Engineer Brigade 50

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Pioneer Brigade 50
- PiBrig 50 -

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( did not have an association badge )
active October 1, 1993 to June 30, 2002
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Engineer Brigade
Insinuation WBK V.svg10th Panzer Division (Bundeswehr) .svgWBK V / 10th PzDiv
Staff seat arc

The pioneer brigade 50 "Main-Danube" was one of the pioneer brigades of the army of the Bundeswehr . The staff seat was arch . The engineer brigade was subordinate to the military area command V / 10th Panzer Division . The nickname " Main - Danube " made the brigade's stationing area clear.

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 50 was set up in the Graf Aswin barracks in Bogen on October 1, 1993 and was subordinated to the V / 10th Panzer Division , which was merged at around the same time .

resolution

At about the same time as the defusion of Defense Area Command V / 10th Panzer Division and the decommissioning of Defense Area Command V soon thereafter, Engineer Brigade 50 was decommissioned on June 30, 2002.

Association badge

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 bow and star similar to the city arms of the city ​​of Bogen , the Bavarian diamonds , the Staufer lions as well as an oak leaf branch and a stylized bridge , both of which are similarly included in the beret badge of the pioneer group . The bridge appears similarly in the other internal badges of the staffs and the staff companies of the other pioneer brigades.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f 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: 48 ° 54 ′ 39.6 "  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 22.5"  E