Defense District Command 84

Defense District Command 84 - VBK 84 -
(did not have an association badge )
active	approx. 1991 to 2007
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Type	District Defense Command
Staff seat	Potsdam

Headquarters of the staff: the Havelland barracks in Potsdam-Eiche

The defense district command 84 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the bar in Potsdam . 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 V of the land forces of the National People's Army (see the structure of the territorial army around 1989 ). The defense district command 84 was to assume the Heeresstruktur V of the early 1990s as part of the Territorial Army deallocated and the commanders in the Military District VIII 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 Potsdam district known from the German Democratic Republic . The location of the Potsdam staff was accordingly .

Merger with the staff of Panzer Brigade 42

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 84 was one of the few departments at brigade level where this summary (to some extent) took place. On January 1, 1995, the staff of the Defense District Command merged with the Brigade Staff of the Panzer Brigade 42 to form "Panzerbrigade 42 / Defense District Command 84". The defusion was ordered in early 1996 with effect from October 1, 1996.

Change to military area command VII

On October 1, 1997, Military District Command VIII was dissolved. The management of the Defense District Command in Brandenburg , including the management of Defense District Command 84, was assigned to Defense District Command VII .

Enlargement of the defense area

Analogous to the reduction in the number of Defense District Command in other countries, Defense District Command 83 in Brandenburg ceased to exist on March 31, 1999 . Since in Brandenburg, unlike in some other eastern German states, no administrative districts were set up, the redefinition of the defense districts did not have to be based on the areas of responsibility of state central authorities . The western part of Defense District 83, which roughly corresponded to the Cottbus District of the defunct German Democratic Republic, was incorporated into Defense District 84.

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 84, which was redesigned in 1999, remained unchanged. The Defense District Command 84 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 Brandenburg State 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 the Brandenburg eagle as in the state coat of arms and Sanssouci Palace with vineyard terraces and a large fountain in Potsdam. The crossed swords were a typical symbol for the army and were worn similarly, for example, on the army's umbrella and mountain cap .

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. ↑ ^{a b} Military District Command VIII / 14. Panzergrenadier Division. BArch, BH 42-8. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Defense district commands. BArch, BH 30. In: invenio. Federal Archives, accessed on December 14, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} 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 c d} Defense District 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: 52 ° 24 '21.4 "  N , 12 ° 59' 1.3"  E