Thread: Rear Area Operations

Originally Posted by kato

1992 structure, after Patriot and Roland were fully integrated:

Thanks, i understand the deployment now.
I was looking for late a cold war perspective, when the patriot and hawk regiments didn't mix.

The transformation to this structure as shown began in 1987 (it was a rather big transformation, with whole missile wings being dissolved and complete new ones raised).

kato, is the Orbat you referring to the Dragoner´s Bundeswehr OOB 1989 or is there an somew bit simpler (and in english) version?

I'm using Dragoner's Orbat, a bit cut down by me in translation - it's far more complete than the stuff in post #76 for example.

He's planning to do an English translation when everything's finished. Wouldn't expect it before end of the year at the earliest. Currently released are about 500 pages in German, the rest will probably be another 300.

Pat Callahan's NATO OOB isn't that bad for a general, more simple overview. The current Version 8 already includes significant updates on the Territorial Army compared to earlier versions, since those parts were reviewed by people who were later involved with Dragoner's OOB.

Here's a simple version, for the top level:

Top Command level are two Territorial Commands (North/South), which support NORTHAG and CENTAG respectively.
A third Territorial Command exists exclusively for the state of Schleswig-Holstein, i.e. LANDJUT within Germany. This far smaller Command (S-H) was a mix with the units below that in other Territorial Commands, and generally was special in everything. Often ignored for that reason, so i'll do that too for a bit

Unless otherwise noted below units were fully reserve, not active.

The Territorial Command have the following units directly subordinate basically:

• Staff / Staff Company (active, battalion-sized)
• Upper Military Court
• Lower Military Court
• Helicopter Liaison Squadron (with 6 Alouette II helos)
• Field Replacement Battalion (providing replacement soldiers for casualties)
• Topographical Battery (partially active; geographical information, mapping service)
• peacetime only units:
  
  • Materials Proof Platoon
  • Military Police Training Center
  • Driver/Staff Training Center
• Units taking over training of recruits in wartime from other units:
  
  • Field Training Regiment (with 5 battalions)
  • Field Training Regiment (with 3 battalions)
  • Field Training Regiment (with 3 battalions)
  • Field Training Regiment (with 2 battalions)
  • Field Training Regiment (with 2 battalions)
• Divisional Readiness Command (staff for combat division without assigned subunits; takes command of Territorial Army brigades)
• Signals Command
• Engineer Command
• Medical Command
• Supply Command
• Support Command WHNS (supporting US TAACOMs)
• Area Defense Commands (North: 2, South: 3)

Territorial Command South additionally had a second Field Replacement Battalion and a Survey Platoon.
The Field Training Regiments would have been formed mostly from peacetime Army Schools. Similarly the Divisional Command of either TC would have been formed from the two Combat Training Schools (in Munster and Hammelburg respectively).

The Signals Command had the following subunits:

• Staff Company (partially active)
• Signals Company
• Field Intelligence Company
• Signals Battalion (partially active, Signals Central Command North/South)
• Signals Battalion (partially active, mobile support)
• Signals Battalion (reserve, mobile support)
• Signals Battalion (partially active, NORTHAG/CENTAG Signal Group)
• Psychological Operations Battalion (partially active)
• peacetime only units:
  
  • Psychological Operations Training Company
  • Signals Training Company (for fixed-site battalion)
  • Signals Training Company (for mobile battalion)
  • Signals Training Center

Territorial Command South additionally had two independant Mobile Signals Squads that would have supported the CENTAG HQ structure in the Rhine-Neckar area. The number of active companies within partially active battalions varied between the Territorial Commands. TC South didn't have a PsyOps Training Company, but instead an active printing platoon supporting the PsyOps Bn.

The Engineer Command had:

• Staff Company (partially active)
• Signals Company (for organizing Rhine bridging)
• River Engineer Company (active; [1])
• River Engineer Company (reserve; [1])
• Bridge Engineer Battalion (ponton bridge system plus 3 engineer companies)
• Bridge Engineer Battalion (ponton bridge system plus 3 engineer companies)
• Pipeline Engineer Regiment with 3 battalions (14 pipeline engineer companies, 6 pipeline damage control companies)
• Field Replacement Battalion
• peacetime only units:
  
  • Pipeline Engineer Battalion (cadre for regiment: 3 pipeline engineer companies)
  • Engineer Training Center

