Homeland Security Command 16

Homeland Security Command 16 - HSchKdo 16 -
Association badge
active	April 1, 1972 to March 31, 1981
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Homeland Security Command
Insinuation	Military District Command IV
Staff seat	Zweibrücken
commander
Last commander	Colonel Horst Loch

The Homeland Security Unit 16 was a partially active homeland security command of the Army of the Armed Forces with the seat of the rod in Two Bridges . The association was planned in 1972, dissolved in 1981 and was subordinate to the commander in Defense Area IV .

history

Lineup

The Homeland Security Command was set up in 1970 to take over Army Structure III as a partially active unit in Defense Area IV .

The homeland security command was one of the six partially active homeland security commands of the territorial army . Only part of the Homeland Security Command was present at peace. In the event of a tension defense , the homeland security command was able to grow up significantly thanks to reservists . Some of the subordinate battalions and companies were planned as inactive units that would only have been mobilized in the event of a defense . For this purpose, their defense material was stored in depots during peacetime or had to be withdrawn from civilian stocks as a material mob supplement .

The task of the homeland security command, which formed the core of the homeland security force of the territorial army , was, among other things, the defense of the rear army area , in particular the security of important infrastructure such as marching routes, ports, traffic hubs and telecommunications facilities. Airborne troops , sea-landed , leaked or breached enemy had to be expected in the rear area . At its core, the Homeland Security Command resembled a fighter brigade . Mobility and firepower remained by the lack of armored vehicles , artillery systems and independent companies of combat support and guide troops but well behind the brigades of the Army back so that the Homeland Security Command only temporally and spatially tightly limited combat missions could perform and combined arms battle only was conditionally qualified.

In times of peace, the subordinate training centers trained soldiers from the Homeland Security Force .

resolution

The Homeland Security Command was decommissioned on March 31, 1980 to take over Army Structure IV . Personnel and material from the decommissioned Homeland Security Command were used to set up the partially active Homeland Security Brigade 54 .

structure

The homeland security command was divided into:

• Staff and staff company ( Zweibrücken , temporarily Oberbexbach ) (cadre)
  • Fighter Regiment 47
    • Jägerbataillon 471 ( Oberbexbach ) (active)
    • Jägerbataillon 472 (equipment unit)
    • 1 mortar company (equipment unit)
    • 2 tank destroyer companies (equipment units)
  • Fighter Regiment 48
    • Jägerbataillon 481 (active)
    • Jägerbataillon 482 (equipment unit)
    • 1 mortar company (equipment unit)
    • 2 tank destroyer companies (equipment units)
  • 1 light engineer battalion (equipment unit)
  • 1 supply battalion (equipment unit)
  • 1 field replacement battalion (equipment unit)
  • 3 training centers

Association badge

Woven version of the association badge

The homeland security command carried a union badge with the following blazon :

"Green rimmed , quartered shield. Above is a gold-crowned and red-tongued silver lion in the blue field; in front a red cross in the silver field; behind three mutilated silver eagles covering a red bar in the golden field; below a red-crowned, red-armored and red-tongued golden lion in the black field. "

The association badge established the connection to the stationing area in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate . The association badge was similar to the Saarland coat of arms : the silver lion stood for the Counts of Saarbrücken , the Trier cross for Kurtrier , the Alérions for the Duchy of Lorraine , the golden Palatinate lion for the Palatinate . Symbols stood for the predecessor territories of the Saarland. The Trier Cross and the Palatinate Lion were also part of the coat of arms of Rhineland-Palatinate . The green board was typical for all homeland security commands in Army Structure III . Green was the weapon color of the hunter troop , because the homeland security commandos were essentially similar to the hunter brigades.

The association badge was continued by the "successor association" Heimatschutzbrigade 54 . The Palatinate Lion was also found in the association badge of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division and the Home Guard Brigade 56 .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Commanders

The Homeland Security Command was commanded by the following staff officers :

• Colonel Hans Huber (April 1972 - March 1978)
• Colonel Horst Loch (April 1978 - March 1981)

Web links

• Homeland Security Commandos / Homeland Security Brigades. German Digital Library, accessed on July 2, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homeland Security Commands / Homeland Security Brigades. German Digital Library, accessed on July 2, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Nemere: Jägerverband u. units of the Bundeswehr. Post # 13. In: Cold War Forum - Military facilities & relics of the Cold War. November 29, 2008. Retrieved August 8, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E