This brigade was created in the summer of 1943 as a mobile unit for operational reinforcement of important
areas of German defense in the West. It included units of motorized infantry, self-propelled guns, engineering and
reconnaissance units. An interesting feature of the brigade was its heavy weapons, which in the vast majority
consisted of samples created on the basis of French trophy equipment.
The Baukommando Becker design bureau led by military engineer Alfred Becker was engaged in the processing
and modernization of this equipment. Among the samples of such equipment were self-propelled guns (105-mm
self-propelled howitzers and 75-mm anti-tank tank destroyers), created on the basis of the French FCM 36 tank
captured by the Wehrmacht in 1940. The transformation of tanks into self-propelled guns was carried out by
equipping them with armored cockpits with installed in them with guns. The brigade also had French military
vehicles, such as the Laffly V15T all-terrain vehicle, which in the Wehrmacht had the designation Laffly (f) Typ
V15T.
