Armored Brigade 3

Panzer Brigade 3 "Weser-Leine" - PzBrig 3 - X
Association badge
active	March 16, 1959 to  March 31, 1994
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Tank brigade
Insinuation	1st Armored Division
Staff seat	Nienburg / Weser

The 3rd Panzer Brigade "Weser-leash" was an armored brigade of the Army of the Armed Forces . The location of the staff was the Clausewitz barracks in Nienburg / Weser . The units of the brigade were stationed in eastern Lower Saxony .

history

Prehistory as a combat group in the Army Structure 1

To assume the army structure 1 which became the July 10, 1957 battle group C 1 Location of the rod in Nienburg / Weser restructured. Combat group C 1 was under the 1st Grenadier Division . At first, Grenadier Battalion 51 and Panzerjäger Battalion 1 were subordinate to them . In 1958, Panzer Battalion 33 was reorganized. In February 1958, combat group C 1 was roughly divided into the following units:

• Combat group staff Combat group C 1, Nienburg / Weser
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 30, Minden
  • Panzerjäger Battalion 1 , Nienburg / Weser
  • Panzer Battalion 33, Munster
  • Supply Battalion 36, Loccum
  • Grenadier Battalion 51, Nienburg / Weser

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

Army structure 2

In order to take over Army Structure 2 , Combat Group C 1 was reclassified to Panzer Brigade 3 on March 16, 1959 . In 1959 the Grenadier Battalion 51 in Panzergrenadierbataillon (SPz) 32 and that in 1957 as Panzerjägerbataillon 1 in Langendamm (from 1996: Celle ) with the new name Panzerlehrbataillon 34 (later: Panzerlehrbataillon 334 "Celle") were subordinated to the brigade. In 1961 the Panzer Fla-Battery 30 was set up and the Panzer Pioneer Company 30 relocated to Nienburg. By 1963, the 35 armored artillery battalion in Dedelstorf , the field replacement battalion (equipment unit) 37 in Gaste and the 103 training battalion in Loccum were reorganized. In 1964 the brigade units moved the supply battalion 36 to Langendamm and the field replacement battalion 37 to Loccum. In 1965, the NBC defense company 30 was set up in Luttmersen. Panzerbataillon 33 also moved to Luttmersen in 1965. Panzerjägerkompanie 30, which was set up in Luttmersen in 1967, moved to Scheuen in 1968 , where Panzerbataillon 34 also moved in 1969.

Army structure 3

In 1971 the training battalion 103 was disbanded and the tank pioneer company 30 moved from Langendamm to Dedelstorf. In 1972, Panzer Reconnaissance Unit 30 was set up, but was incorporated into the headquarters company as early as 1979. In 1976 the Panzer Battalion 34 and the Panzerartilleriebataillon 35 changed to the Panzer Brigade 33 in Celle. In return, Panzer Brigade 3 received the 334 tank battalion and the 335 tank artillery battalion.

Army structure 4

In 1981 the tank battalion 334 was renamed Panzerbataillon 34. Panzerartilleriebataillon 335 became Panzerartilleriebataillon 35 in 1981. Panzerjägerkompanie 30 became Panzerjägerkompanie 330 in 1981. Also in 1981, Panzerpionierkompanie 30 was renamed Panzerpionierkompanie 330. In 1981 the tank battalion 31 was reorganized. In 1982 the armored scout train 30 regained its independence. The Panzer Pionierkompanie 30 moved to Nienburg in 1983.

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 the autumn of 1989, the brigade was still part of the 1st Panzer Division and was roughly divided into the following units :

• Staff / Headquarters Company 3rd Panzer Brigade, Nienburg
  • Panzerjägerkompanie 30, Neustadt am Rübenberge
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 30, Nienburg
  • Supply company 30, Nienburg
  • Repair company 30, Nienburg
  • Panzerbataillon 31 (partly active) , Nienburg
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 32, Nienburg
  • Panzer Battalion 33, Neustadt am Rübenberge
  • Panzerbataillon 34, Nienburg
  • Panzerartilleriebataillon 35, Neustadt am Rübenberge

