Airborne Brigade 25

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Airborne Brigade 25
"Black Forest"
- LLBrig 25 -
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Association badge Airborne Brigade 25

Association badge
active March 1959 to 
Sep. 1996
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Airborne Brigade
last staff seat Calw

The Airborne Brigade 25 "Black Forest" with its headquarters in Calw was an airborne large unit of the 1st Airborne Division of the Bundeswehr , which existed from the Bundeswehr to 1996. The stationing area was the Black Forest .

history

Prehistory as a combat group in the Army Structure 1

To assume the Heeresstruktur one that was airborne battle group A 9 1 May 1957 location of the rod in the Becelaere barracks in Esslingen am Neckar reorganized . The staff of the airborne combat group A 9 moved to the Graf Stauffenberg barracks in Sigmaringen in 1958 . The airborne combat group A 9 was subordinate to the 1st Airborne Division .

Army structure 2

In order to take over Army Structure 2 , Airborne Combat Group A 9 was reclassified to Paratrooper Brigade 25 in March 1959 . The 25th Paratrooper Brigade was subordinate to the 1st Airborne Division. The stationing concept of Army Structure 2 envisaged a spatially closer stationing of the paratrooper brigades 25 and 26, so that in June 1961 the paratrooper brigades 25 moved their headquarters to Calw and subordinate troops to Nagold in the Black Forest . In addition, there was the FschArtBtl 255, which was stationed in Großengstingen from March 1959 to October 1961 , from where it was relocated to Calw and was spun off from the brigade as GebArtBtl 81 in April 1970. In Army Structure 2 (1959–1969), the brigade was also subordinate to the 256 Parachute Supply Battalion.

Army structure 3

In July 1971 the brigade received its final name Luftlandebrigade 25 (LLBrig 25). The 256 Parachute Supply Battalion was disbanded in October 1971 and reclassified to Airborne Supply Company 250 in Calw.

Army structure 4

In April 1982, the brigade surrendered its Airborne Pioneer Company 250 to Army Structure 4 in peace , which was directly subordinate to Pioneer Battalion 240 of Pioneer Command 2 . At the same time, a new Airborne Pioneer Company 250 was put into service on July 1, 1982 in Passau from staff of the 3rd / Light Pioneer Battalion 240 , which, however, remained subordinate to the Light Pioneer Battalion 240 in peace . The nickname "Black Forest" was bestowed on August 24, 1989 by the Army Inspector Lieutenant General Henning von Ondarza .

In the autumn of 1989, the brigade comprised around 3,000 soldiers in the peace structure . The planned growth strength in the case of defense was even higher. For nursery which was convened by reservists and the mobilization of non-active units provided. In the autumn of 1989, the brigade continued to be managed by the staff of the 1st Airborne Division . For the mission, the brigade was directly subordinate to the commander of the II Corps as a reserve. At the end of Army Structure 4 in autumn 1989, the brigade was roughly divided into the following units :

Army structure 5 until dissolution

The Airborne Pioneer Company 250 relocated on March 1, 1993 from Passau to Nagold. In Army Structure 5 , the parachute anti-tank battalion 283 belonged to the brigade. In September 1996 the brigade was disbanded. After the dissolution, the special forces command emerged from parts . In 1991 the brigade carried out Operation Kurdish Aid in Iraq . About 500 men from the corps were involved. In February and March 1994, Airborne Brigade 25 supported the humanitarian aid operation Operation Provide Promise in Bosnia at the US Air Force's Rhein-Main Air Base . Logistical and supporting specialists were involved in a small number. These two humanitarian actions were to be the last in the history of the brigade and therefore the only ones with a foreign connection.

