List of airborne units of the Army of the Bundeswehr

The beret badge of the paratrooper troops and the other branches of the airborne troops

The list of airborne units of the Bundeswehr contains all dissolved, active and inactive (equipment units , cadreed battalions) , but not large units of the airborne troops of the Bundeswehr, as well as a brief overview of their deployment time, stationing locations, subordination and their dissolution or renaming, which are airborne , but are not capable of skydiving and parachuting continuously, especially with regard to equipment and vehicles. Since the airborne troops no branch of service is the army and the membership of the airborne troops is not conclusively defined, the list is not exhaustive. The list of airborne units of the Bundeswehr is essentially a summary of the units of the 1st Airborne Division and its successor major units . The paratrooper units , which make up the core of the airborne troops and are summarized in the list of paratrooper associations of the Bundeswehr , are excluded .

Most of the troops listed below were or are part of the airborne division, its successor or the airborne brigades. Almost all branches of the army are represented. Often these are independent battalions and companies from other branches of the armed forces , which were then often referred to as divisional troops or brigade units .

Belonging to the airborne troops, as support troops of the paratrooper troops, manifests itself by the ordered wearing of the burgundy red beret with a falling eagle as a beret badge, and not the beret in the color of the respective military type and its beret badge. Although their training, equipment and capabilities were or are similar to those of other units of their military type, airborne units had or have some special features. In contrast to the other units of the military type, they are or were mostly equipped with air-loadable material. In training or was a special focus on is special Verbringungsart and intensive infantry training set, which was the actual paratroopers close or is as it should be used with this behind enemy lines.

Related troop units in terms of their capabilities are the Special Forces Command , the remote scouts and other infantry forces , in particular the 1st Jägerregiment . These units are trained infantry or conditionally infantry. Training and equipment enable them (to a limited extent) to land in the air. The Fighter Regiment 1 was specially designed for air transfer by means of helicopters and had vehicles and equipment adapted to this. Other infantry forces are only suitable to a limited extent - in some cases, vehicles and parts of the equipment have to be dispensed with. Mountain fighters , for example, are often reliant on military aircraft to be relocated during operations in the high mountains . In most cases, however, secure landing zones must be available for infantry units to move by air. Soldiers from the Special Forces Command and remote scouts can be parachuted like paratroopers, but are not used in infantry combat and are not subdivided into this. These units are therefore not listed here. The list is structured below based on the type of service.

The parachute stands in tactical symbols for parachute detachable troops. This symbol is combined with the normal "tactical symbol" of the military branches

In the Bundeswehr, airborne troops are usually not able to be deployed in a single parachute jump. Your tactical symbol then shows the stylized wings in combination with the symbolism of your troop type.

This symbol stands for airmobile units, i.e. H. Units such as the Bundeswehr Jägerregiment 1 , which can be brought into and out of the operational area by helicopter.

Legend

The legend applies to all of the following lists

Legend
Dissolved association
Partially active or inactive association
Active association

See also here for the list of abbreviations.

Telecommunications force

For command support, the airborne troops were always assigned to units of the telecommunications force . The Luftlandeferneldelehrbataillon (LLFmLehrBtl) 9 was subordinate to the 1st Airborne Division, while at the level of the Airborne Brigades telecommunications were "only" planned as trains in the headquarters companies of the brigades. In addition, the division was subordinate to the Luftlandefernmeldekompanie 9 (LLFmKp 9) to fulfill the German contribution to the AMF . Initially, “only” the two airborne telecommunication companies 100 and 200 (formed from the dissolved LLFmKp 9) were subordinate to the “successor large association ” Special Operations Division . By 2008 these two companies were dissolved and used to set up the Special Operations Division (LLFmBtl DSO), which from then on was directly subordinate to the division as a division force .