[1] equipment of each river engineer company:
- 3 Bodan ferries (100t cargo, bridging capability)
- 6 LCM (110t cargo)
- 1 patrol boat (80-ft boats with 2 twin .50cal MG)
- 1 small tug

Since the Rhine was considerably longer within the area of Territorial Command South, this one had additionally:

• second reserve signals company for organization
• additional peacetime-only units:
  
  • civilian-staffed peacetime-only maintenance platoon for the river engineers
  • second Engineer Training Center
  • NBC Defence training center
• 2 additional reserve bridge engineer battalions (ponton bridge)
• bridge battalion : six platoons manning ready emergency bridges at prepared crossing points (one active, five reserve)
• 4 additional pipeline engineer companies within regiment

The Medical Command had the following units:

• Staff Company (active)
• 5 medical battalions (each: 3 medical companies, 2 collection companies, 1 replacement company)
• 10 medical transport companies (Railway) (each: manning a medical transport train for transport of ~300 wounded)
• 1 medical training center (active)

- Territorial Command South additionally had 3 medical battalions, 4 medical transport companies (railway) and a second training center.
- Territorial Command North had 8 reserve military hospital groups (battalion-sized each: staff company plus five platoon-strength military hospitals), all stationed in the Netherlands or Belgium.

The Supply Command had the following units:

• Staff Company (active)
• Security Platoon (securing supply commmand HQ)
• Liaison Command to Pipeline Division (active; for the two divisions managing CEPS in Germany, include FBG and IVG pipeline/tank depot operators)
• Maintenance Company (active; for electronics)
• Instructions Distribution Center (active; printing and distributing the thousands of pages of written instructions)
• Transport Battalion (partially active)
• Transport Battalion (reserve)
• Supply Battalion (general-purpose)
• Supply Battalion (general-purpose)
• 4 Handling Operations Platoons
• 9 Equipment Depots (partially active)
• 7 Ammunition Depots (partially active)
• 2 Medical Materials Depots (partially active)
• Supply Training Center
• Army Maintenance Plant (mostly civilian-staffed)
• Army Maintenance Plant (mostly civilian-staffed)

In Territorial Command South, the above was operationally split into two Supply Commands - 850, west of Rhine, and 860, east of the Rhine.
These two commands, out of the above, split among them the transport and supply battalions and the handling platoons (i.e. each had e.g. 1 supply battalion). With regards to depots however, each of these two commands had the numbers above - 9 equipment depots, 2 medical materials depots; 850 had 5 ammunition depots, while 860 had 9 (average again 7). All other miscellaneous units including the maintenance plants - of which TC South had three - were part of Supply Command 850.

The WHNS Support Command at TC level had the following units:

• Staff Company (partially active)
• Liaison Command
• Liaison Command
• Maintenance Control Group (active)
• Signals Battalion (supporting US Army signals command)
• Field Replacement Battalion
• Security Battalion (3 security companies; 7 20mm field guns)
• Security Battalion (5 security companies; 7 20mm field guns)
• 3 Escort Batteries (each: 12 20mm field guns; escorting nuclear weapons)
• Logistics Company
• Supply Battalion (POL; 9 20mm field guns)
• Supply Regiment with 4 Supply Battalions (ammo; 18 20mm field guns)
• Infantry Training Center
• Infantry Training Center
• peacetime-only units:
  
  • Supply Training Center
  • Driver/Staff Training Center

The above is the unit layout for Support Command 8 supporting the 21st TAACOM within Territorial Command South.
The unit within Territorial Command North, Support Command 7 supporting the 7th TAACOM, was considerably smaller and lacked:
- the 5-coy security battalion
- the escort companies
- the signals battalion
- two of the four Supply Bn (ammo)
- all training centers
Support Command 7 additionally had a maintenance battalion.
The security battalions within the Support Command were collecting units for companies and platoons that would have secured USAREUR installations and REFORGER marching routes; TC South had more since it had considerably more US installations.

Territorial Command South had a second WHNS Support Command under its command (SC 9, cooperating with 4th TRANSCOM):

• Staff Company (partially active)
• Liaison Command
• Liaison Command
• Maintenance Control Group (active)
• Engineer Battalion (six light engineer companies)
• Medical Transport Battalion (ambulance busses)
• Medical Transport Battalion (ambulance busses)
• Transport Regiment with 3 transport battalions
• Transport Regiment with 3 transport battalions
• Field Replacement Battalion

Want me to go on?

of course!

