Armored Brigade 33

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Panzer brigade 33
"Celle"
- PzBrig 33 -
X

Association badge tank brigade 33

Association badge
active Feb. 2, 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 11th Panzer Grenadier Division 11. PzGrenDiv
last staff seat Celle

The armored brigade 33 "Celle" with last bar based in Celle was a brigade of the German army , and finally the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division assumed. It was dissolved in 1994. The units of the brigade were last stationed around Celle and Gifhorn , initially in the Emsland .

history

Army structure 2

The brigade was set up in Lingen on February 2, 1959 and was subordinated to the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division. 1960 belonged to the Brigade the Panzergrenadier battalion 332 Panzerbataillon 333, the Panzerbataillon 334 (installation in Langendamm 1957 as tanks Jägerbataillon 1) Panzerartilleriebataillon 335 (transfer to Luttmersen 1965), the supply battalion 336, the tanks reconnaissance company 330 and the tank engineer company 330 (list 1959. the 3rd / Pioneer Battalion 1 in Minden ). The brigade was integrated into NATO in 1962 . In 1968 the Panzerjägerkompanie 330 was reorganized in Fürstenau .

Army structure 3

In 1972, the supply battalion 336 was decommissioned and its repair and supply units were subordinated directly to the brigade as repair company 330 and supply company 330. In 1976 the staff and the reconnaissance train moved to Celle. In 1976, the 332 Panzer Grenadier Battalion moved to Homeland Security Command 14 and the 334 Panzer Battalion and 335 Panzer Artillery Battalion both moved to 3 Panzer Brigade . In return, the brigade received Panzergrenadier Battalion 21 from Panzergrenadierbrigade 2. From Panzerbrigade 3, Panzerbrigade 33 received Panzerbataillon 34, 4./Panzerbataillon 110, training company 9/1 and Panzerartilleriebataillon 35.

Army structure 4

In 1984 the brigade:

  • Staff / staff company PzBrig 33 (Celle, Cambridge-Dragoons barracks)
  • Brigade (teaching) scouting train 33 (Munster, Freiherr-von-Boeselager-Kaserne)
  • Panzerbataillon 331 (listed in 1981) (mixed / cadre; staff: Celle, Cambridge-Dragoon-Kaserne; device: Celle-Scheuen, Freiherr-von-Fritsch-Kaserne)
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 332 (Wesendorf, Hammerstein barracks)
  • Panzerbataillon 333 (after the former tank battalion 333 was handed over to the Homeland Security Brigade 52, reorganized in 1981) (Celle-Scheuen, Freiherr-von-Fritsch barracks)
  • Panzerbataillon 334 "Celle" (Celle-Scheuen, Freiherr-von-Fritsch barracks)
  • Panzerartilleriebataillon 335 (formerly Panzerartilleriebataillon 35, renamed 1981) (Dedelstorf, Richthofen barracks)
  • Supply company 330 (Celle-Scheuen, Freiherr-von-Fritsch barracks)
  • Repair company 330 (Celle-Scheuen, Freiherr-von-Fritsch barracks)
  • Panzerjägerkompanie 330 (Dedelstorf, Richthofen barracks)
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 330 (Dedelstorf, Richthofen barracks)
  • Field Replacement Battalion 115 (Hodenhagen, mobilization base)

In 1989 the brigade was nicknamed "Celle".

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 11th Panzer Grenadier Division and was roughly divided into the following troop units :

Army structure 5 until disbandment

On September 30, 1993 the tank brigade was disbanded. Panzergrenadierbataillon 332 and Panzerbataillon 334 (now as Panzerlehrbataillon 334 ) were previously subordinated to Panzerlehrbrigade 9 . The 333 tank battalion was subordinated to the inactive tank brigade of the 1st Panzer Division . All other units were disbanded together with the brigade by 1994.

Commanders

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

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
10 Brigadier General Jürgen Molsen December 21, 1988 September 30, 1993
9 Colonel Hubert Gosch March 27, 1987 December 20, 1988
8th Brigadier General Arnold Scharkowski March 17, 1983 March 26, 1987
7th Colonel Hans Scriba 18th August 1977 March 16, 1983
6th Colonel Georg Josef von Raesfeld 1st October 1974 17th August 1977
5 Colonel Werner Schlueter 16th January 1971 September 30, 1974
4th Brigadier General Karl-Heinz Herzberg 1st October 1968 15th January 1971
3 Colonel Alfred Müller April 1, 1964 September 30, 1968
2 Brigadier General Gerd Niepold July 1, 1961 March 31, 1964
1 Brigadier General Hans-Georg Lueder February 1, 1959 June 30, 1961

Association badge

The blazon of the association badge for the uniform of the members of the 33 Panzer Brigade read:

" Gold bordered , three gold crosses in blue over three silver wavy threads in the base of the shield ."

The crosses stood for the Oldenburger Land . The crosses were also called Nagelspitzkreuze or Delmenhorster crosses because of the cross in the coat of arms of the county of Delmenhorst . They were represented similarly in the coat of arms of Oldenburg and in the coat of arms of the district of Oldenburg . 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 33 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 the crosses known from the association badge and the yellow border, as well as a rider in the shield that was divided into blue and white . The representation of the rider is based on the appearance of the dressage quadrilles of the Lower Saxony state stud in Celle or the uniform of the Celle cavalry regiment of the Kurhannovian army . An alternative (possibly earlier) version of the headquarters company showed a stylized battle tank , a lightning bolt like in the beret badge of the telecommunications force , which operated the technology of the command post , on the lemon-yellow weapon color of the telecommunications, as well as the abbreviation of the headquarters company of the brigade (the " X " is that Signs of magnitude from the tactical signs for brigades ).

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 31 (= white board). "Second" brigade: Panzergrenadierbrigade 32 (= red board). "Third" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 33 (= yellow board).

literature

  • Panzerbrigade 33 (Ed.): 25 years of Panzerbrigade 33 . Schweiger & Pick Verlag, Celle 1984 (36 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. ^ Department MA 3 : BArch BH 9-33 / Panzerbrigade 33 - Celle -. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 51.5 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 53.6 ″  E