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Airborne communications company 9	Jan. 1, 1957	Esslingen am Neckar	April 30, 1958 dissolved for listing LLFmBtl 9?	subordinated to 1st Airborne Division
	Airborne Telecommunications Training Battalion 9	April 30, 1958 (from LLFmKp 9?)	General-Fellgiebel-Kaserne , Pöcking / Maxhof 1964 to 1979 Bruchsal to 1964 Eßlingen am Neckar	Disbanded in 1994	-unterstellt 1st Airborne Division -to Sept. 1979 called Airborne Signal Battalion 9, because no teaching took -Lehrauftrag the mountain telecommunications Demonstration Battalion 8
	Airborne communications company 9	Sept. 1, 1979	Dillingen until 1993 Bruchsal	April 1, 2003 renamed LLFmKp 200	- initially subordinated to 1st Airborne Division - from 1994 Command Air Mobile Forces / 4. Division - from 2003 Division Special Operations but immediately renamed LLFmKP 200 - German. Contribution to Allied Command Europe Mobile Forces , therefore often referred to as Luftlandefernmeldekompanie AMF (L) 9
	Airborne communications company 100	Jan 1, 2003	regensburg	June 2008 dissolved (Tle to LLFmBtl DSO)	subordinates to Special Operations Division
	Airborne Communication Company 200	April 1, 2003 (from LLFmKp 9)	Dillingen	Disbanded July 9, 2008 (Tle to LLFmBtl DSO)	subordinates to Special Operations Division
	Airborne Communications Battalion Special Operations Division	2007 (from LLFmKp 100 and 200)	Stadtallendorf	04/01/2014 dissolved	subordinates to Special Operations Division

Army Reconnaissance Force

Airborne reconnaissance aircraft were part of the Army Reconnaissance Force or the predecessor armored reconnaissance force . In the meantime, every airborne brigade has a directly subordinate air reconnaissance company (LL AufklKp), which had predecessors in the two airborne brigade patrols (LLBrigSpZg), but which were only launched as independent brigade units in 1993 . Before that, reconnaissance forces were mostly only part of the headquarters companies of the airborne division and the airborne brigades. Only at the beginning of the history of the airborne division was the Luftlandepanzer AufklKp 9 (Airborne Armored Reconnaissance Company 9), a company as a division force, placed directly alongside the airborne division .

See also : List of Bundeswehr tank reconnaissance associations  and List of Bundeswehr reconnaissance associations

In terms of their ability to fight infantry and to land in the air, the troops of the remote scouts are related . However, they were never an organic part of the Bundeswehr airborne troops. In particular, they were not designed for the work in joint airborne operations with Airborne Division, but always specialized forces of the army, which for the rods of the Corps as major units autonomously key reconnaissance results should provide.

See also : List of remote spying units of the Bundeswehr  and remote spy troops (Bundeswehr)

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Airborne Armored Reconnaissance Company 9	Feb. 1, 1957	Boeblingen	31 Mar 1959	- Subordinated to 1st Airborne Division - tank reconnaissance
	Airborne Brigade Reconnaissance Unit 26	1993	Freyung	March 31? 2000 growth to LL AufklKp 260	- Train subordinates Airborne Brigade 26 as a brigade unit - Armored reconnaissance unit - possibly also called Luftlandespähzug 26
	Airborne Brigade Reconnaissance Train 31	1993	Luneburg	31 Mar 2000 growth to LL AufklKp 310	-subject to Airborne Brigade 31 as a brigade unit - armored reconnaissance unit -possibly also called Luftlandespähzug 31
	Airborne Reconnaissance Company 260	April 1, 2004 (from LLBrigSpZg 31)	Zweibrücken until 2006 Freyung	active	-subject to Airborne Brigade 1 from April 1, 2015 -subject to Airborne Brigade 26 as a brigade unit until 2006? the Mountain Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 8 - Army Reconnaissance Force
	Airborne Reconnaissance Company 310	April 1, 2000 (from LLBrigSpZg 31)	Seedorf until 2007 Lüneburg	active	- Subordinated to Airborne Brigade 1 from April 1, 2015 - Zug subordinated to Airborne Brigade 31 as a brigade unit until 2007? the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 3 - Army Reconnaissance Force

Field police force

The Luftlandefeldjägerkompanie (LLFjgKp) 9 was subordinate to the 1st Airborne Division as a division force of the order force of the command troops . The company was part of the police force .