Commanders

The commanders of the brigade were (rank at handing over of command):

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
13 Brigadier General Fred Schulz February 1993 September 1996
12 Colonel Manfred Reinig August 1992 February 1993
11 Brigadier General Alexander Bergenthal September 1990 August 1992
10 Brigadier General Godehard Schell October 1, 1984 September 1990
9 Brigadier General Otto Biemann 1st October 1979 October 1, 1984
8th Colonel Wolfgang Odendahl 1st October 1977 1st October 1979
7th Colonel Dr. Harro Tiedgen September 1975 1st October 1977
6th Colonel Gerhard Deckert 1st October 1972 September 1975
5 Brigadier General Dr. Hans Spiegel December 1969 1st October 1972
4th Colonel Hans Duijkers September 1969 December 1969
3 Colonel Hans Teusen April 1965 September 1969
2 Colonel Hans-Gotthard Pestke December 1962 April 1965
1 Colonel Gerhart Schirmer May 1957 December 1962

The brigade's battalions

Paratrooper Battalion 251

Internal badge of the paratrooper
battalion 251

The paratrooper battalion 251 was set up in 1957 as Luftlandejägerbataillon 29 in Altenstadt near Schongau and renamed to paratrooper battalion 251 on April 1, 1959.

From 1982 to approx. 1988, large parts of the NCO training of Airborne Brigade 25 were carried out in this battalion (course "NCO Course Part A"). For this purpose, a special "NCO training" train was set up every quarter in the paratrooper companies.

In 1996 the battalion was disbanded, parts were transferred to the special forces command .

The internal association badge was derived from the division badge of the 78th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht , with whose former members the battalion maintained contacts.

structure

The battalion existed when it was dissolved in 1996

Armament and equipment

  • The 2nd / and 3rd / were equipped with anti-tank guided missiles MILAN .
  • The 4th / 5th and / were with antitank guided missiles TOW (I and II. Train) and 20 mm automatic cannon FK 20-2 (III. Train) on KRAKA equipped.

Locations

Commanders

  • February 1957 - May 1957: Lieutenant Colonel Schirmer
  • May 1957 - July 1958: Lieutenant Colonel Hofmann
  • August 1958 - September 1962: Lieutenant Colonel Schmücker
  • October 1962 - January 1966: Lieutenant Colonel Riemer
  • January 1966 - March 1970: Lieutenant Colonel Schreg
  • March 1970 - September 1972: Lieutenant Colonel Abele
  • October 1972 - September 1978: Lieutenant Colonel Dietrich
  • October 1978 - September 1982: Lieutenant Colonel Düesberg
  • October 1982 - September 1984: Lieutenant Colonel Kunold
  • October 1984 - March 1987: Lieutenant Colonel Digutsch
  • April 1987 - March 1989: Lieutenant Colonel Rosenberger
  • April 1989 - March 1991: Lieutenant Colonel Carl-Hubertus von Butler
  • April 1991 - December 1993: Lieutenant Colonel Möller
  • December 1993 - July 1996: Lieutenant Colonel von Pescatore
  • July 1996 - September 1996: Major May (in charge of the tour)

Paratrooper Battalion 252

Internal badge of
the paratrooper battalion 252

structure

  • 1st Company: Headquarters and Supply Company - Nagold
  • 2nd Company: Paratrooper Company
  • 3rd Company: Paratrooper Company
  • 4th company: Airborne anti-tank company, from 1992 paratrooper company
  • 5th company: Airborne tank defense company, from 1992 paratrooper company B1 (command component of the German Bundeswehr and at the same time the predecessor of today's Special Forces Command (KSK))
Internal association badge of
the command company of
the paratrooper battalion 252

Armament and equipment

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  • The 2nd / and 3rd / were equipped with anti-tank guided missiles MILAN .
  • The 4. / and 5. / were equipped with anti-tank guided missiles TOW (I. and II. Platoon) and 20 mm automatic cannon FK 20-2 (III. Platoon) on KRAKA until 1992 .

From 1992 the 5th / in addition to arming a paratrooper company was equipped with:

and foreign weapons from Eastern production such as B. AK-47 and AK-74 , Wieger STG 941 , Dragunow sniper rifle , Skorpion , Makarow and their versions.

