465th Transport Battalion

Transport Battalion 465 - TrspBtl 465 - II
Association badge
active	April 1, 1959 to March 31, 2014
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	Force Base
Branch of service	Logistics team
Strength	approx. 1050
Insinuation	Logistics Regiment 47
Location	Ellwangen (Jagst) , Reinhardt barracks
commander
last commander	Lieutenant Colonel Rainer Musselmann

The 465 Transport Battalion in Ellwangen was an association of the armed forces base of the Bundeswehr and was most recently subordinate to the 47th Logistics Regiment in Dornstadt. Along with the 165 Transport Battalion in Delmenhorst, it was one of the last two Bundeswehr transport battalions.

history

On April 1, 1959, the supply battalion 306 was set up in Ellwangen to ensure the supply of the tank brigade 30 of the 10th Panzer Division . On April 1, 1974, the battalion was renamed Supply Battalion 10 and at the same time directly subordinated to the 10th Panzer Division as a division troop unit. At the same time, the fourth company of the 306 supply battalion was transformed into the new supply company 300 of the 30th Panzer Brigade.

On October 1, 1975, the battalion was reclassified to Supply Battalion 10, which was led as a partially active battalion. At that time, only the headquarters, the headquarters and supply company and the fifth company of the battalion were stationed in Ellwangen . The second company was located in Günzburg , the third company in Sigmaringen and from 1987 in Laupheim . The fourth, sixth and seventh companies of the battalion, as inactive companies, were at home at the Rainau-Schwabsberg mobilization base for most of their existence .

After reunification and the associated downsizing of the Bundeswehr, as part of the implementation of Army Structure V (N) on April 1, 1993, the 10th Supply Battalion was reclassified to 10th Transport Battalion, which initially consisted of eight active companies. For this purpose, parts from the disbanded Panzergrenadierbataillon 302 and the repair battalions 10 and 12 were used. Since then, all companies have been stationed at the Ellwangen site. The battalion was subordinate to the 10th Supply Regiment in Veitshöchheim since October 1st, 1993 - referred to as the 10th Logistics Regiment since November 1st, 2002. With the dissolution of the regiment on July 1, 2003 it was placed under the newly established Logistics Brigade 200 in Tauberbischofsheim .

The year 2005 brought the greatest upheaval in the history of the battalion, as it switched from the army to the armed forces base on June 30, 2005 and was subordinated to the 46th Logistics Regiment in Diez . As of October 1, 2005, the battalion was reorganized into Transport Battalion 465. As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr, it was announced in October 2011 that both the Logistics Regiment 46 and the Transport Battalion 465 were to be dissolved. With the planned dissolution of the regiment, the 465 transport battalion moved to the 47th logistics regiment in Dornstadt with effect from October 1, 2012 . On January 23, 2014, after 55 years there, the battalion's call to dissolve took place in the Reinhardt barracks in Ellwangen, which was decommissioned with effect from March 31, 2014. This ended the 58-year history of the Bundeswehr garrison in Ellwangen. In addition, the last transport battalion of the Bundeswehr was disbanded.

assignment

The 465 transport battalion had the task of ensuring flatbed, container, fuel and heavy load transports as part of the Bundeswehr's mobile support forces . The battalion also regularly provided forces for the NATO Response Force and the EU Battlegroup . The battalion also trained its own soldiers to carry out military transports. This included training in the areas of catering, repairs and using modern means of communication. It was also responsible for the basic training of the recruits in the 46th Logistics Regiment.

Selected missions

• November 1993 - May 1994: Participation in the UN mission UNOSOM II in Somalia
• August 1997: Aid in the context of the Oder floods in the Frankfurt (Oder), Eisenhüttenstadt, Wiesenau area
• March 1998 - July 1998: Participation in the foreign deployment of the Bundeswehr IFOR in Croatia and SFOR in Bosnia
• June 2000 - December 2000: Participation in the foreign deployment of the Bundeswehr KFOR in Kosovo and TFF in Macedonia
• August 2002: Aid in the context of the Elbe floods in the Zeithain area, Meißen, Grossenhain
• November 2002 - June 2003: Participation in the foreign deployment of the Bundeswehr SFOR in Bosnia
• January 2003 - July 2003: Participation in the foreign deployment of the German Armed Forces ISAF in Afghanistan
• March 2005 - September 2005: Participation in the foreign deployment of the Bundeswehr KFOR in Kosovo
• July 2006 - December 2006: Stand-by phase NRF 7
• January 2008 - July 2008: Stand-by phase NRF 10
• July 2008 - December 2008: Stand-by phase EU Battlegroup
• June 2013: Relief work in the context of the Elbe flood in the Magdeburg area

structure

On October 31, 2011, the 465 transport battalion consisted of seven companies with a total strength of around 1050 soldiers.