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Airborne field fighter company 9	Sep 1958	Bruchsal 1959 to 1964 Eßlingen am Neckar 1958 to 1959 Sigmaringen	Disbanded Jan. 1980	-unterstellt 1. Airborne -bis 1972, each with a train in Böblingen , two bridges and Bruchsal , then LLFjgKp completely in Bruchsal

Pioneer troop

The Airborne Pioneer Battalion (LLPiBtl) 9 was part of the pioneer force . The battalion was subordinate to the 1st Airborne Division. The Airborne Engineer Companies (LLPiKp) 250 and 260 , which were also part of the engineer force, were subordinate to the two airborne brigades as a brigade unit . The 9th Airborne Engineer Battalion was later disbanded and the Airborne Engineer Companies 250, 260 and 270 were re-planned as a brigade unit for the airborne brigades, replacing the previous brigade units. These troop units, which continued to be part of the engineer force, were temporarily subordinate to higher-level engineer battalions and were only assigned to the airborne brigades for exercises and missions.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Airborne Engineer Company 9	Feb 1956	Munich	Disbanded April 1, 1959 (used for listing FschPiKp 250 and 260 and LLPiBtl 9)	Division troops 1st LLDiv
	Airborne Engineer Battalion 9	April 1, 1959 (from Tle LLPiKp 9)	Speyer until 1963 Bruchsal	1964 reclassified to PiBtl 12 and change to 12th PzDiv	subject to 1st LLDiv
	Parachute Engineer Company 250	April 1, 1959 (from Tle LLPiKp 9)	Calw until 1961 Kempten	Renamed LLPiKp 250 in 1971	subordinates to paratrooper brigade 25
	Parachute Engineer Company 260	April 1, 1959 (from Tle LLPiKp 9)	Speyer 1961–1962 Mannheim to 1961 Kempten	Renamed LLPiKp 260 on Oct. 1, 1971	subordinates to paratrooper brigade 26
	Airborne Engineer Company 250	1971 (from FschPiKp 250)	Nagold until Mar. 1993 Passau to June 1982 Calw	Sep. 30, 1996 disbanded (parts used to set up pioneer special train KSK )	- Subordinated to Luftlandebrigade 25 (Jul. 1982 to Apr. 1990 guided by PiBtl 240) -31. June 1982 dissolved in Calw and new formation from 3./PiBtl 240 in Passau on July 1, 1982
	Airborne Engineer Company 260	October 1, 1971 (from FschPiKp 260)	Saarlouis 1982–1993 Koblenz 1972–1982 Saarlouis initially Speyer	active	- Subordinated to Airborne Brigade 1 from April 1, 2015 - Subordinated to Airborne Brigade 26 (Apr. 1982 to Mar. 1990 guided by PiBtl 310) -31. March 1982 dissolved in Saarlouis and new formation from Tle PiBtl 310 in Koblenz on April 1, 1982 -LLPiKp 260 from September 30, 2002 to September 30, 2003 temporarily out of service
	Airborne Engineer Company 270	Apr 1973	Seedorf Oct. 1992 to Feb. 2007 Wildeshausen Apr. 1982 to Oct. 1992 Minden to Mar. 1982 Iserlohn	active	-unterstellt Airborne Brigade 1 from April 1, 2015 -First assumed Airborne Brigade 27 , 1993 31st Airborne Brigade (April 1982 to March 1990 tour of PiBtl 110) -31. Dissolved March 1982 in Iserlohn and on April 1, 1982 reorganization from 3./PiBtl 110 in Minden −1992 as part of the merger of LLBrig 27 with PzGrenBrig 31 integration of parts of PzPiKp 310

