NVA Panzer Divisions

The organization of the 2 NVA panzer (armored) divisions each featured 3 tank regiments and 1 motorized rifle regiment. Each division had approximately 12,500 men, 300 tanks and 300 assorted armored personnel carriers. By the late 1980s, the T-72 formed the bulk of the main battle tank force of the East German 7th Panzer Division and 9th Panzer Division "Heinz Hoffman". At that point, the older T-55 was used primarily as the main battle tank of the panzer regiments of the Mot-Schutzen (motorized rifle) divisions. Each panzer division had its own integral artillery, flak, chemical, pioneer and other service units.

The 7th Panzer Divison was organized as follows:

PR-14 "Karol Swierczewski"
PR-15 "Paul Hornick"
PR-16 "Leo Jogiches"
MSR-7 "Max Roscher"
AR-7 "Albert Hößler"
FRR-7 "Paul Rockstroh"
AB-7 "Ludvik Svoboda"
BChA-7 "Johann Eggert"
BMS-7 "Kurt Schlosser"
GeWA-7 "Ernst Schneller"
IB-7 "Gustav Schneider"
NB-7 "Egon Dreger"
PiB-7 "Arthur Thiermann"
RA-7 "Alfred Kurella"
SanB-7
StK-7
FüBttr CRA-7
FüBttr CTLA-7

The 9th Panzer Division was organized as follows:

PR-21 "Walter Empacher"
PR-22 "S. Kosmodemjanskaja"
PR-23 "Julia Marchlewski"
MSR-9 "Rudolf Renner"
AR-9 Karpin "Hans Fischer"
FRR-9 Karpin "Rudolf Dölling"
AB-9 "Eduard Claudius"
BChA-9 "Michael Niederkirchner"
BMS-9 "Robert Stamm"
GeWA-9 "Friedrich Ebert"
IB-9 "Paul Dessau"
NB-9 "Adolf Bytzek"
PiB-9
RA-9 "Otto Nuschke"
SanB-9 "Wolfgang Langhoff"
StK-9
FüBttr CRA-9
FüBttr CTLA-9

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NVA T-72

NVA BMP-1