List of units of the paratrooper troops of the army of the Bundeswehr

The paratrooper beret badge

The list of units of the paratrooper troops of the Army of the Bundeswehr contains all dissolved, active and inactive (equipment units, cadreed battalions) associations and large formations of the paratrooper troops of the Bundeswehr as well as a brief overview of their deployment time, stationing locations, subordination and their dissolution or renaming.

For other units of the airborne troops, see the list of airborne units of the Bundeswehr .

Legend

Tactical symbol of the paratrooper troops and basic symbol of the paratrooper associations

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.

Divisions

The 1st Airborne Division was the only airmobile division of the Bundeswehr and (as the 9th Army Division) comprised all paratrooper troops of the Bundeswehr. The "successor division" was the Air Mobile Forces / 4 command. Division , hereafter renamed the Special Operations Division . This in turn was renamed the Rapid Forces Division on January 1, 2014 .

	designation	Lineup	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	1. LLDiv	January 1, 1956 (from parts 106. LLBrig)	Bruchsal	Disbanded March 1994. Parts of KLK / 4. Div
	KLK / 4. Div	July 1, 1994 (from 4th PzGrenDiv and 1st LLDiv )	regensburg	March 2001. Parts to DSO
	DSO	April 2001 (from parts of KLK / 4th Div )	Stadtallendorf (until 2010 Regensburg )	January 1, 2014 renamed the Rapid Powers Division
	DSK	1st of January 2014	Stadtallendorf	active

Brigades

In the history of the Bundeswehr there were four brigades , the core of which was made up of paratroopers and the above-mentioned 1st Airborne Division, later directly under the Corps , later under the Air Mobile Forces command and now under the Rapid Forces Division. Since Army Structure II, the brigades were numbered analogously to the scheme of all brigades in the Army. Since the 1st Airborne Division was the 9th Army Division, each division consisted of three brigades and the brigades were stringently numbered (1st Division → Brigades 1, 2 and 3; 2nd Division → Brigades 4, 5 and 6; etc.) , the brigades under her command were numbered 25, 26 and 27. Brigade 25 was the "first", brigade 26 was the "second" and brigade 27 was the "third" brigade of the division. For a time, the name was paratrooper brigade and were later renamed airborne brigades. With the merging of the 4th Division and the 1st Airborne Division to form Command Air Mobile Forces / 4. Division, the stringent numbering was broken. For reasons of tradition, the former Panzer Grenadier Brigade 31 was merged with Airborne Brigade 27 to form Airborne Brigade 31 without the number being derived from the superior division.

	Designation 1	Lineup	(last) staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	LLBrig 1	April 1, 2015, renaming of LLBrig 26	Saarlouis	active
	106. LLBrig	1956	Esslingen am Neckar	1956, parts for the list 1. LLDiv	probably never reached full target strength and readiness for action. Soldiers of the brigade wore sleeve badges similar to their rank group : (More here) .
	LLBrig 25	May 1957	Calw	Sep Disbanded in 1996. Share to KSK	Nickname: Black Forest
	LLBrig 26	1958	Saarlouis	Disbanded March 31, 2015, renaming to Airborne Brigade 1	Nickname: Saarland ; Badge first: Was dissolved as part of the realignment to ARMY2011 .
	LLBrig 27	1970	Lippstadt	Disbanded March 1993. Parts merged with PzGrenBrig 31 to LLBrig 31
	LLBrig 31	March 1993 ( PzGrenBrig 31 and LLBrig 27)	Oldenburg	Disbanded September 18, 2014. Parts of Paratrooper Regiment 31	Nickname: Oldenburg ; Badge first: Was dissolved as part of the realignment to ARMY2011 .

¹ The two airborne brigades 25 and 26 were initially set up (Army Structure I; until 1959) as airborne combat groups A9 (→ LLBrig 25) and B9 (→ LLBrig 26). From 1959 to 1971 the name of the brigade was Paratrooper Brigade .

Regiments

Soldiers of the 26th Paratrooper Regiment during an exercise in Baumholder 2017

As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr , the previous paratrooper battalions will be merged into two regiments from October 2014 .

	Designation 1	Lineup	(last) staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	FschJgRgt 26	April 1, 2015 from parts of the LLBrig 26	Zweibrücken	active
	FschJgRgt 31	October 2014 from parts of the LLBrig 31	Seedorf	active

Battalions

The weasel serves as a weapon carrier in the paratrooper troops, here for the TOW

The ESK Mungo is to become the future transport vehicle for a group in the paratrooper troops

Paratrooper and airborne battalions

The numbering of the airborne fighter battalions initially set up in Army Structure I followed the combat group designation. Only with the division of the twelve Army divisions was the division number numbered as the 9th Army Division, with the first battalion also receiving the number 9, the second then number 19 and the third number 29.

