List of units of the mountain troops of the army of the Bundeswehr

The identification mark of the mountain hunters. The edelweiss on the mountain cap

Tactical sign of the mountain troops, here 4. / GebJgBtl 233

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

In addition, the units were included whose combat troop core consisted of mountain troops to a significant extent, and those units were also listed which consisted of only a small proportion of mountain troops or not at all, but whose designation corresponded to those with a significant proportion of mountain troops. In the list, the mountain security battalions were also taken into account, even if not only mountain troops served in these and were not counted as a whole in the mountain troops.

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.

Divisions

The only division in the history of the Bundeswehr that had a significant number of combat troops made up of mountain troops was the 1st Mountain Division , which as the 8th Army Division comprised all mountain troops of the Bundeswehr until reunification. The predecessor was the Mountain Brigade 104 established in 1956.

	designation	Listing (off)	Staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
	1st GebDiv	November 14, 1956 (GebBrig 104)	initially Garmisch-Partenkirchen , as WBK VI / 1. Div Munich	disbanded on Sep. 30 2001	1994–2001 merged with WBK VI

Brigades

In the development phase of the Bundeswehr there was the Mountain Brigade 104, which only existed for a short time and was transferred to the 1st Mountain Division on December 1, 1956. The two mountain infantry brigades that were set up in the following years, emerged from combat groups A8 and B8, were numbered analogously to the scheme of all brigades of the army (see, for example, list of armored units of the Bundeswehr ). Since the 1st Mountain Division was the 8th Army Division, each division comprised 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 22, 23 and 24. Brigade 22 was the "first", brigade 23 was the "second" and brigade 24 was the so-called "third" brigade of the division. Brigade 24, like (almost) all "third brigades" in the Jäger, Panzer and Panzergrenadier divisions of the Bundeswehr until 1990, was set up as a tank brigade.

Designation ¹	Listing (off)	(last) staff seat	Whereabouts	comment
GebBrig 104	1956	Planning staff in Hammelburg	for the formation of 1. GebDiv and Gebirgskampfgruppe B8 from 1956	never completely set up
GebJgBrig 22	March 1959 (KpfGrp B8)	Mittenwald	on October 1, 1981 reclassified to PzGrenBrig 22 based in Murnau	Disbanded in 1993
GebJgBrig 23	March 1959 (KpfGrp A8)	Bad Reichenhall	active	Nickname: Bavaria

Battalions

Mountaineering Battalions

The numbering of the battalions initially set up in Army Structure I was consecutively 8, 18, 28, with the “eight” standing for their affiliation to the 8th Division (≈1st Mountain Division). With Army Structure II from 1959, the battalions deployed were subjected to a clearer numbering convention. The first two digits of their three-digit number corresponded to the number of the brigade to which they were subordinate. The Mountain Rifle Battalion 221 was the "first" battalion of the Mountain Rifle Brigade 22, the Mountain Rifle Battalion 232 the "second" of the Mountain Rifle Brigade 23. Analogous to the other field divisions of the Army (except the 1st Airborne Division, see list of the Bundeswehr hunter associations ) were the 1. Mountain Division in Army Structure IV subordinates two inactive divisional hunter battalions ending with 86 and 87. The "eight" as the first digit stands for belonging to the 8th division (≈1st mountain division). Due to the subordination to the mountain division, the two battalions were given the designation of the mountain hunter battalion, in contrast to the otherwise completely analogous numbered division hunter battalions of other divisions . The soldiers of these battalions were recruited from the retired soldiers of four and three active mountain infantry battalions and after reclassification also of two mechanized infantry battalions of mountain Panzergrenadierbrigade 22. After accession of eastern Germany and the whole of Berlin into the Federal Republic of the mountain infantry battalion was in 571 in East Germany Schneeberg restructured. Its number 571 is derived from the original subordination to the Jägerregiment 57 in Schneeberg, cf. also the numbering convention of the hunter associations shown in the list of hunter associations of the Bundeswehr .

The numbering was stringent during the Cold War; But after 1990 and in the course of the drastic downsizing of the Bundeswehr, the usual numbering was often deviated from for reasons of tradition, so that this can only be an indication of the intended or the original subordination.

