Jägerbataillon 19 (Federal Army)

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Jäger Battalion 19

Lineup 1957
Country AustriaAustria Austria
Armed forces Federal Army
Armed forces Land Forces
Branch of service Infantry (hunters)
Subordinate troops
  • Command & headquarters company
  • 1. Hunter company
  • 2. Hunter company
  • 3. Hunter company
Insinuation Command quick operations
Headquarters of the battalion command Montecuccoli barracks , Güssing
Former locations Turba barracks in Pinkafeld , Sporck barracks in Oberwart
motto Forward with fresh courage
Tradition Kuk Infantry Regiment "Freiherr von Schikofsky" No. 83
commander
Battalion Commander Fruit Thomas Erkinger

The Jägerbataillon 19 ( JgB 19 ) is a hunting association of the Austrian Armed Forces . The battalion is stationed in the Montecuccoli barracks in Güssing , Burgenland . As part of the army reform in 2016 , the battalion was placed under the Rapid Operations Command.

history

Maintenance of tradition

Like many other units in the Austrian army and the Infantry Battalion 19 performs its lineage to a regiment of the former Austro-Hungarian army back. Since the battalion's recruiting area encompasses southern Burgenland, the Kuk infantry regiment "Freiherr von Schikofsky" No. 83 was chosen as a traditional association. Many recruits from the area of ​​what was then mostly German-speaking western Hungary were called up to this kuk unit, which was set up in 1883 and had locations in Steinamanger , Komorn and Güns , from which today's Burgenland emerged in 1921 in the course of the so-called conquest of the land .

The traditional day of Jäger Battalion 19 is July 6, 1917. On this day, the Austro-Hungarian Infantry Regiment No. 83 fought off an offensive by the Imperial Russian Army at Batkiv-Swyshen, almost 90 km east of Lemberg , in heavy fighting :

“In the afternoon, several attacks against Austro-Hungarian troops failed near Batkow-Zwyzyn. The Györ infantry regiment Kaiser and King Karl No. 19 and the Szombathely infantry regiment 83 threw the enemy completely in the bravest resistance and in bitter scuffle. "

- The Austro-Hungarian Army Report - The World War on July 7, 1917 , accessed on December 22, 2017

The last commander of the IR 83, Colonel of the General Staff Josef Turba, also served as the namesake for the former main station of the Jäger Battalion 19, the Turba barracks in Pinkafeld . Turba was held in high regard among the soldiers of the regiment for commanding it during the 1918 Piave battles . After the armistice of Villa Giusti on November 3, 1918, the regimental commander succeeded in withdrawing his unit from the threatened Italian captivity and returning them without major losses to the western Hungarian peace locations, where demobilization took place.

On July 1, 1934, a memorial was unveiled in Pinkafeld, commemorating the 83rd Infantry Regiment and the 106th Infantry Regiment established in January 1918. The IR 106, for which two battalions of the IR 83 were used, also fought on the Piave and had a commander in Colonel Anton Freiherr von Lehár who played an important role in the development of Burgenland in the post-war confusion.

This memorial, which was originally located in the so-called Rehpark south of the former barracks and played an important role in the tradition of the Jäger Battalion 19, had to be moved to the barracks grounds in 1995. When the Armed Forces put the Turba barracks up for sale in 2014 because the Pinkafeld and Oberwart locations were to be given up due to the construction of the Montecuccoli barracks in Güssing , considerations arose to relocate the monument to Güssing for reasons of tradition. However, at the request of the municipality of Pinkafeld and the new owner of the former barracks area, it remained at its location in Pinkafeld.

  • Uniform of a corporal of the kuk infantry regiment "Freiherr von Schikofsky" No. 83

  • Anton Freiherr von Lehár, commander of the IR 106

  • Unveiling of the memorial for the soldiers of the IR 83 and 106 on July 1, 1934 in Pinkafeld

  • The unveiling of the monument took place with great sympathy from the population

  • The final location of the monument on the barracks site (2014)

  • Monument in 2019, in the background the former staff building converted into a health center

1st Republic and World War II

Defense Minister Carl Vaugoin laying the foundation stone of the Jägerkaserne Pinkafeld on July 21, 1929
The Feldjägerbataillon 2 continued the tradition of the IR 83 in the 1st Republic. (Pinkafeld barracks)

In the 1920s, no soldiers were stationed in the south of the new federal state of Burgenland due to the lack of any barracks infrastructure. This only changed with the construction of the so-called "Jägerkaserne Pinkafeld" and the barracks in Oberwart. The fact that these new buildings were built was a particular achievement of the then Defense Minister Carl Vaugoin , who not only attended the groundbreaking ceremony at the Pinkafeld barracks on July 21, 1929, but was also made an honorary citizen of Pinkafeld on the occasion .