From 1959 in Army Structure II, the battalions were renumbered and then followed the numbering convention common in the Army. The first two digits of their three-digit number corresponded to the number of the brigade to which they were subordinate. The paratrooper battalion 261 was the "first" battalion of the airborne brigade 26, the paratrooper battalion 274 the "fourth" of the airborne brigade 27. Since the parachute battalions 313 and 291 were initially not subordinate to an airborne or parachute brigade, but as divisional reserves, they each led an armored infantry brigade Battalion numbers. It was not until the 3rd Airborne Brigade was set up as Airborne Brigade 27 that these battalions were combined, subordinated to the newly formed brigade and renumbered.

With the establishment of Airborne Brigade 31, whose battalions were created from the amalgamation of the battalions of Panzergrenadierbrigade 31 and Airborne Brigade 27, the corresponding units were given the starting number 31.Exception of this is the Parachute Battalion 373, which was initially created as part of the transformation of the NVA into Jägerbrigade 37 was subordinated and with the dissolution of the paratrooper battalion 314 changed to the airborne brigade 31. Overall, the stringent numbering is considered broken.

	designation	Listing (off)	(last) staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	LLJgBtl 9	1956 (from LLJgBtl 106)	Sigmaringen	March 1959 renamed to FschJgBtl 261	never reached full target strength
	LLJgBtl 19	1956	Kempten	1959 renamed to FschJgBtl 262
	LLJgBtl 29	1957	Altenstadt	1959 renamed to FschJgBtl 251
	LLJgBtl 39	1956?	Clausthal-Zellerfeld	1956 renamed LLJgBtl 252
	LLJgBtl 106	July 1956	Ellwangen	1956 renamed LLJgBtl 9	never reached the full target strength
	LLJgBtl 116	July 1956	Kempten	? 1956 renamed LLJgBtl 19
	FschJgBtl 251	1959 (from LLJgBtl 29)	Calw	Disbanded in 1996
	FschJgBtl 252	July 1, 1960 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld	Nagold	Disbanded in 1996	initially subject to PzGrenBrig 1, September 1961 relocated to Nagold Eisberg-Kaserne, September 30, 1961 subject to 1st LL.
	FschJgBtl 253	April 1982	Nagold	Device unit 1973–1982 not active 1982–1993 active Feb. 1992 dissolved, parts of FschPzAbwBtl 283
	FschJgBtl 254	1982	Calw	Disbanded in 1993	from FschJgBtl 253, not active, device unit
	FschJgBtl 261	March 1959 (from LLJgBtl 9)	Lebach	Disbanded March 31, 2015	around 1961 Division troops 1st LLDiv
	FschJgBtl 262	1959 (from LLJgBtl 19)	Merzig	1994 reclassification to FschPzAbwBtl 262	initially the Bergzabern and Oberbexbach locations
	FschJgBtl 263	April 1982	Zweibrücken	1973–1982 not active, device unit 1982–31. March 2015
	FschJgBtl 264	1982?	?	1991? dissolved	formerly 263, not active, device unit
	FschJgBtl 291	July 1960 (from parts of FschJgBtl 251)	until 1971 Stetten / Lager Heuberg from 1971: Iserlohn	1971 Renaming to FschJgBtl 271	1961 Division troop 1st LLDiv, from 1963 part of PzGrenBrig 29 , from 1971 part of LLBrig 27, renamed FschJgBtl 271
	FschJgBtl 271	1971 (from FschJgBtl 291)	Iserlohn	1993 Merger with PzGrenBtl 313 to form FschJgBtl 313
	FschJgBtl 313	1961 (from PzGrenBtl 313)	Wildeshausen	1971 nachm FschJgBtl 272 HST III	in HST II FschJgBtl ust PzGrenBrig 31
	FschJgBtl 272	1971	Wildeshausen	1993? Reclassification to FschPzAbwBtl 272
	FschJgBtl 273	1973	Iserlohn	1993 merged with PzBtl 314 to become FschJgBtl 314	1973–1982 not active, device unit active 1982–1993
	FschJgBtl 274	1982	Iserlohn	Disbanded in 1991	not active, device unit
	FschJgBtl 313	1993 (from FschJgBtl 271 and PzGrenBtl 313)	before Varel / Seedorf	Disbanded September 2014. Parts of Paratrooper Regiment 31
	FschJgBtl 314	1993 (from FschJgBtl 273 and PzBtl 314)	Oldenburg	Dissolved in 2002
	FschJgBtl 373	April 1996 (from PzBtl 373)	until 2006: Doberlug-Kirchhain from 2006: Seedorf	Disbanded September 2014. Parts of Paratrooper Regiment 31	originally JgBrig 37, from 2002 LLBrig 31, first coat of arms:

