Kommando Landstreitkräfte
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The Kommando Landstreitkräfte (short: Kdo LaSK or Kommando LaSK) was the Army staff — and simultaneously the Army command of the National People's Army (NPA) Land Forces of the former GDR.
History
On 1 December 1972 the Kommando LaSK was established under the command of
It was disbanded together with the NPA in 1990. The legal successor became the Bundeswehrkommando Ost under LG Jörg Schönbohm. Today the "Einsatzführungskommando of the Bundeswehr" is stationed in this Barracks.
Command and Organization
Command, Control, and Communications
The main task of the NPA Army Command was to provide
Under deployment conditions, and in line with the situation awareness C3 had to be executed from the Component Headquarters in
Commanding generals of the NPA Army Command
Source:[1]
No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
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1 | Horst Stechbarth (1925–2016) | Colonel general1 December 1972 | 31 December 1989 | 17 years, 30 days | |
2 | Horst Skerra (born 1930) | Lieutenant general1 January 1990 | 14 September 1990 | 256 days | |
3 | Hans-Christian Reiche (born 1944) | Major general15 September 1990 | 2 October 1990 | 17 days |
- Remark
The commanding general was competent, mandated and authorized to provide tasks and orders direct to the subordinated deputies. He was assisted by a so-called Militärrat of the Army Command, the highest HQ advisory body on deputy level.
Organization
The command was composed by the following establishment:
- Deputy Minister and Commander-in-chief Army (3 star level) with the military advisor
- Deputy of the CommanderArmy Command (DC Army Command) and Chief of the Political Division (2 star level) with
- Three branches including Chief Party Control Commission (de: PKK), Central Party Leadership (de: ZPL), Spec-Propaganda, and Political Branch of the Kdo LSK/LV
- DC Army Command and Chief of Staff (CS) (2 star level) with
- Assistant Chief Of Staff (ACOS) and G3(1 star level) with
- Branch 1
- Branch 2
- ACOS and Chief General Tasks with
- Staff company, guard company and vehicle company
- Chief G1 with PTA and WTA
- Chief Organization/Replenishment with
- Branch Organization
- Branch Replenishment
- Chief RECON
- Chief General-Military Training and Schools (de: AMAS)
- Chief G6 with
- Branches 1, 2 and 8th section
- Chief Mil Scientific (de: MiWi)
- Chief Chemical Services (de: CD)
- DC Army and Chief G4 (de. RD) (2 star level) with
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- AC and CS G4 (1 Star level)
- Chief Medical Service
- Chief Combat Engineer Service
- Chief Military Architecture Accommodation (de: MBU)
- Chief Military Transport (de: MTW)
- Chief Closing and Equipment (de: BA)
- Chief SAM Forces (de. FRT)
- Chief Army Aviation
- Military prosecutor
- Division 2000
- - Here the branch G2 with responsibility to the military branch Land Forces of the National People's Army
Furthermore generals of the NPA Army Command[2]
Name | Military rank | Position | Remark |
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Engelhardt, Lothar | Major general |
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last Chief of the NPA |
Großer, Roland | Major general |
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Handke, Heiny | Lieutenant general |
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Winter, Werner | Major general | DC Army Command on Training |
Subordinated commands, forces, units, and organizations
The following units and commands reported directly to NPA Land Forces Command:[3]
- Military District Command III (de: Kommando Militärbezirk III, Kdo. MB-III) with headquarters
- Military District V with headquarters at Neubrandenburg
- 40th Artillery Brigade (de: 40. Artilleriebrigade, 40. ABr) (Blankenfelde)
- 40th Technical Training Center (de: Ausbildungs-Technisches Zentrum 40, ATZ-40)
- 40th Parachute Training Base (de: Fallschirmjägerausbildungsbasis, FJABas-40)
- Air defence missile training center 40 (de: Fla-Raketenausbildungszentrum 40, FRAZ-40)
- 40th Multiple rocket launcher battalion (de: Geschoßwerferabteilung 40, GeWA-40)
- 40th Cnstruction engineering battalion (de: Ingenieurbaubataillon 40, IBB-40)
- Luftsturmregiment 40
- Miltaty technical school of the Land forces "Erich Habersaath"
- 40th Signal battalion (de: Nachrichtenbataillon 40, NB-40)
- Land forces Officer Cadet School "Ernst Thälmann"
- Foreign Military Officers Training School (de: Offiziershochschule für ausländische Militärkader "Otto Winzer")
- Engineer construction battalion 40 (de: Pionierbaubataillon 40, PiBB-40)
- 40th center for missile forces training (de: Raketenausbildungszentrum 40, RAZ-40)
- 40th Support and Garrison Battalion (de: Wach- und Sicherstellungsbataillon 40, WSB-40)
Notes
- ^ Chefs der LSK/LV auf der Homepage des Militärarchivs[permanent dead link]; eingesehen am 6. Juni 2009
- ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9
- ISBN 3-921226-07-4.
References
- Torsten Diedrich (Hrsg./Bearbeiter im Auftr. des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes): Handbuch der bewaffneten Organe der DDR. Weltbild, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-8289-0555-2.