Pioneer Command 800

Pioneer Command 800 - PiKdo 800 -
(did not have an association badge )
active	October 1, 1981 to October 1, 1993
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Pioneer command
Insinuation	Territorial Command North
Staff seat	Hilden

The Pioneer Command 800 was one of the pioneer commands of the Territorial Army in the Army of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters were in Hilden . The Pioneer Command was subordinate to the Territorial Command North .

assignments

The pioneer command, like the pioneers of the corps troops in the field army, was directly subordinate to the commander of the territorial command. The units of the pioneer troops, bundled at the level of the territorial command , had "heavy" pioneer equipment such as floating bridges and the ferries of the river pioneers to promote the mobility of the territorial army, in particular to keep the supply routes in the rear area open. The fixed or pioneering crossings over the Rhine were of particular strategic importance in order not to lose contact with the rear areas on the territory of the Western Allies . Another focus was the operation and maintenance of the NATO pipeline , the enormous importance for the supply of fuel had. Depending on the situation , the pioneers supported civil defense measures . Like many units in the territorial army , the pioneer command was set up partially active and only grew to its full size in the event of a defense . Overall, the size of the pioneer command after the mobilization with about 6400 soldiers corresponded to about one of the brigades of the field army.

See also : Replacement crossing point , Mannheim river ferry 59 and Bodan ferry

structure

Around 1989 the pioneer command was roughly divided into:

• Staff / Headquarters Company pioneering command 800, Hilden
  • Telecommunication company 800 (GerEinh), Düsseldorf
  • River Pioneer Company 800, Neuwied
  • River Pioneer Company 801 (GerEinh), Wiesbaden
  • Swimming bridge battalion 810 (GerEinh), Kranenburg
  • Floating Bridge Pioneer Battalion 811 (GerEinh), Kranenburg
  • Field Replacement Battalion 802 (GerEinh), Wesel
  • Pioneer Training Center 800, Emmerich
  • Pipeline Engineer Regiment 80
    • Headquarters / headquarters company Pipeline Pioner Regiment 80 (GerEinh), Wuppertal
    • Pipelinepionerbataillon 800 (partially active), Wuppertal (in peace cadre for Pipelinepionerregiment 80, after its formation in case of defense dissolution)
    • Pipeline Engineer Battalion 801 (GerEinh), Wuppertal
    • Pipeline Pioneer Battalion 802 (GerEinh), Uedem
    • Pipeline Pioneer Battalion 803 (GerEinh), Meppen

See also : Division of the Territorial Army (Bundeswehr, Army Structure 4) # Pioneer Command 800

history

Lineup

The Pioneer Command 800 was set up on October 1, 1981 to take Army Structure IV in the forest barracks in Hilden .

See also : Rhine River Patrol

resolution

After the end of the Cold War , the Pioneer Command was decommissioned in 1993 at around the same time that the Territorial Command North was decommissioned. The Pioneer Brigade 30 “Rhein-Weser” was reorganized in Hilden from the staff and other units of the pioneer command .

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

Due to its planning as part of the dependent troops of the Territorial Command, the Pioneer Command did not have its own association badge . The soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the higher-level territorial command .

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 command. As a reference to the stationing area, it essentially showed the stylized Rhine as in the coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia , the Bergische Löwen similar to that in the Düsseldorf coat of arms and almost identical to the depiction in the Wuppertal coat of arms . The stylized bridge is similarly included in the pioneer troop's beret badge . The internal association badge was similarly continued by the staff and the staff company of the "successor association" Pioneer Brigade 30 .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} O.W. Dragoons: The Bundeswehr 1989. Territorial Command SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. Territorial Command NORTH. Territorial Command SOUTH. Appendix: Territorial structure . 4th edition. 2.2 - Army, February 2012 ( religte.com [PDF; accessed July 10, 2018]).

Web links

• River pioneers. From pioneers who were also sailors. Jibben Großmann-Harms, Manfred Labes, Joachim Müller, 2019, accessed on January 25, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 37 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 48.8"  E