Multinational Corps North East

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Multinational Corps North East

Active	18 September 1999 - present
Country	Germany, Poland, Denmark
HQ	Szczecin (PL)
Commanders
Corps Commander	Lieutenant General Zdzisław Goral (PL)
Deputy Corps Commander	Major General Jan Brun Andersen (DK)
Chief of Staff	General Josef Heinrichs (D)

Multinational Corps North East was formed on 18 September 1999 at Szczecin, Poland, which became its headquarters. It evolved from what was for many years the only multinational corps in NATO, Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland (LANDJUT) (in its turn, a part of Allied Forces Northern Europe). From 1962 LANDJUT had been responsible for the defence of the Baltic Approaches from a headquarters at Rendsburg, Germany. It comprised the 6th Panzergrenadier Division and the Danish Jutland Division.

A tri-national working group was established following the July 1997 decision that Poland was to be admitted to NATO with the aim of establishing the corps as part of NATO’s Main Defence Forces. Its missions are three-fold: to participate in the collective defence of NATO territory, under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, to contribute to multinational crisis management including peace support operations, and to provide command and control for humanitarian, rescue, and disaster relief operations.

Though it is a NATO formation, the Corps Convention is a trilateral agreement between the three nations. The positions of commander, deputy commander, and chief of staff rotate between the three nations. For common purposes of practice and training the corps was assigned to Joint Sub-Regional Command Northeast (JSRC NE), at Karup, Denmark. For Article 5 common defence purposes, the Corps was to have been assigned either to JSRC NE or the JSRC Centre at Heidelberg, Germany. Following the latest reorganisation, it would report if designated for operations to Allied Land Component Command Heidelberg.

Due to its geographical location, the only NATO HQ East of the former Iron Curtain, Multinational Corps North East has a key function in the integration of new NATO member states. This is reflected in the structure of its personnel. Officers and NCO's from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia are serving at Multinational Corps North East. Furthermore, members of the United States Armed Forces are also attached to the corps.

From January to August 2007 a considerable number of personnel from Multinational Corps North East were put at the disposal of ISAF's headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.^[1]

1 Affiliated Forces
2 Notes
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Affiliated Forces

Danish Division (HQ Haderslev) (Major General Peter Kühnel) The organisation from 1997-2005 Mechanised Division

3d Signal Battalion
Three Mechanised Brigades
- 1st Jyske Bde (Staff Coy, Mech Btn x2, Armor Btn, Light Recce Sqn, Artillery Btn, Eng Coy, Log Btn, MP unit)
- 3d Jyske Bde
- 1st Seeland Bde
Armor Battalion (II/JDR - Staff Sgn, Tank Sqn x3, one Mech Inf Coy)
Reconnaissance Battalion (V/JDR - Stafplatoon, tree ArmorRecceSqn)
Anti-tank helicopter Coy
Patrol Coy (light recce)
Division Artillery
- Headquarters Battery
- three Artillery Battalions (2nd, 23nd, 24th)
- Rocket-launch Battery
14th Anti-aircraft rocket battalion
3d Engineering Battalion
3d Electronic Warfare Coy
3d Logistic Support battalion
Transport Coy
3d Military Police Coy