Defense District Command 86

Defense District Command 86 - VBK 86 -
(did not have an association badge )
active	approx. 1991 to 2007
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Type	District Defense Command
Staff seat	Schwerin

The defense district command 86 was a defense area command of the Armed Forces with the seat of the bar in Schwerin . 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 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 VIII . 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 Schwerin district known from the German Democratic Republic . The location of the Schwerin staff was accordingly .

See also : List of NVA locations in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania

Merger with the staff of Panzer Grenadier Brigade 40

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 86 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 Grenadier Brigade 40 to form "Panzer Grenadier Brigade 40 / Defense District Command 86". The defusion was ordered in early 1996 with effect from October 1, 1996.

Change to military area command I

On October 1, 1997, Military District Command VIII was dissolved. The leadership of the Military Regional Command in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , including the leadership of the Military Regional Command 88, was the Military District Command I transferred.

Enlargement of the defense area

In line with the reduction in the number of defense district commands in other countries, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania no longer had Defense District Command 88 on March 31, 1998 . Since in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, unlike in some other East 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 88, which roughly corresponded to the Rostock district of the defunct German Democratic Republic, was incorporated into Defense District 86. Defense district 86 now (very) roughly corresponded to the state of Mecklenburg .

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 86, which was redesigned in 1998, remained unchanged; Defense District Command 86 continued to be subordinate to Defense District Command I “Coast” . 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 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 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 was similar to the city ​​arms of Schwerin as an indication of the stationing area . It appeared as a character Henry the Lion to horses and the iron cross as emblem of the Bundeswehr.

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 40-8. 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: 53 ° 38 ′ 14.5 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 29.9"  E