Before the completion of the consolidation training, orders were given to move the brigade to Latvia. Here, between 17 and 25 August, in the Tukums sector of the city, it covered the flanks of the units that opened supply routes from East Prussia to the besieged Riga during Operation Doppelkopf. Afterwards, the brigade was transferred to the 4th Army reserve to replenish its numbers. In September and October it was then deployed to the defensive fighting for East Prussia. Weakened by the losses suffered, it was withdrawn from East Prussia on 4 November.
By mid-November, only a torso of the brigade remained, consisting of the brigade headquarters, a command platoon and a staff and supply company. The brigade moved to Military Training Area Senne and from 26 November acted as the tactical headquarters for the so-called "Senne Brigade". "Alarmeinheiten) stationed in the vicinity of Bad Bergzabern - Volkssturm battalions, engineer battalions and tank fighter battalions, artillery units and anti-aircraft artillery units, including Heavy Tank Fighter Detachment 654 and Heavy Tank Fighter Detachment 93, as well as II. An improvised Kampfgruppe (battle group) composed of the above units repelled an Allied attempt to cross the Rhine between Mannheim and Germersheim in December 1944.
In early January 1945, the brigade was withdrawn to Grafenwöhr Training Area to rest and replenish losses.
On 20 January 1945, the brigade, together with Tank Regiment Coburg, moved by rail to Training Area Neuhammer in Lower Silesia and then on its own to the sector near the town of Sagan (Żagań). From 26 January it was deployed on the Oder bridgehead at Steinau (Ścinawa) and in early February it participated in a counterattack from the Kaltwasser (Stadźeńka) sector against Soviet tank units advancing on Zhořelec.
At the end of February it was transferred to the Lauban (Lubań) sector, where it rallied local troops and used them to defend the town. In early March, it was able to break the encirclement of the city and was subsequently transferred to the Oder front east of Berlin, where the headquarters of Tank Brigade 103 formed the headquarters of the newly formed Tank Division Müncheberg on 8 March 1945.
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