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III Corps was a corps of the German Army (Bundeswehr Heer) active from 1957 to 1994. The preparation of the staff of the corps took place from 16 March 1957 at Gneisenau-Kaserne, Koblenz; the corps was officially formed on 6 April 1957. Initially, the 2nd Panzergrenadier Division and 5th Panzer Division moved in 1957 from the II Corps to III Corps. The corps was integrated into defence planning from mid-1957, as part of NATO's Central Army Group, commanded by the commander of the U.S. Seventh Army. The area of operations was the FRG-DDR and German-Czechoslovak border in Hesse and Franconia. On 1 December 1958 the 7th Panzer Division was transferred from the III Corps to the I Corps. Among the first corps troops were Ordnance regiment 504 (formed May 16, 1957 in Diez, transferred January 1958 in Koblenz), and Corps Artillery Command 403 (based until 1 July 1957 at Munsterlager, from August 1957 in Koblenz). Under corps command were a rocket artillery battalion, a supply battalion, and a geophysical measurement train. Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz was the first commander of the corps, as a Lieutenant General. In 1994 the corps headquarters was disbanded and re-designated the headquarters of the German Army Forces Command. Initially from 1959 the corps' troops under Heeresstruktur II consisted of : *2nd Panzergrenadier Division (Marburg) * *Panzergrenadierbrigade 4 (Göttingen) * *Panzergrenadierbrigade 5 (Kassel) * *Panzerbrigade 6 (Marburg) *5th Panzer Division (Koblenz) * *Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 (Wetzlar) * *Panzerbrigade 14 (Koblenz) * *Panzerbrigade 15 (Koblenz) *7th Panzergrenadier (later Panzer) Division (Unna) * *Panzergrenadierbrigade 19 (Ahlen) * *Panzerbrigade 21 (Augustdorf) *Corps Troops At the end of the Cold War in 1989, the corps commanded the 2nd Panzergrenadier, 5th Panzer, and 12th Panzer Divisions.〔Dragoner, p. 35〕 == Commanding Generals == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「III Corps (Bundeswehr)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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