Engineer Brigade 40

Pioneer Brigade 40 - PiBrig 40 -
( did not have an association badge )
active	October 1, 1993 to December 31, 2003
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Engineer Brigade
Insinuation	WBK IV / 5th PzDiv
last staff seat	Lahnstein

The pioneer brigade 40 was one of the pioneer brigades of the army of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters were last in Lahnstein . The engineer brigade was subordinate to the Defense Area Command IV / 5th 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 40 was set up on October 1, 1993 (presumably in Koblenz ) and was subordinated to the Wehrbereichskommando IV / 5th Panzer Division , which was merged around the same time . Parts of Pioneer Squad 3 were used for the establishment. From July 1, 1994, the staff was in the Deines Bruchmüller barracks in Lahnstein .

resolution

At about the same time as the defusion of the Defense Area Command IV / 5th Panzer Division and the decommissioning of the 5th Panzer Division which followed soon after, the Pioneer Brigade 40 was decommissioned on December 31, 2003.

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. Essentially, as a reference to the stationing area, it showed the stylized confluence of the Moselle and Rhine at the Deutsches Eck . The oak leaf branches are a traditional symbol of the German armed forces and, in connection with the stylized bridge also shown, are similarly contained in the beret badge of the pioneer troops . The black basic color of the shield corresponded to the weapon color of the engineer troop. The bridge appears similarly in the other internal badges of the staffs and the staff companies of the other pioneer brigades. The internal association badge was taken over unchanged from the "predecessor association" Pionierkommando 3 .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

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 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: 50 ° 19 ′ 9.4 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 30.9 ″  E