Telecommunication command 850

Telecommunication command 850 - FmKdo 850 -
( did not have an association badge )
active	Decommissioned: March 31, 1994
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Telecommunication command
Insinuation	Territorial Command South
Staff seat	Mannheim

The telecommunications command 850 was one of the telecommunications commands of the territorial army in the army of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters of the staff was Mannheim . The telecommunications command was subordinate to the Territorial Command South .

assignments

The telecommunications command bundled the units of the telecommunications force at the level of the territorial command . The territorial command was structured similarly to the corps of the field army with their telecommunications subordinate as part of the corps troops . The Territorial Command was to by the telecommunications command in a position with its own forces, the telecommunications links directly under its troops to the subordinate military district commands to the German and Allied Corps of the Central Army Group , to neighboring territorial commands and via the telecommunications command 900 to the national command staff of the Armed Forces to hold. Since the commander of the territorial command was also the national commander in relation to CENTAG , the telecommunications command secured communication with the CENTAG command staff through the connection via Telecommunications Battalion 890. The subordinate telecommunications battalion 860 operated the telecommunications center of the territorial command . Further tasks were the acquisition and evaluation of front messages and the psychological defense . The PSV troop produced and broadcast the radio station for soldiers, Radio Andernach .

Like most units of the Territorial Army , the telecommunications command only grew to its full personnel strength of around 4,500 men in the event of a defense . This was roughly the size of a field army brigade .

structure

Around 1989 the telecommunications command was roughly divided into:

• Bar / Stabskompanie telecommunications command 850, Mannheim
  • Telecommunication company 851 ( GerEinh ), Bad Dürkheim
  • Telecommunications Battalion 860, Bad Bergzabern
  • Telecommunications Battalion 870 (partially active), Weingarten
  • Telecommunications Battalion 880 (GerEinh), Kaiserslautern
  • Fernmeldebataillon 890 CENTAG, Philippsburg (in case of defense directly to CENTAG )
  • Fernmeldekompanie 880, Bad Bergzabern (in the event of a defense as 2./FmBtl 880 to Fernmeldebataillon 880; in peace to Fernmeldebataillon 860)
  • Front News Company 850 (GerEinh), Oftersheim
  • PSV Battalion 850 (partially active), Andernach (from January 1989 to Telecommunication Command 900 for reorganization as Telecommunication Battalion 950 from October 1990)
  • Telecommunications training company 861, Bad Bergzabern (in peace to telecommunications battalion 860)
  • Telecommunications training company 871, Weingarten (Württemberg) (in peacetime to Telecommunications Battalion 870)

See also : Division of the Territorial Army (Bundeswehr, Army Structure 4) #Fernmeldekommando 850

history

Lineup

The telecommunications command 850 was set up no later than the capture of Army Structure IV in the 1980s.

resolution

After the end of the Cold War , Telecommunication Command 850 was decommissioned at the end of March 1994 at around the same time as the South Territorial Command was decommissioned.

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

The telecommunications command did not have its own association badge due to its planning as part of the troops directly subordinate to the territorial command . The soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the higher-level territorial command .

As a "badge", the internal association badge of the staff and the staff company " pars pro toto " was sometimes used imprecisely for the entire telecommunications command. Except for the symbol in the lower field, it resembled the internal association badge of the staff of the Territorial Command South. In the upper right field on a green background, it showed an obliquely left golden wavy band symbolizing the Rhine , applied two crossed swords similar to the badge on the army's peaked caps . In the upper left black field the red crowned and red tongued double - tailed golden Palatinate lion similar to the city ​​coat of arms of Mannheim . The figure in the lower silver field stood for the telecommunications force .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} O.W. Dragoons: The Bundeswehr 1989. Territorial Command SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. Territorial Command NORTH. Territorial Command SOUTH. Appendix: Territorial structure . 4th edition. 2.2 - Army, February 2012 ( religte.com [PDF; accessed July 10, 2018]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '  N , 8 ° 30'  E