May 1946 - September 1947
Organization as of 1 May 1946
Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Constabulary Brigade, US Constabulary, was organized on 1 May 1946 at Wiesbaden, Germany from personnel of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Armored Division.
In the early period, the brigade consisted
of a Headquarters and Headquarters Troop located at Wiesbaden to which
three regiments were attached:
1st CON Regiment
at Kassel
3rd CON Regiment
at Wetzlar
15th CON Regiment
at Weinheim (then relocated to Seckenheim in January 1947)
1st Brigade was responsible
for law enforcement and security within the German administrative districts
of Land Hessen (North and South), the Regierunsbezirke
of Wiesbaden and Kassel
and the Landeskommisarbezirke of Karlsruhe
and Mannheim. In the first months of operation,
not all Constabulary units were located at their final stations. This
was primarily due to occupation of those assigned facilities by other
units or organizations (displaced persons or prisoners of war) pending
relocation to other facilities. Also, some facilities required extensive
repairs prior to occupation by CON units.
ORGANIZATION
(May
1946 - September 1947)
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May 1946 -- Area of Responsibility and Disposition of units of the 1st Constabulary Brigade
In accordance with
a EUCOM directive, the US Constabulary was re-organized under a troop
ceiling of 18,000 between July and August, 1947. The mission of the Constabulary
remained unchanged.
October 1947 - December 1948
Organization as of 1 September 1947
With the discontinuence
of 3rd Brigade on July 1, 1947, 1st Con Bde also assumed responsibility
for law enforcement and security within Land Württemberg.
In the process, the 1st Bde lost two regiments (1st and 3rd, both inactivated)
and gained one regiment (15th) from the discontinued 3rd Bde.
Responsibility for the Landeskommisarbezirke of Karlsruhe and Mannheim
passed to the 15th Con Regt; the 14th retained the Hessen South sector
and assumed security responsibility for the sectors to the north previously
patrolled by the 1st and 3rd regiments.
ORGANIZATION
(September
1947 - December 1948)
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(1) HHT, 15th Con
Regt was reactivated and reorganized as a separate Squadron (15th Con
Sq (Sep)) effective May 1949; the unit served with distinction as one
of two border squadrons of the US Zone of Occupied Germany until inactivated
on 15 Dec 1952.
September 1947 -- Area of Responsibility and Disposition of units of the 1st Constabulary Brigade
January 1949 - October 1950
ORGANIZATION
(January
1949 - October 1950)
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Up to 1951 the 24th
Con Squadron patrolled the border area from a point east of Kassel (Hebemshausen)
to a point west of Coburg, a distance of 225 miles. In the summer of 1951
the 14th A/C Regiment's battalions moved forward to stations in Bad Hersfeld,
Fulda and Bad Kissingen and assumed the border patrol mission.
With the arrival of the 2d Armored Division in mid 1951 as part of the
Troop Augmentation program, Seventh Army negotiated with the French to
station them at Baumholder in exchange for the 14th ACR kaserne in Fritzlar.
HQ 14th ACR was subsequently moved to Fulda.
January 1949 -- Disposition of units of the 1st Constabulary Brigade