As part of the intervention forces the brigade plans and carries out missions involving networked, multinational, combined arms, high intensity warfare operations.

In addition it plans, prepares and executes tasks in the low to medium intensity part of the spectrum of operations i.e. it provides and reinforces stabilisation forces.

The Marders will soon be replaced by the Puma which is already being put through its paces in the 92nd Panzergrenadier (Lehr) Battalion, which forms part of the brigade.

The brigade demonstrates the appropriate official procedures in a rigorous and methodical way, from the handling of combat materiel to the combined arms live-firing at reinforced battle group level.

The President of Germany conferred the arm band of 9th Panzerlehr Brigade on 24 September 1987 as a visible sign of the recognition it was due.

The district administrator, Karl-Theodor Molinari, and a doctor, Dr. Hermann Wulf, gave up their professions to serve as commanders of the new tank (Panzerlehrbataillon) and armoured infantry (Panzergrenadierlehrbataillon) demonstration battalions.

A total of 71 volunteers, mostly World War II veterans, were stationed in the main camp of what is now Hindenburg Barracks.

The brigade was initially part of 3rd Panzer Division in Buxtehude and its first commander was Brigadier General Wilhelm von Roeder.

In 2006, the 325th Panzerartillerie (Lehr) Battalion from Schwanewede moved to Munster to optimise the cohesion of the brigade's combat troops.

During that time, they succeeded in building kindergartens financed by donations from Germany, offering Afghan children the opportunity of playing and being cared for in permanent accommodation.

Following the end of the deployment, the brigade had to complete its regrouping of intervention forces, conducting further training in order to make its soldiers ready for further potential operations as part of 1st Panzer Division.

The battalion is divided into the following companies: The background of its coat of arms is in Prussian black and white, as on the Iron Cross, the emblem of the Bundeswehr itself.

The palm tree inside the escutcheon has been battalion symbol since 1958 and recalls that of the World War II Afrika Korps, part of the Wehrmacht.

As one of three armoured battalions in the intervention forces of the Germany Army its main task is training for and participating in the peace enforcement and peacekeeping operations of the Bundeswehr.

For several years soldiers of the battalion have been deployed on international operations by the Bundeswehr with SFOR, EUFOR, KFOR and ISAF.