Jägerregiment 1

Jägerregiment 1 - JgRgt 1 - III
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active	July 1, 2006 to December 31, 2015
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	Hunter
Type	Airmobile infantry ( stabilization and intervention forces )
Subordinate troops	9 companies 1 battery
Strength	~ 1,800
Insinuation	Armored Brigade 21
Locations	Schwarzenborn (seat of the staff) Hammelburg
march	A hunter from the Electoral Palatinate
Awards	Flag ribbon Hessen (2011)
commander
commander	Lieutenant Colonel Carsten Krämer
Deputy Commander	Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Ritter

The Jägerregiment 1 ( JgRgt 1 ) was an airmobile infantry unit of the army of the German Federal Armed Forces , which was most recently subordinate to the Panzer Brigade 21 and was decommissioned on July 9, 2015. At the same time, the Jäger Battalion 1 was reorganized.

The preparation of the Infantry Regiment 1 was from 2006. The English term for the Jägerregiment one newly added ability to air mobility is Air Cavalry (US) or Air Mobile Infantry , is widespread, the term Air Assault ( air assault ).

The Bundeswehr decided to reorganize the hunters ' troops in the 21st century for the Schwarzenborn (Knüll) location in the historic area where the hunters' troops were built. As a troop concept, first developed in Hesse in 1631, the hunter troop was created as a largely independently operating elite infantry and is understood as the first modern and still current troop concept for light infantry.

structure

ESK Mungo of the 2nd Company

The Jägerregiment 1 (JgRgt 1) had a personnel target strength of 1,800 soldiers . These were distributed over a total of nine airmobile companies , divided into intervention , stabilization and support forces . The Jägerregiment is a regiment of the army, however, it is not divided into battalions , as is traditionally usual , but directly into the following companies :

• 1. / Supply and support company, intervention forces ( EK) Stabilization forces (SK)
  • Command post platoon (in planning with FüInfoSys)
  • Telecommunication train
  • Hunter group (belongs to the telecommunication train, technically independent)
  • Resupply train
  • Transport train
  • Repair train
• 2. / Jägerkompanie, EK
• 3. / Jägerkompanie, EK
• 4. / Jägerkompanie, EK
• 5. / Heavy hunter company , EK
  • Reconnaissance platoon
    • Airborne Zone Reconnaissance Group
  • MK train weasels
  • TOW train weasels
  • Mortar train
• 6. / Heavy hunter company, SK
  • Reconnaissance platoon
    • Airborne Zone Reconnaissance Group
  • MK train weasels
  • TOW train weasels
• 7. / Pioneer company , EK
  • Pioneer train
  • Pioneer train
  • Pioneer machine train
• 8. / Light anti-aircraft missile battery , EK

  Note: The anti-aircraft platoons of this company were decommissioned in the course of the dissolution of the Army Air Defense Force in March 2012 and the battery was completely disbanded at the end of 2012

• 9. / Supply company, EK
  • Transport train
  • Repair train
  • Turnover scale
• 10./ Mission / Support Company UK
  • I. Recruitment train
  • II. Recruitment
  • III. Recruitment
  • JägerEAV train

The 1st Jägerregiment was for the most part stationed in Schwarzenborn . The 4th, 6th and 9th companies were in Hammelburg . The deployment personnel consisted mostly of former members of the disbanded Panzergrenadier Battalion 152 and the disbanded Jägerlehrbataillons 353. The peacetime strength of the regiment comprised 1,371 soldiers.

equipment

A weapon carrier Wiesel of the 5th Company of JgRgt 1 with a 20 mm automatic cannon

vehicles

• TPz fox
• Dingo 2
• Light truck, wolf
• Weasel 1
  • enlightenment
  • Carrier TOW
  • Carrier machine gun 20mm
• Weasel 2
  • Carrier anti-tank mortar 120mm
• boxer
• Mongoose

Until the Wiesel 2 PzMrs arrived, the existing mortars were initially loaded onto wolves . With the introduction of the GTK Boxer in ISAF deployment, it was available to all hunter companies, EK.

Air defense

Stinger

Air transport

The Fighter Regiment 1 did not have its own helicopters, but was made mobile with transport helicopters from the helicopter regiments of the Airmobile Operations Division and was dependent on cooperation with support helicopters .

