Pioneer Regiment 100

Engineer Regiment 100 - PiRgt 100 - III
Internal association badge
active	April 1, 2002 as PiBrig 100 since January 1, 2008 as PiRgt 100 until December 31, 2015
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	Pioneer troop
Type	Intervention forces
Subordinate troops	Panzer Pioneer Battalion 1 Heavy Engineer Battalion 130
Strength	~ 1200 men
Insinuation	1st Armored Division
Stationing locations	Minden , Holzminden
commander
commander	Lieutenant Colonel Reinhard Großkopf

The Pioneer Regiment 100 (until 2007 Pioneer Brigade 100 ) was the only regiment of the engineer force in the German field army and was directly subordinate to the 1st Panzer Division . It was an association of the intervention forces and emerged in 2008 from the Pioneer Brigade 100. The regiment was stationed in the Herzog von Braunschweig barracks in the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia . With the stationing decision of October 2010, the regiment was adopted on April 8, 2015. The two engineer battalions were subordinated to Panzer Brigade 21 and Panzerlehrbrigade 9 and belong to the 1st Panzer Division .

history

Association badge of the Pioneer Brigade 100

The regiment was set up on April 1, 2002 as Engineer Brigade 100 and was subordinate to the Army Command. Subordinate to the brigade:

• Headquarters & Staff Company PiBrig 100 , Minden

Active associations:

• heavy engineer battalion 12 , Volkach ( Mainfranken barracks )
  • 1. / Headquarters and supply company
  • 2. / Pioneer machine company
  • 3. / Pioneer machine company
  • 4. / Swimming bridge company
  • 5. / Swimming bridge company
  • 5th company (pioneer machine company) of sPiBtl 861 (na)
• heavy engineer battalion 130 , Minden
  • 1. / Headquarters and supply company
  • 2. / Pioneer machine company
  • 3. / Pioneer machine company
  • 4. / Amphibian Swimming Bridge Company
  • 5. / Swimming bridge company
  • 5th company (pioneer machine company) of the sPiBtl 160 (na)
• Pioneer Battalion 140 , Emmerich am Rhein
  • 1. / Headquarters and supply company
  • 2. / Pioneer company
  • 3. / Pioneer company
  • 4. / Pioneer machine company
  • 5. / Pioneer machine company
• Pioneer Battalion 701 , Gera
  • 1. / Headquarters and supply company
  • 2. / Pioneer company
  • 3. / Pioneer company
  • 4. / Pioneer machine company
  • 5. / Pioneer machine company
  • 6. / Field replacement company (na)
  • 7. / Training company
  • 2nd company (pioneer machine company) of PiBtl 722 (na)

Inactive associations:

• Engineer Battalion 160
• Engineer Battalion 722
• Engineer Battalion 810 (ta)

(Change of position after dissolution of the Pioneer Training Brigade 60 )

• heavy engineer battalion 861

One of its first operations was flood control on the Elbe in August 2002. The Pioneer Brigade 100 regularly provided forces for ISAF and KFOR . In 2005 and 2006, the brigade's instructors trained Iraqi pioneers in Abu Dhabi . In 2005/2006 the brigade began building the Camp Marmal camp in Mazar-e Sharif . In 2006/2007, the brigade led the German forces of the German contingent EUFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

On January 1, 2008, the Pioneer Brigade 100 was reclassified to the Pioneer Regiment 100 and transferred to the 1st Panzer Division on July 1, 2007. In this context, the Pioneer Battalion 140 in Emmerich am Rhein was also disbanded in mid-2008, with which the regiment assumed its target structure (see below).

In 2011 the Pioneer Regiment 100 was represented with around half of its soldiers on missions abroad at ISAF and KFOR .

As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr (Army 2011), the engineer regiment was solemnly dissolved on December 31, 2015. The last subordinate pioneer associations were subordinated to Panzer Brigade 21 (Panzerpionierbataillon 1) and Panzerlehrbrigade 9 (Pionierbataillon 130) with effect from July 1, 2015.

Members of the regiment, u. a. the commander Colonel Wolfgang Pirner (left), and guests of honor, u. a. Mayor of Minden Michael Buhre (right) cross the Weser on a pioneering bridge on the occasion of the anniversary of the Battle of Minden

structure

At last the regiment consisted of the following troops:

• Engineer Regiment 100 (Minden)
  • Headquarters & Headquarters Company PiRgt 100
  • Panzer Pioneer Battalion 1 in Holzminden
    • 1. / Headquarters and supply company
    • 2. / Tank Engineer Company
    • 3. / Pioneer company
    • 4. / Tank Engineer Company
    • 5. / Pioneer machine company
    • 6. / Operation and support company (liquidation 4th quarter 2012)
  • heavy engineer battalion 130 in Minden
    • 1. / Headquarters and supply company
    • 2. / Amphibian Swimming Bridge Company
    • 3. / Swimming bridge company
    • 4. / Pioneer machine company
    • 5. / Pioneer machine company
    • 6. / Operation and support company (liquidation 4th quarter 2012)

Association badge

The internal association badge shows two crossed blue ribbons in the silver (white) field. This symbolizes the Minden waterway intersection . The bridge over the oak leaves is part of the beret badge of the pioneer troop. The Lower Saxony horse symbolizes belonging to the 1st Panzer Division.

The association badge (sleeve badge) of the former Pioneer Brigade 100 showed two crossed swords on a black-red-blue background in the coat of arms and resembled the association badge of the army command except for the border. The crossed swords represented the army troops. The color black symbolized the engineering corps, red the artillery , Heeresflugabwehr- and the NBC defense troops . Blue stood for the logistics team . The weapon colors of the subordinate troops in the division-equivalent army troop command were shown in the coat of arms. All brigades formerly subordinate to the army troop command had an identical association badge except for the border, which was usually bordered in the respective weapon color. Here it was black for the pioneer troops.

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Web links

• Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A farewell and a beginning
2. ^ Last public appeal of the 100 Pioneer Regiment. December 13, 2015, accessed on April 23, 2020 (German). 

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 43.9 "  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 23.7"  E