Again, unless otherwise noted, units were reserve.

The five Area Defence Commands (ADC) each had the following direct subordinate units. Differences between ADCs see list. ADC 2 and 3 were in Territorial Command North, ADC 4, 5 and 6 were in Territorial Command South.

• Staff / Staff Company (battalion-sized, partially active)
• Liaison Commands (to various combat units)
• Lower Military Court
• EOD Platoon
• Nuclear/Chemical Munitions Analysis Platoon (only in ADC 3/4/6)
  
• Supply Company (partially active)
• Maintenance Company (partially active)
• transport units:
  
  • Transport Battalion
  • Traffic Command (managing railway and road transport, partially active; [2])
  • Traffic Command (partially active; [2])
  • Traffic Command (partially active; [2]; not in ADC 5)
• military police:
  
  • Military Police Battalion (active)
  • Military Police Battalion (reserve)
  • Military Police Battalion (reserve, only in ADC 3/4)
  • Military Police Battalion (reserve, for field army Corps in wartime: only in ADC 3/4/6)
• Engineer Regiment with 2 battalions (ADC 3 - 4 Bn, ADC 2/4 - 3 Bn)
• NBC Defence Battalion (for Area Defence Command; 12 20mm field guns)
• NBC Defence Battalion (for Allied Troops; 12 20mm field guns)
• peacetime-only units: various large training sites
• subordinate larger units:
  
  • Infantry Brigade Type 5 (partially active; not in ADC 6)
  • Infantry Brigade Type 6 (reserve)
  • 2 Medical Regiments (1 partially active, 1 reserve)
  • "Signals Commander" Regiment
  • Region Defence Commands
  • WHNS Support Commands (only in ADC 3-5)

[2]: for railroad transport of combat units the Traffic Commands each had about 50 flatbed waggons.


The Infantry Brigade Type 5 (ADC 2-5) had the following units:

• Staff Company (partially active)
• Infantry Battalion (active; 3 companies with 10 M113 and 3 Milan ea; heavy company with 7 MBT and 6 mortars)
• Infantry Battalion (reserve; 3 companies in trucks with 3 Milan ea; heavy company with 7 MBT and 6 mortars)
• Armour Battalion (active; 41 MBTs)
• Armour Battalion (one company active, with above Bn; 41 MBTs)
• Field Artillery Battalion (partially active; 18 105mm howitzers and 4 20mm field guns)
• Supply Company (partially active)
• Maintenance Company (partially active)
• NBC Defence Company (4 20mm field guns)
• Medical Company
• Engineer Company
• Replacement Battalion

The Infantry Brigade Type 5 of ADC 5 was a complex item in 1988-1990, as it was being transformed from the above structure into the German-French Brigade. Before 1988, this brigade had the same form as above.

The Infantry Brigade Type 6 (all ADCs) had the following units, all reserve:

• Staff Company
• Infantry Battalion (3 rifle companies with 3 Milan ea, 1 heavy coy with 7 MBT and 6 mortars)
• Infantry Battalion (3 rifle companies with 3 Milan ea, 1 heavy coy with 7 MBT and 6 mortars)
• Armour Battalion (41 MBT in three companies)
• Artillery Battalion (18 105mm howitzers in 3 batteries, 4 20 mm field guns)
• Engineer Company
• Logistics Company

Within both the above brigades, "MBT" usually denotes upgraded M48A2G2 with 105mm guns (since mid 80s). The Type 6 Brigade of ADC 6 used Leopard 1 throughout instead, the Type 5 Brigade of ADC 6 wasn't part of the Territorial Army (but a Field Army unit under the 1st Mountain Division, II Corps).

The howitzers in ADC 2-5 were FH-105 (L) - modified US M1A2 guns with longer range (15 km instead of 11 km). ADC 6 had light M56 mountain guns - US designation: Pack Howitzer L5. Mortars were always Tampella 120mm mortars; the mortars of the M113-equipped battalions were on M113, all others towed.


The "Signals Commander" Regiment was organized as following:

• Staff Company (partially active)
• Signals Company (partially active)
• 2-3 "Region Signals Commanders", each with:
  
  • 2-3 switchboards for communication networks (in bunkers; with reserve security platoons)
  • 2-3 telephone network switchboards
  • 10-15 signals groups: typically 4-5 local military radio systems ([3]), plus teams for operations, repair etc

[3]: Pretty much any fixed-site UHF/VHF antenna mounted on any Bundeswehr building counted.

