Armored Brigade 14

This article deals with the tank brigade 14 "Hessischer Löwe", formerly tank brigade 6. Until 1981 this was the name of the tank brigade 34, which was active until 2002 .

Panzer Brigade 14 "Hessischer Löwe" - PzBrig 14 - X
Association badge
active	March 1959 to  June 30, 2008
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Tank brigade
Insinuation	5th Armored Division
last staff seat	Neustadt

The tank brigade 14 "Hessischer Löwe" with staff in Neustadt in Hessen was a tank unit of the army of the Bundeswehr . The brigade was decommissioned on June 30, 2008 and was most recently under the Air Mobile Operations Division . Until 1981 it was referred to as Panzerbrigade 6.

history

As Panzer Brigade 6 until 1981

Prehistory as a combat group in Army Structure I

To assume the army structure 1 which was on July 1, 1956 battle group A 2 with location of the rod in Hannoversch Munden restructured. Parts of Border Guard 4 were used for the installation . Combat group B 2 was under the 2nd Grenadier Division . The battle group headquarters moved to Marburg in 1956 . On July 1, 1956, combat group A 2 was roughly divided into the following troop units:

• Combat group staff Combat group A 2, Hannoversch Münden
  • Grenadier Battalion 2, Fulda / Neustadt
  • Grenadier Battalion 22, Hannoversch Münden / Fritzlar

See also : Division of the Army in the Army Structure 1

Army structure II

To take over Army Structure 2 , Combat Group A 2 was reclassified to Panzer Brigade 6 in March 1959 . From 1960 the location of the brigade staff was Neustadt

Army structure III

The brigade switched from the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division in 1977 to the 5th Panzer Division . In 1976/77, Panzer Brigade 6, like Panzer Brigade 14 and Panzer Brigade 34, were involved in a troop test to test Army Structure 4.

As Panzer Brigade 14 from 1981

Army structure IV

Neustadt Koblenz kassel Hofgeismar

Location of the headquarters of the 6th, 14th and 34th Panzer Brigades

In 1981, in order to take Army Structure 4, the insinuations and corresponding names of Panzer Brigade 6, 14 and 34 were "swapped":

• → The previous Panzer Brigade 6 became the "new" Panzer Brigade 14 in 1981. The subordination of the brigade changed in advance from the 2nd Jägerdivision to the 5th Panzer Division in 1976/77 . The location of the staff remained unchanged in Neustadt .
• → The previous 14th Panzer Brigade became the "new" 34th Panzer Brigade in 1981 . The subordination of the brigade changed in advance from the 5th Panzer Division to the 12th Panzer Division in 1977 . The location of the staff remained unchanged in Koblenz .
• → The previous Panzer Brigade 34 became the "new" Panzerbrigade 6 in 1981 . The subordination of the brigade changed in 1975 from the 12th Panzer Division to the 2nd Jägerdivision . The location of the staff moved from Kassel to Hofgeismar in 1981 .

The brigade comprised around 2900 soldiers in the peace structure in the autumn of 1989 . The planned growth force in the case of a defense was around 3,300 soldiers. For nursery which was convened by reservists and the mobilization of non-active units provided. At the end of Army Structure 4 in autumn 1989, the brigade was still part of the 5th Panzer Division and was roughly divided into the following troop units :

• Bar / Stabskompanie Panzerbrigade 14, Neustadt (Hessen)
  • Panzerjägerkompanie 140, Stadtallendorf
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 140, Stadtallendorf
  • Supply company 140, Neustadt
  • Repair company 140, Neustadt
  • Panzerbataillon 141 (partly active), Stadtallendorf
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 142, Neustadt
  • Panzer Battalion 143, Stadtallendorf
  • Panzer Battalion 144, Stadtallendorf
  • Panzerartilleriebataillon 145, Stadtallendorf

See also : Division of the field army in the army structure 4

Army structure 5 until disbandment

The new Panzer Brigade 14 remained in Army Structure 5 (from 1991) initially only as a partially active brigade in the area of ​​Defense Area Command IV / 5th Panzer Division in the Upper Hesse area. Since 1992 the 14th Panzer Brigade has been nicknamed the “Hessian Lion”.

As a classic unit of combat troops , the brigade had the task of training and practicing all subordinate units in the context of the combat of combined arms . For this they secured the force generation capability of subordinate organizations, the alliance - and national defense ensured. The active units were available for (multinational) operations across the entire range of tasks of the Army.

In 1993 the armored artillery battalion 65 of the armored brigade 6 of the brigade was subordinated. In the period from 1992 to 1996, many units of the 14th Panzer Brigade were disbanded. In 1998 the brigade took part in an SFOR mission for the first time. In 2001 he switched to the 7th Panzer Division . In 2003, the headquarters company in Neustadt / Hessen, the Panzerpionierkompanie 200 in Hemer, the Panzergrenadierbataillon 152 in Schwarzenborn , the Panzergrenadierbataillon 52 in Rotenburg an der Fulda , the tank battalion 64 in Wolfhagen , the tank battalion 154 in Westerburg , the tank artillery battalion 2 in Hessisch Lichtenberg (1996 established and subordinated to the brigade in 2002). The on-site medical center in Hessisch Lichtenau was also temporarily under the control . When the Elbe floods in 2002, the brigade provided disaster relief. In 2003 the brigade provided forces for the 7th SFOR / KFOR contingent and the 4th ISAF contingent . In 2005/2006 there was another deployment in Afghanistan as part of the 9th ISAF deployment contingent. In 2006 the tank brigade was subordinated to the 14th Division Airmobile Operations and the 820 telecommunications battalion from Düsseldorf was subordinated to the brigade as a new unit. The Panzergrenadierbataillon 152 was dissolved and reorganized as Jägerregiment 1, but subordinated to the Air Mechanized Brigade 1 . In 2006 the Panzerartilleriebataillon 2 and the Panzer Battalion 154 were decommissioned. At the end of 2007 the Panzer Pioneer Company 200 switched to Panzer Brigade 21 “Lipperland”.