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

Army structure 5 until disbandment

The Panzer Brigade 3 was originally supposed to remain in Army Structure 5 as a non-active large formation, as follows:

• PzGrenBtl 312 ( Delmenhorst )
• PzGrenBtl 13 ( Wesendorf )
• PzBtl 34 (Nienburg)
• PzBtl 333 (Celle-Scheuen)
• PzArtBtl 35 (Luttmersen)
• PzPiKp 30 (Nienburg)
• PzJgKp 30 (Luttmersen)
• StKp PzBrig 3 (Nienburg)

Panzergrenadierbataillon 32 and Panzerbataillon 33 switched to Panzerbrigade 21 in Augustdorf in 1992 , replenishment company 30 and repair company 30 were disbanded, while the other units and units were reclassified into non-active units. However, the brigade was disbanded in 1993.

Commanders

The commanders of the brigade were (rank when taking command):

No.	Surname	Commander of	Commander up
14th	Colonel Friedrich-Johann von Krusenstiern (Brigade Leader)	January 1, 1993	resolution
13	Colonel Hans Huebner	October 1, 1990	December 31, 1992
12	Colonel Wilfried-Otto Scheffer	1st October 1987	September 30, 1990
11	Brigadier General Anton Steer	April 1, 1983	September 30, 1987
10	Colonel Baron Adalbert von der Recke	April 1, 1980	March 31, 1983
9	Brigadier General Klaus Nennecke	April 1, 1973	March 31, 1980
8th	Colonel Erwin Hentschel	1st January 1973	March 31, 1973
7th	Colonel Helmut Fischer	April 1, 1972	December 31, 1972
6th	Colonel Kurt Heiligenstadt	1st October 1968	March 31, 1972
5	Brigadier General Hans-Jürg von Kalckreuth	April 1, 1967	September 30, 1968
4th	Brigadier General Hans-Joachim von Hopffgarten	October 1, 1964	March 31, 1967
3	Colonel Karl-Reinhard von Schultzendorff	October 1, 1962	September 30, 1964
2	Colonel Ernst Philipp	5th November 1959	September 30, 1962
1	Colonel Paul Scheerle	July 10, 1957	4th November 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 3 Panzer Brigade read:

Gold bordered , gothic main shield split by gold and silver , topped with a silver, jumping horse in a red Spanish central shield .

The tinging of the shield corresponded to the "Guelph" colors of the flags of the kingdom and the province of Hanover . The applied shield with the Sachsenross on a red background corresponds to the coat of arms of Lower Saxony . 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 Panzer Brigade 3 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 again showed the Sachsenross on a red background, a stylized side view of a Leopard 1 or 2 battle tank , as well as a city ​​gate similar to the depiction in the coat of arms of the city of Nienburg / Weser .

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: Panzer Grenadier Brigade 1 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 2 (= red board). "Third" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 3 (= yellow board).

literature

• Rehaag: 25 years of the 3rd Panzer Brigade, 12th rocket artillery battalion . Anniversary font. Mönch, Koblenz, Bonn 1984, DNB  841049270 (48 pages).
• 30 years of the Bundeswehr location in Nienburg . Mönch, Koblenz, Bonn, Waldesch 1987, DNB  871032678 (52 pages, anniversary publication ).
• Austen (ed.): 35 years of the Nienburg military base . Information leaflet for guests and soldiers. Mönch, Koblenz, Bonn, Waldesch March 1992, DNB  921484755 (48 pages).
• Center for Civil-Military Cooperation of the Bundeswehr (publisher): 60 years of the Bundeswehr location Nienburg . Bundeswehr Central Printing Office , Bonn 2017 (36 pp., Nienburg.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ; accessed on February 23, 2020]).
• Literature by and about Panzerbrigade 3 in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

• The 1st Panzer Division of the Bundeswehr. In: Relics in Lower Saxony & Bremen . Manfred Tegge, accessed February 20, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} 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 g} Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-3 / Panzerbrigade 3 —Weser – Leine “. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1993, accessed on February 17, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{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).

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 58 ″  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 14 ″  E