Panzer Grenadier Brigade 22nd

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Panzergrenadierbrigade 22
"Oberland"
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Association badge Panzergrenadierbrigade 22

Association badge
active April 1, 1959 to 
March 31, 1993
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Panzer Grenadier Brigade
Insinuation Association badge 1st Mountain Division 1st Mountain Division
last staff seat Murnau am Staffelsee

The Panzer Grenadier Brigade 22 "Oberland" (until 1981 Gebirgsjägerbrigade 22 ) was a brigade of the 1st Mountain Division of the Army of the German Armed Forces with headquarters initially in Mittenwald , from 1981 in Murnau . Your stationing area was Upper Bavaria . The brigade was disbanded in 1993.

history

Prehistory as a combat group in the Army Structure 1

On July 16, 1956, the first parts of Mountain Infantry Battalions 104 and 114 met in Mittenwald . The cadres consisted of former members of the mountain troops of the Wehrmacht and active members of the Federal Border Guard . With around 1000 men, they formed the basis of the Mountain Brigade 104 . The Mountain Brigade 104 was only a short time between October 1, 1956 to December 1, 1956 Location of the rod in the middle Walder Hunter barracks deallocated. From Mountain Brigade 104, the 1st Mountain Division was reorganized on December 1, 1956 in Mittenwald .

In order to take over Army Structure 1 , the B 8 Mountain Combat Group was reorganized at the same location from May 1957 and put into service on July 1, 1957. The mountain combat group B 8 was subordinated to the 1st mountain division . Combat group B 8 was divided into the following troop units in July 1957 :

Army structure 2

In order to take over the Army Structure 2 , the B 8 Mountain Combat Group was reclassified to the 22 Mountain Infantry Brigade on March 31, 1959 . The Mountain Infantry Brigade 22 was subordinate to the 1st Mountain Division. In 1960 the brigade was divided into:

  • Headquarters company
  • Mountain Infantry Battalion 221
  • Mountain Hunter Battalion 222
  • Mountain Supply Battalion 226
  • Mountain Armored Reconnaissance Company 220
  • Mountain Spy Company 220
  • Mountain Panzerjäger Company 220.

In 1962 the mountain artillery battalion 225 was set up in Sonthofen and moved to Füssen in 1970 . In 1966 the tank battalion 243 of the tank brigade 24 changed as mountain tank battalion 224 to the mountain hunter brigade 22. In the same year the mountain ABC defense company 220 was also subordinated to the brigade. At that time, the Brigade's equipment units included the Mountain Infantry Battalion 223, the Mountain Field Replacement Battalion 227 and the Mountain Field Training Battalion 228, all in Kempten.

Army structure 3

In 1971, the mountain tank battalion 224 was reclassified to the mountain tank hunter battalion 224 and the mountain ABC defense company 220 was dissolved. In 1972 the mountain reconnaissance company 220 in Landsberg was reduced to the mountain armored reconnaissance train 220, which was relocated to Mittenwald in 1979 and integrated into the Brigade 22 headquarters company. In 1973 the mountain supply battalion 226 was dissolved. The tasks were taken over by the mountain supply company 220 and the mountain repair company 220, both in Füssen, and the mountain animal company 220 in Mittenwald.

Army structure 4

In Army Structure 4 , the brigade was reclassified into Panzer Grenadier Brigade 22 on October 1, 1981 after 22 years as the 22nd Mountain Infantry Brigade. In 1989 the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 22 was given the nickname "Oberland".

In the autumn of 1989 the brigade comprised around 3,160 soldiers in the peace structure . The planned upbringing in the case of defense was about 3550 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 1st Mountain Division and was roughly divided into the following troop units :

The armored infantry battalions 222 and 223 were equipped with Marder armored personnel carriers. The 4th companies of the armored infantry battalions of other armored infantry brigades received M113 personnel carriers instead . The 4th Company of the mixed Panzer Grenadier Battalion 221 was, like other armored infantry brigades, a tank company with thirteen Leopard 1 battle tanks .

Army structure 5 until disbandment

The brigade was decommissioned as Panzergrenadierbrigade 22 on March 31, 1993 after 12 years.

Commanders

Leopold Chalupa commanded the brigade for 1½ years

The following commanders led the brigade (rank when taking command):

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
12 Colonel Karl Hoffmann April 1, 1991 March 31, 1993
11 Colonel Hans-Uwe Ullrich April 1, 1987 March 31, 1991
10 Brigadier General Winfried Weick April 1, 1984 March 31, 1987
9 Colonel Uwe Richardsen September 27, 1982 March 31, 1984
8th Brigadier General Ernst-Wilhelm Schneider April 1, 1976 September 26, 1982
7th Colonel Leopold Chalupa 1st October 1974 March 31, 1976
6th Brigadier General Dr. Gert Kohlmann 1st October 1970 September 30, 1974
5 Colonel Dr. Herbert Fritz 5th October 1967 September 30, 1970
4th Colonel Gerhard Peiler July 15, 1963 4th October 1967
3 Colonel Joachim Horbach April 1, 1962 July 14, 1963
2 Colonel Richard Ernst May 16, 1959 March 31, 1962
1 Colonel Hellmut Grashey November 15, 1957 May 15, 1959

Mountain suit

The Panzer Grenadier Brigade 22 was subordinate to the 1st Mountain Division and therefore part of the Mountain Troops . Most of the members of the brigade therefore wore the mountain suit with mountain hat and the ski blouse as the jacket of the service suit. The soldiers wore hats or berets, the edelweiss as a traditional symbol of the mountain troops.

Association badge

Woven association badge for the mountain suit
Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

The blazon of the association badge for the uniform of the members of the Panzergrenadierbrigade 22 read:

Silver bordered , in green with silver border a silver edelweiss with golden lugs .

The association badge showed the alpine edelweiss . The edelweiss was the symbol of the mountain troops . In the mountain troops, the edelweiss is worn on the mountain hat and beret . It was awarded in recognition of the German Alpine Corps by the Austro-Hungarian High Command during World War I and has been a traditional symbol in the environment of the German mountain troops ever since. At the same time it is an indication of the deployment in the Alpine region . Green was the weapon color of the infantry . 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 22 was the "first" brigade of the division with a white border. The design of the division's shields and their brigades as round shields was unusual for the army's heraldic tradition .

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 a sword , a lindworm as in the Murnau coat of arms , the edelweiss known from the association badge and three fir trees in memory of Mittenwald, the former location of the Gebirgsjägerbrigade 22 (see the three fir trees in Mittenwald's coat of arms ). The shield division of green and pink corresponded to the weapon colors of the Panzergrenadier and tank troops .

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 22 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Mountain Infantry Brigade 23 (= red border). "Third" Brigade: Panzer Brigade 24 (= yellow board).

literature

  • Defense district command 653 , headquarters and headquarters company Panzergrenadierbrigade 22, Panzergrenadierbataillon 222 (ed.): Your location Murnau am Staffelsee . Information leaflet for guests and soldiers. Mönch Verlag, Koblenz, Bonn, Waldesch 1985, DNB  870565443 (72 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m 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 Section MA 3 : BArch BH 8-8 / 1. Mountain Division. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 1996, accessed on March 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-22 / Panzergrenadierbrigade 22. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g O. W. Dragoner (Ed.): Die 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: 47 ° 41 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 58.8 ″  E