Defense District Command 88

Defense District Command 88 - VBK 88 -
(did not have an association badge )
active	approx. 1991 to March 31, 1998
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	District Defense Command
last staff seat	Bad Doberan

The Defense District Command 88 was a Defense District Command of the Bundeswehr with the last headquarters of the staff in Bad Doberan . 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 Rostock district known from the German Democratic Republic . Accordingly, the location of the staff was initially Rostock and, from 1991, the very close Bad Doberan .

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

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.

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. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Defense District Command 88 was discontinued as early as March 31, 1998. The eastern part of the previous Defense District 88 was incorporated into Defense District 87 . The western part fell to Defense District Command 86 .

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 Rostock coat of arms as an indication of the stationing area . Most of it was in the Rostock colors, which stood for the Rostock princes and the Hanseatic flag . It also showed as a figure like the Rostock coat of arms on a blue background the striding Rostock griffin . The stylized iron cross divided the shield . It is the national 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} 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. ↑ ^{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: 54 ° 6 ′ 44.2 ″  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 11 ″  E