Engineer Brigade 20th

Pioneer Brigade 20 - PiBrig 20 -
( did not have an association badge )
active	October 1, 1993 to March 31, 2002
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Engineer Brigade
Insinuation	WBK II / 1st PzDiv
Staff seat	Minden

The Pioneer Brigade 20 ( PiBrig 20 ) was one of the pioneer brigades of the Army of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters were in Minden . The engineer brigade was subordinate to the Military District Command II / 1st Panzer Division .

history

Lineup

After the end of the East-West conflict , the structure of the pioneer troops was changed to take up Army Structure V and V (N). A large part of the pioneer troops of the field and territorial army was previously divided into pioneer commands. The German Corps led a corps troops ever a pioneer squad. Similarly, the territorial commands either led a pioneer command directly subordinate to it or, in the case of the Schleswig-Holstein territorial command, a pioneer regiment of comparable size. At the level of most of the divisions, engineer battalions were planned as part of the division forces; in the territorial army, each military area command led a pioneer regiment.

In the new structure, the bulk of the above-listed units of the pioneers of the field and territorial army - insofar as these were not decommissioned - were combined in newly established pioneer brigades . The pioneer brigades were each subordinate to a staff of a military area command / division . These merged large formations of a new type combined units and tasks of the previous field and territorial army. Only in the event of a defense would the associations probably have been separated again. The same applied to the engineer brigades.

The Pioneer Brigade 20 was set up on October 1, 1993 in the Herzog-von-Braunschweig barracks in Minden and was subordinate to the Military Area Command II / 1st Panzer Division , which was merged at about the same time . Parts of the Pioneer Command 1, which is also based in Minden, were used for the establishment.

resolution

At about the same time as the defusion of the Defense Area Command II / 1st Panzer Division , the Engineer Brigade 20 was decommissioned on March 31, 2002. Parts of the Engineer Brigade 20 were used to set up the Engineer Brigade 100 with staff in Minden.

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

Unlike most other brigades in the army, the engineer brigade did not have its own badge . The soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the superior military area command or the superior division .

As a "badge", the internal association badge of the staff and the staff company " pars pro toto " was sometimes used imprecisely for the entire pioneer brigade. It showed the Westphalia horse and the stylized Minden waterway cross . The stylized bridge in the black weapon color of the pioneer troop is shown in the beret badge of the pioneer troop , just like the oak leaves . The bridge appears similarly in the other internal badges of the staffs and the staff companies of the other pioneer brigades. The design of the internal association badge was only slightly changed for the internal association badge of the staff / headquarters company of the Pioneer Brigade 100 . The design of the internal association badge of the staff of Pioneer Command 1 was almost identical.

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} 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 March 28, 2019 (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 offices). 

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 40.7 "  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 18.2"  E