In peacetime this regiment was staffed mostly with civilians. Peacetime strength for e.g. the ADC 6 Signals Commander was 194 military plus 1017 civilians; wartime strength was 2745 men.


The two Medical Regiments were organized as following:

• Staff Company (partially active in first, reserve in second)
• Medical Analysis Platoon
• Chemical Analysis Platoon
• Veterinary Analysis Platoon
• Field Pathology Platoon
• Ambulance Company
• 5 Medical Transport Platoons (Railway) (each: manning a medical transport railway waggon)
• 2-3 Medical Material Supply Platoons
• 3 Mobile Surgery Squads
• 2-3 Military Hospitals (200-bed field hospital)
• 10-15 reserve military hospital groups (with 5 smaller hospitals each)

The first Medical Regiment also collected all Medical Centers at Army Bases within its AoR. Typically these were about 10-15 company-sized medical units within any ADC, all active in peacetime.
The reserve hospitals (unlike the above field hospitals) were fixed sites and would have used civilian and military infrastructure to accomodate wounded.

The WHNS Support Commands in ADC 3-5 had the following structure:

• Staff Company (partially active)
• Liaison Command
• Liaison Command
• Maintenance Control Group
• Maintenance Control Group (not in ADC 4)
• Security Battalion (not in ADC 3; in ADC 4 with 3 coys, in ADC 5 with 5 coys; 7 20mm field guns)
• Logistics Company
• Escort Battery (12 20mm field guns)
• Escort Battery (12 20mm field guns)
• Security Company (12 20mm field guns, only in ADC 3)
• Ponton Bridge Company (not in ADC 3)
• Smoke Battalion (not in ADC 3)
• Medical Transport Battalion (ambulance busses)
• Supply Battalion (ammo; 18 20mm field guns)
• Supply Battalion (ammo; 18 20mm field guns)
• Supply Battalion (ammo; 18 20mm field guns; not in ADC 3)
• Supply Battalion (POL; 9 20mm field guns)
• Transport Battalion
• Transport Battalion
• Transport Battalion
• Transport Battalion
• Field Replacement Battalion
• Field Replacement Battalion (only in ADC 4)
• Maintenance Battalion (only in ADC 5)
• peacetime-only units (all only in ADC 3):
  
  • Supply Training Center
  • NBC Defence Training Center
  • Medical Training Center

Note: ADC 4 and 5 organized the ammo supply battalions in a regiment each. ADC 5 organized the transport battalions in a regiment.
Most of the larger units were not established until 1989, since the USA financed the equipment for these.

Structure:
Support Command 3 (ADC 3) - for 13th COSCOM supporting III (US) Corps
Support Command 4 (ADC 4) - for 3rd COSCOM supporting V (US) Corps
Support Command 5 (ADC 5) - for 2nd COSCOM supporting VII (US) Corps

The Regional Defense Commands usually had a Regierungsbezirk as assigned territory. There were 28 such commands within ADC 2 to 6, ranging between 4 and 7. In their numbering, the first number always gives the ADC, for reference.

The Regional Defense Commands fell into four categories:
- "small" commands in initial combat zones or physically small (RDCs 23,35,42,44,46,47,62,64,66,67)
- physically "small" commands hosting area defense regiments (RDC 20)
- "large" commands hosting area defense regiments (RDCs 24,31,32,33,41,43,45,51,54,61,63,65)
- "large" commands in other areas without area defense regiments (RDCs 22,25,34,52,53)

A Small Regional Defense Command had the following units:

• Staff Company
• various liaison commands (one to the Regierungsbezirk, others to combat units)
• Signals Platoon
• Engineer Service Group with multiple Demolitions Troops
• Maintenance Control Group (not all)
• infrastructure repair group (not all)
• multiple district defense commmands

- RDC 46 additionally had a supply company and a maintenance company.
- RDC 42 had two security battalions (ea 6 companies, 7 20mm field guns) and a logistics company (all WHNS-assigned, for protection of USAFE bases, see below).
- RDC 35 additionally had a maintenance company.
- RDC 20 (Bremen) did not have subordinate district defense commands, but instead integrated the subunits of one at this level. This RDC also had an area defense regiment.

Except for RDC 20, 42 and 46 all above RDCs were located at the border to the Warsaw Pact, and hence considered likely to be overrun.