See also : List of pioneer associations of the Bundeswehr, section "Airborne Pioneers"

NBC defense force

In the formation phase of the airborne division, the Airborne NBC Defense Company 9 (LLABCAbwKp 9) was a unit of the NBC defense force for the airborne troops.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Airborne NBC Defense Company 9	Nov 1, 1960	Eichelberg barracks , Bruchsal	31 Mar 1963 reclassified to 2./ABCAbwBtl 210	-unterstellt 1. Airborne -vermutlich identical to the NBC defense Airborne company 9 (ABCAbw (LL) Kp 9) in Dragonerstrasse barracks, Bruchsal

Army Air Force

Only at the very beginning of the history of the Airborne Division 9 (LLHflgStff 9) forces were with the Airborne Army Flying Squadron Heeresfliegertruppe deallocated for the airborne troops.

Note: the light Army Aviation Transport Squadron 9 AMF, set up in 1993, was set up as a German contribution to the Allied Command Europe Mobile Forces . It wore the number 9 possibly as a homage to the LLHflgStff 9, but it is more likely that the squadron symbolically joined the series of troops that were held by the German side for AMF by means of the number. Since these troops were often handed over by the 1st Airborne Division and could therefore also be led by the "double" staff of the 1st Airborne Division held for AMF, many of these troops had the number 9 in their name (reminder: the Airborne Division was the 9th Division of the Army). The light Army Aviation Squadron 9 AMF was neither part of the airborne troops nor an organic part of the airborne division or its successor, but was subordinate to the Army Aviation Regiment 30 for the deployment of the Army Aviation Brigade 3 . See also the list of Army Aviation Associations of the Bundeswehr .

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Airborne Army Aviation Squadron 9	Jan. 1958	Friedrichshafen	March 1959	-unterstellt 1st Airborne Division -Note: Season corresponds to the company

Paratroopers

The paratroopers make up the infantry core of the airborne troops and essential parts of the troop schools that are particularly important for the airborne troops, as well as significant parts of the staffs and staff companies of the large airborne troops.

→ Main article : List of paratrooper associations of the Bundeswehr

Panzerjäger troop

During subsequent anti-tank units of airborne troops mostly to the paratroopers were counted ( see here ), the Bundeswehr with the Airborne Tank Destroyer Battalion 9 were deallocated (LLPzJgBtl 9) a battalion in the deployment phase, which probably directly to the tank hunter troop was counted.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Airborne infantry battalion 9	Feb 1957	Boeblingen	March 1959 reclassified to PzBtl 273	-subject to 1st airborne division -probably (alternatively) also referred to as Luftlande-Panzerjägerbataillon 9 (LL-PzJgBtl 9)

Artillery force

The airborne artillery battalion 9 was in the deployment phase of the Bundeswehr Division troops erected the 1st Airborne Division from 1958 to 1959. As early as 1959, the battalion was replaced by the two parachute artillery battalions 255 and 265, which were subordinate to the airborne brigades and later renamed the airborne artillery battalions 255 and 265. After their dissolution, the airborne troops initially no longer had their own artillery. Only the mortar companies (see above) offered a poor substitute. The 9th Airborne Artillery Regiment, which was newly established in the mid-1980s, was also not a full-fledged divisional artillery, since artillery could only be assigned to this unit if necessary. It was not until 1986 that airborne artillery battery 9, equipped with 105 mm mountain howitzers, later with LARS , was re-established at division level. With their dissolution in 1996, the airborne troops lost their artillery again.