Calls

The 5./FschJgBtl 252 (B1 Kommando) deployed a security train for the German troops in the field hospital as part of the UN mission .

Sleeve badge of a command company

Location

The Btl. Was set up in Clausthal-Zellerfeld (Harz) and, after a new barracks was built, moved to the Eisberg barracks in Nagold - the commander FschJgBtl 252 was also the site's elder .

Commanders

  • 06/1960 - 07/1961: M Klitzing
  • 07/1961 - 07/1965: Lieutenant Colonel Stobbe
  • 07/1965 - 03/1968: Lieutenant Colonel Schoffer
  • 03/1968 - 08/1970: M Hagenbruck
  • 08/1970 - 09/1972: Lieutenant Colonel Jahnel
  • 09/1972 - 01/1977: Lieutenant Colonel Reichert
  • 01/1977 - 10/1981: Lieutenant Colonel Rickert
  • 10/1981 - 06/1983: Lieutenant Colonel Lehmann
  • 06/1983 - 04/1988: Lieutenant Colonel von Baer
  • 04/1988 - 09/1992: Lieutenant Colonel Muhl
  • 10/1992 - 06/1994: Lieutenant Colonel Kästner
  • 06/1994 - 11/1995: Lieutenant Colonel Pomplun
  • 02/1996 - 09/1996: M Neumann or M i. G. Gnoyke (in charge of the tour)

Paratrooper Battalion 253

Internal badge of the paratrooper
battalion 253

The paratrooper battalion 253 was set up on April 1, 1982 as the third battalion of the brigade.

The battalion was called in from October 1990 as part of the advance organizational measures of Army Structure IV to set up the Parachute Armored Defense Battalion 283 and disbanded in 1991.

Association and
sleeve badges of the AMF-L

structure

  • 1st Company: Headquarters and Supply Company
  • 2nd Company: Paratrooper Company
  • 3rd Company: Paratrooper Company
  • 4th Company: Anti-Airborne Aircraft Company
  • 5th Company: Anti-aircraft Airborne Defense Company

Armament and equipment

Location

  • Nagold, iceberg barracks

Commanders

  • 03 / 1982-02 / 1985: Lieutenant Colonel Rhode
  • 03/1985 - 03/1987: Lieutenant Colonel Gerber
  • 04 / 1987–03 / 1990: Lieutenant Colonel Kellerhoff
  • 04 / 1990-02 / 1992: Lieutenant Colonel Dotschkal

Parachute anti-tank battalion 283

Internal association
badge of the FschPzAbwBtl 283

The parachute anti-tank battalion 283 (FschPzAbwBtl 283) was set up from October 1990 as part of the advance organizational measure for Army Structure 5. It was formed from the 253 parachute battalion to be disbanded and the 283 tank battalion to be disbanded, previously Panzerbrigade 28 , and put into service on February 10, 1992 in Münsingen . The part parachute in the name did not mean that the battalion's forces were to be parachuted, but was traditionally part of the names of the associations of an airborne brigade.

In the Army Structure 5 of the Bundeswehr should u. a. the ability of the airborne brigades to repel mass tank attacks to be strengthened. Therefore, a battalion of these brigades was reclassified into an anti-tank battalion . The paratrooper battalions already had the corresponding capabilities with the KRAKA / Milan with the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft companies (4th and 5th companies) , but their crew had no protection in combat because the vehicle was unarmored. This deficiency was to be remedied by equipping the new battalions. In the Bundeswehr there were three pure anti-tank battalions in this form for only a few years.

The battalion had a sponsorship with the "1st Bn 10th Special Forces Group" in Böblingen . Although the impending dissolution had been known since March 1995, the battalion carried out a military training exercise with reservists in November 1995 . The last recruits entered the battalion on January 2, 1996.