A Large Regional Defense Command had the following subunits:

• Staff Company
• various liaison commands (one to the Regierungsbezirk, others to combat units)
• Signals Company
• Supply Company
• Maintenance Company
• Engineer Service Group with multiple Demolitions Troops
• Maintenance Control Group
• infrastructure repair group
• Area Defense Regiment (not in RDC 22,25,34,52,53)
• multiple district defense commmands

In addition, some Regional Defense Commands held Security Battalions (six companies; 7 20mm field guns) for guarding allied airbases used for REFORGER. My own estimate of their distribution (RDC distribution confirmed):

• civilian Airport Cologne (RDC 31) : one battalion
• civilian Airport Düsseldorf (RDC 32) : one battalion
• civilian Airport Stuttgart (RDC 51) : one battalion
• Bitburg Air Base (RDC 42) : one battalion
• Spangdahlem Air Base (RDC 42) : one battalion
• Hahn Air Base (RDC 41) : one battalion
• Zweibrücken Air Base (RDC 45) : one battalion
• Ramstein Air Base with Sembach Annex (RDC 45) : two battalions
• Rhine-Main Air Base (RDC 43) : three battalions

These units would have supported USAFE's own security units.

The Area Defense Regiment had the following subunits:

• Staff Company (with AT platoon: 7 KanJgPz)
• Infantry Battalion (4 rifle companies; 7 20mm field guns)
• Infantry Battalion (4 rifle companies; 7 20mm field guns)
• Infantry Battalion (4 rifle companies; 7 20mm field guns)
• Mortar Company (18 mortars)
• Logistics Company

The layout of the District Defense Commands depended on a number of factors:
- priority targets to be secured within AoR (including type of target)
- allied installations within AoR
- population numbers

The standard layout was:

• Staff Company
• multiple liaison commands (to civilian governments)
• infrastructure repair group
• security platoon for District Defense Command HQ
• multiple Security Companies and Security Platoons for installations and targets
• a "channelling" replacement battalion (collects reservists within AoR, organizes their distribution to combat troops or holds them in reserve to replace casualties)
• multiple small ammunition depots and training sites for peacetime operations within the AoR

Note:
- the replacement battalion did not exist in the above "small RDCs" in combat zones (for obvious reasons)
- the number of replacement battalions varied with the number of citizens within the district. Rough scale was one battalion per 750,000 citizens.
- within the district commands of ADC 2-6 (other than HQ security platoons), there were about 150 security companies and 250 security platoons, with under 10% of that assigned to guard US installations.

The AoRs of some units may have overlapped. For example, those large RDCs without area defense regiments would have been covered by the regiments in neighboring RDCs, and the district replacement battalions would in some cases have covered multiple district commands.

Now for Territorial Command Schleswig-Holstein to finish it up.

This Territorial Command integrated its single Area Defense Command at the same level, hence it was mixed up a lot - and it also had some units from Regional Defense Commands pushed "upwards". Additionally, it was smaller than most other Area Defense Commands itself.

Territorial Command Schleswig-Holstein had the city state of Hamburg and the state of Schleswig-Holstein as its assigned territory.

Territorial Command Schleswig-Holstein had:

• Staff / Staff Company (battalion-sized, active)
• Material Analysis Platoon
• Upper Military Court
• Lower Military Court
• Helicopter Liaison Squadron (6 Alouette II helicopters)
• Topographical Battery (partially active)
• Military Police Battalion
• Field Intelligence Company
• Psychological Operations Company (with 8 20mm field guns)
• NBC Defence Battalion (partially active; 12 20mm field guns, 5 Fuchs NBC)
• Nuclear/Chemical Munitions Analysis Platoon
• Traffic Command (partially active)
• Field Training Regiment with 3 battalions
• Field Replacement Battalion
• Field Replacement Battalion
• peacetime-only units:
  
  • several training sites
  • Driver/Staff Training Company
• Divisional Readiness Command (partially active) with assigned subunits:
  
  • Staff Company (partially active)
  • Infantry Brigade Type 6 (standard layout; equipped with Leopard 1)
  • Area Defense Regiment (standard layout)
  • Area Defense Regiment (layout without mortar company; each infantry battalion with three rifle companies and one heavy company with 8 mortars and 6 20mm field guns)
  • peacetime-only units:
    
    • Engineer Training Center
    • 3 Infantry Training Centers
    • Staff/Supply Training Center
• Air Defense Regiment (partially active; assigned to LANDJUT in wartime)
• Signals Command
• Medical Command
• Supply Command
• 5 District Defense Commands (command for Hamburg called a RDC, but with district structure)