See also : List of Bundeswehr artillery units

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Airborne Artillery Battalion 9	Nov 1, 1956	Engstingen 1957-1958 Böblingen 1956-1957 Esslingen am Neckar 1956 Murnau	15th Mar 1959 Tle to FschArtBtl 255 and 265?	subordinated to 1st Airborne Division
	Parachute Artillery Battalion 255	March 16, 1959 (from Tle LLArtBtl 9?)	Calw until 1961 Engstingen	March 31, 1969 Renaming to LLArtBtl 255	- Subordinate to Paratrooper Brigade 25 -1959 Kdr Lieutenant Colonel Hans-Werner Voss -1959 to 1961 Lieutenant Colonel Egon Peller von Ehrenberg
	Parachute Artillery Battalion 265	September 1, 1959 (from Tle LLArtBtl 9?)	Speyer until 1963 Engstingen	March 31, 1969 Renaming to LLArtBtl 265	-unterstellt Paratroopers Brigade 26 from -1959 to 1963 Major Wilhelm Konert
	Airborne Artillery Battalion 255	April 1, 1969 (from FschArtBtl 255)	Calw	31 Mar 1970	subordinates to paratrooper brigade 25
	Airborne Artillery Battalion 265	April 1, 1969 (from FschArtBtl 265)	Speyer	31 Mar 1970	subordinates to paratrooper brigade 26
	Airborne Artillery Regiment 9	April 1986 or July 1985? (from ArtRgt zbV 200, GerEinh)	Philippsburg (MobStzpkt)	April 1, 1990	- Subordinated to the 1st Airborne Division - equipment unit , was able to lead ad hoc units to be subordinated after activation and essentially consisted of only a staff and a stick battery.
	Airborne artillery battery 9	Jan. 1986 (from 5./FARtBtl 545)	Phillipsburg until 1990 Lahnstein	Jun. 1996	- Subordinated to the 1st Airborne Division , from 1994 Command Air Mobile Forces / 4th. Division - in peacetime until 1989/90 subordinated to field artillery battalion 545 - German . Contribution to AMF , therefore also referred to as LLArtBttr (AMF) 9 -Tle Raketenartilleriebataillon 122 in Walldürn takes over the task after dissolution

Army anti-aircraft troops

The anti-aircraft missile battery 100 (LLFlaRakBttr 100) was subordinate to the Special Operations Division as a division force . The battery was part of the Army Air Defense Force . The battery was equipped with the light air defense system Ozelot based on the Wiesel 2 . After being dissolved, the systems were handed over to the Air Force . After a long time, the anti-aircraft missile battery 100 was again a part of the division's air defense. In the early days, there was the anti-aircraft artillery battalion / 9th anti-aircraft aircraft battalion.

To the dissolved companies Light air defense system (LeFlaSys) Ozelot Wiesel 2 Ozelot see antiaircraft missiles group 61 in Todendorf / Panker of Flugabwehrraketengeschwader 1 of the Air Force .

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion 9	Jan. 1957	Altenstadt until 1958 Böblingen	March 1959 Tle to LLFlaBtl 9?	- Subordinated to 1st Airborne Division
	Airborne Defense Battalion 9	March 1959 (from Tle LLFlaArtBtl 9?)	Altenstadt	Oct 1964	- Subordinated to 1st Airborne Division
	Anti-aircraft missile battery 100	Oct. 1, 2006 (from lFlaRakBttr 100)	Seedorf (initially 2006 Borken)	Disbanded at the end of 2012	- Subordinates to the Special Operations Division as a division force

Medical service

The airborne medical companies (LLSanKp) 250, 260 and 270 were each subordinate to one of the airborne brigades as a brigade unit and were part of the medical force . The predecessor was the Airborne Medical Company 9 at division level, which, however, was only planned in the formation phase of the Airborne Division.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Airborne Medical Company 9	May 1957	Esslingen am Neckar initially Kempten	March 1959	subordinated to 1st Airborne Division
	Airborne Medical Company 250	1971 (from 2./LLVersBtl 256)	Ulm until 1993 Calw	Disbanded December 31, 1996	until April 1, 1993 subordinated to Airborne Brigade 25 , then Medical Command 2 . From October 1993 subordinated to the Medical Brigade 2
	Airborne Medical Company 260	1971? (from Tle LLVersBtl 266?)	Merzig until 2002 Lebach	Dissolved in 2002	subordinate to airborne brigade 26 Alternative internal association badge: (used for listing LLUstgBtl 262 )
	Airborne Medical Company 270	1971?	Varel until 1998? Lippstadt	Disbanded April 2002	First Airborne Brigade 27 , from 1993 Airborne Brigade 31 Alternative internal association badge: (used for setting up LLUstgBtl 272)