¹ For inactive units: location of the cadre and / or mobilization base and / or depot location

Anti-parachute anti-tank battalions

Kraka of Airborne Anti-Aircraft Company 270

Before the Wiesel 1 , which was introduced around 1992 , the Kraka served as a weapon carrier for the TOW anti-tank guided missile for Tube Launched Optically Tracked Wire Guided Missile and the 20 mm Rh 202 field cannon . After the Kraka, the carrier vehicle for the mortars was the wolf. Due to the delayed equipment, independent companies were set up at brigade level ( see below ). With the further influx of the PARS TOW, the 5th / heavy companies were formed in each of the three active paratrooper battalions of each brigade. In the following army structure , the heavy companies were grouped into one anti-parachute anti-tank battalion per brigade. These battalions belonged to the paratrooper troops , albeit similar in terms of armament and assignment to the tank destroyer force , which also had the TOW anti-tank guided weapon. After these battalions were decommissioned, the 5th "heavy companies" of the "regular" paratrooper battalions took on the task of anti-tank defense. The numbering of the anti-tank anti-tank battalions was no longer a stringent pattern, but took over the number of the predecessor unit, usually a paratrooper battalion, and continued this for reasons of tradition.

	designation	Listing (off)	(last) staff seat 1	Whereabouts	comment
	FschPzAbwBtl 262	1994 (FschJgBtl 262)	Merzig	Oct. 2002 reclassification to LLUstgBtl 262	Already 2001 separation of the parachute anti-tank companies. subordinated to LLBrig 26 Note on the coat of arms: actually parachute anti-tank battalion 262
	FschPzAbwBtl 272	1993? (from FschJgBtl 272)	Wildeshausen	Apr. 2002 reclassification to LLUstgBtl 272	initially subject to LLBrig 27 , from 1993 to LLBrig 31
	FschPzAbwBtl 283	Oct. 1990 (FSchJgBtl 253 & PzBtl 283)	Münsingen	Sep 30 Disbanded in 1996	February 10, 1992 Commissioning. Herzog Albrecht barracks. Assuming LLBrig 25

In addition, the paratrooper companies of the paratrooper battalions each had an IV parachute anti-tank platoon with anti-tank guided missiles MILAN with a 1 to Wolf transport vehicle . The direct anti-tank troops of all the paratroopers groups each tank destroyer squads form associated with the bazooka equipped.

See also : Section Panzerjägertruppe in the list of airborne units of the Bundeswehr

Companies

Independent companies , mostly paratrooper brigade units, were:

