The 11. Motorisierte-Schützen-Division was raised 23 October 1956 from A-Volkspolizeibereitschaft Halle.

Elements of it was subordinated to the 1. Soviet Guards Armored Army as the Prague Spring ended with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and were moved to the border, but did not take part in the invasion.

Commanders

Oberst Hermann Vogt (11 Oct 1956 - 15 Aug 1960)
Oberst Hans Spallek (15 Aug 1960 - 31 Aug 1965)
Oberst Erich Dirwelis (1 Sep 1965 - 30 June 1969)
Oberst Heinz Handke (1 Sep 1969 - 31 Aug 1972)
Oberst Rudolf Magnitzke (1 Sep 1972 - 31 Oct 1974)
Oberst Alfred Krause (1 Nov 1974 - 31 Aug 1977)
Generalmajor Manfred Zeh (1 Sep 1977 - 30 Apr 1984)
Oberst Klaus Wiegand (1 May 1984 - 31 Oct 1986)
Oberst Olivier Anders (1 Oct 1986 - 31 Dec 1989)
Oberst Reinhard Panian (1 Feb 1990 - 2 Oct 1990)

Headquarters

Halle

Order of battle (1987)

Mot.-Schützenregiment 16 Robert Uhrig
Mot.-Schützenregiment 17 Fritz Weineck
Mot.-Schützenregiment 18 Otto Schlag
Panzerregiment 11 Otto Buchwitz
Artillerieregiment 11 Wilhelm Koenen
Führungsbatterie Chef Raketen/Artillerie 11
Flak- Raketene Regiment 11 Georg Stöber
Führungsbatterie Chef Truppenluftabwehr 11
Raketenabteilung 11 Magnus Poser
Geschosswerferabteilung 11
Aufklärungsbatallion 11 Heinrich Brandes
Pionierbatallion 11 Willi Gall
Panzerjägerabteilung 11 Hermann Vogt
Nachrichtenbatallion 11 Otto Brosowski
Batallion Materielle Sicherstellung 11 Bernhard Koenen
Instandsetzungsbatallion 11
Batallion Chemische Abwehr 11 Erwin Hörnle
Sanitätsbatallion 11
Ersatzregiment 11

Manpower Strength: 14,787 (wartime), 10,996 (peacetime), 11,015 (actual).
Actual Equipment Strength: 4 Luna M (FROG-7) transporter-erector rocket launchers, 214 T-55 tanks, 139 BMP tracked infantry combat vehicles, 282 armored personnel carriers, 126 artillery pieces and multiple rocket launchers, 13 bridge-laying tanks.

Sources used

Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke - Die Generale und Admirale der NVA
Dale R. Herspring - Requiem for an Army: the demise of the East German military
Wilfried Kopenhagen - Die Landstreitkräfte der NVA

Reference material on this unit

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