Defense District Command 32

Defense District Command 32 - VBK 32 -
( 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 III
Staff seat	Dusseldorf

The defense district command 32 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the bar in Dusseldorf . The main task of the command was the territorial defense in its defense district.

history

Lineup

The Defense District Command was planned to take over Army Structure II in the 1960s as part of the Territorial Army and subordinated to the Commander in Defense Area III . Based on the civil administrative structure , the defense district roughly corresponded to the administrative district of Düsseldorf . The location of the staff in Düsseldorf was accordingly .

resolution

In 2001 the territorial army was disbanded. The remaining military area commands and defense district commands were placed under the newly established armed forces base . The defense areas and defense districts were fundamentally reorganized and their number reduced. The Defense District Command 32 was decommissioned and its command area was incorporated into Defense District 31 .

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 brigade of the Army corresponded. For the longest time of its existence, the Defense District Command, derived from the civilian administrative structure, was roughly divided into Defense District Commands with subordinate Homeland Security companies as well as a directly subordinate Homeland Security Regiment and a directly subordinate security battalion as the core of the infantry -style homeland security force .

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 Bergisch lions as figures similar to those in the Düsseldorf city arms and the stylized Rhine similar to those in the arms of North Rhine-Westphalia . National emblems were the federal eagle and the iron cross shown .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Military area command III. BArch, BH 28-3. 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: 51 ° 15 ′ 39.6 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 55.2 ″  E