Headquarters Berlin

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Headquarters Berlin
- StOKdo Berlin -

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(did not have an association badge)
active October 3, 1990 to January 24, 2013
Country Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Type State Command
Location Berlin ( Julius Leber Barracks )
commander
last commander Brigadier General Peter Braunstein

The location command Berlin ( listen ? / I ; StOKdo Berlin) was a command of the Bundeswehr . Audio file / audio sample

The department was set up in 1990 under the name Defense District Command 100 as one of the Defense District Commands in the Territorial Army . From 1997, the command was called the Berlin site command . From 2007 it took over the tasks of a state command for the state of Berlin . The Berlin site command was decommissioned in 2013. Since 2001, it has been subordinate to the Military District Command III of the armed forces base .

assignments

The site command had the rank of a district defense command until mid-2007 . During this time, the territorial defense of the capital was his main task. At the same time, it was the location command for Berlin throughout its existence . In contrast to other defense district commands or state commands, it also led units for the protocol service and units that had special tasks in connection with the federal institutions located in the capital . In the end, the size corresponded roughly to that of an “old” defense district command or a (small) brigade of the field army . As a special feature for a state or defense district command, the Berlin site command also commanded units that were stationed outside Berlin (most recently in Storkow and Siegburg, for example ).

history

prehistory

During the time of the German-German division , defense tasks for Greater Berlin were performed by the Allied Command in accordance with the London Protocol of 1944, the Potsdam Agreement of 1945 and the occupation statute. Therefore, no German soldiers were stationed in West Berlin . Troops of the three Western Allies were stationed in West Berlin . In East Berlin were Soviet troops stationed. The National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic , however, entertained with the approval of the Soviet Union a Stadtkommandantur Berlin on Alexanderplatz .

As Defense District Command 100

Headquarters since 1995: the Julius-Leber-Kaserne

After reunification , the territorial structures known from West Germany were quickly created in the former military district V of the land forces of the National People's Army and in West Berlin (cf. the structure of the territorial army around 1989 ). The Defense District Command 100 was planned to take over Army Structure V on October 3, 1990 as part of the Territorial Army as one of the fifteen Defense District Commandos newly established in East Germany . According to the civil administrative structure , the defense district roughly corresponded to the newly established state of Berlin. In addition to Defense District Command 10 , 20 and 46 , Defense District Command 100 was one of the few Defense District Commands that covered an entire country . However, unlike the other defense district commands in northeast Germany , it was initially not subordinate to the Commander in Defense Area VIII , but was initially subordinate to the Army Command East , then directly to the Corps / Territorial Command East . Analogous to the Hamburg Defense District Command 10 and the Bremen Defense District Command 20 , the Defense District Command 100 was also the location command for Berlin and was accordingly fully designated as Defense District Command 100 / Location Command Berlin . The Defense District Command 100 was no further subdivided into Defense District Commands due to its small defense district and according to the administrative structure of Berlin .

The location of the staff was initially the barracks area Am Treptower Park . At the beginning of 1992 the staff moved to the guard barracks in Lichterfelde . In mid-1992 he moved to the barracks barracks in Rummelsburg , after a brief postal address had existed in the barracks Am Weidendamm in Berlin-Mitte . At the beginning of 1995, Defense District Command 100 moved to its final quarters in the Julius-Leber-Kaserne in Wedding .

In 1995, Defense District Command 100 was subordinated to Defense District Command VIII / 14th Panzer Grenadier Division. After the defusion of this association in 1997 and the dissolution of Defense District Command VIII on October 1, 1997, Defense District Command 100 changed to Defense District Command VII / 13th Panzer Grenadier Division on October 1, 1997 .

When the briefly merged staff of Panzerbrigade 42 / Defense District Command 84 was separated again in October 1996, Defense District Command 100 temporarily took over territorial tasks in West Brandenburg until Defense District Command 84 in Potsdam was put back into service.

As the Berlin site command

Feldjäger of Feldjäger battalion 350

The Defense District Command 100 was renamed on October 1, 1997 in the Berlin site command. However, it continued to act as a district defense command in the Berlin area. At the same time the Jägerbataillon 581 under the new name Jägerbataillon 1 "Berlin" was subordinated as one of the remaining battalions of the homeland security force . In 1989, the inactive Security Battalion 902 in Siegburg was subordinated to the Berlin site command as a further infantry unit . From 1995, in the course of the implementation of the Berlin / Bonn Act, the first parts of the guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense were moved from Bergisch Gladbach to the Julius Leber barracks .

