Armored Brigade 24

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Tank brigade 24
"Niederbayern"
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Association badge tank brigade 24

Association badge
active July 16, 1959 to 
Sep. 30 1994
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Tank brigade
Insinuation Association badge 1st Mountain Division 1st Mountain Division
last staff seat Landshut

The Panzer Brigade 24 "Niederbayern" was an association of the 1st Mountain Division of the Army of the German Armed Forces with a staff in Landshut ( Schoch barracks ) and a station in Lower Bavaria . The brigade was disbanded in 1994.

history

Army structure 2

The formation began in 1959 with the formation of the brigade staff in Mittenwald . She moved to Murnau in 1960 and belonged to the 1st Mountain Division. In 1960 the brigade was subordinate to the following units:

  • Panzer Grenadier Battalion 242 ( Füssen )
  • Panzer Battalion 243
  • Tank Battalion 244
  • Armored Artillery Battalion 245 (Füssen)
  • Supply battalion 246 (1959 Mittenwald, from 1960 Murnau, from 1966 Feldkirchen )
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 240 (set up in Brannenburg in 1959 from 2nd / Mountain Spy Battalion 8 and from 1965 in Straubing -Mitterharthausen)
  • Tank Reconnaissance Company 240
  • Anti-aircraft battery 240

In 1966, the staff moved to Landshut and was renamed Panzergrenadierbrigade 24 and units were relocated to Lower Bavaria ( Freyung and Feldkirchen). In 1966 the tank battalion 243 changed to the Gebirgsjägerbrigade 224 as mountain tank battalion 224 . Also in 1966 the Panzergrenadierbataillon 111 of the Panzergrenadierbrigade 11 switched to the Panzergrenadierbrigade 24.

Army structure 3

In 1970 the Panzergrenadierlehrbataillon 283 of the Army Officer School III followed as Panzergrenadierlehrbataillon 243 to Brigade 24. In return, the Panzergrenadierbataillon 243 changed as Mountain Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 8 directly to the 1st Mountain Division. In 1972 the supply battalion 246 in Feldkirchen was disbanded. The supply company 240 and the repair company 240 were set up from parts of it.

Army structure 4

In 1981 Panzerjägerkompanie moved 240 from Landshut to Feldkirchen. In the Army Structure 4 , the brigade was renamed again in 1981 to Panzerbrigade 24. In 1973 the Panzergrenadierlehrbataillon 243 was renamed to Panzergrenadierbataillon 243 and in 1981 it was subordinated to Panzergrenadierbrigade 223 as Panzergrenadierbataillon 223. In return, Panzer Battalion 243 was set up in Kirchham from parts of the 234 Mountain Armored Infantry Battalion, the 14/8 training company and the reconnaissance platoon of the 23 Mountain Infantry Brigade . In 1981 field replacement battalion 247 was reclassified to mountain field replacement battalion 85. In 1981 the brigade:

  • Headquarters / Headquarters Company (Landshut)
    • Brigade reconnaissance train (Freyung, subordinated to the Mountain Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 8 from 1982)
    • Panzerbataillon 241 (Landshut and Feldkirchen, 3rd Company in Kirchham)
    • Panzerjägerkompanie 240 (Feldkirchen)
    • Panzerpionierkompanie 240 (Feldkirchen)
    • Supply company 240 (Feldkirchen)
    • Repair company 240 (Feldkirchen)
    • Panzergrenadier Battalion 242 (Feldkirchen)
    • Panzerbataillon 243 (Kirchham)
    • Panzerbataillon 244 (Landshut)
    • Panzerartilleriebataillon 245 (Landshut)
    • Mountain Field Replacement Battalion 85 (Landshut)

The Panzergrenadierausbildungskompanie driving simulator chain 203 in Feldkirchen-Mitterharthausen was reorganized in July 1988 as part of the corps troops of the II. Corps and subordinated to the Panzer Brigade 24 in peace. In October 1988 the brigade was given the nickname "Lower Bavaria".

The brigade comprised around 2870 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 the autumn of 1989, the brigade was still part of the 1st Mountain Division and was roughly divided into the following troops in the war organization :

Army structure 5 until disbandment

In Army Structure 5 , the tank battalions 241 and 244, the mountain field replacement battalion 85 and the tank pioneer company 240 were dissolved, and the tank grenadier battalion 242 and the tank battalion 243 were reclassified to non-active junior units. The supply company 240 and repair company 240 left the brigade unit in 1992. The Panzer Brigade 24 was reorganized into a partially active, mechanized large formation. The main battalions of the brigade were the Mountain Panzer Battalion 8 in Kirchham and the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 112 in Regen . In 1993 the armored infantry battalion 562 in Oberhausen (near Neuburg / Danube) was assigned to the association. The Mountain Panzer Battalion 8 and Panzergrenadierbataillon 112 switched to Panzer Brigade 12 in 1994 . Panzer Battalion 243 and Panzer Grenadier Battalion 242 were decommissioned in 1993. In 1993, the armored infantry training company driving simulator 203 was subordinated to the repair regiment 8. The remaining units of the staff / headquarters company, Panzerjägerkompanie 240 and Panzerartilleriebataillon 245 as well as the brigade as a whole were disbanded on September 30, 1994.

Commanders

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

No. Surname Commander of Commander up
10 Colonel Horst Foerster October 1, 1991 September 30, 1994
9 Colonel Hans-Jürgen Wilhelmi April 1, 1985 September 30, 1991
8th Colonel Georg Bernhardt October 1, 1982 March 31, 1985
7th Brigadier General Jürgen Schlueter January 1, 1981 September 30, 1982
6th Brigadier General Franz-Josef Wiesner 1st October 1977 December 31, 1980
5 Brigadier General Eberhard Hackensellner April 1, 1971 September 30, 1977
4th Brigadier General Hans-Joachim Löser June 1, 1968 March 31, 1971
3 Colonel Wolfgang Schall April 1, 1966 May 31, 1968
2 Brigadier General Peter Karpinski April 1, 1962 March 31, 1966
1 Colonel Herbert Reidel January 1, 1960 March 31, 1962

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 and 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 24th Panzer Brigade read:

Gold bordered , in green with silver inbord 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 Panzer Brigade 24 was given a yellow border as the “third” brigade of the division. 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 the edelweiss known from the association badge, a stylized battle tank , a panther , which represents Old Bavaria in the Bavarian state coat of arms , three ironworks as in the city ​​coat of arms of Landshut and in the center shield the Bavarian diamonds as in the state coat of arms .

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. ↑ Members of the armored , Panzergrenadier and artillery battalions of the brigade wore the beret on which the metal edelweiss was also attached behind the military badge.
  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

  • Dionys Schabl (Hrsg.): Your location Landshut . Mönch Verlag, Koblenz, Bonn 1983, DNB  840165072 (48 pages).

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 Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-24 / Panzerbrigade 24. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f 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).
  4. ^ 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: 48 ° 32 '55.7 "  N , 12 ° 10' 57.6"  E