Defense District Command 22

Defense District Command 22 - VBK 22 -
(did not have an association badge )
active	approx. 1963 to 2001
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	District Defense Command
Insinuation	Military District Command II
Staff seat	Hanover

Headquarters of the staff: the former Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne (and today's Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein-Kaserne) in Hanover - Vahrenheide

The defense district command 22 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the bar in Hannover . The main task of the command was the territorial defense in its defense district.

history

Lineup

The defense district command was to assume the army structure II in the 1960s as part of the Territorial Army deallocated and the commanders in the Military District II assumed. Based on the civil administrative structure , the defense district roughly corresponded to the administrative district of Hanover . The location of the staff was Hanover.

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 22 was decommissioned and its command area was incorporated into the Defense District Command 23 . The subordinate defense district commands were dissolved and their tasks were partly transferred to the newly established district liaison commands.

After the dissolution

At the end of 2003, roughly at the same time as the administrative districts of Braunschweig and Hanover were dissolved, the staff of the Defense District Command 23 moved from the Brunswick Heinrich-der-Löwe ​​barracks to the Kurt Schumacher barracks in the state capital of Hanover, so that Hanover once again became the headquarters of a defense district command.

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 around 1989 as a (small) Brigade of the Army corresponded. For the longest time of its existence, the Defense District Command was subdivided into subordinate Defense District Commands, derived from the civil administrative structure.

See also : Structure of the Territorial Army (Bundeswehr, Army Structure 4)

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

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. Essentially, as a reference to the stationing area, it showed the figure of the Marienblume (alternatively: clover leaf ) similar to the city ​​arms of Hanover on a black, red and gold shield .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Military area command II. BArch, BH 28-2. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on July 14, 2018 .  
2. ^ ^{A b} Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 . 
3. ^ 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). 
4. ^ OW Dragoon: The Bundeswehr 1989 . Territorial Command SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. Territorial Command NORTH. Territorial Command SOUTH. Appendix: Territorial structure. 4th edition. 2.2 - Army, February 2012 ( religte.com [PDF; accessed July 10, 2018]).

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '23.9 "  N , 9 ° 44' 9.6"  E