Armored Artillery Battalion 115

Panzerartilleriebataillon 115 - PzArtBtl115 -
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active	Feb. 1959 to June 30, 2007
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	Artillery force
Type	Field / tank artillery
Insinuation	PzBrig 12
last position	Neunburg vorm Wald

The PzArtBtl 115 was set up in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate from autumn 1958 .

history

MAN 10 to gl of the battalion (1982)

It was first deployed as a 115 field artillery battalion from deployments of ArtBtl I, Weiden in der Oberpfalz , and ArtBtl III, Landshut , of the FAR 4. Already in June 1959, the first inspection of the 2nd and 3rd batteries took place during sniper shooting at the Grafenwoehr training area .

In July 1959, the battalion moved to Roding while at the same time subordinating it to Panzergrenadierbrigade 11 , Bogen . In the winter of 1961 it took part in the NATO Winter Shield II maneuver .

On April 1, 1963, the relocation to Neunburg vorm Wald took place , because the 116 supply battalion had to be set up in Roding . The barracks built in Neunburg for approx. 50 million DM was still a major construction site at the time. In the years 1964 to 1966 the association took u. a. in the division combat exercise Hohenfels and the corps exercise duet , in September 1968 in the army exercise Black Lion .

On April 29, 1965, the troop flag was handed over to the battalion. On October 1, 1971, the name was changed to PzArtBtl 115 . 1972: The XX. Olympic Games were supported with staff and material. In the autumn of 1974, the Red Dominant troop test was carried out to test a future army model .

On November 27, 1974, the inspector of the army, Lieutenant General Hildebrand, and on July 15, 1975, General Alexander Haig , Commander in Chief of the NATO Forces in Europe (SACEUR), visited the site. In September 1975 the battalion took part in the Army Exercise Great Castling .

On October 17, 1984, an M 109 of the gun commander's 2nd battery, Fahnenjunker Peter Schmidt, Bodenwöhr, died of serious injuries in a shooting accident at the Grafenwoehr military training area . The platoon leader survived seriously injured. The cause was not, as initially claimed by experts from the Federal Armed Forces Procurement Office (BWB), an incorrect operation by the crew, but - as the leader of the repair train, Hfw Reinhard Reck, was later able to prove - a technical fault or wear and tear in the firing slide. This also explained similar shooting accidents with the M109G in previous years and recognized the role of the Liderungsring as overrated.

On November 13, 1987, the military bishop Elmar Maria Kredel came to visit.

From November 6 to 23, 1989, numerous citizens from the GDR were accommodated and looked after in the multi-purpose hall. On February 18, 1991 officers and NCOs of the former NVA began a four-week internship in the battalion. From June 12 to July 4, 1992, the battalion practiced in Canada at the CFB Shilo training area .

In 1997 and the following years, assignments and deployments in the former Yugoslavia were the rule.

When the disbandment of the battalion was scheduled, the farewell from the public was celebrated with three-day festivities:

• December 1, 2006: ceremony in the castle
• December 2, 2006: Last shot by the PzH 2000 in Grafenwöhr
• December 3, 2006: Barbara celebration in the Hammerseehalle Bodenwöhr

The dissolution took place on June 30, 2007.

Commanders

Battalion Commanders Field Artillery Battalion 115
No.	Surname	Commander of	Commander up
1	Major Boehnke	February 16, 1959	July 31, 1960
	Due to the transfer of Major Boehnke to the artillery school, the battalion was led by the battery chief of the 1st battery, Major Pannen.	August 1, 1960	October 31, 1960
2	Lieutenant Colonel Zach	November 1, 1960	June 30, 1963
3	Lieutenant Colonel Heiligers	July 1, 1963	March 31, 1967
4th	Lieutenant Colonel Wittig	April 1, 1967	January 6, 1970
5	Lieutenant Colonel Bökler	7th January 1970	September 30, 1971
Battalion Commanders Armored Artillery Battalion 115
	Lieutenant Colonel Bökler	1st October 1971	March 31, 1974
6th	Lieutenant Colonel Steer	April 1, 1974	March 31, 1976
7th	Lieutenant Colonel Bolsinger	April 1, 1976	September 30, 1983
8th	Lieutenant Colonel Quaden	October 1, 1983	March 20, 1986
9	Lieutenant Colonel Münzner	March 21, 1986	March 29, 1988
10	Lieutenant Colonel Glenk	March 30, 1988	November 21, 1991
11	Lieutenant Colonel Elias	November 22, 1991	September 23, 1993
12	Lieutenant Colonel Hubertus von Rohr	September 24, 1993	September 24, 1996
13	Lieutenant Colonel Lütje	September 25, 1996	September 29, 1998
14th	Lieutenant Colonel Neuse	September 30, 1998	September 12, 2001
15th	Lieutenant Colonel Wildberger	September 13, 2001	September 20, 2003
16	Lieutenant Colonel Freiberger	September 21, 2003	July 18, 2005
17th	Lieutenant Colonel Wilkens	July 19, 2005	June 29, 2007

It is possible that some of the above data relate to the ceremonial handover of command , but not to the change of responsibility according to the transfer order.

Structure and equipment

The self-propelled howitzer M109 (here of the Dutch armed forces) was used for a long time in the tank artillery battalions of the German armed forces

The successor to the self-propelled howitzer M109 is the self-propelled howitzer 2000

Initially, the 1st / - as a rod and supply battery, 2nd / - and 3rd / - as shooting batteries with 6 field howitzers (FH) 105 mm each . The conversion to the more powerful FH 105 (L) took place in 1962. On April 1, 1970, the 4th battery from the disbanded ISBN 12/4 was installed. March 1972: Conversion to the M 109 G self-propelled howitzer . April 1977: New MAN 10 t mil gl LK trucks arrive .

Reclassification 1980: The 4th battery was rostered, a 5th set up as a training battery. In 1981 the field cannons 20 mm and the M113 ABRA were taken over. In February 1983 the M113 observation tank with optronics was taken over. In June and July 1988, the upgraded self-propelled howitzers M109A3GA1 arrived. The battalion was equipped with the artillery, data, situation and deployment computer network (ADLER) in 1997. From August 1999, the upgrade to the Panzerhaubitze 2000 and the new ammunition transport vehicles took place.

literature

• Harry Bauer: The Bavarian Artillery from 1791 to today , Würzburg 1985
• Artillery of the German Armed Forces, 1980–2009, The history of a military branch . Society for Artillery Science V., information leaflet for members, 2/2010
• 25 years of artillery in the Bundeswehr Hans Joachim Krug, 1982, ISBN 3-7909-0184-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Battalion chronicle, part 1, page 6
2. ^ Grafenwoehr ZEITUNG, October 19, 1984
3. ↑ Resolution  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ dissolution
5. ↑ battalion chronicle , u. a. P. 6