Army Aviation Command 1

Army Aviation Command 1 - HFlgKdo 1 -
( did not have an association badge )
active	April 1, 1971 to March 31, 1994
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	Army Air Force
Type	Army Aviation Command
Insinuation	I. Corps
last staff seat	Rheine

The Army Aviation Command 1 was one of the Army Aviation Commands of the Army of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters were last in Rheine . The command was part of the corps troops of the I. Corps .

assignments

The Army Aviation Command bundled the helicopters of the Army Aviation Force at the corps level . The other units subordinate to the corps had no major units of the Army Aviation Troops around 1989 . Only the division troops of each subordinate division had a squadron with Alouette II liaison helicopters in Army Structure IV . To 1989, the disposal commander of Heeresflieger commands using helicopter compound Bo-105M and Alouette II, the transport helicopter LTH UH-1D and MTH CH-53G and anti-tank helicopters Bo-105P . The command supported the divisions and brigades of the corps with logistics and combined arms combat on the battlefield . There they were mainly used for reconnaissance and anti-tank purposes. The commander of the corps could also use the transport helicopter to the the defense case as a reserve imputed paratroopers of the airborne brigades to move quickly to focus . Overall, the size of the Army Aviation Command with about 5600 members corresponded to the strength of one of the brigades of the field army .

structure

Around 1989 the Army Aviation Command was roughly divided into:

• Staff / Staff Squadron Heeresfliegerkommando 1, Rheine ( Heeresflugplatz Rheine-Bentlage )
  • Heeresfliegerstaffel 100 (GerEinh), Rheine
  • Army Aviation Repair Squadron 102, Rotenburg (Wümme) ( Rotenburg Airfield )
  • Army Aviation Training Squadron 8 / I, Rotenburg
  • Army Aviation Regiment 10 , Faßberg ( Faßberg Air Base )
  • 15th Army Aviation Regiment , Rheine
  • Heeresfliegerregiment 16 , Celle ( Army Airfield Celle )

See also : Division of the field army (Bundeswehr, Army Structure 4) #Heeresfliegerkommando 1

history

Army Aviation Command 1 was set up in Münster in 1971 to take over Army Structure III . Corps Army Aviation Commander 1 , who was also based in Münster from 1959 until the reclassification in 1971, was called in to set up the staff . In 1984 the staff moved from the Lützow barracks in Münster at the Münster-Handorf airfield to the Theodor-Blank barracks at the Rheine-Bentlage army airfield .

The Army Aviation Command was decommissioned after the end of the Cold War at the end of March 1994, around the same time as the 1st Corps was reclassified to the 1st German-Dutch Corps . Some of the troops previously subordinated to the Air Mechanized Brigade 1 later switched .

Association badge

Internal Badge of the rod / bar Season

The Army Aviation Command did not have its own association badge due to its planning as part of the dependent corps troops . The soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the higher corps .

As a "badge", the internal association badge of the staff and the staff unit " pars pro toto " was sometimes used imprecisely for the entire Army Aviation Command . It showed a wing similar to the beret badge of the Army Aviation Troops , the federal eagle and the gable of the old Münster town hall .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} O.W. Dragoons: The Bundeswehr 1989 . Army Office. I. Corps. II Corps. III. Corps. 4th edition. 2.1 - Army, February 2012 ( religte.com [PDF; accessed July 3, 2018]).

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 38.8 "  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 54.8"  E