Defense District Command 12

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Defense
District Command 12 - VBK 12 -

No coats of arms.svg

(did not have an association badge )
active May 1963 - 1966
October 1993 - 2001
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type District Defense Command
Insinuation WBK IV.svg Military District Command I
last staff seat Eutin
Headquarters of the staff from 1993 to 2001: the Rettberg barracks in Eutin

The Defense District Command 12 was a Defense District Command of the Bundeswehr with the headquarters of the staff most recently in Eutin . The main task of the command was the territorial defense in its defense district.

history

The "old" Defense District Command 12

Lineup

The defense district command 12 was to assume the army structure II in May 1963 as part of the Territorial Army in Neumünster deallocated and the commanders in the military area I assumed. The Territorial Defense Staff IB was used for the establishment. Based on the layout of the administrative districts of the civil administrative divisions of other territorial states , defense district 12 roughly corresponded to the part of Schleswig-Holstein that was south of the Kiel Canal , or very roughly to the state of Holstein .

resolution

The special organization of the NATO command structure in the LANDJUT area or in the Schleswig-Holstein Territorial Command / Wehrbereichskommando I and the special administrative structure in the state of Schleswig-Holstein , where the state government, unlike in the other large territorial states, waived the establishment of government districts , should also be avoided reflected in the organization of the territorial army in Schleswig-Holstein. The Defense District Command 12 was dissolved again in 1966. It is doubtful whether the establishment and equipment of the Defense District Command with material and personnel could be completed almost as planned in view of this short period of existence. Most of the (few) previously subordinated troops were subordinated to the Schleswig-Holstein Territorial Command / Wehrbereichskommando I indirectly (in particular to the Defense District Command 11, which was still in existence for a short time ) or directly.

The "new" Defense District Command 12

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 of the "new" Defense District Command 12 was Eutin . The “new” defense district roughly comprised the area of ​​the “old” Defense District Command 12.

resolution

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. The Defense District Command 12 was decommissioned and its command area was incorporated into Defense District Command 10 , which was previously “only” responsible for Hamburg . The subordinate defense district commands were dissolved and some of its tasks were transferred to the newly established 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 / headquarters company of the "new" Defense District Command 12

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 12 was disbanded before the introduction of the internal association badge in 1980 and therefore had no internal association badge. The internal association badge of the staff / headquarters company of the "new" Defense District Command 12 essentially showed the Holstein nettle leaf as figures similar to that in the coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein and the Balkenkreuz similar to that in the city ​​arms of Eutin as a reference to the stationing area .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c “Guenther”: Vbk 11 + 12. In: [Cold-War-Forum - military installations & relics of the Cold War http://www.cold-war.de/ ]. February 27, 2015, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b c Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Territorialkommando 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. ^ 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: www.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 ° 7 '58.8 "  N , 10 ° 37' 44.4"  E