In 2001, as part of the reorganization of the defense areas , the Berlin site command moved from the army to the armed forces base and became part of the newly tailored Defense Area III . On September 6, 2002 the Jäger Battalion 1 "Berlin" was decommissioned. On September 15, 2006, the inactive Security Battalion 902 in Siegburg was disbanded.

All defense district commands were decommissioned by approximately 2007. Their orders were essentially taken over by the newly established state commandos. In Berlin, however, the Berlin site command remained under the same name and with the same command area. Instead of a "Berlin State Command", the Berlin Site Command acted as a State Command for the State of Berlin. It was still subordinate to the Military District Command III .

The site command was roughly divided into the following units:

In addition, other smaller civil and military agencies were subordinate to Berlin. For example, the site commanders were responsible for a site training area , a family care center and an indoor shooting range . The command was not divided into district and district liaison commands like other state commands .

resolution

Buddy Bear (model "dancer")

In the course of implementing the realignment of the Bundeswehr , the Berlin site command was the only one of the sixteen state commandos to be disbanded on January 24, 2013. His tasks are now carried out directly by a department in the Territorial Tasks Command of the Bundeswehr under the leadership of the General for Local Tasks in Berlin . Brigadier General Peter Braunstein was the last commander of the Berlin site command and the first general for Berlin site tasks . The guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense is subordinate to the Territorial Tasks Command of the Bundeswehr. The staff music corps was assigned to the Bundeswehr Military Music Center . The Feldjäger Battalion 350 was subordinated to the Feldjäger command of the Bundeswehr and was reclassified to Feldjäger Regiment 1 by October 2013 . In November 2013, a company of regional security and support forces was re-established in Berlin as the “successor” of the homeland security force .

Commanders

The commander was usually an officer with the rank of brigadier general . This was at the same time the oldest location for the Berlin location. The commanders were:

Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
Brigadier General Peter Braunstein December 16, 2009 December 31, 2012
Brigadier General Christian Westphal October 1, 2007 December 16, 2009
Brigadier General Victor von Wilcken October 1, 2004 September 30, 2007
Colonel Jörg Schultze 2002 2004
Brigadier General Eckhart Fischer September 30, 1998 2002
Brigadier General Hans Helmut Speidel September 29, 1995 September 30, 1998
Brigadier General Hasso von Uslar-Gleichen 3rd October 1990 September 29, 1995

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

The Defense District Command, like all Defense District Command, did not have its own association badge . The soldiers therefore mostly wore the association badge of the higher military area command (or until 1995 initially the corps / territorial command east ). Only the members of the guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense and the staff music corps continued to wear the association badge of the security and supply regiment at the BMVg, which had already been decommissioned .

The internal association badge of the staff and the staff company " pars pro toto " for the entire defense district command was therefore sometimes imprecisely used as the "badge" for the Berlin site command . The internal Badge showed as a reference to the deployment of space the Berlin bear similar to the coat of arms of Berlin in the small, round silver shield with red board . This little shield was placed on the iron cross . The Iron Cross is the symbol of sovereignty of the Bundeswehr and former German armed forces. The representation is similar to the version from the foundation year 1813 (with oak leaves , foundation year and Prussian crown in the rays).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 32. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Military area command VII / 13. Panzergrenadier Division. BArch, BH 40-7. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Military area command VIII / 14. Panzergrenadier Division. BArch, BH 40-8. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b History of the SichBtl 902. In: rk-godesberg-wachtberg.org. Reservist Comradeship Bad Godesberg-Wachtberg, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c Defense District Command I - Coast - (Kiel). BArch, BW 68-1. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 (includes representation of all four WBKs).
  7. ^ Security Battalion 902 in Siegburg solemnly dissolved. In: streitkraeftebasis.de. Force Base, September 16, 2006, accessed September 16, 2016 .
  8. ↑ The heart of the territorial performance of duties. In: streitkraeftebasis.de. Bundeswehr, January 29, 2013, accessed on January 29, 2013 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 24 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 10 ″  E