Jägerbataillon 17 (Federal Army)

Jäger Battalion 17
Lineup	December 1962
Country	Austria
Armed forces	Federal Army
Armed forces	Land Forces
Branch of service	infantry
Subordinate troops	Command & headquarters company; 1. Hunter company; 2. Hunter company; 3. Jägerkompanie (cadre presence unit);
Insinuation	3rd Fighter Brigade
Headquarters of the battalion command	Archduke Johann barracks , Strass
motto	If the good don't fight, the bad win ( Plato )
Tradition	Styrian Alpine Hunter Regiment Field Marshal Daun No. 9
commander
Battalion Commander	Fruit dG Shahim Bakhsh

Jägerbataillon 17 (Bundesheer) Straß in Styria

Soldiers and Pandur armored vehicles of JgB 17 during the multinational association exercise "EURAD 13"

The Jägerbataillon 17 (JgB 17) is the only armored fighter association of the Austrian Armed Forces . The battalion is stationed in the Erzherzog-Johann-Kaserne in Straß , Styria.

history

The history of a garrison in Straß goes back to the year 1852, when Straß Castle was used as a kuk cadet institute. From 1875 the building was used as barracks for combat units ( artillery , dragoons ), again as an infantry cadet school between 1896 and 1904, and then as a military lower secondary school until the end of the First World War in 1918. During the Second World War , Straß Castle served as a reserve military hospital for the Wehrmacht . Initially under British administration as a refugee camp, a gendarmerie school was installed in the barracks on December 1, 1951 . With the conclusion of the State Treaty in 1955, the Gendarmerie School was converted into the provisional Border Guard Department 3.

The Styrian Feldjäger Battalion No. 17 under Major A. Lohmer was created on May 1, 1956 from the 3rd and 4th subdivisions of this border protection department. In December 1962 the reclassification to Jägerbataillon 17 took place . On 15 May 1967, the castle barracks because of the tradition adopted by Defense was Georg Prader , in Archduke Johann renamed army barracks. In addition, the tradition of the "Styrian Alpine Hunter Regiment Field Marshal Daun No. 9" was taken over.

In January 1979 JgB 17 was transferred to the units of the Landwehr Tribe Regiment 53 (LWSR 53). This was responsible for the material and personnel formation, maintenance and administration of a replacement regiment, a mobile hunter battalion, two Landwehr battalions and seven immediately subordinate companies. Due to the "Army Division NEW" (1992 to 1994), the LWSR 53 was reclassified to the 5th Jägerregiment and the 5th Jägerbrigade.

In 1997 the first Pandur armored personnel carriers were delivered to Straß, making the garrison the first and only fighter unit to be equipped with these vehicles.

In April 1998 the first female volunteers of the armed forces arrived in Straß. In 1999, the first Austrian contingent was set up for use in Kosovo in Straß ( AUCON 1 / KFOR ). In the same year, it was renamed Jägerbataillon 17 and incorporated into the 1st Jäger Brigade .

Since 2004, JgB 17 has provided a hunter company as a cadre presence unit (KPE) for the forces for international operations (KIOP). After the 1st Jäger Brigade was dissolved in 2005, the battalion was incorporated into the 7th Jäger Brigade . On September 30, 2008 the second company was relocated from the Mickl barracks in Bad Radkersburg to Strasbourg. In 2011 the first Austrian participation in an EU battlegroup followed .

Calls

Jägerbataillon 17 (Federal Army) EUBG

The soldiers of the Jäger Battalion 17 took part in all important operations of the armed forces:

October 1956: Alert and border security operation due to the Hungarian uprising .
1967: Security police deployment in the Landeck area on the Italian state border to prevent BAS terrorist attacks .
1968: Alert due to the ČSSR crisis .
June / July 1991: Because of the Slovenian War of Independence , the Strass garrison was alerted again and, under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Josef Paul Puntigam, took responsibility for the border security troops deployed until they were divided into two security areas. The battalion then took over the section between Soboth and the Burgenland border.
until 2011: Participation in the assistance operation border area surveillance .
Use at the border crossings Spielfeld and Bad Radkersburg during the refugee crisis in 2015

In addition, assignments abroad have already been completed in Afghanistan , Chad , Syria , Lebanon , Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina .

equipment

As a hunting force , the battalion has all of the armed forces' standard infantry weapons and is also equipped with anti-tank guided weapons ( BILL ) and heavy grenade launchers (sGrW 86). The Jägerbataillon 17 differs from the other infantry formations of the armed forces through the use of Pandur armored vehicles and protected multi-purpose vehicles Iveco LMV , which give the infantry more mobility, protection and firepower.

partner

Military partners of Jägerbataillon 17 are the Militia Association Jägerbataillon Wien 2 "Maria Theresia" and the German Panzergrenadierbataillon 371 from Marienberg (Saxony). The civil partner is Steiermärkische Bank und Sparkassen AG . In September 2016, the battalion entered into a partnership with General Dynamics European Land Systems-Steyr GMBH.

additional

The unit has its own newspaper, "The Panther". The battalion also holds a summer festival every year.

Web links

Commons : Jägerbataillon 17 (Bundesheer) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Jägerbataillon 17, Bundesheer
Jägerbataillon 17, Troop Service, episode 317 (edition 5/2010)
Community chronicle, market community of Straß
The history of the garrison, The Panther (Edition 2/2012)
Festschrift 160 years Garrison Straß 1852–2012 , publication of the Federal Ministry for National Defense and Sport, Jägerbataillon 17 (pdf, 10.6 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bundesheer.at - Jägerbataillon 17 , website www.bundesheer.at, accessed on June 25, 2016