The mountain hunter battalion consists of the 1st / staff and supply company with a high mountain range , the 2nd / to 4th / hunter company and the 5th / heavy hunter company as well as a field replacement and training company. A mountain hunter battalion is equipped with Häglunds.

designation	Listing (off)	(last) staff seat ¹	Whereabouts	comment
GebJgBtl 8	July 1, 1957 (GebJgBtl 104)	Mittenwald	April 1, 1959 Renaming to GebJgBtl 221	under mountain combat group B8, d. H. the later GebJgBrig 22
GebJgBtl 18	July 1, 1957 (from GebJgBtl 114)	Mittenwald	April 1, 1959 Renaming to GebJgBtl 222	under mountain combat group B8, d. H. the later GebJgBrig 22;
GebJgBtl 28	April 1957	Mittenwald	1959 renaming to GebJgBtl 231	under mountain combat group A8, d. H. the later GebJgBrig 23
GebJgBtl 38	May 1957	Bischofswiesen- Strub	March 1959 renaming to GebJgBtl 232	under mountain combat group A8, d. H. the later GebJgBrig 23
GebJgBtl 86	1981 (from GebJgBtl 223)	Landsberg am Lech	1992 (?)	Device unit as a divisional fighter battalion, not active
GebJgBtl 87	1981 (from GebJgBtl 233)	Bruckmühl- Heufeld	1992 (?)	Device unit as a divisional fighter battalion, not active
GebJgBtl 104	July 16, 1956	Mittenwald	1957 from it formation GebJgBtl 8	under GebBrig 104; probably never reached full target strength and readiness for action
GebJgBtl 114	July 16, 1956	Mittenwald	1957 from it formation GebJgBtl 18	under GebBrig 104; probably never reached full target strength and readiness for action
GebJgBtl 221	1959 (from GebJgBtl 8)	Mittenwald	Oct. 1981 renamed to GebJgBtl 233 and change to GebJgBrig 23
GebJgBtl 222	1959 (from GebJgBtl 18)	Mittenwald	Oct. 1981 renamed to GebJgBtl 234 change to GebJgBrig 23
GebJgBtl 223	August 1, 1963	Until 1970 Kempten (Allgäu) , then Landsberg am Lech	1981 renamed to GebJgBtl 86	Device unit; not active
GebJgBtl 231	1959 (GebJgBtl 28)	Bad Reichenhall	active
GebJgBtl 232	1959 (GebJgBtl 38)	Bischofswiesen- Strub	active
GebJgBtl 233	August 1, 1963	Bruckmühl- Heufeld	1981 renamed to GebJgBtl 87	Device unit; not active
GebJgBtl 233	Oct. 1981 (GebJgBtl 221)	Mittenwald	active
GebJgBtl 234	Oct. 1981 (GebJgBtl 222)	Mittenwald	1992
GebJgBtl 571	1996 (JgBtl 571)	Schneeberg	2008 (Appeal for dissolution: September 15, 2007)	last subordinated to PzGrenBrig 37 , until 1996 as JgBtl 571 part of JgRgt 57 of WBK VII / 13. PzGrenDiv

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

Mountain Security Battalion

Analogous to the security battalions of the other divisions (except airborne division ), a non-active (equipment unit) security battalion was set up to secure the divisional command post and the atomic warheads of the divisional artillery . The reservists serving there were not necessarily only trained mountain troops, but belonged to different branches of the armed forces. Like the other divisional security battalions, the battalion was given the number X8, where X stood for the division number, in the case of the 1st Mountain Division (8th Division) that is 88. The prefix Gebirgs- resulted primarily from the subordination to the Mountain Division; Otherwise the battalion was structured in the same way as the security battalion of the other 10 divisions.

	designation	Lineup	Location ¹	Whereabouts	comment
	GebSichBtl 88	1981?	Bad Tölz	1992/93 (?) Dissolved	Designation initially (Geb) SichBtl 8

¹location of the cadre and / or mobilization base and / or depot location

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used:

Btl → battalion
GebBrig → Mountain Brigade
GebJgBrig → Gebirgsjägerbrigade
GebDiv → Mountain Division
GebJgBtl → Mountain Infantry Battalion

GebSichBtl → Mountain Security Battalion
JgBrig → Jäger Brigade
JgBtl → Jäger Battalion

PzGrenBrig → Panzergrenadierbrigade
SichBtl → Security Battalion
WBK → military area command

Web links

Federal Archives: Infantry. 1956-1997.
Helmut R. Hammerich, Dieter H. Kollmer, Michael Poppe, Martin Rink , Rudolf Schlaffer: Das Heer 1950 to 1970. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2006, ISBN 3-486-57974-6 .