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The 6th Mountain Brigade (high mountain mobile) is a mountain brigade of the Austrian Federal Army. In the course of the Federal Army Reform 2016, the 6th Jägerbrigade was disbanded and largely transferred to the Command of Mountain Fighting. With the 2019 reform, this was reversed and the brigade was reformed as the 6th mountain brigade with its traditional units.

The 6th Mountain Brigade masters all the standard abilities of an infantry group and is also particularly suitable for missions in the high mountains as well as in difficult terrain such as e.g. built-in area and specialized under extreme environmental conditions. The soldiers are the mountain hunters of Austria. Their battalions are stationed in Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Tyrol and Salzburg.

The motto of the 6th Jägerbrigade is: "partnership - professional - successful together"

With the 2nd Jägerkompanie in Landeck and the 2nd Jägerkompanie in Spittal an der Drau as well as a pioneer construction company in Salzburg, the brigade has three cadre presence units (KPE) for international operations (KIOP), of which the two Jägerkompanien are also mountain mobile.

Tasks

in Austria
Military National Defence
Assistance in disasters
Security Police Assistance Mission
Specialization in high mountain and alpine terrain operations
Abroad
Participation in multinational operations

Breakdown
Federal Ministry for Defence, in Vienna
Command Forces, in Graz
6th Mountain Brigade (HGeb), in Absam
Staff battalion 6, in Innsbruck
Jägerbataillon 23, in Bludesch
Jägerbataillon 24, in Lienz
Jägerbataillon 26, in Spittal an der Drau
Pioneer Battalion 2, in Wals-Siezenheim

Edelweiss raid
The 6th Mountain Brigade is the host of the military competition "Edelweiss Raid", which takes place since 2004 in a two-year rhythm and in which soldiers from different nations participate. It is an international military special competition for mountain fighters worldwide.
The two-day competition demands high marching performance in winter conditions in the high mountains and the handling of operational tasks and is considered an "unofficial world championship of mountain soldiers".

In 2023, competition teams from Bulgaria, China, Germany, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the USA and Austria participated. The winner was a team of the mountain fighter battalion 233 from Mittenwald (Bavaria), in front of a team of the fighter battalion 26 and a team from China.

In 2021, the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2019, the team Germany 1 (mountain fighter battalion 233) won, second was Germany 2 (also from the mountain fighter battalion 233) and in third place landed a team from the leadership support battalion 2 from St. Johann im Pongau.

History

In the course of the army division in 1956, the 6th Mountain Brigade began service in August. The association consisted of three fighter battalions, an artillery department and each