Military music service

The Army Music Corps 9 was the music corps of the 1st Airborne Division for several decades . Some of the military musicians took part in the parachutist course A and the lone fighter course within the framework of free capacities. In the case of a defense, the military musicians were scheduled for use in the medical service . Regular exercises were carried out annually for this purpose. In the Special Operations Division , the Army Music Corps 300 in Koblenz took over the military music tasks in the area of ​​the airborne troops.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Army Music Corps 9	Jun. 1959 (from MusKrps VA)	Theodor Heuss barracks, Stuttgart	Oct 2003	-unterstellt as Division troops -on April 1, 1956 set as Musikkorps VA in Böblingen -alternatives internal Badge:

Logistics troops

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In the early years of the Bundeswehr, replenishment and maintenance were combined at the division level. For this purpose, the Airborne Supply Battalion 9 was planned until the mid-1960s , its predecessors were the Light Airborne Vehicle Repair Company 9 (leLLFzInstKp 9) and the Luftlandequartiermeisterkompanie 9 (LLQmKp 9). The main tasks were the storage of supplies and supplies including ammunition and operating materials, the repair of weapons, equipment and vehicles as well as the air loading and air loading of supplies and the packing of jump and load parachutes with their repair by the brigade packing trains.

Later, the supply of the airborne troops was organized primarily at the brigade level. To this end, the two airborne supply battalions (LLVersBtl) 256 and 266 , each subordinate to the two paratrooper brigades, were set up. Later, the Luftlandeversorgungskompanien (LLVersKp) 250, 260 and 270 were planned through the dissolution of the airborne supply battalions. These were each subordinate to one of the airborne brigades as a brigade unit .

With the involvement of the airborne paramedics, the two airborne support battalions (LLUstgBtl) 262 and 272 were reorganized in 2002 and subordinated to the two remaining airborne brigades. Apart from the two airborne medical companies of the airborne support battalions, all of these troop units belonged to the army logistics troops or their predecessors, supply troops / quartermaster troops and repair troops / field warriors.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Light Airborne Vehicle Repair Company 9	Jan. 1958	Böblingen until 1958 Eßlingen am Neckar advance command in Dillingen	March 1959	- Subordinated to 1st Airborne Division - Field Army Troops
	Airborne Quarter Master Company 9	Jan 1, 1959	Böblingen until 1958 Eßlingen am Neckar advance command in Dillingen	March. 1959	- Subordinated to 1st Airborne Division - Quartermaster Troop
	Airborne Supply Battalion 9	March 1959	Ludwigsburg	March 1964	subordinated to 1st Airborne Division
	Airborne Supply Battalion 256	1959	Calw until 1961 Sigmaringen	1971 Tle at LLVersKp 250 and LLSanKp 250?	subordinates to paratrooper brigade 25
	Airborne Supply Battalion 266	Apr 30, 1966	Merzig until 1969 Lebach	1971 Tle at LLVersKp 260 and LLSanKp 260?	subordinates to paratrooper brigade 26
	Airborne Supply Company 250	1971 (LLVersBtl 256)	Calw	1996 or 1994? dissolved	subordinates to Airborne Brigade 25
	Airborne Supply Company 260	1971 (LLVersBtl 266)	Merzig	Dissolved in 2002	- subordinated to Airborne Brigade 26 - (used for listing LLUstgBtl 262 )
	Airborne Supply Company 270	1971?	Oldenburg until 1993? Lippstadt	Disbanded April 2002	-first airborne brigade 27 , from 1993 airborne brigade 31 -Internal association badge in Lippstadt: - (used for listing LLUstgBtl 272)
	Airborne Support Battalion 262	Oct? 2002 (from FschPzAbwBtl 262 with LLVersKp 260 and LLSanKp 260)	Merzig	Disbanded March 31, 2015 - Parts for the establishment of the Paratrooper Regiment 26	- Airborne Brigade 26 - counts mainly among the army logistics troops ; 4./LLUstgBtl 262 Medical Service
	Airborne Support Battalion 272	Apr. 2002 (from FschPzAbwBtl 272 with LLVersKp 270 and LLSanKp 270)	Oldenburg	Sep Disbanded in 2014 - parts for the establishment of the Parachute Regiment 31	- Airborne Brigade 31 - counts mainly among the army logistics troops ; 4./LLUstgBtl 272 Medical Service

