Defense District Command 64

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Defense District Command 64
- VBK 64 -

No coats of arms.svg

(did not have an association badge )
active approx. 1963 to March 15, 1995
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type District Defense Command
Insinuation WBK VI.svg Military District Command VI
last staff seat Veitshochheim

The defense district command 64 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the rod least in Veitshöchheim . 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 VI . Based on the civil administrative structure , the defense district roughly corresponded to the (government) district of Lower Franconia . The location of the Würzburg staff was accordingly .

Merger with the staff of the 36th Panzer Brigade

In the mid-1990s, plans were tried out in the Bundeswehr command to merge the staffs of a defense district command and a brigade to take over the army structure V (N) analogous to the combination of the division and military area command posts and the corps / territorial command east . The Defense District Command 64 was one of the few departments at brigade level where this summary (to some extent) took place. The staff of the Defense District Command moved to Veitshöchheim and merged on October 1, 1994 with the Brigade Staff of the Panzer Brigade 36 to form "Panzerbrigade 36 / Defense District Command 64".

resolution

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. In anticipation of the upcoming reclassifications, Panzer Brigade 36 / Defense District Command 64 was defused and Defense District Command 64 was dissolved on March 15, 1995. The Panzer Brigade 36 initially continued to exist. The command area of ​​Defense District Command 64 was incorporated into Defense District 67 .

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 regiment of the Army corresponded. For the longest time of its existence, the defense district command, derived from the civil administrative structure, was roughly divided into subordinate defense district commands with subordinate homeland security companies as the core of the infantry -style 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 headquarters company badge.

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 a reference to the stationing area, it showed the red and gold racing flag as figures, as in Wurzburg's coat of arms on the black iron cross as the national emblem of the Bundeswehr. These two figures were placed on the silver field of the silver-red Franconian rake . The internal badge resembles - apart from the board and the iron cross - clearly the badge of the 12th Panzer Division and the brigades originally subordinate to it .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military District Command VI. BArch, BH 28-6. 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. ↑ Jürgen Dreifke: Heer im Wandel 1955-2017. July 2016, accessed December 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Thomas: - The Panzer Brigade 36 "Mainfranken" - 1960-2002. (PDF) In: http://www.traditionsverband-kuelsheim.de/ . Traditional association of former members of the Külsheim eV site, 2004, accessed on December 16, 2018 .
  5. ^ Defense area command I - Coast - (Kiel). BArch, BW 68-1. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2002, accessed on July 14, 2018 (includes representation of all four WBKs).
  6. ^ 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: 49 ° 49 ′ 39 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 6.1 ″  E