Defense District Command 52

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Defense District Command 52
- VBK 52 -

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 Karlsruhe
Location of the staff: the Mackensen barracks

The defense district command 52 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the bar recently in Karlsruhe . 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 V assumed. Based on the civil administrative structure , the defense district roughly corresponded to the administrative district of North Baden (later: administrative district of Karlsruhe ). The location of the staff in Karlsruhe was accordingly . In Army Structure IV , the staff moved to Ludwigsburg .

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 switched to the “new” Defense District Command IV “Southern Germany” . At the same time, Defense District Command 53 was decommissioned and its command area, which roughly corresponded to the Freiburg administrative region , was incorporated into Defense District 52. Defense district 52 now roughly corresponded to the Baden part of Baden-Württemberg . 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 decommissioned in 2007. Some of his orders were transferred to the newly established Baden-Württemberg 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 is about a brigade of the Army corresponded. The longest time of its existence, the defense district command subdivided derived from the civilian administrative divisions roughly in the downstream directly or defense circuit commands imputed Homeland Security companies as the core of the infantry embossed home protection 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. As an indication of the stationing area, it showed the griffin as a typical Baden shield holder on the shield in Baden shield division to yellow-red (see also the Karlsruhe city arms ) . Here the griffin is holding a sign with the Iron Cross - the national emblem of the Bundeswehr.

Individual evidence

  1. Military area command V. BArch, BH 28-5. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b c Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  3. a b O.W. Dragoons: 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]).
  4. 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).

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 19.2 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 59.2 ″  E