Defense District Command 11

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Defense
District Command 11 - VBK 11 -

No coats of arms.svg

(did not have an association badge )
active May 1963 - 1975
October 1993 - 2007
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Type District Defense Command
last staff seat Rendsburg
Last seat of the staff: the Feldwebel-Schmid-Kaserne

The Defense District Command 11 was a Defense District Command of the Bundeswehr with the headquarters of the staff last in Rendsburg . The main task of the command was the territorial defense in its defense district.

history

The "old" Defense District Command 11

Lineup

The defense district command was to assume the army structure II in May 1963 as part of the Territorial Army in Flensburg deallocated and the commanders in the military area I assumed. The Territorial Defense Staff IA was used for the establishment. Based on the layout of the administrative districts of the civil administrative divisions of other territorial states , defense district 11 roughly corresponded to the part of Schleswig-Holstein that was north of the Kiel Canal , or very roughly to the state of Schleswig . In 1973 the staff moved to Schleswig .

resolution

The special organization of the NATO command structure in the area LANDJUT or in the Territorial Command Schleswig-Holstein / Military District Command I and the special Verwaltungsglierdrung in the country Schleswig-Holstein , where the state government , unlike the other major area countries to the establishment of administrative districts waived, should also reflected in the organization of the territorial army in Schleswig-Holstein. The Defense District Command 11 was disbanded in 1975 and parts of it were used to set up the Disposable Troop Command 600. The Schleswig-Holstein Territorial Command / Wehrbereichskommando I was in charge of the Defense District Command in addition to the Available Troops Command 600 .

The "new" Defense District Command 11

Lineup

After the reunification and loosening of the NATO command structure in Northern Europe, Defense District Commands 11 and 12 in Schleswig-Holstein were reorganized in October 1993 and placed under Defense District Command I. The headquarters were initially Schleswig. The staff moved to Rendsburg in 2004 . The "new" defense district roughly encompassed the area of ​​the "old" Defense District Command 11.

Change to the armed forces base

In 2001 the territorial army was disbanded. The military area commands and defense district commands were subordinated to the newly established armed forces base . The defense areas and defense districts were fundamentally reorganized and their number reduced. In contrast to the other defense district commands in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the Defense District Command 11 continued to exist essentially unchanged. The subordinate defense district commands were dissolved and some of its tasks were transferred to the newly established district liaison commands.

resolution

Defense District Command 11 was decommissioned in 2007. Some of his assignments were transferred to the newly established Schleswig-Holstein state command and the subordinate district liaison commands.

structure

Like most units of the Territorial Army, the Defense District Command consisted of only a few active soldiers. Only in the case of defense , the defense district command could by the convening of reserve and the mobilization stored and civilian material to a troop strength increase , which is about a regiment or brigade of the Army corresponded.

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company of the "new" Defense District Command 11

The Defense District Command did not have its own association badge due to its planning as a predominantly non-active unit . The few active soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the superior military area command .

As a "badge", the internal association badge of the staff and the staff company " pars pro toto " was sometimes used imprecisely for the entire defense district command. The "old" Defense District Command 11 was disbanded before the internal association badge was introduced in 1908 and therefore did not have an internal association badge. The internal association badge of the staff / staff company of the "new" Defense District Command 11 essentially showed the Schleswig lions as figures as a reference to the stationing area, similar to the Schleswig-Holstein coat of arms .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Guenther": Vbk 11 + 12. In: Cold-War-Forum - Military plants & relics of the Cold War . February 27, 2015, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Defense district commands. BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  3. ^ Territorial Command Schleswig-Holstein / German authorized area AFNORTH. BArch, BH 27. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Military District Command I / 6. Panzergrenadier Division. BArch, BH 40-1. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Defense Area Command I - Coast - (Kiel). BArch, BW 68-1. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 (includes representation of all four WBKs).
  6. ^ Ralf Flatau: reservist comradeship Nienburger grenadiers. In: reservistenverband.de. Association of Reservists of the German Federal Armed Forces, accessed on December 11, 2018 : "In 1980 the Federal Ministry of Defense approved the wearing of association badges on the uniform"

Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 24 ″  E