Anti-aircraft missile group 25
The anti-aircraft missile group 25 (FlaRakGrp 25) was one of the former six Patriot groups of the Air Force from 1988 to 2012 . Their last location was Stadum in Schleswig-Holstein . It emerged from the anti-aircraft missile battalion 25 (FlaRakBtl 25), which was active from 1961 to 1988.
Anti-aircraft missile battalion 25
On October 1, 1961, the Air Defense Missile Battalion 25 (FlaRakBtl 25) was set up at Diepholz Air Base during the Cold War with the Air Force deployment order No. 190 of September 13, 1961 and assigned to the Air Defense Missile Regiment 4. Equipped with the US MIM-3 Nike Ajax weapon system with conventional warheads, the battalion with its four combat batteries was subordinated to the 14th anti-aircraft missile regiment from 1962 . From 1963 Barnstorf and the Hülsmeyer barracks became the new location of the anti-aircraft missile battalion , where it was also subordinated to NATO on July 15, 1963 . At the end of the 1970s there was a conversion to the MIM-14 Nike Hercules weapon system with warheads that can be equipped with nuclear weapons. From 1968 it was assigned to the anti-aircraft missile regiment 13 .
The batteries were displaced as follows:
- Headquarters in Eydelstedt (Wuthenau)
- 1st battery in Ahlhorn (Varrelbusch position)
- 2nd battery in Eydelstedt (Wuthenau position)
- 3. Battery in Wagenfeld (position Wagenfeld)
- 4th battery in Lohne (Oldenburg) (position Brägeler Moor )
On September 30, 1988, the anti-aircraft missile battalion 25 with the outdated weapon system Nike Hercules was disbanded.
Commanders of the FlaRakBtl 25
| Period | commander |
|---|---|
| 1962-1964 | Lieutenant Colonel Georg-Wilhelm Freiherr von Rheinbaben |
| 1964-1966 | Lieutenant Colonel Sebastian Probst |
| 1966-1970 | Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Scheider |
| 1970-1972 | Lieutenant Colonel Lothar Hippler |
| 1972-1974 | Lieutenant Colonel Klaus-Rainer Schröder |
| 1974-1976 | Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Pletzing |
| 1976-1980 | Lieutenant Colonel Hans-Jürgen Flottrong |
| 1980-1983 | Lieutenant Colonel Burkhard Eigen |
| 1983-1985 | Lieutenant Colonel Rudolph Obermayer |
| 1985-1988 | Lieutenant Colonel Hartmut Oberfell |
Anti-aircraft missile squadron 25 and anti-aircraft missile group 25
On October 1, 1988, it was set up as an anti-aircraft missile squadron 25 (FlaRakG 25) in Eydelstedt and belonged to anti-aircraft missile command 3 "Oldenburg". The FlaRak 25 was composed of the former anti-aircraft missile groups 11 , 39 and 41 as well as 25.
The FlaRakG 25 was deployed as follows:
- Headquarters in Eydelstedt
- 1st season in Ahlhorn (position Varrelbusch)
- 2nd season in Eydelstedt ( Schweringhausen position )
- 3rd squadron in Wagenfeld (position Wagenfeld)
- 4th season in Lohne (Oldenburg) (position Brägeler Moor)
- 5th season in Delmenhorst -Deichhorst (position Ristedt)
- 6th season in Delmenhorst-Deichhorst (position Ristedt)
From January 1991, the conversion to the MIM-104 Patriot weapon system took place , on March 1, 1993 the squadron was renamed to Anti-Aircraft Missile Group 25 (FlaRakGrp 25) and moved to Barnstorf . From 2002 the FlaRakGrp 25 was subordinated to the anti-aircraft missile squadron 4 . With the adaptation to the air force structure 5, the anti-aircraft missile squadron 4 was dissolved and from January 1, 2004 the subordination of the FlaRakGrp 25 to the anti-aircraft missile wing 1 in Husum was determined, so the group was subordinate to the command of the 4th Air Force Division.
On June 30, 2005 it was disbanded as anti-aircraft missile group 25 in Barnstorf and on July 1, 2005 it was set up as anti-aircraft missile group 25 in Stadum . Foreign missions in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan followed . In 2011, 38 soldiers were deployed as a security train in Kosovo and were deployed for around four months to protect the Cviljen communications station south of Prizren and the Army Aviation Association in Topličane near Suhareka . On December 11, 2012, the anti-aircraft missile group 25 was disbanded.
Commanders of FlaRakG 25 and FlaRakGrp 25
| Period | commander |
|---|---|
| 1988-1993 | Colonel Dieter Panitzki |
| 1993-1996 | Lieutenant Colonel Rüdiger Schlemm |
| 1996-1998 | Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Lohmann |
| 1998-2001 | Lieutenant Colonel René Höppner |
| 2001-2004 | Lieutenant Colonel Michael Gschossmann |
| 2004-2008 | Lieutenant Colonel Frank Wöllner |
| 2008-2010 | Lieutenant Colonel José Pusch |
| 2010–2012 | Lieutenant Colonel Josef Alt |
Web links
- Anti-aircraft missile group 25 In: geschichte.luftwaffe.de
- Web presence of the anti-aircraft missile battalion 25 In: geschichte.luftwaffe.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shz.de: Appeal in stadum: deployment in Kosovo of 10 September 2010 Retrieved on May 1, 2015