Training companies

The training of the recruits took place in the early years of the Bundeswehr until the mid-1980s in training companies in order to keep the units operational. The basic trained personnel replacement was then given to the companies. This meant that younger soldiers were combined with older soldiers in sub-units. As a result of this procedure, a class was formed, as in the NVA with the discharge candidates or, as in the Russian armed forces, with the extreme form of the dedovshchina as the rule of the grandfathers, as well as initiation rites .

In the Bundeswehr, disciplinary measures among soldiers of the same rank are known as the Holy Spirit and occurred in some units, especially in the combat troops. In a simple form, the cleaning of the rooms and areas was carried out exclusively by the younger soldiers. The equator baptism in the Navy is also related to this . As with the Bizutage, this phenomenon is not limited to the military sector and is an undesirable characteristic of group behavior in organizational structures with strong but flat hierarchies. In most cases , these actions by soldiers towards comrades constitute a criminal offense, in any case they violate the Soldiers Act and are thus disciplinary offenses under the military disciplinary code , since they at least violate the duty of comradeship (Section 12). Prosecution is not the responsibility of the superior, but must be prosecuted, especially since failure to prosecute under Section 336 of the Criminal Code is punishable by failure to conduct an official act.

From the mid-1980s onwards, the operational companies trained their own recruits from day one. The advantage of this procedure was that not only soldiers of one age group with the same discharge date were serving in the companies and the quality of the training was determined by the future superiors, who later had to lead the soldiers in exercises and in possible defense cases. The disadvantage, however, was that parts of a battalion were not operational. This was compensated for by calling up the previous quarter of discharge or in a regiment by several companies with alternating levels of training.

The numbering of the training companies resulted from the affiliation to the 9th Division (= 1st Airborne Division). The consecutive number preceding each gave the company number. Some training companies were geared towards training the next generation of individual military branches within the 1st Airborne Division. Not uncommon were (probably unofficial) terms such as paratrooper telecommunications training company . Like the reserve battalions (see above), these troop units belonged to the airborne force in the broadest sense, since neither personnel nor equipment were suitable for actively carrying out airborne operations. In particular, in the area of ​​the two paratrooper battalions, the other divisions were subordinate, other training companies also carried out basic training for personnel replacement, such as training company 6/11 for the paratrooper battalion 291/271 in Iserlohn.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Training company 1/9	?	Radio operator barracks in Esslingen am Neckar ?	?	- also paratrooper training company 1/9 - probably for training the recruits of the telecommunications troops - cf. source
	Training company 2/9	?	Eberhard Finckh barracks, Engstingen	?	see. source
	Training company 3/9	1963	Nagold	1971	3/9 as the successor company of the dissolved ZusatzKp 6/9
	Training company 4/9	?	Zweibrücken ?, Speyer?	?
	Training company 5/9	?	Nagold until 1961 Calw	1971	1961 reorganized in Nagold cf. source
	Training company 6/9	?	Nagold until 1962 Calw	1963	-1962 reorganized in Nagold - aZa FschJgBtl 252 in Nagold -aufgelöst because "Nagold affair" see . Quelle - training contract went to newly set up training course 3/9 cf. source
	Paratrooper training company 7/9		Zweibrücken	May 1, 1972 InstAusbKp 7/9	deviating officially probably "paratrooper training company" instead of "training company". From May 1, 1972 reorganization as InstAusbKp 7/9 relocated to Bexbach.
	Training company 8/9	Dec 31, 1967	Oberbexbach	?
	Training company 9/9	1962?	Calw or Lebach ?	Sept. 1972?	see. source
	Repair training company 10/9	?	Ludwigsburg until 1972 Dornstadt	min. until 1973?	see. source
	Education 270	1971	Wildeshausen / Iserlohn	Apr 1973

