Panzer Grenadier Brigade 13

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Panzergrenadierbrigade 13
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Association badge Panzergrenadierbrigade 13

Association badge
active 1959 to 
March 31, 1994
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Panzer Grenadier Brigade
Insinuation Association badge 5th Panzer Division (Bundeswehr) 5th Armored Division
Staff seat Wetzlar

The Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 was a large unit of the German army with headquarters last in the Spilburg barracks in Wetzlar .

history

Prehistory as a combat group in the Army Structure 1

To assume the army structure 1 which became the August 1, 1956 Panzerkampfgruppe B 5 with location of the bar on the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Grafenwoehr restructured. Panzerkampfgruppe B 5 was subordinate to the 5th Panzer Division . Combat group B 5 was divided into the following troops in August 1956 :

In March 1957, the staff of Combat Group B 5 moved from Grafenwöhr to the Spilburg barracks in Wetzlar . The Panzergrenadierbataillon 15 and the Panzer battalion 15 moved in 1957 to the news barracks in Wetzlar.

Army structure 2

To assume the army structure 2 which was Panzerkampfgruppe B in the 5 1959 Panzergrenadierbrigade reclassified. 13 At the end of 1959, the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 13 consisted of:

  • Headquarters company
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 130 (compiled November 1, 1959 from parts of Panzerpionierbataillon 5)
  • Panzerjägerkompanie 130 (list April 1, 1959 from 3rd / Panzerjagerbataillon 5)
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 131 (formation April 1, 1959 from grenadier battalions 2 in Marburg and 351 in Hammelburg )
  • Panzer Grenadier Battalion 132
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 133 (formerly Panzergrenadierbataillon 15)
  • Panzerbataillon 134 (from parts of Panzerbataillon 15)
  • Field Artillery Battalion 135 (formerly III. / Artillery Regiment 5, from November 6, 1956 in Grafenwöhr)
  • Supply Battalion 136 (compiled February 14, 1959 from parts of Quartermaster Battalion 5)

Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 was subordinated to the 5th Panzer Division in Diez as its "first" brigade. The highlight in the history of the brigade was the parade of troops in front of the French President de Gaulle and Federal Chancellor Adenauer in June 1962 in Mourmelon , France.

Army structure 3

Another reclassification took place in autumn 1972. Supply Battalion 136 left the brigade and became the supply battalion of the 5th Armored Division . His 3rd and 4th companies remained in the brigade as independent units under the designation Repair Company 130 and Supply Company 130.

The former Federal Defense Minister Georg Leber visited the brigade in 1972 as the first major unit of the army and was bid farewell to the army in 1978 with a troop parade of the 13th Panzer Grenadier Brigade.

Army structure 4

In Army Structure 4 , Panzergrenadierbataillon 131 was renamed Panzergrenadierbataillon 132. The old Mechanized Infantry Battalion 132 in Schwarzenborn was added under the new name Mechanized Infantry Battalion 152 of the armored brigade 15 assumed. Panzergrenadierbataillon 131 was reorganized on October 1, 1981. This battalion was a mixed battalion made up of tank troops and tank grenadiers . In addition, this battalion was only partially active in peacetime; H. cadreed. The brigade comprised around 3,150 soldiers in the peace structure in the autumn of 1989 . The planned growth force in the case of defense was around 3550 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 :

resolution

The Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 was disbanded in 1994.

Commanders

The commanders of Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 were (rank when taking command):

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
12. Brigadier General Heinrich Holl April 1, 1989 March 31, 1994
11. Brigadier General Rainer Thiel September 27, 1984 March 31, 1989
10. Brigadier General Rolf Hüttel September 28, 1982 September 26, 1984
09. Colonel Ernst Klaffus March 28, 1980 September 28, 1982
08th. Colonel Kurt Graf von Schweinitz October 1, 1978 March 28, 1980
07th Colonel Lutz Moek 1st October 1977 September 30, 1978
06th Brigadier General Horst Scheibert 1st October 1970 September 30, 1977
05. Colonel Hans-Joachim Danckworth March 17, 1967 September 30, 1970
04th Brigadier General Hasso Viebig October 1, 1966 March 16, 1967
03. Colonel Wendt von Sierakowski October 1, 1962 September 30, 1966
02. Brigadier General Paul Jordan (Officer) 15th August 1959 October 1, 1962
01. Colonel Gerd Ruge September 1, 1956 15th August 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 Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 read:

Silver 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 Grenadier Brigade 13 was given a white border as the “first” 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 . In addition to a 13, it showed a crowned eagle, similar to the coat of arms of the city of Wetzlar . The black and red tinging of the coat of arms also corresponded to the color of the city coat of arms.

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).

Web links

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 d e f g h Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-13 / Panzergrenadierbrigade 13th In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Section MA 3 : BArch BH 8-5 / 5. Armored Division. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2013, accessed on March 7, 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.).

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 6.1 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 44.4 ″  E