Medical Brigade 4

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Medical
Brigade 4 - SanBrig 4 -

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( did not have an association badge )
Lineup October 1993
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Type Medical Brigade
Staff seat Pearl Mountain

The medical brigade 4 was one of the medical brigades of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters were Perleberg .

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.

Establishment of the East Medical Brigade

After reunification around 1990, a merged corps / territorial command east was set up in East Germany . The forerunner of the later Medical Brigade 4 was therefore initially set up under the name Medical Brigade East from around 1991 in Perleberg .

Renamed to Medical Brigade 4

At about the same time as the reorganization of the Corps / Territorial Command East as IV. Corps, the Medical Brigade East was presumably given the name Medical Brigade 4th in October 1993. Perleberg's headquarters remained. In order to take on the New Army structure for new tasks , Medical Brigade 4 moved from IV Corps to Army Support Command .

resolution

The Perleberg site was given up by the Bundeswehr by 1997 with the withdrawal of the last medical battalion . Whether the medical brigade continued to exist afterwards with a new headquarters cannot be proven without contradiction. If it continued to exist, it may have changed from the army to the medical command command, analogous to the other medical brigades after the establishment of the Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr around 2001 . It would then presumably have been dissolved analogous to the other medical brigades by October 2003 or by 2004 at the latest. Some of their personnel, material and troop units may have been used to set up Medical Command III .

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 Brandenburg eagle as in the coat of arms of Brandenburg , a staff of Aesculapia similar to the beret badge of the medical troops and stars with pearls as in the Perleberg city coat of arms . The blue color of part of the shield corresponded to the blue weapon color of the medical service in the army .

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 .
  • Jens Nering: Perleberg - military and garrison . 1st edition. private creative art, Perleberg 2017.

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 d Corps and Territorial Command East / IV. Corps. BArch BH 7-4. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Peter Heinze: Bundeswehr "conquered" East Germany . An East German reporter on duty. Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937885-32-2 .
  4. ^ Rolandstadt Perleberg - History. In: Website of the city of Perleberg . City of Perleberg, accessed January 25, 2020 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 46.6 ″  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 21.6 ″  E