Organization of the Army (Bundeswehr, Army Structure 2)
The breakdown of the Army of the Bundeswehr in Army Structure 2 describes the units of the Army in Army Structure 2 . Army Structure 2 referred to the division between around March 1959 and around 1970 when the reclassification into Army Structure 3 began. The most noticeable difference between Army Structure 1 and 2 was the sustained growth and the formation of brigades with simultaneous dissolution of the combat groups typical for Army Structure 1 .
Preliminary remarks
Scope of the army
At the end of 1959, eleven divisions with a total of 27 brigades were set up. The army's personnel was around 148,000 men. The grenadier divisions had been renamed Panzergrenadierdivisionen .
In 1964, two out of three corps had one armored and two armored infantry divisions. The 6th Panzer Grenadier Division was also subordinate to the I. Corps . In addition, the 1st Mountain Division and the 1st Airborne Division continued. With the subordination of the 12th Panzer Division to NATO in April 1965, the planned number of divisions of the army was reached. The army's workforce grew to 285,000 men by 1967.
The targeted 36 brigades could not yet be set up in Army Structure 2.
Superior leadership
The three German Corps and subordinate military unit should in case of war (from 1968 as a defense case by designated) batons of NATO turned out rden. In the NATO command structure , operations for LANDJUT , NORTHAG and CENTAG were planned. The troops subordinated to the inspector of the army at the level of the highest army command remained (also in the event of war ) under national leadership - they remained subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Defense or the command staff of the armed forces and the command staff of the army . So this area was not integrated into the NATO command structure.
The territorial army in the army structure 2
The troops of the Territorial Army are not listed , because these troops subordinate to the Territorial Defense Command were not part of the Army in Army Structure 2, but instead formed a separate area of the Bundeswehr alongside the Army. It was not until 1969/1970 command Territorial Defense was under the administration of the army structure 3 decommissioned, as the supreme command authority instead the territorial commands furnished them to the branches of the armed force army integrated.
Note on the association badges and internal association badges
For internal Badge middle, only about officially granted a carrying approval of the 1980s. They are therefore not shown. The enumerated troop units or the "successors" standing in their tradition could, however, have unofficially already carried badges similar to a coat of arms or have officially received them from the middle of 1980. The association badges shown for large associations were introduced into the troops in Army Structure 2 and are shown accordingly.
Supreme Army Command
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Inspector of the Army / Command Staff of the Army , Bonn
- Troop Office , Cologne
- Command telecommunications brigade 700 , Meckenheim (Note: set up October 1967; possibly Territorial Army / Territorial Defense Command .)
- Depot Organization Command , Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
I. Corps
Note: The 6th Panzer Grenadier Division was not intended to be part of the 1st Corps in the event of war (from 1968 referred to as a defense case ) , but was the main German contribution to LANDJUT from 1962 .
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Staff I. Corps , Münster
- Corps troops
- 1st Panzer Grenadier Division , Hanover
- 3rd Panzer Division , Buxtehude
- 6th Panzer Grenadier Division , Neumünster
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11th Panzer Grenadier Division , Oldenburg
- Division troops 11th Panzer Grenadier Division
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 31 , Oldenburg (note: list from July 1960)
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 32 , Schwanewede
- Panzerbrigade 33 , Lingen
- Artillery Regiment
II Corps
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Staff II Corps , Ulm
- Corps troops
- 4th Panzer Grenadier Division , Regensburg
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1st Mountain Division , Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Division troops 1st Mountain Division
- Gebirgsjägerbrigade 22 , Mittenwald
- Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23 , Bad Reichenhall
- Panzerbrigade 24 , Murnau (Note: reclassified as Panzergrenadierbrigade 24 from 1966 )
- → Panzergrenadierbrigade 24 , Landshut (until 1966 Murnau ) ( Note: established in 1966 through reclassification of Panzerbrigade 24 )
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1st Airborne Division , Bruchsal (until 1964 Esslingen am Neckar )
- Fallschirmjägerbrigade 25 , Calw (until 1961 Sigmaringen )
- Paratrooper Brigade 26 , Zweibrücken (until 1961 Sigmaringen )
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10th Panzer Grenadier Division , Sigmaringen
- Division troops 10th Panzer Division
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 28 , Neuburg an der Donau (Note: set up in 1964. Until 1964 Neuburg an der Donau; from 1964 to 1969 Donauwörth ; from 1969 again Neuburg an der Donau. Basically, it is not the later Panzer Brigade 28 )
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 29 , Sigmaringen ( Note: until 1961 Pfullendorf ; reclassified into Panzerbrigade 29 from 1967 )
