Military District Command IV

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Military area command IV
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Military District Command IV

Association badge
active 1956 to February 1, 2013
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Military area command
Last seat of staff Munich

The military area command IV (from 2001 military area command IV "Southern Germany" ) was a military area command of the Bundeswehr . The task of this command authority was the territorial defense in Defense Area IV.

The military area command was set up in Mainz in 1956 . Between 1994 and 2001 the management of the defense area was carried out by the merged staff "Wehrbereichskommando V / 5th Panzer Division ". Defense area IV comprised Saarland , Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate until 2001 . In 2001 the defense areas were reorganized. In Munich , the Military District Command IV "Southern" was restructured. The "new" Military District Command IV took over the management of the "new" Military District IV, which included Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg . The Military District Command IV was decommissioned in 2013.

history

The "old" Military District Command IV (1956–2001)

Reservists of the Homeland Security Force ( JgBtl 942 , HSchRgt 94, WBK IV) practice with American GIs in 1988

The Military District Command IV was set up in Mainz as part of the Territorial Army on January 23, 1956 . Defense area IV included the states of Saarland , Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate . The Military District Command IV was subordinate to the Territorial Defense Command until 1969 . From 1958 to 1961 TV rods (territorial defense rods ) were set up in the defense area , which were reclassified into defense district commands from 1963 and were subordinate to the defense area command. The following defense district commands were set up:

From 1964, the establishment of subordinate defense district commands began in the defense districts . The military area command was incorporated into the army from 1969 to take over Army Structure III and subordinated to the Territorial Command South .

After the end of the Cold War , the territorial army was significantly reduced in size. In Army Structure V , the military area commands and division headquarters were merged. The Defense District Command IV merged with the 5th Panzer Division on April 1, 1994 . The merged staff was called "Wehrbereichskommando IV / 5th Panzer Division". The merged staff was under the II Corps . The separation between one of the NATO subordinate field army and even in the case of defense lasting under national command territorial army was thus organizationally softened in peacetime. Only in the event of a defense would the merged staffs have probably been separated again.

In 2001 the merger was reversed and the territorial army was dissolved as a part of the army . The 5th Panzer Division was decommissioned on September 30, 2001.

The "new" Military District Command IV (2001-2013)

From 2009 headquarters of the commandant's office: The Fürst-Wrede-Kaserne in Munich. Until 2009, the neighboring Bayern barracks was the location of the staff.
The location of the military area command IV "Southern Germany" with subordinate defense districts

In 2001 all military area commands were fundamentally reorganized. The staff of Military District Command VI was reorganized as of July 1, 2001 as Military District Command IV "Southern Germany". As part of the newly established armed forces base, the "new" military area command IV with headquarters in Munich took over the management of the troops and the organization of the territorial defense in the "new" military area IV. This now included the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg . Until 2001, this part of southern Germany was the command area of Defense Area Commands V and VI. Defense areas V and VI were omitted.

The "old" Military District Command IV with staff based in Mainz in 2001 by fusion with the "old" Military District Command III as Military District Command II reorganized. The "new" Defense Area II now comprised the states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Saarland , Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate .

The focus of Defense Division IV "Southern Germany" was logistics . The defense districts were partly reorganized and reduced. The Defense District Command IV "Southern Germany" was subordinate to the following Defense District Command:

2,007 subordinate were as the Military District Command IV associations the country commands restructured. The previously subordinate defense district commands were dropped. The following newly established regional commandos were subordinate to the Military District Command IV:

In addition:

resolution

The Military District Command IV "Southern Germany" was decommissioned in 2013 and its territorial tasks were transferred to the Territorial Tasks Command of the Bundeswehr and the two regional commands .

structure

Association badge

Woven association badge of the military area command
Internal association badge of the staff of the "old" military area command IV with Palatinate and Hessian lion , Mainz wheel and Trier cross
Internal association badge of the staff of the "new" military area command IV "Southern Germany" with the federal eagle , Bavarian diamonds and the Baden-Württemberg state colors

The military area command carried a union badge with the following blazon :

" Tied by a silver cord with woven black thread, divided into black, red, gold in a golden central shield a single-headed black eagle , the head turned to the right, the wings open, but with closed plumage, beak, tongue and fangs of red color ( Federal eagle); the middle shield below accompanied by the black Roman numeral  V. "

The shield division corresponded to the flag of Germany . The motifs of the association badge were also similar to the coat of arms of Germany . The federal eagle was the German heraldic animal . He was depicted similarly on the troop flags . The close reference to the coat of arms and the flag of Germany made it clear that the territorial army and its military area commands remained under the authority of the national commander even in the event of a defense and were not assigned to NATO .

The association badges of the command authorities in the territorial army were particularly similar. In particular, the association badges of the higher-level territorial commands and the other military area commands differed only in their labeling. Also, the Badge of the Ministry of Defense was up on the board almost identical. The silver / black braided border in the military area commands symbolized the position below the Federal Ministry of Defense, which accordingly had a "higher quality" golden cord.

Commander

The last commanders in the military area were:

No. Rank Surname Beginning of the appointment
1. Major general Kersten Lahl July 1, 2001
2. Major general Justus Graebner September 29, 2003
3. Major general Gert Wessels September 27, 2007

literature

  • OW Dragoons: The Bundeswehr 1989 . Territorial Command SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. Territorial Command NORTH. Territorial Command SOUTH. Appendix: Territorial structure. 4th edition. 2.2 - Army, February 2012 ( religte.com [PDF; accessed July 10, 2018]).
  • Munich location brochure . 1st edition. WEKA info verlag gmbh, Mening 2007 ( bundeswehr-kinderbetreuung.de [PDF; accessed on July 17, 2018]).

Web links

Individual evidence


Active and former corps with the participation of the German army
Active corps

1st German-Dutch Corps  | Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps  | Eurocorps  | Multinational Corps North-East

Former corps

I. Corps  | II. Corps / II. (German-American) Corps  | III. Corps  | IV Corps  | Headquarters of the Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland

Corps equivalents

Territorial Command East  | Weir area command I · II · III · IV · V · VI

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '  N , 11 ° 35'  E