Panzer Grenadier Brigade 16

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Panzer Grenadier Brigade 16
"Duchy of Lauenburg"
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Association badge Panzergrenadierbrigade 16

Association badge
active March 16, 1959 to 
May 5, 1994
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Panzer Grenadier Brigade
Insinuation Association badge 6th Panzer Grenadier Division 6. PzGrenDiv
last staff seat Wentorf near Hamburg
march Yorck March
Former Bismarck barracks

The Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 "Herzogtum Lauenburg" was a brigade of the 6th Panzergrenadierdivision based in Wentorf and Elmenhorst . The brigade was primarily stationed in the Duchy of Lauenburg district and was disbanded in 1994.

history

Prehistory as a combat group in the Army Structure 1

To assume the army structure 1 which was battle group A 6 2 January 1958 Location of the rod in the Flensburger Briesen barracks restructured. The combat group A 6 was initially part of the 3rd Panzer Division . As part of the 3rd Panzer Division, Combat Group A 6 was initially subordinate to a work and liaison command that served as the deployment staff of the 6th Grenadier Division . September 25, 1958, the working and assembly command in the was staff and the headquarters company of the 6th Division reclassified. The headquarters of the 6th Division led combat group A 6.

The combat group A 6 was divided into the following troop units from October 1958 at the earliest :

Army structure 2

In order to take over Army Structure 2 , Combat Group A 6 was reclassified into Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 on March 16, 1959 . Parts of Kampfgruppe A 6 were used to set up Panzer Grenadier Brigade 17 . Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 was subordinate to the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division. At that time the brigade included a headquarters company, the Panzergrenadier Battalion 161, 162 and 163, the Panzer Reconnaissance Company 160, the Panzerjägerkompanie 160, the Panzer Pionier Company 160 , the Anti-Aircraft Battery 160, the Supply Battalion 166 , the Tank Battalion 164, the Field Artillery Battalion 165 and the Field Replacement Battalion 167.

Army structure 3

From 1969 the brigade relocated to Elmenhorst and Wentorf. The city of Flensburg officially left the brigade on October 12, 1969.

Army structure 4

The area of ​​operation of the Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 "Duchy of Lauenburg" comprised southern Schleswig-Holstein ( Stormarn , Duchy of Lauenburg and Lübeck ) on the inner-German border, which was to be defended against attacks by the Warsaw Pact aimed at the Elbe-Lübeck Canal . It was planned to replace the Federal Border Guard and to secure the canal area and its waterways. Furthermore, the NATO defense plan envisaged securing the territory east of Hamburg and smashing enemy formations, integrated into the concept of forward defense near the border in the Trittau and Mölln area. It was expected that enemy forces were superior and that they would be intercepted on the defensive line of the canal until division reserves could intervene.

In Army Structure 4, the brigade was subordinate to:

  • Headquarters company, Bose-Bergmann barracks, Wentorf
  • Panzerjägerkompanie 160, Sachsenwald barracks, Elmenhorst ( Lanken ) near Schwarzenbek
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 160, Sachsenwald barracks, Elmenhorst ( Lanken ) near Schwarzenbek , Wentorf
  • Repair company 160, Sachsenwald barracks, Elmenhorst ( Lanken ) near Schwarzenbek
  • Supply company 160, Bose-Bergmann barracks, Wentorf
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 161, Wentorf and (4th company) Sachsenwald barracks, Elmenhorst ( Lanken ) near Schwarzenbek
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 162, Bismarck Kaserne, Wentorf
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 163, Wentorf (formerly stationed in the von Briesenkaserne in Flensburg- Weiche )
  • Tank battalion 164, Sachsenwald barracks, Elmenhorst ( Lanken ) near Schwarzenbek
  • Armored Artillery Battalion 165, Bose-Bergmann Kaserne, Wentorf

In 1987 the brigade was the first Bundeswehr association ever to be given an epithet ("Duchy of Lauenburg"). It was the largest brigade during its existence

In the autumn of 1989 the brigade comprised around 3,615 soldiers in the peace structure . The planned growth strength in the case of defense was higher. 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 6th Panzer Grenadier Division and was roughly divided into the following troop units :

Army structure 5 until disbandment

After the German reunification, it was first decided to dissolve most of the units in the brigade and to form relationships with members of the brigade. In a follow-up to Army Structure 5, it was decided in 1992 to completely dissolve the brigade. The brigade was decommissioned on May 5, 1994.