The military history exhibition Panzerbrigade 14 - "Hessischer Löwe" in Neustadt reminds of the brigade and the disbanded units of the Panzerjägerkompanie 140, Panzerbataillon 143, Panzerartilleriebataillon 145 and Feld Ersatzbataillon 54 in a traditional room .

The following troop units were most recently subordinate to Panzerbrigade 14:

• Headquarters company
• Panzerbataillon 64 ( Wolfhagen )
• Telecommunications Battalion 820 ( Düsseldorf )

The brigade was decommissioned on June 30, 2008.

Commanders

As Panzer Brigade 14 from 1981

The commanders of the new 14th Panzer Brigade were (rank when taking command):

No.	Surname	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment
20th	Colonel Theodor Herkel (Brigade Leader)	July 13, 2007	resolution
19th	Brigadier General Achim Lidsba	2005	July 12, 2007
18th	Brigadier General Wolfgang Brüschke	2003	2005
17th	Colonel Hans-Joachim Fröhlich	2001	2002
16	Colonel Gertmann Sude	1999	2001
15th	Colonel Peter Goebel	1996	1998
14th	Colonel Klaus Wittmann	October 1, 1992	1995
13	Colonel Rainer Jung	December 17, 1989	September 30, 1992
12	Colonel Jochen Lehmann	February 1, 1988	September 19, 1989
11	Colonel Wilhelm Tolksdorf	March 17, 1983	January 31, 1988
10	Colonel Klaus-Christoph Steinkopff	October 1, 1981	March 17, 1983

As Panzer Brigade 6 until 1981

The commanders of the old 6th Panzer Brigade were (rank when taking command):

No.	Surname	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment
10	Colonel Klaus-Christoph Steinkopff	October 1, 1980	September 30, 1981
9	Colonel Christoph-Adolf Fürus	April 1, 1978	September 30, 1980
8th	Colonel Karl Erich Diedrichs	1st October 1975	March 31, 1978
7th	Brigadier General Karl-Heinz Jörgens	1st October 1970	September 30, 1975
6th	Colonel Anton Burnhauser	April 1, 1968	September 1970
5	Colonel Josef Rettemeier	March 10, 1964	March 1968
4th	Colonel Dietrich Langél	August 14, 1962	March 1964
3	Colonel Gerd Ruge	August 14, 1959	August 1962
2	Colonel Frithjof Heyse	November 10, 1957	July 1959
1	Colonel Leo Drossel	July 1, 1956	November 1957

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 the 14th Panzer Brigade read:

Bordered in red , in the blue shield, sprinkled with gold shingles , a gold, red-armored and red-tongued lion.

The association badge resembled the coat of arms of the House of Nassau . In or at least close to the territory of the former province of Hesse-Nassau , the units of the Division were deployed . 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 14th Panzer Brigade was given a red border as the “second” brigade of the division.

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 a crowned colored lion (" Hessen lion ") as in the city ​​arms of Marburg or similar to the Hessian state arms . The lion holds a sword in its paw . The shield division in white and red corresponded to the tinging of the Hessian state flag .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Remarks

1. ↑ For internal association badges , a wearing license was only officially issued around the mid-1980s. They are therefore not shown. The enumerated troop units or the "successors" standing in their tradition could, however, unofficially have already worn badges similar to a coat of arms or have officially received them from the mid-1980s. Association badges for large associations were only introduced into the troops in Army Structure 2 .
2. ↑ 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 .
3. ^ "First" Brigade: Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 14 (= red board). "Third" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 15 (= yellow board).

literature

• Uwe Walter: About wolves, leopards and other predators . The history of the army of the Bundeswehr in Hesse and the neighboring federal states. 2nd Edition. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8482-2645-0 (124 pages, 1st part newly revised).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} 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 d e f} Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-6 / Panzerbrigade 6th In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1996, accessed on February 17, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Section MA 3 : BArch BH 8-2 / 2. Panzergrenadier Division. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1994, accessed on February 17, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} O. W. Dragoner (Ed.): The 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. ^ Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-14 / Panzerbrigade 14. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 . 

Web links

• Military history exhibition Panzerbrigade 14 - "Hessian Lion" . Traditional room tank brigade 14th traditional room Marburger Jäger / 2. PzGrenDiv. (No longer available online.) In: https://neustadt-hessen.de/ . Magistrate of the City of Neustadt (Hessen), archived from the original on December 15, 2009 ; Retrieved December 15, 2009 . 
• Homepage of the Comradeship DSK formerly DSO u. PzBrig 14 previously 6. Wolfgang Kappen, 2018, accessed on February 26, 2020 . 
• Military history collection of the Rapid Forces Division in Stadtallendorf. Friends of the Military History Collection of Panzer Brigade 14 “Hessischer Löwe” eV, Werner Gemmecker, February 15, 2020, accessed on February 26, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 18 ″  E