The battalion was disbanded by appeal on September 19, 1996 to September 30, 1996.

structure

The battalion consisted of

  • 1st Company : Headquarters and Supply Company
  • 2nd company: anti-tank company
  • 3rd Company: anti-tank company
  • 4th Company: anti-tank company
  • 5th company: anti-tank company (company slogan "Don't complain, fight")

The battalion had a lightly armored, night-combat weapon system with the Waffträger Wiesel 1 with TOW anti-tank missiles in two platoons of the anti-tank companies. A third platoon in the company was equipped with the Wiesel 1 MK 20 weapon carrier.

Although parachute dropping would have been possible, it should be deployed by air landings using helicopters or transport aircraft.

After the parachute anti-tank battalions were disbanded, the heavy companies of the hunter and mountain rifle battalions were equipped with the existing Wiesel 1 weapon carriers.

Location

  • from 1990: Münsingen, Herzog-Albrecht-Kaserne

Commanders

Paratrooper Battalion 254

Internal badge of
the paratrooper battalion 254

The paratrooper battalion 254 was a non-active unit of the former reserve planning of the Bundeswehr . The battalion would only have grown to full strength in the event of a defense . The paratrooper battalion 254 was, unlike the homeland security battalions , part of the field army and was therefore subordinate to NATO.

Location

  • Malmsheim : 12/1961 - 10/1976
  • Calw: 10/1976 - 09/1993

Battalion commanders

  • 12/1961 - 11/1962: Lieutenant Colonel dR Kirsten
  • 12/1962 - 07/1972: Lieutenant Colonel dR Jöst
  • 07/1972 - 10/1974: Lieutenant Colonel dR Rauch
  • 10/1974 - 06/1986: Lieutenant Colonel dR Seidel
  • 06/1986 - 05/1988: Lieutenant Colonel dR Gruss
  • 02/1989 - 09/1993: Lieutenant Colonel dR Glinka

Field Replacement Battalion 240

designation

  • FschJgFErsBtl ( GerEinh ): 12/1961 - 09/1968
  • LLFErsBtl 257: 10/1968 - 03/1982
  • FErsBtl 240: 04/1982 - 09/1993
  • LLFErsKp 250: 10/1993 - 06/1996

The Independent Brigade Units

  • Internal association badge of the Airborne Engineer Company 250

  • Internal association badge of the Airborne Medical Company 250

  • Internal association badge of the Airborne Supply Company 250

Other personalities associated with Airborne Brigade 25

  • Brigadier General Ret. D. Reinhard Gunzel
  • Dr. Otto Wiesheu was trained as a reserve officer from 1964 to 1966 with the paratrooper battalion 252 .
  • The entrepreneur Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Löw did his military service 1979/1980 with the paratrooper battalion 251 in Calw
  • Karl Veltzé, non-fiction author, did his basic military service at FschJgBtl 252 in Nagold from 1983 to 1984.
  • the ex-tennis professional and management coach Boris Grundl did his basic military service in the FschJgBtl 251 and was trained there as a reserve officer.
  • the geographer Christophe Neff did his basic military service in FschJgBtl 251 and was trained there as a reserve officer.
  • the politician Dirk Niebel began his NCO training in 5./FschJgBtl 253.
  • Prof. Dr. Reiner Hillemanns did his basic military service from 1984 to 1985 in the 3./FschJgBtl 252 in Nagold.
  • Sascha Baumann, editor at Radio Regenbogen , did his basic military service in 3./FschJgBtl 253 and was trained there as a reserve officer
  • The politician, sports functionary and reserve officer Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder practiced several times in the paratrooper battalion 251
  • Otto Hauser , Government Spokesman and Parliamentary State Secretary a. D. belonged to the FschJgBl 251 and the 1st Airborne Division as a reserve officer.

tradition

  • On November 17, 1967, the paratrooper battalion 252 in Nagold took over the tradition of the hunter battalion Count York von Wartenburg (East Prussian) No. 1.
  • The traditional march of Airborne Brigade 25 was the march of the Yorck Corps .