The Air Defense Regiment had the following units:

• Staff Company
• Air Defense Battalion (partially active; 18 Roland, 108 Redeye)
• Air Defense Battalion (partially active; 18 Gepard, 108 Redeye)
• Air Defense Battalion (24 Bofors 40L70)

The Engineer Regiment had:

• Staff Company
• Signals Company (organizing bridging over Elbe and North-Sea/Baltic-Sea Channel)
• Amphibious Engineer Company (active; 14 M2B Alligator)
• Engineer Battalion (active)
• Engineer Battalion
• Engineer Battalion
• Engineer Battalion
• Ponton Bridge Company
• Bridge Engineer Battalion (ponton bridge company, three engineer companies)
• Bridge Engineer Battalion (partially active; ponton bridge company, field bridge company, three engineer companies)
• Pipeline Engineer Battalion (3 pipeline engineer companies, 2 pipeline damage control companies)
• peacetime-only: Pipeline Engineer Company (cadre for battalion)
• 3 security platoons for NEPS installations

The Signals Command had the following units:

• Staff Company (partially active)
• Signals Battalion (partially active; for LANDJUT)
• Signals Battalion (partially active; Signals Central Command Schleswig-Holstein)
• peacetime-only unit: Signals Training Company
• 2 Regional Signals Commanders with about 20 subunits and about 100 communications stations

The Medical Command had the following units:

• Staff Company (active)
• Medical Battalion (partially active; 5 medical companies, 2 collection companies, 1 replacement company)
• 11 medical centers (active)
• Medical Analysis Platoon
• Chemical Analysis Platoon
• Veterinary Analysis Platoon
• Field Pathology Platoon
• 6 Medical Transport Companies (Railway)
• 5 Medical Transport Platoons (Railway)
• 3 Medical Material Supply Platoons
• 3 Mobile Surgery Squads
• 6 Military Hospitals (200-bed field hospital)
• 11 reserve military hospitals groups
• Medical Training Center

The Supply Command had the following subunits:

• Staff Company (active)
• Security Platoon for Supply Command HQ
• Handling Operations Platoon
• EOD Platoon
• Maintenance Support Group
• Maintenance Support Group
• Maintenance Control Group
• Transport Battalion
• Supply Battalion (partially active; 6 20mm field guns)
• Supply Battalion
• Maintenance Battalion (partially active)
• 3 equipment depots
• 2 ammunition depots
• 1 medical materials depot
• peacetime-only units:
  
  • Supply Training Center
  • Maintenance Training Company
  • Supply Training Company

The District Defense Command had the standard layout (Hamburg lacked the HQ security platoon); the only real difference was that they had a total of 21 demolitions teams under their direct command (usually RDC responsibility).

Additional notes, a few tidbits:

• Fields that fell entirely under Territorial Command, and hence appear quite large here are the entire medical structure, and the entire Military Police/Court structure.
• The Military Courts were not covered by German Law, the government had an emergency law in its drawers since the 60s to establish them in wartime. Military would have had three instances - Lower Military Court, Upper Military Court, Federal Court. Under existing peacetime law, the Federal Courts were responsible for Military Law.
• Artillery batteries in the territorial army (105mm howitzers) had relatively big ammunition supplies, with each battery carrying 1000 rounds for its 6 howitzers just in ready ammunition (enough for 30 minutes barrage fire).
• The (about 1000) 20mm field guns listed were for the most part either mounted on the back of 2-ton trucks or towed by them. Intended for both anti-ground and anti-aircraft support fire. Additional 20mm field guns were held by some security platoons where the target warranted it (e.g. platoons protecting nuclear weapons storage sites always had a couple).
• As far as i know, the territorial security units (regiment and below) applied a unitary ammunition scheme - everyone had a G3 firing 7.62x51 NATO, there was nothing firing other small-arms calibers. All units were organized around standard unitary squads (total: about 5000 such squads excluding WHNS units), with each squad of 10 men carrying:
  
