Armored Brigade 2

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Panzerbrigade 2
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Association badge tank brigade 2

Association badge
active March 16, 1959 to 
March 31, 1993
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Tank brigade
Insinuation Association badge 1st Panzer Division 1st Armored Division
last staff seat Braunschweig

The Armored Brigade 2 with Rod in Braunschweig was a brigade of the army of the Bundeswehr . It was decommissioned in 1993. Their troops were mainly stationed in southeastern Lower Saxony.

history

Prehistory as a combat group in the Army Structure 1

To assume the army structure 1 which became the 1 July 1956 battle group A 1 with location of the rod in the Scharnhorst barracks in Hannover - Bothfeld restructured. Combat group A 1 was subordinate to the 1st Grenadier Division . First conscripts were on 1 April 1957 convened . At first, grenadier battalions 1 and 21 were subordinated, from spring 1958 also grenadier battalions 11 and 61 and tank battalion 1. In April 1958, combat group A 1 was roughly divided into the following units:

Army structure 2

To take over Army Structure 2 , Combat Group A 1 was reclassified to Panzer Grenadier Brigade 2 on March 16, 1959 . In 1959 the staff was moved to the Braunschweig Hindenburg / Heinrich der Löwe barracks . The brigade at that time consisted of:

  • the Panzergrenadierbataillon 21 (previously Grenadierbataillon 21)
  • the Panzergrenadierbataillon 22 (previously Grenadierbataillon 11 of Kampfgruppe B 1)
  • the Panzergrenadierbataillon 23 (previously Grenadierbataillon 61 of Kampfgruppe B 1)
  • the Panzergrenadierbataillon 312 (previously Grenadierbataillon 12)
  • the Panzerartilleriebataillon 25 (formerly I./Feldartillerieregiment 1)
  • the supply battalion 26 (reorganization)
  • of the armored engineer company 20
  • of the tank reconnaissance company 20
  • the tank destroyer company 20
  • the anti-aircraft battery 20.

In 1960, the 24th Panzer Battalion newly established in Dedelstorf moved to the brigade. In 1962, Panzer Reconnaissance Company 20 was dissolved and incorporated into the headquarters company as an armored reconnaissance platoon. Fla-Batterie 20 left the brigade in 1966. The field artillery battalion 25 soon became the tank artillery battalion and the Panzerjägerkompanie 20 was disbanded.

Army structure 3

In the army structure 3 the brigade was reclassified. The Panzergrenadierbataillon 22 in Wolfenbüttel was disbanded in 1972 and partially integrated into the newly established observation battalion 13. It was assigned to the Artillery Regiment 1 in Hanover. In 1972, the 26th Supply Battalion was disbanded. In 1973 the Panzergrenadierbataillon 21 lost its function as a training battalion of the Army Officer's School I in Hanover and was subordinated to the Panzergrenadierbrigade 2 after relocation to Wesendorf .

In 1972 the brigade was the focus of the NDR documentation company maneuvers . The television team accompanied the (then still) Panzer Grenadier Brigade 2 during the Spitzer Dagger maneuver on the Baumholder military training area . During the tank exercise, the camera team was even assigned its own M113 armored personnel carrier with the NDR logo and was thus able to film the vehicles immediately.

From 1976 to 1977, the brigade tried the model 2a of the new Army Structure 4 in a troop test . For this purpose, the brigade handed over the Panzergrenadierbataillon 21 to the Panzerbrigade 33 and reorganized the Panzergrenadierbataillon 22 and the Panzer battalion 23.

Army structure 4

In 1981 the brigade became part of Panzerbrigade 2. 1981:

  • the headquarters company
  • Panzerbataillon 21 (formed in 1981 from parts of the disbanded Panzergrenadierbataillon 22)
  • the Panzergrenadierbataillon 22 (dissolved in 1981)
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 23 (from 1981 Panzergrenadierbataillon 22)
  • the tank battalion 23
  • the tank battalion 24
  • the tank artillery battalion 25
  • the tank destroyer company 20
  • the supply company 20
  • the repair company 20
  • the tank pioneer company 20.

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 :

Army structure 5 until disbandment

In Army Structure 5, tank battalion 24, tank battalion 23, and two tank grenadier battalions were subordinate. In 1992 the Panzergrenadierbataillon 22 was subordinated to the Panzergrenadierbataillon 12. In 1992 the Panzerartilleriebataillon 25, the Panzerpionierkompanie 20 and the Panzerbataillon 21 were disbanded. Panzerbrigade 2 was deactivated in March 1993 and is defacto disbanded.

Commanders

The commanders of Panzer Grenadier Brigade 2 and Panzer Brigade 2 were (rank when taking command):

No. Surname Commander of Commander up
20th Colonel Wulf Wedde 04/01/1991 March 31, 1993
19th Colonel Peter Rückbrodt 04/01/1985 March 31, 1991
18th Colonel Ruprecht Haasler 03/19/1982 March 31, 1985
17th Colonel Klaus Goldschmidt December 19, 1979 03/19/1982
16 Colonel Carl-Helmuth Lichel 04/01/1978 December 18, 1979
15th Brigadier General Carlheinrich von Erdmannsdorff 04/01/1974 March 31, 1978
14th Colonel Christian Schünemann 01/24/1972 March 31, 1974
13 Brigadier General Lothar Domröse 10/03/1969 01/23/1972
12 Colonel Klaus Görnandt 05/11/1965 10/02/1969
11 Brigadier General Kurt Kauffmann 23.09.1963 04/11/1965
10 OTL Horst Zobel 08/23/1963 09/22/1963
9 Brigadier General Gerhard Wessel 10/22/1962 08/22/1963
8th Brigadier General Oskar-Alfred Berger 01/05/196 10/21/1962
7th OTL Heinrich Heuer 11/18/1960 01/04/1961
6th Colonel Rudolf Buhse 07/17/1959 11/17/1960
5 OTL Heinrich Heuer 06/01/1959 07/16/1959
4th Brigadier General Ulrich de Maizière 01/06/1958 05/31/1959
3 Colonel Helmut Funck 11/01/1957 05/01/1958
2 Colonel Christian Schaeder 09/01/1956 10/31/1957
1 Colonel Hans-Reinhold Kahle 07/01/1956 08/31/1956

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 service suit of the members of Panzer Brigade 2 read:

Red bordered , gothic main shield split by gold and silver , covered 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 2 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 crossed swords similar to the illustration on the peaked cap and a lion on a battlement wall similar to the depiction of the Brunswick lion in the city ​​arms of Hanover .

Remarks

  1. ↑ As of April 1, 1993, Panzer Brigade 2 was still planned as a non-active Panzer Brigade 2.
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ^ "First" Brigade: Panzer Grenadier Brigade 1 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 2 (= red board). "Third" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 3 (= yellow board).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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 9-2 / Panzerbrigade 2. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1993, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Peter Rosinski: With the camera there: company maneuvers. (YouTube video) Shown by the soldiers of the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 2. In: https://www.youtube.com/ . North German Broadcasting , July 16, 1972. Retrieved on 22 February 2020 (Part 1 of 3. Other parts: Part 2 . Part 3 ).
  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).

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 47 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 5 ″  E