Defense District Command 74

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Defense District Command 74
- VBK 74 -

No coats of arms.svg

(did not have an association badge )
active November 1, 1990 to September 30, 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 Leipzig

The defense district command 74 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the bar in Leipzig . 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 ). Defense District Command 74 was planned to take over Army Structure V in the early 1990s as part of the Territorial Army and subordinated to the Commander in Defense Area VII . 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 Leipzig district known from the German Democratic Republic . The location of the staff in Leipzig was accordingly . When government districts were established in the state of Saxony , the defense district roughly corresponded to the administrative district of Leipzig .

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. Defense district command 74 ceased to exist on September 30, 1999. The western and eastern parts of Defense District 74 were incorporated into Defense District 75 and Defense District 76 , respectively .

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. The internal association badge was similar to the Leipzig city arms as an indication of the stationing area . The internal association badge showed on a silver Spanish shield a forked shield that resembled a baroque shield thanks to the jagged and rolled edges : Inside it, heraldically on the right, in gold, a red-tongued and red- armored black Meissen lion rising to the right ; inks in gold two blue Landsberger posts . An iron cross was placed in the middle of the posts. The Iron Cross is the national emblem 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 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: 51 ° 19 ′ 41.8 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 7 ″  E