• The headquarters company of the 1st LL Division and the brigade headquarters companies: Depending on the definition of the type of service, they are counted as part of the paratrooper troops in the broader sense, even if soldiers of different service types serve there.
• Airborne mortar companies : The paratrooper troops included the airborne mortar platoons separated from their paratrooper battalions in 1971, which were combined in the airborne mortar companies (LLMrsKp) 250, 260, 270. The designation was based on the usual scheme for naming brigade units : the first two digits corresponded to the number of the brigade; the last digit was a zero, as with almost all brigade units. This component of the paratrooper troops, known colloquially as “small artillery” or “Gypsy artillery”, combined all the abilities of steep fire at the level of the airborne brigades because of the lack of pipe artillery. At division level, only the 9th airborne artillery battery was planned for the airborne division, and the 9th airborne artillery regiment for commanding field artillery battalions if necessary (see below). In 2001 the remaining airborne mortar companies were reclassified with one platoon each into the 5th companies of the paratrooper battalions. The kraka , subsequently the wolf, served as a weapon bearer .
• Parachute anti-tank companies, anti-aircraft anti-aircraft companies : In Army Structure 4, the airborne brigades were subordinate to one of the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft companies 250, 260 or 270 with anti-tank guided weapon systems TOW on the Kraka weapon carrier vehicle . Just like the anti- tank anti-tank battalions (see above), the companies were part of the paratrooper troops, despite their relationship with the tank destroyer troops.
  Predecessors were the anti-tank anti-parachute companies planned in the early 1960s. These troop units were numbered as brigade units analogous to the airborne mortar companies and equipped with the wire-guided MCLOS - anti-tank guided weapon SS-11 and the recoilless gun M40 . The “predecessor” was the Airborne Tank Hunter Battalion 9 with M41 Walker Bulldog , which was still part of the Panzerjäger troop , see here .
• Training and test company 909 : As a training and test company with a special mandate, the Airborne and Air Transport School was subordinate to it.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	StKp 1. LLDiv	Jan. 1, 1956?	Bruchsal	March Disbanded in 1994
	StFmKp LLBrig 1	April 1, 2015	Saarlouis	active
	StKp LLBrig 25	1957?	Calw ?	Dissolved in 1996?
	StKp LLBrig 26	1958?	Sigmaringen ?, From 1972 Saarlouis ?	Disbanded March 31, 2015	Was dissolved as part of the realignment to the ARMY2011 . Alternative badge:
	StKp LLBrig 27	1970?	Lippstadt	1993 reclassified to StKp LLBrig 31
	StKp LLBrig 31	1993	Oldenburg	Disbanded September 18, 2014. Parts of Paratrooper Regiment 31
	LLMrsKp 250	1971 (from 5. FschJgBtl 252)	Calw , before 1982 Nagold	2001 platoons reincorporation in 5./FschJgBtl	subordinates to Airborne Brigade 25
	LLMrsKp 260	Oct. 1, 1971	Saarlouis , before 1996 Lebach	October 1, 2001 platoons reincorporation in 5./FschJgBtl	subordinates to Airborne Brigade 26
	LLMrsKp 270	1971	Wildeshausen , first of all: Iserlohn ?	2001 platoons reincorporation in 5./FschJgBtl	subordinated to Airborne Brigade 27 and later Airborne Brigade 31 ?
	FschPzAbwKp 250	1959?	Nagold , until 1962 Böblingen	Oct. 1971 renamed LLPzAbwKp 250	subordinates to Airborne Brigade 25
	FschPzJgKp 260	1962	Bexbach , unknown until 1966	Oct. 1971 renamed LLPzAbwKp 260	subordinates to Airborne Brigade 26
	FschPzAbwKp 909	?	Muenster?	renamed LLPzAbwKp 270	subject to PzBrig 9
	LLPzAbwKp 250	Oct. 1971 (from FschPzAbwKp 250)	Nagold	Disbanded June 1983	subordinates to Airborne Brigade 25
	LLPzAbwKp 260	Oct. 1971 (from FschPzJgKp 260)	Bexbach , from 1972 Saarlouis	Dissolved in 1983?	subordinates to Airborne Brigade 26
	LLPzAbwKp 270	1967?	Munster , Hindenburg barracks	Disbanded in Wildeshausen in 1983?	from FschPzAbwKp 909 ust Luftlandebrigade 27 and Panzerlehrbrigade 9
	L / VsuKp 909	1958?	Altenstadt	Disbanded in 2008	Designation varies, also: LL-L / VsuKp (airborne teaching and test company) or FschJg L / VsuKp (parachute training and test company). Subordinate to air landing and air transport school

Military school

The training of the paratroopers takes place mainly at the airborne / air transport training base . This is counted as part of the paratrooper troops, although the training base has permanent staff from various other branches of the armed forces and other branches of the armed forces. Infantry training takes place at the infantry school , which, however, serves as a troop school for the entire infantry .

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	Trainee LL / LT	1958	Altenstadt	active	Air landing and air transport school until June 2015 Note: the internal association badge of the school staff is shown.

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used:

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

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

PzGrenBrig → Panzergrenadierbrigade

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LLBrig 26: Seedorfer Fallschirmjäger from April 2015 on a new assignment. www.deutschesheer.de, April 1, 2015, accessed April 1, 2015 . 

Web links

• Federal Archives: Infantry. 1956-1997.
• Helmut R. Hammerich, Dieter H. Kollmer, Michael Poppe, Martin Rink , Rudolf Schlaffer: The army 1950 to 1970: conception, organization and deployment (=  security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 3 ). Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2006, ISBN 3-486-57974-6 (821 pages, limited preview in Google book search).
• Paratrooper Battalion 273 Iserlohn
• Paratrooper Battalion 314 Oldenburg