Defense District Command 71

Defense District Command 71 - VBK 71 -
(did not have an association badge )
active	approx. 1991 to 2007
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Type	District Defense Command
Staff seat	Erfurt

Location of the staff: the Löberfeld barracks

The defense district command 71 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the bar in Erfurt . The main task of the command was the territorial defense in its defense district.

history

Lineup

After reunification , the territorial structures known from West Germany were quickly created in the former military district III of the land forces of the National People's Army (see the structure of the territorial army around 1989 ). The defense district command 71 was to assume the Heeresstruktur V of the early 1990s as part of the Territorial Army deallocated and the commanders in the Military District VII assumed. Based on the civil administrative structure in West Germany, the defense district should roughly correspond to a (future) administrative district . When setting up, however, the layout of the new defense district was initially roughly based on the Erfurt district known from the German Democratic Republic . The location of the Erfurt staff was accordingly .

Merger with the staff of Panzer Brigade 39

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 71 was one of the few departments at brigade level where this summary (to some extent) took place. The staff of the Defense District Command merged on January 1, 1995 with the Brigade Staff of the Panzer Brigade 39 “Thuringia” to form the “Panzerbrigade 39 / Defense District Command 71”. The defusion was ordered in early 1996 with effect from October 1, 1996.

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 Districts 72 and 73 (corresponding to the districts of Suhl and Gera the German Democratic Republic ) were released this in 1999 and incorporated into the Defense District 71st Defense district 71 now comprised the entire state of Thuringia . The Defense District Command 71 were subordinated to the "newly" established Defense District Command III . 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 assignments were transferred to the newly established Thuringia regional command and the subordinate district liaison commands.

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. The internal association badge showed as a reference to the stationing area as figures with a connection to the region: The Mainz wheel from the city ​​arms of Erfurt and the colorful lion of the Ludowingers with the stars similar to the Thuringian state arms . The Iron Cross is the national emblem of the Bundeswehr. The internal association badge of the Thuringia regional command is very similar to this internal association badge.

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corps and Territorial Command East / IV. Corps. BArch BH 7-4. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Military area command VII / 13. Panzergrenadier Division. BArch, BH 40-7. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Defense district commands. BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Defense District Commands . BArch, BH 32. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Jürgen Dreifke: Heer im Wandel 1955-2017. July 2016, accessed December 10, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{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: 50 ° 57 '25.7 "  N , 11 ° 2' 53.5"  E