Defense District Command 23

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Defense
District Command 23 - VBK 23 -

No coats of arms.svg

(did not have an association badge )
active approx. 1963 to 2007
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Type District Defense Command
last staff seat Hanover
The last seat of the staff: the Kurt Schumacher barracks in Hanover
Command sign of the Commander of Defense District Command 23 since 2004

The Defense District Command 23 was a Defense District Command (VBK) of the Federal Armed Forces with the headquarters of the staff last in Hanover . 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 Braunschweig and the administrative district of Hildesheim . In Army Structure II, Defense District Command 23 was one of the few Defense District Commands with an intergovernmental command area. The location of the staff was initially Hildesheim .

extension

When the administrative districts in Lower Saxony were reorganized in 1978 , the Hildesheim administrative district was dissolved and its previous area was largely incorporated into the previous Braunschweig administrative district, henceforth known as the Braunschweig administrative district , the defense district command moved to the seat of the district government in Braunschweig . The Defense District Command 23 was now responsible for the entire area of ​​the Braunschweig government district, so that in southeast Lower Saxony the military territorial organization and the political administrative division now coincided for the first time.

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. The Defense District Command 23 was subordinated to Defense Area I. The defense district command 22 was dissolved and the command area that is substantially the Region of Hanover incorporated corresponded to the defense district 23rd The subordinate defense district commands were dissolved and their tasks were partly transferred to the newly established district liaison commands.

At the end of 2003, roughly at the same time as the administrative districts of Braunschweig and Hanover were dissolved, the staff moved from the Braunschweig Heinrich-der-Löwe ​​barracks to the Kurt Schumacher barracks in the state capital of Hanover .

resolution

Defense District Command 23 was decommissioned in 2007. Some of his assignments were transferred to the newly established Lower Saxony state command and 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 that around 1989 about a regiment or battalion 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 . Defense district command 23 was subordinate to Defense District Command 231 (Braunschweig) and 232 ( Göttingen ) around 1989 .

Because of the proximity to the zone border, similar to the one in the east of the military area command I and the defense district command 25 , no homeland security companies were set up in defense district 23 around 1989 as the core of the infantry -based homeland security force .

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 Braunschweig lion as a figure similar to that in the coat of arms of the city of Braunschweig . Yellow-blue were the colors of the state of Braunschweig .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Military District Command II. BArch, BH 28-2. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Defense district commands. BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 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).
  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 ° 22 ′ 10.2 "  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 15.2"  E