• 1./TrspBtl 465 (headquarters and supply company )
• 2./TrspBtl 465 (transport company, 3 transport trains, 15 t MULTI )
• 3./TrspBtl 465 (transport company, MAN 10 t gl )
• 4./TrspBtl 465 (transport company, road tanker)
• 5./TrspBtl 465 (transport company, pure air force company, MAN FALSX)
• 6./TrspBtl 465 (transport company, 3 heavy-duty trains, SLT )
• 7./TrspBtl 465 (basic training company, list March 5, 2009)

In addition, the Transport Battalion 465 was affiliated with the Ellwangen driver training center, which was set up on April 1, 1994 and disbanded on June 30, 2014 as part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr.

Association badge

The coat of arms of the Transport Battalion 465 contains elements of the coat of arms of the city of Ellwangen . It consists of a gold-colored bordered blue triangle shield, which is crossed diagonally by a red ribbon with a gold border. Blue and red symbolize the city colors of Ellwangen. In the middle of the shield is the stylized coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg . Until 2005, the Staufer lion was depicted in the center of the association's badge to show that it belonged to the 10th Panzer Division . At the bottom right is a yellow lily that comes from the coat of arms of the city of Ellwangen. In the upper left area the coat of arms contains a stylized yellow wagon wheel, which represents the tactical symbol of the transport and logistics troops.

Former commanders

No.	Surname	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment
19th	Lieutenant Colonel Rainer Musselmann	July 25, 2012	23rd January 2014
18th	Lieutenant Colonel Uwe Zvonar	February 27, 2010	July 24, 2012
17th	Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Hüller	October 13, 2007	February 26, 2010
16	Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Nebe	August 10, 2005	October 12, 2007
15th	Lieutenant Colonel Nikolaus Bretz	September 25, 2003	August 9, 2005
14th	Lieutenant Colonel Mehr	December 13, 2001	September 25, 2003
13	Lieutenant Colonel Knobloch	December 18, 1999	December 13, 2001
12	Lieutenant Colonel Vogt	January 18, 1996	December 17, 1999
11	Lieutenant Colonel Meixner	17th September 1993	January 17, 1996
10	Lieutenant Colonel Overweg	December 20, 1990	September 16, 1993
9	Lieutenant Colonel Bartels	March 17, 1988	December 19, 1990
8th	Lieutenant Colonel Schäfer	April 1, 1983	March 16, 1988
7th	Lieutenant Colonel Meirich	April 1, 1981	March 31, 1983
6th	Lieutenant Colonel Jaeger	1st October 1975	March 31, 1981
5	Lieutenant Colonel Götting	17th November 1971	September 30, 1975
4th	Lieutenant Colonel Pawel	April 1, 1970	November 16, 1971
3	Lieutenant Colonel Mauß	January 1, 1964	March 31, 1970
2	Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Lohse	July 16, 1961	December 31, 1964
1	Lieutenant Colonel Koehler	November 1, 1959	July 15, 1961

literature

• Dr. Frank Heinz Bauer: Welcome to this good city - Ellwangen and its soldiers in the mirror of a century . Published by the Officers' Home Society and the Unteroffizierheimgesellschaft Ellwangen, Ellwangen 2006, without ISBN.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Reinhardt-Kaserne Ellwangen (Ed.): The Reinhardt-Kaserne in Ellwangen , 2009.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Frank Bauer: Welcome to this good city - Ellwangen and his soldiers in the mirror of the century , 2006.
3. ^ Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, location database . Retrieved August 21, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Blauer Bund eV, Logistikregiment 46 . Retrieved August 21, 2015.
5. ↑ IPF and Jagst-Zeitung: Farewell to the German Armed Forces in Ellwangen , Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014.