Homeland Security Brigade 56

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Homeland Security Brigade 56
- HSchBrig 56 -
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HSchBrig 56.svg

Association badge
active April 1, 1981 to September 30, 1993
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Logo Heer with lettering.svg army
Type Homeland Security Brigade
Insinuation Association badge 1st Mountain Division 1st Mountain Division
Staff seat Tilly barracks , Oberhausen
commander
last commander Colonel Klaus Hartmann
Internal association badge of the brigade staff: a variant of the enthroned Madonna with baby Jesus and scepter of the Queen of Heaven on Bavarian diamonds

The Homeland Security Brigade 56 was predominantly in the upper and Lower Bavaria dislocated Territorial Brigade of the army of the German Federal Armed Forces with rod seat in Oberhausen at Neuburg . The brigade was formed in the Territorial Army in 1981 , disbanded in 1993 and was most recently part of the 1st Mountain Division .

history

Headquarters of the staff: Tilly barracks in Neuburg / Oberhausen

In the territorial army

The brigade was set up on April 1, 1981 to take Army Structure IV in Military District Command VI . Parts of the Homeland Security Command 18, which was disbanded at the same time, were used for the installation . Other parts of Home Security Command 18 were used at the same time to set up the inactive "sister brigade" Home Security Brigade 66 . Homeland Security Command 18, which was set up in 1970 to take over Army Structure III , was again set up from parts of the "old" 28th Panzer Brigade .

As its name suggests, the partially active Homeland Security Brigade 56 was one of the twelve homeland security brigades of the Territorial Army . Around 2800 of the brigade members were present . In the event of a defense , the brigade was able to grow to its full target strength of around 4500 soldiers through reservists . Some of the subordinate battalions and companies were planned to be inactive equipment units , whose defense material was stored in depots in peacetime and would only have been mobilized in the event of a defense .

In the field army

Soon after taking the new army structure was clear that the northern and southern flanks of the NATO - defense were particularly threatened in West Germany. Associations originally assigned to the territorial army were intended to permanently strengthen the divisions of the field army on these two flanks . In the north, the Homeland Security Brigade 51 moved to the field army; in the south, Homeland Security Brigade 56 was selected for this task. The Homeland Security Brigade 56 should in particular strengthen the mountain troops on the Alpine border . There was a permanent danger that Warsaw Pact troops could have advanced from the south or from the east through the Danube plain towards southern Germany , disregarding Austria's neutrality . The partially active Homeland Security Brigade 56 was assigned to NATO in 1982 and thus part of the field army. The partially active Homeland Security Brigade 56 was incorporated into the 1st Mountain Division in 1985 .

The Homeland Security Brigade 56 was very strong in comparison to the other Homeland Security Brigades, which were more like reinforced Jägerbrigades. The brigade led among others, two mechanized infantry battalions , two tank battalions and an armored artillery battalion . The partially active Homeland Security Brigade 56 was also relatively modern compared to all other Homeland Security Brigades: In addition to the Leopard 1 and Jaguar 2 tank destroyers, it also had Marder armored personnel carriers and M109G self-propelled howitzers . Other homeland security brigades often only had outdated M 48 , MTW M113 as a replacement for "real" armored personnel carriers and towed field howitzers FH 105mm (L) . In its war organization, Homeland Security Brigade 56 was equipped and structured in a very similar way to a tank brigade or, depending on your perspective, like a reinforced "regular" tank grenadier brigade of the field army. In addition and atypical for other divisions, the division troops of the 1st Mountain Division were reinforced by a tank battalion (Mountain Tank Battalion 8). The Heimatschutzbrigade 56 and the Gebirgspanzerbataillon 8 compensated for the weakness of the 1st Mountain Division, which, unlike most other divisions (exception: 1st Airborne Division ) of the Army, was "only" subject to one infantry brigade instead of a third mechanized and armored brigade .

In 1983 there was a serious shooting accident during an information training exercise by the Home Security Brigade 56 at the Münsingen military training area . Two soldiers were killed, several soldiers and spectators, including the CSU politician and reserve officer Fritz Wittmann , some seriously injured.

resolution

After reunification and the end of the Cold War , Homeland Security Brigade 56 was disbanded on September 30, 1993 as the army was downsized .

structure

The brigade is divided as follows around 1989:

Association badge

Woven version of the association badge

The brigade carried a union badge with the following blazon :

"Green rimmed divided diagonally left of silver and blue, hung a black central shield , is a rotbewehrter and rotgezungter golden lion ."

The association badge established the connection to the stationing room. The association badge took on essential elements of the coat of arms of Upper Bavaria . The colors and the diagonal division were reminiscent of the Bavarian diamonds . The lion in the black shield resembled the Palatinate lion from the coat of arms of Upper Bavaria. In the coat of arms of Upper Bavaria, however, the Palatinate lion is depicted as a crowned lion. The green board was typical for all homeland security brigades in Army Structure IV. Green is the weapon color of the hunter troop , because most homeland security brigades resembled reinforced hunter brigades.

The Homeland Security Brigade 56 took over this association badge from the "predecessor" Homeland Security Command 18 . The Palatinate Lion was also found in the association badge of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division and the Homeland Security Brigade 54 . The Bavarian diamonds were also found in the association badges in the area of ​​the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division , the association badge of the 13th Panzer Grenadier Division and in an older version of the association badge of the 37th Panzer Grenadier Brigade .

Commanders

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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]).
  2. ↑ Joachim Lenk: Grenades struck in front of the grandstand. In: Donaukurier . Simone Tucci-Diekmann, October 2, 2008, accessed on July 2, 2018 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E