Assumed structure of the first version:

Before the brigade was dissolved, at the end of 1993 the “Traditionsverband Panzergrenadierbrigade 16” was founded, which acts as the umbrella organization for the brigade's former associations and is based in a former building of the Bismarck barracks in Wentorf near Hamburg. In addition to traditional associations of the battalions, it also includes civil associations from the surrounding area. The seat of the association is the "Alte 16", a thatched roof house which is considered the oldest building in Wentorf.

Commanders

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

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
12 Colonel Eckhart Fischer April 1, 1991 December 31, 1994
11 Brigadier General Rolf Theo Ocken April 1, 1988 March 31, 1991
10 Brigadier General Jürgen von Falkenhayn April 1, 1984 March 31, 1988
9 Brigadier General Eckhard Klewin 1st October 1979 March 31, 1984
8th Colonel Gerhard Brugmann 1st October 1977 September 30, 1979
7th Brigadier General Joachim Bruhn May 1, 1972 September 30, 1977
6th Brigadier General Paul-Georg Kleffel April 1, 1970 April 30, 1972
5 Colonel Werner Manns April 1, 1968 March 31, 1970
4th Colonel Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt November 1, 1965 March 31, 1968
3 Brigadier General Werner Ebeling July 16, 1962 October 31, 1965
2 Colonel Hasso Neitzel May 1, 1960 July 15, 1962
1 Colonel Jürgen Bennecke April 1, 1958 April 30, 1960

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 16 read:

Silver rimmed in red the silver Holstein nettle leaf ; on this a golden shield ; in it two blue, inward-facing, red armored, striding lions .

The choice of motif of the association badge was similar to the coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein . It shows the Schleswig Lion for the Schleswig region and the nettle leaf for the second Holstein region . The lions are the main motif in Denmark's coat of arms ; the division cooperated closely with the Danish armed forces as part of the German-Danish corps LANDJUT . 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 Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 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 . As in the association badge, it showed the nettle leaf on a green shield. Green was the weapon color of the armored infantry troops . The applied shield with the black and white border (the colors of Prussia ) and the horse followed the depiction in the coat of arms of the Duchy of Lauenburg , which goes back to the coat of arms of the Prussian Duchy of Lauenburg . The horse on a red background is similar to the Sachsenross as in the coat of arms of Lower Saxony .

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 16 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Panzer Grenadier Brigade 17 (= red board). "Third" brigade: Panzerbrigade 18 (= yellow board).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n 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 i j k Department 3 : BArch BH 9-16 / Panzerbrigade 16 - Duchy of Lauenburg -. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Department MA 3 : BArch BH 8-6 / 6. Panzergrenadier Division. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1994, accessed on March 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-17 / Panzergrenadierbrigade 17. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Traditionsverband Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 “Herzogtum Lauenburg” eV The history of the traditional association. P. 14. ISBN 978-3-923603-11-4
  6. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 412
  7. ↑ Order of the PzGren 16
  8. ↑ Btl. Was after personnel levies from GrenBtl. 12 (Göttingen), GrenBtl. 16 (Flensburg) and GrenBtl. 51 (Nienburg)
  9. ↑ Traditionsverband Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 “Herzogtum Lauenburg” eV The history of the traditional association. P. 14. ISBN 978-3-923603-11-4
  10. ↑ 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).
  11. ^ 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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