After their completion in 1932, the two later barracks of Jäger Battalion 19 were occupied by Feldjäger Battalion No. 2 of the Federal Army , which was relocated from Neusiedl am See to southern Burgenland. This unit continued the line of tradition of the Imperial and Royal 83rd Infantry Regiment, to which the monument building in 1934 described above made a significant contribution.

The annexation of Austria to the German Reich led to the break of this traditional line, because the Feldjägerbataillon 2 left the southern Burgenland locations and became the 2nd division of the 11th Cavalry Rifle Regiment, which belonged to the 4th light division, the later 9th Panzer Division , incorporated.

Instead, units of the 138 Mountain Infantry Regiment, which belonged to the 3rd Mountain Division , were briefly stationed in the Pinkafeld barracks . Thereafter, the Pinkafelder barracks served as a reserve hospital and from 1944 as a war hospital .

After the end of the Second World War , the two barracks in southern Burgenland served as bases for the Soviet occupying power .

post war period

The Red Army used the two barracks in southern Burgenland until 1955, the year the State Treaty was signed .

After a renovation of the barracks, units of the B-Gendarmerie moved into the now vacated property in November 1955 . This B-Gendarmerie was called the Provisional Border Guard Department from mid-1955 and was officially converted into the Federal Army of the 2nd Republic in 1956.

On October 1, 1956, the first one-year-old volunteers of the new armed forces moved in; two weeks later, on October 15 , they were followed by 13,000 military servants throughout Austria , including those in the Pinkafeld and Oberwart barracks.

Already ten days after this call-up, some of the cadre personnel had to move away to secure the state border due to the Hungarian uprising , while the rest continued to train the young men. In the course of this crisis, 40 men from the Vienna Gendarmerie School were transferred to the Jägerkaserne in Pinkafeld.

Formation of the Jäger Battalion 19

In 1957 the first formation of the Jäger Battalion 19 with the locations Pinkafeld and Oberwart took place. At the beginning of the 1960s, Güssing was added as a further location. During this time the barracks were renamed:

On July 11, 1967, the Austrian Council of Ministers made the decision to relocate units of the Federal Army to the Austrian-Italian border on what was going on around the South Tyrol Liberation Committee , which was responsible for several bomb attacks in South Tyrol . The 19 Jägerbataillon spent a total of six weeks in the fall of 1967 in East Tyrol as part of this assistance mission , during which the commander of the 2nd Company was killed in an alpine accident in Kartitsch .

Conversion into Landwehr Trunk Regiment 13

After the sale of the Turba barracks Pinkafeld, some buildings were demolished to make room for civil structures (2015).
A delegation of the Jägerbataillon 19 and the Military Music Burgenland as part of a tattoo on the former barracks area in Pinkafeld (2017).

With the army regrouping in 1978 , which was based on the so-called Spannocchi doctrine (the space defense concept named after the Austrian General Emil Spannocchi ), the hunter battalions were reorganized into regiments of the Landwehr .

As a result of this reform, Jäger Battalion 19 was converted into Landwehr Trunk Regiment 13 and was now responsible for the training, material maintenance and mobilization of Jäger Battalions 1, 2 and 3 (mobile Landwehr), the fighter battalions 511 and 512 as well as two local blocking companies.

New formation of the Jäger Battalion 19

With the end of the Warsaw Pact , this resource-intensive defense concept was seen as obsolete and the Austrian Armed Forces were redimensioned. For the companies of the three garrisons in southern Burgenland, this meant that their unit was given the old name Jägerbataillon 19 .

The new millennium also brought further reforms and austerity programs for the armed forces. As part of the 2010 army reform , the aim was to reduce the number of properties used by the Austrian Armed Forces by around 40 percent. This project had far-reaching consequences for Jäger Battalion 19, because the implementation of the reform envisaged for the battalion to concentrate all companies in the Güssing barracks. The Montecuccoli barracks was therefore expanded into a "model barracks" from December 2010, while the traditional Pinkafeld and Oberwart locations were given up and the properties there were sold.

In the course of 2014, the companies left the Pinkafelder Turba barracks and the Oberwarter Sporck barracks and moved to the completed Montecuccoli barracks in Güssing. In the meantime, many civil facilities were built on the former armed forces properties in Pinkafeld and Oberwart in the course of subsequent use.

The army reform of 2016 , which was initiated as a result of the refugee crisis in 2015 , brought a number of changes to the 19 Jäger Battalion. The conversion of the previously superior 3rd Panzer Grenadier Brigade into the Rapid Operations Command brought about a redefinition of the tasks of the subordinate units:

“The association is quickly available and its soldiers specialize in deployments in urban areas. Your main task is to support the defense against terrorist threats and to maintain security and order after a terror situation in which the security forces cannot get by. "

- Rapid deployment command , website www.bundesheer.at, accessed on December 23, 2017

The reform also brought about an upgrading of the importance of the battalion within the Austrian Armed Forces through the establishment of a KPE company (cadre presence unit), starting in July 2016.