- → Armored Brigade 29 , Sigmaringen ( Note: January, 1967 by reclassification Panzergrenadierbrigade 29 installed )
- 30th Panzer Brigade , Ellwangen
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12th Panzer Grenadier Division , Veitshöchheim (note: set up in 1961; Tauberbischofsheim until 1965 )
- Division troops 12th Panzer Grenadier Division
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 35 , Hammelburg (note: set up in January 1960)
- Panzerbrigade 36 , Bad Mergentheim (Note: set up April 1963)
III. corps
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Staff III. Corps , Koblenz
- Corps troops
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2nd Panzer Grenadier Division , Marburg
- Division troops 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 4 , Göttingen
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 5 , Homberg (until 1961 Kassel )
- Panzerbrigade 6 , Neustadt (until 1960 Marburg ) (Note: this is essentially the later Panzerbrigade 14 )
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5th Panzer Division , Diez (until 1962 Koblenz )
- Division troops 5th Panzer Division
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 , Wetzlar
- Panzerbrigade 14 , Koblenz (note: this is essentially the later Panzerbrigade 34 )
- Armored Brigade 15 , Koblenz
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7th Panzer Grenadier Division , Unna
- Division troops 7th Panzer Grenadier Division
- 19 Panzer Grenadier Brigade , Ahlen
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 20 , Hemer (Note: List as of April 1, 1964. Reclassified to 20 Panzer Brigade on March 31, 1965 )
- → Panzerbrigade 20 , Hemer (Note: established April 1965 by reclassification of Panzergrenadierbrigade 20 )
- Panzer Brigade 21 , Augustdorf
literature
- Helmut R. Hammerich , Dieter H. Kollmer , Martin Rink , Rudolf J. Schlaffer : Das Heer 1950 to 1970 . Conception, organization and installation. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57974-6 (821 pages, with the assistance of Michael Poppe).
- Rolf Clement : 50 years of the Bundeswehr . 1955 - 2005. Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-8132-0839-7 (288 pages).
- Hans-Jürgen Schraut: The armed forces structure of the Bundeswehr 1956-1990 . Documentation as part of the Nuclear History Program. Science and Politics Foundation, Ebenhausen 1993.
- Herbert Seifert: The structures of the army . In: Federal Ministry of Defense, Command Staff of the Army I 5 (Ed.): European Security . No. 1999/2000 . Bonn 2000, DNB 962058939 (68 pages).
- Reinhard Teuber: The Bundeswehr 1955–1995 . In: Leadership and Troop . tape 5 . Patzwall, Norderstedt 1996, ISBN 3-931533-03-4 (156 pages).
Web links
- The history of the army. In: https://www.bundeswehr.de/ . Federal Ministry of Defense, Head of the Press and Information Office, 2020, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
- Ekkehard Richter : 50 Years Reserve Army. (PDF) 50 years of Army reservists. In: Freundeskreis der Artillerietruppe eV Freundeskreis der Artillerietruppe eV, November 9, 2009, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
- The 1st Corps of the Bundeswehr. In: Relict.com. Relics in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Manfred Tegge, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
- The 1st Panzer Division of the Bundeswehr. In: Relict.com. Relics in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Manfred Tegge, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
- The 3rd Panzer Division of the Bundeswehr. In: Relict.com. Relics in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Manfred Tegge, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
- The 7th Panzer Division of the Bundeswehr. In: Relict.com. Relics in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Manfred Tegge, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
- The 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division of the Bundeswehr. In: Relict.com. Relics in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Manfred Tegge, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The history of the army. Federal Ministry of Defense , Head of the Press and Information Office , 2020, accessed on March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Department MA 3 : BArch BH 1 / Federal Ministry of Defense - Army Command. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2012, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad. In: Website of the Military History Research Office . Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , Military History Research Office , accessed on February 17, 2020 (For technical reasons, direct links to individual search queries or search results are not possible. Please use the “search form” to research information on the individual departments).
- ↑ Section MA 3 : BArch BH 8-6 / 6. Panzergrenadier Division. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1994, accessed on March 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Department MA 3 : BArch BH 7-1 / I. Corps. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1995, accessed on March 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Section MA 3 : BArch BH 7-2 / II. Corps / II. (GE / US) Corps. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2005, accessed on March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Section MA 3 : BArch BH 7-3 / III. Corps. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1994, accessed on March 17, 2020 .