Defense District Command 72

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Defense District Command 72
- VBK 72 -

No coats of arms.svg

(did not have an association badge )
active around 1991 to March 31, 1999
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type District Defense Command
Insinuation WBK VII.svg Military District Command VII
Staff seat Suhl

The defense district command 72 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the bar in Suhl . 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 72 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 Suhl district known from the German Democratic Republic . The location of the Suhl staff was accordingly .

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. Defense districts 72 and 73 (the latter corresponding to the Gera district of the German Democratic Republic ) were dissolved on March 31, 1999 and incorporated into defense district 71 .

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. As a reference to the stationing area, the internal association badge showed a figure of a craftsman at the anvil in the colors of Thuringia . It is possibly a gunsmith or armorer typical of Suhl . The depiction is similar to the depiction of the armourer from the armourer's monument on the market square, which is a Suhl landmark.

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 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. ^ 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 ° 38 ′ 23.7 "  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 13.9"  E