. deutschesheer.de, December 18, 2013, accessed December 18, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Hendrik Bauer: With one laughing and one crying eye. (No longer available online.) Deutschesheer.de, September 26, 2014, archived from the original on October 1, 2014 ; accessed on September 30, 2014 .
  5. ↑ LLBrig 26: Seedorfer Fallschirmjäger from April 2015 on a new assignment. In: deutschesheer.de. April 1, 2015, accessed April 1, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Federal Ministry of Defense, press and information staff : Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen makes trend-setting personnel decisions. (PDF) Bundeswehr, July 9, 2015, archived from the original on July 12, 2015 ; accessed on July 13, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Vollmer leaves a new division. (No longer available online.) June 4, 2014, archived from the original on October 1, 2014 ; accessed on June 14, 2014 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 25 ″  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 22 ″  E