Defense District Command 25

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Defense
District Command 25 - VBK 25 -

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
Staff seat Luneburg

The defense district command 25 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the rod in Lueneburg . 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 Lüneburg . The location of the staff was Lüneburg.

extension

In 1978 the administrative district of Stade was dissolved and incorporated into the administrative district of Lüneburg . Accordingly, Defense District Command 26 was decommissioned and its command area, which roughly corresponded to the administrative district of Stade, was incorporated into Defense District 25.

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. Defense District Command 25 was subordinated to Defense Area I. The layout of Defense District 25, unlike most of the Defense Districts, remained essentially unchanged during the reorganization. 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 25 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 , 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. Because of the proximity to the zone border, similar to the one in the east of Defense District Command I and Defense District Command 23 , only a few homeland security companies were set up in Defense District 25 around 1989 as the core of the infantry -based homeland security force .

Association badge

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 shield with the figure of the blue Lüneburg Guelph lion sprinkled with hearts , similar to the Lüneburg city arms .

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: 53 ° 15 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 6.1 ″  E