Armored Brigade 29

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Tank brigade 29
"Südbaden-Hohenzollern"
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Association badge tank brigade 29

Association badge
active Oct. 1, 1959 to 
Sep. 30. 1993
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Tank brigade
Insinuation Association badge 10th Panzer Division 10th Armored Division
last staff seat Sigmaringen

The armored brigade 29 "South Baden-Hohenzollern" with the seat of the bar in Sigmaringen was a brigade of the 10th Armored Division of the Army of the German Bundeswehr , which was dissolved 1,993th She was stationed in Baden-Württemberg and initially also in Bavaria .

history

Army structure 2

The brigade was reorganized as Panzergrenadierbrigade 29 in Pfullendorf in 1959 from parts of Panzerbrigade 30 , the 1st Mountain Division and the 1st Airborne Division and moved to Sigmaringen in 1961. The brigade initially included:

  • Headquarters and headquarters company
  • Panzerbataillon 294 (established in 1958 as Panzerbataillon 322 in Großengstingen , later Stetten am kalten Markt )
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 293 ( Immendingen , set up as Panzergrenadierbataillon 34 and renamed Panzergrenadierbataillon 292 in 1966)
  • Paratrooper Battalion 291
  • Feldartilleriebataillon 295 (established in 1958 in Münsingen , from 1959 Immendingen , 1966 renamed to Panzerartilleriebataillon 295)
  • Panzerjägerkompanie 290 (listed in 1959 in Murnau am Staffelsee , from 1959 Stetten akM)

The brigade was subordinate to the 10th Panzer Division. The brigade was briefly subordinate to units that later switched to the 28th Panzer Grenadier Brigade . This included the Panzergrenadierbataillon (mot) 281 in Neuburg , the Panzergrenadierbataillon 282 in Donauwörth and the supply battalion 286 in Neuburg. In 1967, the brigade was reclassified to Panzerbrigade 29 and transferred the Panzer Battalion 293 as Panzer Battalion 304 to the Panzer Brigade 30.

Army structure 3

In 1971 the tank battalion 293 was reorganized from parts of the mountain tank battalions 224 and 234. In 1971 the paratrooper battalion 291 from Stetten changed to paratrooper battalion 271 to paratrooper brigade 27 and moved to Iserlohn . In 1972, the supply company 290 and the repair company 290 were formed from the disbanded supply battalion 296.

Army structure 4

In 1981 the brigade included:

  • Panzerbataillon 291, partially deployed, 1st, 3rd and 4th company in Stetten am kalten Markt, 2nd company in Immendingen (dissolved in 1988)
  • Panzer Grenadier Battalion 292, Immendingen
  • Panzerbataillon 293, Stetten am kalten Markt
  • Panzerbataillon 294, Stetten am kalten Markt
  • 295 Panzer Artillery Battalion, Immendingen
  • Headquarters company, Sigmaringen
  • Reconnaissance platoon (at the 10th Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion in Ingolstadt)
  • Panzerjägerkompanie 290, Stetten am kalten Markt
  • Panzerpionierlehrkompanie 290 (1987 renaming to Panzerpionierlehrkompanie 560 and brigade change, for 1987 reorganization of Panzerpionierkompanie 290 in Immendingen )
  • Supply company 290, Stetten am kalten Markt
  • Repair company 290, Stetten am kalten Markt
  • Field Replacement Battalion 104 (from 1983)

The brigade comprised around 2900 soldiers in the peace structure in the autumn of 1989 . The planned growth force in the case of defense was around 3300 men. 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 10th Panzer Division and was roughly divided into the following troop units :

The brigade received its nickname "Südbaden-Hohenzollern" in 1990.

Army structure 5 until disbandment

The brigade was decommissioned on September 30, 1993. In addition, the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 294 switched to Panzer Brigade 30 .

Commanders

The following officers led the brigade (rank when taking command). As a rule, after some time, the commanders were appointed brigadier general:

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
13 Colonel Klaus Wittig April 1, 1991 September 30, 1993
12 Brigadier General Wolfgang Beltermann 1st December 1986 March 31, 1991
11 Brigadier General Heribert Göttelmann October 1, 1982 November 30, 1986
10 Colonel Winfried Vogel October 1, 1981 September 30, 1982
9 Brigadier General Hans Grillmeier April 1, 1980 September 30, 1981
8th Brigadier General Claus Claussen 19th November 1974 March 31, 1980
7th Brigadier General Herbert Huber 1st October 1970 November 10, 1974
6th Brigadier General Horst Ohrloff April 11, 1969 September 30, 1970
5 Colonel Hans-Joachim Becke October 1, 1966 April 10, 1969
4th Colonel Rudolf Hagemann October 16, 1965 September 30, 1966
3 Colonel Günther Reischle April 1, 1964 October 15, 1965
2 Brigadier General Peter von Butler October 1, 1962 March 31, 1964
1 Brigadier General Kurt Gerber August 1, 1959 September 30, 1962

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 29 Panzer Brigade read:

Bordered in red , a black, red-armored and red-tongued lion in gold .

The lion was the Swabian Staufer lion , which appeared similarly in the coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg . 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 29th 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 the association badge in the upper left , a slanted bar in the tinging of the black and silver coat of arms of the Hohenzollern family and a clover leaf .

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: Panzer Brigade 28 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 29 (= red board). "Third" Brigade: Panzer Grenadier Brigade 30 (= yellow board).

literature

  • 20 years 10th Panzer Division - Panzer Brigade 29 . Baden-Baden 1977 (185 pages).
  • Panzerbrigade 29 Südbaden-Hohenzollern 1958 - 1992. Last roll call . 1992.
  • Our Sigmaringen location . Mönch, Waldesch April 1988, DNB  890102937 (68 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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 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).
  3. ^ 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.).
  4. ^ Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-29 / Panzerbrigade 29. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 34.1 "  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 51.3"  E