Military District III

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Military District III Command

Regimental colors of NVA (East Germany) .svg

Troop flag
active March 1, 1956 to October 2, 1990
Country Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR
Armed forces NVA
Armed forces Emblem of the Ground Forces of NVA (East Germany) .svg NVA land forces
Branch of service * Motorized rifle troops
Type army
structure see table
Strength approx. 400 soldiers and 120 civilian employees
Insinuation Land Forces Command
Garrison
command post
Leipzig
Last in command / chief of staff
Major General
Klaus Wiegand
Chief Military District III
Rank
NN
Chief of Staff
Stationing of the land forces of the NVA on the territory of the GDR

The Military District III (abbreviated MB III ) was an administrative territorial division of the land forces of the NVA . In peacetime you were under a tank and two motorized rifle divisions as well as several support units and troop units. In the case of mobilization, the 3rd Army and a territorial military district should be formed from the units, troops and associations of the military district . The headquarters of the command of the military district was in Leipzig .

history

structure

Military District III was created with the creation of the NVA from the barracked People's Police of the GDR. The 7th Panzer Division , the 4th Motorized Rifle Division and the 11th Motorized Rifle Division were assigned to him. The staff moved to its headquarters on Viertelsweg in Gohlis (Leipzig) in 1957 .

The following remained subordinate to the command of the military district:

  • 3rd missile brigade
  • 3rd Artillery Regiment
  • Artillery Reconnaissance Regiment 3
  • Missile Department 3
  • Panzerjägerabteilung 3
  • Anti-aircraft missile regiment 3
  • Movable anti-aircraft missile base 3
  • Combat helicopter squadron 3
  • News Regiment 3
  • Line construction regiment 3
  • Pontoon Regiment 3
  • Engineer Bridge Battalion 44
  • Engineer Regiment 3
  • Radio Technical Battalion 3
  • Radio and Radio Reconnaissance Battalion 3
  • Special Reconnaissance Battalion 3
  • Guard and Security Battalion 3
  • Repair Battalion 3
  • Battalion Material Assurance 3

Training centers and mobilization

The following training institutions, which were run by the Military District III Command in peacetime, formed the basis for the formation of the mobilization divisions :

In the event of war, nuclear weapons were to be issued to units in Military District III, which were stored by the GSSD in the Stolzenhain special weapons warehouse .

Commander

Chiefs of Military District III were:

  • Major General Fritz Johne (March 1, 1956 to July 31, 1957)
  • Major General Kurt Wagner (December 1, 1957 to October 15, 1959)
  • Major General Arthur Kunath (October 15, 1959 to October 17, 1961)
  • Major General Hans-Georg Ernst (October 17, 1961 to November 30, 1973)
  • Major General Heinz Handke (December 1, 1973 to November 30, 1976)
  • Major General Horst Skerra (December 1, 1976 to October 31, 1982)
  • Major General Manfred Graetz (November 1, 1982 to February 9, 1986)
  • Major General Wolfgang Steger (February 10, 1986 to September 30, 1987)
  • Major General Klaus Wiegand (October 1, 1987 to October 2, 1990)

literature

  • Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke : The generals and admirals of the NVA. A biographical manual. Christoph Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-209-3 .
  • Wilfried Copenhagen : The land forces of the NVA. Special edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-02297-4 .
  • Hans-Werner Deim , Hans-Georg Kampe, Joachim Kampe, Wolfgang Schubert: The military security of the GDR in the Cold War. Contents, structures, bunkered management positions, facilities. Meißler, Hönow 2008, ISBN 978-3-932566-80-6 .
  • Rüdiger Wenzke (ed.): The armed forces of the GDR and Poland in the operational planning of the Warsaw Pact (= Potsdam writings on military history. 12). Military History Research Office, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-941571-09-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.gohlis.info/gohlisinfo/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Der-Milita%CC%88r Bezirk-III-der-NVA-am-Viertelsweg-inkl.-Bilan-Gohlis- in- GuG2.pdf Matthias Judt: The military district III of the NVA on Viertelsweg
  2. Rüdiger Wenzke: The National People's Army (1956–1990). In: Torsten Diedrich , Hans Ehlert , Rüdiger Wenzke (eds.): In the service of the party. Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR. Christoph Links, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 , pp. 423-535, here p. 469.
  3. ^ Matthias Uhl: Nuclear missiles for the NVA? For the initial equipment of the National People's Army of the GDR with nuclear weapons. In: Hans Ehlert, Matthias Rogg (Hrsg.): Military, state and society in the GDR. Research fields, results, perspectives (= military history of the GDR. 8). Christoph Links, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-329-4 , pp. 187–204, here p. 196.

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 18.5 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 31.2 ″  E