4th Panzer Regiment

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg 4th Panzer Regiment
country Germany
local community Gotha
Coordinates : 50 ° 56 '  N , 10 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '43 "  N , 10 ° 43' 10"  E
Opened 1934
Old barracks names
1965-1989 August - Bebel  - barracks German Democratic RepublicFlag of NVA (East Germany) .svg
Formerly stationed units
Fliegergruppe Gotha
Panzer Regiment 4,
Repair Battalion 4 		German EmpireWar Ensign of Germany (1938–1945) .svg
German Democratic RepublicFlag of NVA (East Germany) .svg
German Democratic RepublicFlag of NVA (East Germany) .svg
Panzer Regiment 4 (Thuringia)
4th Panzer Regiment

Location of the 4th Panzer Regiment in Thuringia

The 4th Panzer Regiment of the National People's Army of the GDR existed from 1956 to 1989 at the Gotha site in today's Friedenstein barracks .

history

On June 15, 1956, the 4th Panzer Regiment was set up. The armament came from the stock of the Panzer and SFL regiments of the barracked People's Police . The regiment was called " August Bebel ". It was part of the 4th Motorized Rifle Division (4th MSD) of the National People's Army (NVA). At the 78th session of the National Defense Council on June 16, 1989, a decision was made to reduce the NVA by 10,000 soldiers, including the dissolution of Panzer Regiment 4. On October 24, 1989, the PR-4 was finally dissolved.

Composition of the regiment

T-55 tanks of the NVA
BAT-M of the NVA - pioneer company
  • Regimental command
  • I. Panzer Battalion
  • II Panzer Battalion
  • III. Tank battalion
  • Reconnaissance Company
  • Fla - SFL battery
  • Pioneer company
  • Headquarters company
  • News company
  • Transport company
  • Repair company

Commanders

Rank at that time Surname Period
Lieutenant colonel Karl-Heinz Hollstein 06/15/1956 to 08/31/1958
major Heinz Koberstädt 09/01/1958 to 08/31/1960
Lieutenant colonel Lothar Grohs 09/01/1960 to 04/30/1963
Lieutenant colonel Rolf Loitsch May 1, 1963 to November 30, 1968
Lieutenant colonel Horst Sylla December 1st, 1968 to November 30th, 1971
Colonel Siegfried Bräunig December 01, 1971 to October 31, 1977
Lieutenant colonel Helmut Eberl November 1, 1977 to August 31, 1980
Lieutenant colonel Reinhard Wandt 09/01/1980 to 08/31/1982
Colonel Wolfgang Soldan 09/01/1982 to 10/24/1989

literature

  • Dieter Zeigert: Military buildings in Thuringia. A catalog of the barracks buildings with a detailed description of the military-historical circumstances in Thuringia since the German military constitution of 1821 . Ed .: Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology. Verlag Bildung + Wissen, Bad Homburg / Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-927879-94-0 .
  • Klaus Volker Miethlau: work study Das Lazarett Gotha 1934–1990 , 1999.

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