Pioneer Training Brigade 60

Pioneer Training Brigade 60 - PiLehrBrig 60 -
( did not have an association badge )
active	October 1, 1993 to September 30, 2003
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Engineer Brigade
Insinuation	WBK VI 1st GebDiv
Staff seat	Ingolstadt

The Pioneer Training Brigade 60 "Bavarian Lion" was one of the pioneer brigades of the Army of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters were in Ingolstadt . The Pioneer Training Brigade was subordinate to the Military District Command VI / 1st Mountain Division . The nickname " Bavarian Lion " made the connection to the stationing area in Bavaria clear .

assignment

In addition to the orders as a regular pioneer brigade in almost entire capacity range of pioneering and NBC defense troops pioneering teaching Brigade supported 60 the pioneer school and college of the army for civil engineering and the general of the engineering corps as Lehrtruppenteil in training, as well as the testing of new technology, new forms of organization and new Deployment procedure. The Pioneer Training Brigade 60 was the only brigade in the history of the Bundeswehr that, in addition to the Panzer Training Brigade 9, carried the designation “-lehr–” in the army .

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 Training Brigade 60 was set up on October 1, 1993 in the Pioneer Barracks on the Schanz in Ingolstadt and was subordinate to the Military District Command VI / 1st Mountain Division , which was merged around the same time . From 2009 Ingolstadt was also the headquarters of the pioneer school .

resolution

After the defusion of the military area command VI / 1st Mountain Division and the decommissioning of the 1st Mountain Division soon afterwards, the Pioneer Training Brigade 60 was decommissioned on September 30, 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. As an indication of the bond with the mountain troops, it showed the edelweiss similar to the cap badge of the mountain troops or as in the association badge of the 1st mountain division and the blue panther from the city ​​arms of Ingolstadt . The stylized bridge in the black weapon color of the troops was similarly depicted in the beret badge 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.

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

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 ° 45 ′ 19.6 ″  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 6.8 ″  E