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Under Heeresstruktur III from 1970 the 2nd Division was converted into a Jäger or light infantry formation. Creating more Jager troops was intended to provide smaller, more mobile and yet strong anti-tank formations that would be able to fight in the unfavourable terrain of the German low mountain
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as a reserve. In addition, at the level of the corps troops, the previous army aviation battalion was reorganized into a light and a medium army aviation transport regiment. According to the nomenclature of the other corps commands, the corps artillery command 403 was renamed
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Bilddokumente eines Großverbandes des Heeres. Herausgeber III. Korps, Redaktion Peter Bolte. - Koblenz: Rhenania Fachverlag 1982.
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Young, Thomas-Durell (1996). "German national command structures after unification: A new German general staff?".
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Herausgegeben vom Korpskommando III. Korps, verantwortlich: Oberstleutnant Armin Meyer-Detring. - Koblenz .
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The preparation of the staff of the corps took place from 16 March 1957 at Gneisenau-Kaserne,
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in 1989, the corps commanded the 2nd Panzergrenadier, 5th Panzer, and 12th Panzer Divisions.
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In 1994 the corps headquarters was disbanded and re-designated the headquarters of the
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to III Corps. The corps was integrated into defence planning from mid-1957, as part of
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Initially from 1959 the corps' troops under Heeresstruktur II consisted of :
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PgD - Panzergrenadier Division, PzD - Panzer Division
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NATO corps sectors in the Central Region in the 1980s
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1994
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German Army
Central Army Group
Koblenz
GenLt
Klaus Reinhardt
BrigGen
Klaus Frühhaber
corps
German Army
Koblenz
2nd Panzergrenadier Division
5th Panzer Division
II Corps
NATO
Central Army Group
U.S. Seventh Army
7th Panzer Division
I Corps
Diez
Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz
Lieutenant General
2nd Panzergrenadier Division
Marburg
Panzergrenadierbrigade 4

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