Outline and equipment

structure

The Jäger Battalion 19 is divided into:

  • command
  • Headquarters company
  • 1. Hunter company
  • 2. Hunter company
  • 3rd KPE company (cadre presence unit)
  • Operating relay - Montecuccoli barracks

After a heavy grenade launcher platoon, a supply platoon and a reduced KPE-based medical platoon were subordinate to the battalion for three years, these KPE units have since been reduced to a single infantry platoon. However, the reform of the armed forces in 2016 led to the fact that the KPE forces were replenished to company strength and that the Jäger Battalion 19 rose to become the largest employer in the Güssing district .

equipment

As a hunting force, the battalion has all the standard infantry weapons of the armed forces such as:

  • A soldier of Jäger Battalion 19 adjusting the heavy grenade launcher 86.

  • An infantry group of the battalion with the 74 machine gun.

  • Soldiers of Jäger Battalion 19 with the assault rifle 77.

  • Some soldiers of the battalion with the anti-tank guided missile 2000, behind them an Iveco LMV "Husar"

Calls

The soldiers of the Jäger Battalion 19 took part in many important missions of the armed forces:

In addition, assignments abroad have already been completed in Syria , Cyprus , Lebanon , Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of various United Nations missions .

partner

The Jäger Battalion 19 has the following civil partners:

The military partner is the Burgenland Jägerbataillon , a militia association that was now directly subordinate to the 19 Jägerbataillon, but was assigned to the Burgenland military command as part of the 2016 army reform .

In addition to purely military tasks, the Jäger Battalion 19 also has representative duties in the region and also works closely with organizations such as the Austrian Black Cross or the Austrian Association of Comradeships :

  • Wreath-laying ceremony by battalion commander Colonel Thomas Erkinger at the Soviet military cemetery in Oberwart.

  • Report to Colonel Erkinger on the occasion of the embedding of fallen Soviet soldiers on June 24, 2016

  • Guard of honor of the Jäger Battalion 19 ibid.

  • Military music Burgenland, behind it the battalion's parade of honor

  • Soldiers with the battalion flag

Web links

Commons : Jägerbataillon 19 (Bundesheer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Zapfenstreich of the armed forces at the monument of the IR 83/106 in the former turbo barracks in Pinkafeld , website www.meiniertel.at, accessed on December 22, 2017
  2. ^ Hans H. Piff: From Pinkafö to Pinkafeld . Quagala, Pinkafeld History Workshop, Pinkafeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-200-03374-0 , p. 258 .
  3. ^ Hans H. Piff: From Pinkafö to Pinkafeld . Quagala, Pinkafeld History Workshop, Pinkafeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-200-03374-0 , p. 260 .
  4. ^ Hans H. Piff: From Pinkafö to Pinkafeld . Quagala, Pinkafeld History Workshop, Pinkafeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-200-03374-0 , p. 261 .
  5. ^ A b Hans H. Piff: From Pinkafö to Pinkafeld . Quagala, Pinkafeld History Workshop, Pinkafeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-200-03374-0 , p. 262 .
  6. ↑ a b Pinkafeld: Barracks advertised for sale , website www.bvz.at, accessed on December 22, 2017
  7. ^ Josef Karl Homma, Harald Prickler, Johann Seedoch: History of the City of Pinkafeld . Self-published by the municipality of Pinkafeld, Pinkafeld History Workshop, Pinkafeld 1987, p. 93 .
  8. ↑ List of army units transferred to the German Wehrmacht , accessed on December 23, 2017
  9. ^ Paul Klatt : The 3rd Mountain Division, 1939-1945 . Podzun, Bad Nauheim 1958, DNB  452432944 , p. 332 .
  10. ↑ a b Norbert Sinn: People's Uprising in Hungary 1956 - the first deployment of the young armed forces , website www.bundesheer.at, accessed on December 23, 2017
  11. ↑ Team 19 - The troop newspaper of JgB 19, issue 4/2017, page 5
  12. ↑ General i. R. Othmar Tauschitz: The Austrian Armed Forces in the Era of the Space Defense Concept - Experiences and Results , website www.bundesheer.at, accessed on December 23, 2017
  13. ↑ Bundesheer-Reform 2010 , website www.bundesheer.at, accessed on December 23, 2017
  14. ↑ Musterkaserne Güssing , website www.bundesheer.at, accessed on December 23, 2017
  15. ↑ The move has started in full , website www.mein Bezirk.at, accessed on December 23, 2017
  16. ↑ a b Team 19 - The troop newspaper of JgB 19, edition 4/2016, page 3
  17. ↑ Team 19 - The troop newspaper of JgB 19, issue 4/2017, page 2
  18. ↑ Die Jägerbataillone der Miliz , website www.bundesheer.at, accessed on December 23, 2017
  19. ↑ The Soviet soldiers' graves at Sankt Martin an der Raab , website regiowiki.at, accessed on December 23, 2017