  • 8 G3 assault rifles
  • 2 G3/ZF (DMR version)
  • 1 PzF44 rocket launcher (contemporary and roughly equal to RPG7; HEAT warhead with 370mm RHA penetration, effective range 300m against moving targets)
  • 1 40mm grenade launcher (HK69 grenade pistol)
  • 1 machine gun (MG3)
• WHNS units were largely drafted from US Army "local national" civilian employees, and in some cases would have been equipped with standard US Army equipment (especially local security platoons), sometimes as a stopgap measure. Equipment for WHNS units, which totalled some 90,000 men in planning, was to be paid by the USA, and as a result the original unit structure laid out in 1982 wasn't remotely complete by 1989. Units in the above Orbat are those that actually existed and had their equipment.
• The reserve military hospital groups would have relied on drafting women. While regular conscription only drafted men in Germany, the constitution had a provision for drafting able-bodied women between 18 and 55 for unarmed medical duty. The Bundeswehr as a whole planned to draft about 25-30,000 women, similar or higher numbers would have been drafted for civilian hospitals and rescue services if there were not enough volunteers.

Additionally to the above Territorial Army structure, the Federal Border Guard would have assumed a wartime combatant role for rear-area security.
The Federal Border Guard had some 40,000 men in the 80s, with ground troops forming some 20 battalions. Heavy equipment by that time were:

• probably some 400 TM-170 light APCs armed with HK21 machine guns (until 1984: some 600 MOWAG MR8 APCs armed with HK21 or 20mm guns)
• half a dozen offshore patrol vessels that would have been armed with 40mm guns in wartime
• some 100 transport helicopters, including 25 Puma

Working off the "unfinished draft version" of the Orbat now.

German Air Force Rear Area structure, security units only:

Standard Air Base Security Group layout:

• Security Squadron (partially active, with civilian guard platoon)
• Security Squadron (reserve)
• Security Squadron (reserve)
• Air Defense Battery (reserve)

Together about 900-1000 men, with on average about 30-35 twin 20mm field guns (varied; some of these guns were with the base command, not the Air Defense Battery). The size of a security "squadron" could vary in some cases; standard size was about 250 men.

Such security groups existed in:

• Cologne (Wahn airport)
• Nörvenich (Nuclear Strike Wing 31, [4])
• Lager Lechfeld (Strike Wing 32)
• Büchel (Nuclear Strike Wing 33, [4])
• Memmingen (Nuclear Strike Wing 34, [4])
• Pferdsfeld (Strike Wing 35)
• Hopsten (Strike Wing 36)
• Jever (Strike Wing 38)
• Husum (Strike Wing 41)
• Oldenburg (Strike Wing 43)
• Fürstenfeldbruck (Strike Wing 49)
• Bremgarten (Recon Wing 51)
• Leck (Recon Wing 52)
• Penzing (Transport Wing 61)
• Wunstorf (Transport Wing 62)
• Hohn (Transport Wing 63, [4])
• Ahlhorn (Helicopter Wing 64)
• Wittmund (Fighter Wing 71)
• Neuburg (Fighter Wing 74)
• Erding (reserve Strike Wing 39)
• Leipheim (reserve Strike Wing 44)
• Kaufbeuren (Technical Air Force School 1)
• Landsberg (Missile Wing 1, [5])
• Geilenkirchen (Missile Wing 2, [5])
• Neubiberg (reserve base, [6])
• Diepholz (reserve base, [6])
• Manching (reserve base, [6])

[4] : had a fourth security squadron (nuclear strike wings: oversized, 400 men)
[5] : had a second air defense battery
[6] : reserve bases lacked the third security squadron

The second standard type was a single security squadron supported by an air defense battery, both reserve.

Such groups existed in:

• Meßstetten (Radar Control Site 'Martin')
• Haindlfing (Radar Control Site 'Fridolin')
• Lauda-Königshofen (Radar Control Site 'Gustav')
• Auenhausen (Radar Control Site 'August')
• Aurich (Radar Control Site 'Balduin')
• Visselhövede (Radar Control Site 'Lilly')
• Brekendorf (Radar Control Site 'Bernhard', [7])
• Birkenfeld (Radar Control Site 'Erwin', [7])
• Uedem (Radar Control Site 'Udo', [8])

[7] : had a second air defense battery
[8] : had a second security squadron

Additional security squadrons of the Air Force were distributed as following:

• Signals Regiment 11: 7 squadrons (protecting mobile signals units)
• Signals Regiment 12: 8 squadrons (protecting mobile signals units)
• Air Force Supply Regiment 6: 2 squadrons (protecting same number of depots)
• Air Force Supply Regiment 7: 3 squadrons (protecting same number of depots)
• Air Force Supply Regiment 8: 4 squadrons (protecting same number of depots)
• Bunker Mechernich : 4 squadrons, 1 air defense battery (underground maintenance and HQ bunker)
• Bunker Landsberg : 3 squadrons (underground maintenance bunker and depots)
• Bunker Neckarzimmern : 3 squadrons (underground maintenance bunker and depots)

Roundabout 40,000 men in the Air Force security units above, with around 950 twin 20mm field guns for air defense.