replacement

The substitute system was an important element in mobilization in the event of a defense during the Cold War and until the end of compulsory military service . In addition to companies that were directly subordinate to the active units and were usually referred to as field replacement companies, (field) replacement battalions were planned for the brigades . These troops, which were not active in peacetime, served to hold older, but fully trained reservists as a mobilization reserve . In the event of a defense, soldiers from these reserve battalions were intended to replace the active units. Therefore, all branches of the airborne division were represented in the battalions.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Paratrooper Replacement Battalion 257	Oct. 1, 1961	Eberhard Finckh barracks, Großengstingen	April 15, 1963 dissolved (reclassified to FschFErsBtl 257?)	-Geräteeinheit -as replacement for parachutists Brigade 25 provided -umgegliedert to FschFErsBtl 257
	Parachute Field Replacement Battalion 257	1963 from FschJgErsBtl 257	Renningen military airfield	1973	-Geräteeinheit -as replacement for parachutists Brigade 25 provided
	Airborne Field Replacement Battalion 267	?	MobStp Wattweiler, Zweibrücken	1 Feb 1962? (reclassified to FErsBtl 340?)	-Geräteeinheit -as replacement for Paratroopers Brigade 26 provided -umgegliedert to Feldersatzbataillon 340 in Two Bridges (existed from 1962 to 1994)?
	Field Replacement Battalion 140	?	Minden	?	-Geräteeinheit -as replacement for airborne brigade 27 provided -unterstellt I. corps
	Field Replacement Battalion 240	Oct. 1982 from LLFErsBtl 257	Calw	Sept 1993	-Geräteeinheit -as replacement for airborne brigade 25 provided -unterstellt II. Corps provided
	Field Replacement Battalion 340	Feb. 1, 1962 from LLFErsBtl 267	MobStp Wattweiler, Zweibrücken	Sep 30 1994	-Geräteeinheit -as replacement for airborne brigade 26 provided -unterstellt III. corps
	Airborne Field Replacement Company 260	?	Saarlouis ?	Aug 2008?	-Geräteeinheit -as replacement for airborne brigade 26 provided
	Airborne Field Replacement Company 310	?	Oldenburg	Dissolved in 2008?	-Geräteeinheit -as replacement for airborne brigade 31 provided

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used:

Btl → battalion DSK → Fast forces division DSO → Special Operations Division Div → Division FschJgBtl → Paratrooper Battalion FschJgBrig → Paratrooper Brigade

LLBrig → Airborne Brigade LLDiv → Airborne Division KLK → Command Air Mobile Forces

PzGrenBrig → Panzergrenadierbrigade

See also

To tele-spying forces List of tele-spying units in the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michel Winand: Decommissioning of the Airborne Telecommunications Battalion of the Special Operations Division. www.deutschesheer.de, December 2, 2014, accessed April 5, 2015 . 
2. ↑ PARATROOPERS HERE AND THERE . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1964 ( online ).
3. ^ Soldiers, warheads and ammunition units / associations. (No longer available online.) In: eberhard-finckh-kaserne.de. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on January 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Festschrift 250 Years of York Jäger Tradition ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file) 
5. ↑ Michael Poppe: Das Heer 1950 to 1970. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57974-1 , p. 652 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
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