Assignments abroad

As of March 2008, 800 soldiers of the regiment were deployed in Kosovo as part of KFOR .

From April 2009, the entire Jägerregiment 1 was relocated to Afghanistan and until March 2010 provided the Quick Reaction Force (QRF) (QRF 3 and QRF 4) of the ISAF for the Regional Command North . During this mission, the hunters were involved in intense fighting in the Kunduz province . Officially, more than 50 firefights are reported (Brigadier General Michael MATZ in “Strategy & Technology”: “Well over 50 fire fights”). With the Oberfeldwebel Steffen Knoska , Jägerregiment 1 is the 6th holder of the Bundeswehr Cross of Honor for bravery .

The next ISAF mission followed from January to August 2012 as part of the Mazar-e-Sharif training and protection battalion . The Jägerregiment with parts of the 9th / 5th / 8th / 8th and 1st / Jägerregiment 1 provided the staff, supply and fire support company of the Task Force Mazar-e-Sharif. The 2./- and 3./Jägerregiment 1 were each reinforced by an armored infantry platoon and deployed as the 2./- and 3. / Task Force MeS. The 7th / Jägerregiment 1 provided the core of the battalion's engineer company. The training and protection battalion was deployed from the OP North position to secure the southern part of the Kunduz-Baghlan corridor, in particular to secure the marching roads and connecting routes.

From April 2014 to July 2014, a platoon from Jägerregiment 1 was also integrated into QRF 245. In 2014, the regiment also provided the main forces for the ORF battalion KFOR.

Dissolution and reclassification to Jägerbataillon 1

According to the plans of the Bundeswehr, Jägerregiment 1 was restructured into Jägerbataillon 1, also at the Schwarzenborn (Knüll) location . The association was detached from the airmobile brigade on December 19, 2012 and placed under the armored brigade 21 . On June 30, 2015, the regiment was formally dissolved and from the following day it was run under its new name.

Follow-up association

Jägerbataillon 1 - JgBtl 1 - II
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Lineup	June 25, 2015
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	Hunter
Subordinate troops	5 companies 1 training / support company
Strength	~ 900
Insinuation	Armored Brigade 21
Locations	Schwarzenborn (seat of the staff) Hammelburg
march	A hunter from the Electoral Palatinate
Web presence	Website Jägerbataillon 1
commander
commander	Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang Schröder

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 40.5 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 8.2 ″  E

The Jäger Battalion 1 is stationed in the Knüll barracks in Schwarzenborn. It is subordinate to the Panzer Brigade 21 "Lipperland". The battalion provides forces for intervention operations as well as for national and alliance defense and has special skills for use in urban and other difficult terrain. The Jäger Battalion 1 is fully mobile and air transportable. It is the successor to the "Jägerregiment 1", which was decommissioned on July 9, 2015. It is the Couleur troop unit of the inactive 921 Jäger Battalion

The Jägerbataillon 1 is not the successor to the former Jägerbataillon 1 Berlin .

structure

The Jäger Battalion 1 in Schwarzenborn is structured as follows:

• 1./Jägerbataillon 1 (headquarters and supply company)
• 2./Jägerbataillon 1 (Jäger company),
• 3rd / Jägerbataillon 1 (Jäger company),
• 4./Jägerbataillon 1 (Jäger company),
• 5./Jägerbataillon 1 (heavy hunter company),
• Educational training group 1 (training / support company)
• Sub-unit 900 System optimization of hunter troops / infantry for testing the GTK Boxer weapon system , in Hammelburg

Foreign missions of the newly formed battalion

In 2016 Jägerbataillon 1 provided the infantry component of the EU Battlegroup .

From January to July 2020, around a quarter of the association was stationed as part of the NATO Resolute Support mission in Camp Marmal near Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan as part of an international Force Protection Battalion (FPBtl). Order of the FPBtl. is the protection of international trainers who train Afghan forces and advise them in battle.

Commanders

No.	Rank	Surname	Beginning of the command
2	Lieutenant colonel	Wolfgang Schröder	November 2017
1	Lieutenant colonel	Carsten Krämer	June 25, 2015

Web links

• Website Jägerbataillon 1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Farewell to the Jägerregiment 1
2. ↑ / A man of the moment: Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang Schröder is the new commander of Jägerbataillons 1 in Schwarzenborn www.hna.de, December 1, 2017 Accessed May 21, 2018.