State Command

The Landeskommando ( LKdo ) is the central command authority of the territorial defense organization of the Bundeswehr in every federal state of the Federal Republic of Germany . It is stationed in the respective state capital (exception Saarland: LKdo in Saarlouis ). The previously assumed Military Regional Command (VBK) in 2007, which used superior military area commands were dissolved, 2013. In the state of Berlin there is no state command , the tasks are taken over by the higher-level territorial tasks of the Bundeswehr , which now also leads the state commands .

task

The LKdo is the state government's point of contact for all questions relating to possible support services from the Bundeswehr . The LKdo summarizes support requests, evaluates them and presents them to the Bundeswehr Territorial Tasks Command. In the event of a disaster z. For example, it prepares the reception and deployment of the armed forces in coordination with the responsible civilian disaster control team and coordinates their deployment according to the specifications and priorities of the civilian side. As the central point of contact for the civilian side, it has a military overview of the deployed and still available armed forces. Subordinate to the LKdo are the district liaison commandos (BVK) as contact persons for the district governments and the district liaison commandos (KVK) as contact persons for the districts and independent cities. The BVK and KVK are not active commandos, ie they are exclusively manned by reservists . The technical training of the personnel is largely carried out by the Multinational Civil-Military Cooperation Command (MN CIMIC Cmd), which also assigns personnel to the state commandos.

The main tasks of the state command are:

Planning, preparation and coordination of official and disaster relief ,
Operation coordination between the responsible civilian disaster control units and the deployed Bundeswehr forces,
Level-appropriate civil-military cooperation with civil services / authorities of the federal state, the districts, districts and urban cities,
Coordination of host nation support, according to the NATO troop statute in the state,
Voluntary reservist work independent of assignment ,
Coordination of the press / public relations work of the Bundeswehr of the individual armed forces (TSK) and organizational areas, as well as the defense administrations and the armaments area in the state,
Advising the exercising troops on country-specific environmental protection issues,
Management, education and training of the Territorial Reserve , d. H. the district liaison commandos and district liaison commands (BVK / KVK) as well as the regional security and support forces (RSUKr),
Troop service management of subordinate small offices.
Implementation of basic training for the unserved

structure

The state commandos, which are equivalent to a brigade , have a uniform basic structure, but have differentiated staffing (the different number of BVK / KVK and RSU companies derived from the number of administrative districts, rural districts and urban districts) to accommodate the different The size of federal states as well as the respective scope of the units / small service units subordinate to the troops must be taken into account. The Bavarian State Command has three regional units (RegSt) ( north in Nuremberg , ( south ) in Kleinaitingen and east in Bogen ), which are referred to as regional planning and support teams in other large states.

List of state commandos

State command of Baden-Württemberg , headquarters of Theodor Heuss barracks in Stuttgart , Commander: Colonel Christian Walkling

State Command Bavaria , seat: Fürst-Wrede-Kaserne in Munich , Commander: Brigadier General Thomas Hambach

Berlin State Command (set up on October 15, 2020), seat: Julius-Leber-Kaserne in Berlin , Commander: Brigadier General

State Command Brandenburg , seat: Havelland barracks in Potsdam , Commander: Colonel Peter Arendt

Bremen State Command , seat: Scharnhorst Barracks in Bremen , Commander: Colonel Hans Peter Dorfmüller

State Command Hamburg , seat: Reichspräsident-Ebert-Kaserne in Hamburg , Commander: Captain Michael Giss

State Command Hesse , seat: Wiesbaden , commander: Brigadier General Olaf von Roeder

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional command , seat: Werder barracks in Schwerin , commander: Brigadier General Markus Kurczyk

Lower Saxony state command , seat: Kurt Schumacher barracks in Hanover , commander: Captain Berend Burwitz

State command of North Rhine-Westphalia , seat: Düsseldorf , commander: Brigadier General Torsten Gersdorf

State command of Rhineland-Palatinate , seat: Generalfeldzeugmeister barracks Mainz in Mainz , Commander: Colonel Erwin Mattes

State command Saarland , seat: Graf-Werder -barracks in Saarlouis , commander: Colonel Klaus Peter Schirra

State Command Saxony , seat: Graf Stauffenberg barracks in Dresden , Commander: Colonel Helmut Baumgärtner

State Command Saxony-Anhalt , seat: Magdeburg , commander: Colonel Halvor Adrian

State command Schleswig-Holstein , seat: Kiel , commander: Colonel Axel Schneider

State command of Thuringia , seat: Henne barracks in Erfurt , commander: Colonel Norbert Reinelt

Berlin site command (dissolved in 2013)

Headquarters Berlin , seat: Julius-Leber-Kaserne in Berlin , last commander: Brigadier General Peter Braunstein

Web links

State commands on the side of the Territorial Tasks Command of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

^ Björn Müller: Berlin receives state command. June 26, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .
↑ State Command Hamburg. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
^ Holger Hoffmann: Change of command in Hamburg . In: MarineForum . No. 1/2 , 2015, ISSN 0172-8547 , p. 44-45 .

[1] Björn Müller: Berlin receives state command. June 26, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .

[2] State Command Hamburg. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .

[3] Holger Hoffmann: Change of command in Hamburg . In: MarineForum . No. 1/2 , 2015, ISSN 0172-8547 , p. 44-45 .