Defense District Command 46

Defense District Command 46 - VBK 46 -
(did not have an association badge )
active	approx. 1963 to 2007
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Type	District Defense Command
last staff seat	Saarlouis

The Defense District Command 46 was a Defense District Command of the German Armed Forces with the headquarters of the staff most recently in Saarlouis . 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 commander in Military District IV assumed. Based on the civil administrative structure , the defense district roughly corresponded to the state of Saarland . Accordingly, the location of the staff was the state capital Saarbrücken . In addition to Defense District Command 10 and Defense District Command 20 , Defense District Command 46 in Army Structure II was the only Defense District Command whose area of ​​command encompassed an entire country .

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 changed to the "new" Defense District Command II . At the same time, Defense District Command 45 was decommissioned and its command area, which roughly corresponded to the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative district of Rheinhessen-Pfalz , which was dissolved in 1999, was incorporated into Defense District 46. Defense district 46 was thus one of the few transnational defense districts. The headquarters of Defense District Command 46 moved to Saarlouis . The subordinate defense district commands were dissolved and some of its tasks were transferred to the newly established district liaison commands.

resolution

The Defense District Command was disbanded in 2007. Some of his assignments were transferred to the newly established state commandos Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate as well as the 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 regiment of the Army corresponded. For the longest time of its existence the Defense District Command was subdivided into a subordinate Defense District Command, derived from the civil administrative structure . Several homeland security companies were subordinate to this as the core of the infantry -based homeland security force .

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

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company until about 2001

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company from around 2001

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. It appeared to about 2001 mainly as a reference to the deployment of space as a figure of the lion , similar to the saarländischem Landeswappen and Saarbrücken coat of arms and the iron cross as emblem of the Bundeswehr. In 2001 the internal association badge was changed to accommodate the new command area. In addition to the Saarbrücken Lion, it now also showed the Mainz Wheel and Hambach Castle .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Military area command IV.Barch, BH 28-4. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on July 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]).
5. ^ VBK - VKK Rhineland-Palatinate + Hesse (Army Structure 4). (No longer available online.) Günther Krieger, August 19, 2016, archived from the original on February 20, 2017 ; accessed on August 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 50.2 "  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 12"  E