Military District Command VI

Military area command VI - WBK VI - XXX
Association badge
active	1956 to July 1, 2001
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Military area command
Staff seat	Munich

The military area command VI was a military area command in the territorial army of the Bundeswehr . The task of this command authority was the territorial defense in Defense Area VI. Defense area VI included the state of Bavaria . The military area command was set up from 1956. The headquarters were in Munich . From 1994, the management of the military area was carried out by the merged staff "Military Area Command VI / 1st Mountain Division ". The Military District Command was decommissioned in 2001 and reclassified to Military District Command IV "Southern Germany" .

history

Headquarters of the headquarters: The Bayern barracks in Munich

The military area command was set up in Munich from 1956 as part of the territorial army. It was under 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:

• Defense District Command 61 ( Augsburg )
• Defense District Command 62 ( Regensburg )
• Defense District Command 63 ( Ansbach )
• Defense District Command 64 ( Würzburg )
• Defense District Command 65 ( Munich )
• Defense District Command 66 ( Landshut )
• Defense District Command 67 ( Bayreuth )

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 VI merged with the 1st Mountain Division on April 1, 1994 . The merged staff was referred to as the "Military District Command VI / 1st Mountain Division". The merged staff was under the II Corps . The separation between a field army subordinate to NATO and the territorial army , which remains under national command even in the event of a defense , was thus organizationally softened in the peace structure. Only in the event of a defense would the merged staffs have probably been separated again.

On July 1, 2001, the merger was reversed and the Territorial Army dissolved as a part of the Army . 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 took over the command of the troops and the organization of territorial defense in southern Germany, which was previously divided into military areas V ( Baden-Württemberg ) and VI (Bavaria). The 1st Mountain Division was decommissioned on September 30, 2001.

See also : Landeskommando Bayern

structure

See also : Division of the Territorial Army (Bundeswehr, Army Structure 4) #Wehrbereichskommando VI

Association badge

Woven association badge of the military area command

Internal association badge of the staff of the military area command VI: Federal coat of arms on Bavarian diamonds

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 one-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  VI. "

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 of the military area commands symbolized the position below the Federal Ministry of Defense, which accordingly had a "higher quality" golden cord.

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

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]).

Web links

• Military District Command VI. BArch, BH 28-6. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 . 
• Military District Command VI / 1. Mountain Division. BArch, BH 40-6. In: invenio. Federal Archives, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '  N , 11 ° 36'  E