Medical Brigade 2

Medical Brigade 2 - SanBrig 2 -
( did not have an association badge )
active	October 1993 to March 2003
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Type	Medical Brigade
Staff seat	Ulm

The medical brigade 2 was one of the medical brigades of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters were in Ulm . 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:

• Medical Brigade 1 for the planned I. Corps / Territorial Command North
• Medical Brigade 2 for the planned II Corps / Territorial Command South
• Medical Brigade 4 for the IV. Corps / Territorial Command East , which was newly established after reunification in East Germany , which was initially designated as Corps / Territorial Command East. Accordingly, the Medical Brigade 4 was initially referred to as the Medical Brigade East .

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 2 was set up in Ulm in October 1993 . Troop units, personnel and material of the south German medical commandos 2 (staff also in Ulm), 600 and 3, which were disbanded around the same time, were probably used.

Change from the army to the armed forces base

In the Army, the 2nd Medical Brigade was most recently subordinate to the Army Support Command. 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 2 was disbanded in March 2003. Parts were probably used for the establishment of the medical command IV , which took over the joint medical services in southern Germany .

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 the stylized Danube in the form of a sloping beam , a staff of Aesculapia similar to the beret badge of the medical troops on the Iron Cross as the emblem of the Bundeswehr, the coat of arms of the Hohenzollern , as well as the three Staufer lions as in the coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg . The color of the left side of the shield corresponded to the blue weapon color of the medical service in the army . Overall, the internal association badge was clearly similar to that of the staff of the “predecessor” Medical Command 2 . The Aesculapian staff on the Iron Cross was already an element in the internal association badge of the staffs of the southern German medical commandos 3 and 850 . Aesculapian staff, iron cross and Staufer lions were later also found in the internal association badge of the Sanitätskommando IV staff , whose area of ​​responsibility roughly corresponded to that of the medical brigade 2.

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

See also

• Military in Ulm

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 .
• Sanitätskommando IV (Ed.): 10 years of Sanitätskommando IV . Bogen 2011 ( yumpu.com [accessed January 20, 2020]).

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). 

Web links

• Dieter Tiemann: Chronicle of Gebirgssanitätsregiment 42 "Allgäu" 1957 to 2016. In: http://www.traditionsverband-kempten.de/ . Traditional Association of Alumni and Friends of the Kempten Location eV, February 2016, accessed on February 20, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '  N , 9 ° 59'  E