Medical Brigade 1

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Medical
Brigade 1 - SanBrig 1 -

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( did not have an association badge )
active October 1993 to March 2003
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Type Medical Brigade
Staff seat Empty

The Medical Brigade 1 was one of the medical brigades of the Bundeswehr . The staff seat was empty . The medical brigade was most recently subordinate to the medical command command in the Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr . The medical brigade was part of the army for the longest time in its existence .

history

prehistory

After the end of the East-West conflict , the structure of the medical troops was changed to take up Army Structure V and V (N). A large part of the medical troops in the West German field and territorial army was previously divided into medical commands at the highest level . The West German corps each led a medical command as corps troops . Similarly, the territorial commands also ran a directly subordinate medical command.

In the new structure, the bulk of the troops of the medical forces of the field and territorial armies listed above - insofar as they were not decommissioned - were combined in newly established medical brigades. The logistics brigades and command support brigades in the corps were set up according to a similar principle . 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. In order to set up the medical brigades, the extensive reserve hospital organization and the transport capacities of the medical commands were greatly reduced. It was planned to assign a medical brigade to each of the three planned corps / territorial commands. The new medical brigades to be set up were numbered accordingly:

Ultimately, the merged corps / territorial commands were not set up in West Germany . However, the establishment of the medical brigades at the corps or at the corps / territorial command east was retained.

Lineup

The Medical Brigade 1 was set up in Leer in October 1993 . Troop units, personnel and material from the North German medical commandos 1 , 600 and 800, which were disbanded around the same time, were used for the formation. On April 10, 1996, the Medical Brigade 1 was subordinated to the Army Support Command.

Change from the army to the armed forces base

After preparation of the Central Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces , the Medical Brigade moved to one in October 2001 Medical Forces Command .

resolution

The medical brigades were disbanded after the change to the Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr for the establishment of the medical commands I to IV . The Medical Brigade 1 was disbanded in March 2003. Parts were used for the establishment of the first medical command . Since the Medical Brigade 1 was already entrusted with the medical service care in the foreign missions by the leadership of the airborne medical companies 260 and 270 more often than other medical brigades, the command rapid emergency medical service emerged from its core at the same location .

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

Unlike most other brigades in the Army, the Medical Brigade did not have its own badge . The soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the superordinate large association .

As a "badge", the internal association badge of the staff and the staff company " pars pro toto " was sometimes used imprecisely for the entire medical brigade. It showed an interpretation of the Aesculapian staff similar to the beret badge of the medical service. Instead of a traditional staff , a sword pointing upwards was depicted. The color of the shield corresponded to the blue weapon color of the medical service in the army . All internal association badges of the staffs of the north German medical commands 1 , 600 and 800 also showed the Aesculapian staff on a blue background. The internal association badge of the staff of the "successor" command rapid emergency medical service continued the association badge in a slightly different form.

literature

  • Reinhard Teuber: The Bundeswehr 1955–1995 . In: Leadership and Troop . 1st edition. tape 5 . Patzwall, Norderstedt 1996, ISBN 3-931533-03-4 .
  • E. Grunwald, R. Vollmuth: The medical service - origin and developments . In: KJ Bremm, HH Mack, M. Rink (eds.): Decided for peace. 50 years of the Bundeswehr. 1955 to 2005 . Rombach, Freiburg i. Br., Berlin 2005, p. 183-198 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ A medical brigade 3 was possibly also initially planned, but it was decided early on to omit the III. Corps . This meant that there were no plans for a possible medical brigade 3 . Cf. Nemere: SanBrig 1 - 2 - 4. In: Cold-War-Forum . Ulrich Santana Jäger, September 1, 2017, accessed on January 20, 2020 (forum entry # 2). .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Nemere: SanBrig 1 - 2 - 4. In: Cold-War-Forum . Ulrich Santana Jäger, September 1, 2017, accessed on January 20, 2020 (forum entry # 2).
  2. ↑ a b c Johannes Backus: From the first list to the "special command" of the medical service . From the Rapid Emergency Forces Command, Medical Service Ostfriesland (Commander: Oberstarzt Dr. J. Backus). In: Beta Verlag und Marketinggesellschaft mbH, in cooperation with the German Society for Military Medicine and Military Pharmacy eV (Hrsg.): Military Medicine and Military Pharmacy . No. 2 . Beta Verlag und Marketinggesellschaft mbH, Bonn July 2018 ( wehrmed.de [accessed on January 20, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b c d BArch BH 37 / Army Support Command. In: invenio - An application of the Federal Archives . President of the Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on January 20, 2020 .

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Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '28.8 "  N , 7 ° 28' 40.7"  E