Armored Brigade 15th

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Panzer Brigade 15
"Westerwald"
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Association badge tank brigade 15

Association badge
active 1959 to 
June 25, 1993
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Tank brigade
Insinuation Association badge 5th Panzer Division (Bundeswehr) 5th Armored Division
Staff seat Koblenz
Nickname "Westerwald Brigade"

The armored brigade 15 "Westerwald" was a brigade of the 5th Armored Division with last seat of the bar in Koblenz and deployment of space in the Westerwald . The brigade was disbanded in 1993. The brigade is often referred to as the “Westerwaldbrigade”.

history

Prehistory as a combat group in the Army Structure 1

To assume the army structure 1 which was Panzerkampfgruppe C 5 April 1, 1957 Location of the rod in the anti-aircraft barracks in Koblenz restructured. At the end of 1957, Panzerkampfgruppe A 5 gave command personnel to Panzerkampfgruppe C 5 for further deployment . The formation of Panzerkampfgruppe C 5 was completed in March 1958 at the latest. The Panzerkampfgruppe C 5 was subordinate to the 5th Panzer Division .

Army structure 2

In 1959, to take over Army Structure 2 , Panzer Group C 5 was reclassified into Panzer Brigade 15. It was subordinated to the 5th Panzer Division in Diez . The brigade initially included:

The independent companies were all stationed in Westerburg or Rennerod .

Army structure 4

In Army Structure 4 , Panzergrenadier Battalion 152 was reorganized by restructuring and renaming the Panzergrenadier Battalion 132 of Panzer Grenadier Brigade 13. The field replacement battalion 157 was initially also subordinate to it. In 1988 the brigade was given the honorary name "Westerwald".

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 :

Army structure 5 until disbandment

In 1991 the armored artillery battalion 155 ( Lahnstein ) was decommissioned. The brigade was dissolved on June 25, 1993.

Commanders

The following commanders led the brigade (rank when taking command):

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
14th Colonel Axel Bürgener March 22, 1991 1993
13 Colonel Hans-Peter von Kirchbach October 1, 1989 March 21, 1991
12 Colonel Dieter Stöckmann April 1, 1986 September 30, 1989
11 Colonel Eckhard Stuart April 1, 1985 March 31, 1986
10 Colonel Werner von Scheven July 21, 1982 March 31, 1985
9 Brigadier General Günter Kriebel October 1, 1976 July 20, 1982
8th Brigadier General Werner Lange 1st October 1974 September 30, 1976
7th Colonel Eckart Afheldt 1st October 1971 September 30, 1974
6th Colonel Dr. Günter Kießling 1st October 1970 September 30, 1971
5 Brigadier General Hans-Heinrich Klein April 1, 1968 September 30, 1970
4th Brigadier General Hermann Büschleb October 1, 1965 March 31, 1968
3 Colonel Fritz Fechner October 1, 1962 September 30, 1965
2 Colonel Gerlach von Gaudecker February 1, 1959 September 30, 1962
1 Colonel Max Sperling September 1, 1957 January 31, 1959

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 15 Panzer Brigade read:

Gold rimmed in blue, with golden shingles strewn shield a golden rotbewehrter and rotgezungter 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 Panzer Brigade 15 was given a yellow border as the “third” 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 lion in a similar posture but different tinging than in the association badge and a stylized representation of the Ehrenbreitstein fortress .

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: Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 14 (= red board). "Third" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 15 (= yellow board).
  3. ↑ See picture "Koblenz in the Buga year 2011 - Ehrenbreitstein Fortress 45.jpg" .

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 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 9-15 / Panzerbrigade 15 –Westerwald–. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Section MA 3 : BArch BH 8-5 / 5. Armored 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.).

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