Association badge

Woven association badge for the service suit
Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

The blazon of the association badge for the uniform of the members of Airborne Brigade 25 read:

Silver rimmed in blue an open silver parachute with hinged, by interpretive down arrowhead .

The association badge showed a parachute, which stylized the main motif in the tactical symbol of the paratrooper troops . The paratroopers were the infantry core of the airborne troops . The association badges of the division and the subordinate brigades were identical except for the shelves . In the tradition of the Prussian color sequence , the association badge of the Luftlandebrigade 25 was given a white border as the “first” brigade of the division. The Special Forces Command continued the association badge as the "successor association" of Airborne Brigade 25.

Since the badges of the division's brigades differed only slightly, the internal badge of the staff or the staff company pars pro toto was occasionally used as the brigade's "badge" instead . It showed the parachute known from the association badge and stylized rotor blades of a helicopter . As " air cavalry " parts of the brigade could also move with helicopters .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Shown are the internal association badges, for which a wearing permit was officially granted until around the mid-1980s. Inactive units (equipment units, partially active, cadre units) are shown in italics .
  2. ^ "First" Brigade: Luftlandebrigade 25 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Airborne Brigade 26 (= red board). "Third" Brigade: Airborne Brigade 27 / Airborne Brigade 31 (= yellow board).

literature

  • 1st Airborne Division (Ed.): Paratroopers . The history of the 1st Airborne Division 1956-1994. 2nd edition. Ubstadt-Weiher, Enforcer Pülz, 1995, ISBN 3-939700-30-4 (413 pages, first edition: Barett-Verlag, Solingen 1995, Hempel estate, Bundeswehrsozialwerk eV).
  • Airborne Brigade 25: Black Forest Brigade, Airborne Brigade 25 . 1st edition. WEKA, Verl.-Ges. for Current Publ., Kissing 1994, DNB  943935350 (30 pages).
  • Heeresamt (Hrsg.): Portrait of a special large formation of the army . 1957–1996: Fallschirmjägerbrigade 25 - Luftlandebrigade 25. Cologne 1996.
  • Joachim Lenk: From the snowshoe company to the tank battalion . Münsinger soldiers life 1915 to 2004. Wiedemann, Münsingen 2004, ISBN 3-9805531-8-3 (117 pages, new camp, Herzog-Albrecht-Kaserne).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad. In: Website of the Military History Research Office . Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , Military History Research Office , accessed on February 17, 2020 (For technical reasons, direct links to individual search queries or search results are not possible. Please use the “search form” to research information on the individual departments).
  2. ↑ a b c Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-25 / Luftlandebrigade 25. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Section MA 3 : BArch BH 8-9 / 1. Airborne Division. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1996, accessed on March 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f O. W. Dragoner (Ed.): Die Bundeswehr 1989 . Organization and equipment of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of the Cold War. 4th edition. 2.1 - Army. Army Office. I. Corps. II Corps. III. Corps, February 2012 (167 p., Relektiven.com [PDF; 747 kB ; accessed on February 21, 2020] First edition: 2009, overview of the series at Relict.com).
  5. ^ Uwe Walter: The structures and associations of the German army . 1st edition. Part 1., I. Corps: (1956-1995). Edition AVRA, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946467-32-8 , pp. 104 (260 pp.).
  6. ↑ Member of the Supervisory Board of Schaeffler AG
  7. ^ Ottmar Schreiner - social democrat, paratrooper officer and Catholic
  8. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
  9. ↑ 250 years of Yorck's hunter tradition is maintained by the Bundeswehr-Fallschirmjägerbataillon 252. In: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung , 1994, accessed on November 17, 2018.
  10. ^ Army Music Corps 9, March of Brigade 25

Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 26.7 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 21.6"  E