Anti-aircraft missile squadron 5

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Anti-aircraft missile squadron 5
- FlaRakG 5 -
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active 1960 to 2013
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces air force air force
Branch of service Air defense
Locations DEU Erding COA.svg Erding , garrison

DEU Manching COA.svg Manching , air base

Last commander FlaRakG 5
Commodore Colonel Colonel Uwe Hänel

The anti-aircraft missile squadron 5 (FlaRakG 5) was an association of the German Air Force and, at the time of its decommissioning in 2013, belonged to the 1st  Air Force Division . The squadron was disbanded on January 31, 2013.

General

On April 1, 1960, it was set up as Air Defense Regiment 13 in Münster , then relocated to Soest and on July 1, 1965, the name was changed to Air Defense Missile Regiment 13, which was dissolved with the decommissioning of Nike and the introduction of the Patriot in early 1987.

On April 1, 1987, it was reorganized as anti-aircraft missile command 5 with the subordinate Patriot anti-aircraft squadrons 23, the Hawk anti -aircraft squadrons 32 and 34. On January 1, 1993, the command was renamed to anti-aircraft missile squadron 5.

From 1989 to 2009 the FlaRakG 5 was stationed in Erding before it moved to Manching near Ingolstadt, where it was decommissioned in 2013.

assignment

The anti-aircraft missile squadron 5 contributed to the protection of the German and Central European airspace as part of the expanded integrated air defense with ground-based air defense weapon systems .

In peace
  • Ensuring the necessary responsiveness by establishing and maintaining the personnel and material readiness for action
In the crisis
  • Contribution to crisis management by adopting situation-adapted alarm and operational readiness levels and protecting own and allied forces
In action
  • Protection of own armed forces and / or defined object groups in so-called "high value asset" areas (targets with high military or civil significance)
  • Wearing down enemy air attack forces

Squadron leadership

  • 1960–1962 Colonel Kurt Laube
  • 1962–1963 Colonel Hans-Harald Gustke
  • 1963–1965 Colonel Franz Kaiser
  • 1965–1966 Colonel Helmut Bieber
  • 1966–1970 Colonel Fritz Löffler
  • 1970–1972 Colonel Joachim Scheider
  • 1972–1973 Colonel Karl-Heinz Franke
  • 1973–1979 Colonel Bernhard Hoffmann
  • 1979–1984 Colonel Karl Wallrath
  • 1984–1987 Colonel Dieter Schneider
  • 1987–1992 Brigadier General Ullrich Nickel
  • 1992–1994 Colonel Peter-Jesko von Puttkamer
  • 1994–1996 Colonel Gero Schachthöfer
  • 1996–2000 Colonel Rainer Nitschke
  • 2000–2002 Colonel Günter Giesa
  • 2002–2003 Colonel Hartmut Oberfell
  • 2003-2006 Colonel Rainer Nitschke
  • 2007–2009 Colonel Michael Goldstein
  • 2009–2013 Colonel Uwe Hänel

literature

  • Clemens Range: The tolerated army: 50 years of the Bundeswehr. Translimes Media 2005, ISBN 3-000-15382-9 .
  • bundeswehr-journal: Flugabwehrraketengeschwader 5. 1 + 2/2009, p. 36

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ donaukurier.de of January 31, 2013: last file.Retrieved October 18, 2014 .