German Navy Rear Area structure, security units only:

The Navy primarily had dispersed security platoons protecting local HQs, depots etc - altogether 70 platoons. Two transport battalions had security companies for escort duties.

There were also security battalions for Navy Bases consisting of:

• Security Company (active)
• 2-4 Security Companies (reserve)
• 2-4 Security Platoons (reserve)

These security battalions were established at the four major bases: Flensburg, Kiel, Olpenitz, Wilhelmshaven.

Additionally, the Navy Air Service had security groups consisting of:

• Heavy Security Company (active, with 16 twin 20mm field guns)
• Security Company (reserve)
• Security Company (reserve)
• Air Defense Battery (active, with 24 Bofors 40L70 [9])

[9] : switching to 6 Roland instead of 24 Bofors in 1988/89

These Groups existed at the three Navy Air Bases Jagel, Eggebek, Nordholz.
The fourth Navy Air Base Kiel (helo base), only had the Heavy Security Company and one reserve Security Company.

Addendum: Roles of the more obscure units

Medical Transport Company (Railway)

These companies operated medical trains - one each. Each train would consist of 2 diesel locomotives and 13 waggons, capable of transporting and treating 296 wounded (laying down) or 356 wounded (with 180 sitting).
The waggons were not immediately ready; they could be rebuilt within a few days from standard passenger cars and prepared modules (WarPac armies usually had fully prepared medical trains; West Germany followed the rebuilding concept already applied since the 1880s in Germany). Rebuilding involved removing all seats, and then installing the modules.

Medical Transport Platoon (Railway)

These units were intended for pure transport duties of wounded between medical units; they would have used standard Diesel railcars (Type 798, in the 80s also Type 628). These wouldn't have been rebuilt, the stretchers would have been strapped on top of the seats.

The platoons operated only in the non-combat rear area, the companies operated all the way from the Corps medical sites to the rear area.

Handling Operations Platoons

As far as i know would have operated/supported some corps-level supply points of a Supply Command. Other, larger supply points were operated by company-sized units within Supply Battalions.

Infrastructure Rebuilding Group

Didn't actually rebuild infrastructure. Instead, these units were intended to inspect combat damage to buildings and infrastructure, and then organize repairs by civilian contractors or engineer units.

Maintenance Control Group

Similar role to the Infrastructure Rebuilding Group, but for maintenance. Would have inspected damaged equipment and directed it towards a maintenance company/battalion or a civilian contractor for repairs.

Engineer Service Group / Demolitions Teams

Again the same, but with engineering focus - meaning in particular organizing repairs to terrain, roads, bridges etc. Also did the reverse with their subordinate demolitions teams, whose numbers varied depending on importance of strategic demolitions within the district command.

The Demolitions Teams were (active) 3-man teams that would perform strategic demolition within their AoR. Targets were prepared with e.g. drilled holes, devices to fix explosives to or also large concrete blocks that would fall in place if their supports were blown. Such targets were effectively all bridges, tunnels, roads that the enemy could use.
Each demolition team had on average about 40 prepared targets to maintain and blow up when needed. Total number of targets that were prepared for demolitions in this way was 5787 in 1990, when most (but not all) new construction of such preparations stopped. Peacetime operations of demolitions teams were always performed undercover for counter-intelligence reasons, posing as e.g. road repair crews.

Communications Switchboards

These were important communications hubs; crewing was mixed, consisting of 13 soldiers, 15 Bundespost (Federal Mail) employees, 8 civilian employees, and 31 soldiers defending the site.
These sites used bunkers hardened against nuclear explosions; mostly built in the early 60s. The unit was intended to keep operating for at least 27 days after a nuclear strike.

Here's a map of the Regional Defense Districts with their numbers, for some orientation.

RDCs with names in brackets are "Small" RDCs.

thanks kato for the translation.

i can read german, but only while moving lips
And the names/meanings of the units were bit confusing - Wallmeistern, nachschubbtl. etc...