Graf Stauffenberg Barracks (Sigmaringen)

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Graf Stauffenberg barracks
Entrance to the Graf-Stauffenberg-Kaserne (2009)

Entrance to the Graf-Stauffenberg-Kaserne (2009)
country Germany
local community Sigmaringen
Coordinates : 48 ° 6 '  N , 9 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '36 "  N , 9 ° 14' 32"  E
Opened 1957
Workforce 1050 to 1150 soldiers
213 civilian employees
200 conscripts (2011)
Stationed troops
Troops in the barracks
Formerly stationed units
5th / Feldjägerbataillon 750 ( FjgDstKdo ) GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg
Graf Stauffenberg Barracks (Baden-Württemberg)
Graf Stauffenberg barracks

Location of the Graf Stauffenberg barracks in Baden-Württemberg

The Graf-Stauffenberg-Kaserne was a barracks built by the Bundeswehr in 1957 in Sigmaringen in the district of Sigmaringen . The barracks was named on July 20, 1961 after the officer and resistance fighter Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg .

barracks

The Graf-Stauffenberg-Kaserne, which was originally built in the Ziegelholz quarter in the Laiz district of Sigmaringen , was best known for the 10th Panzer Division , a major army unit . Their subordinate units were stationed in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg and comprised up to around 12,100 soldiers. The staff had its seat here. In addition, the barracks housed various associations and units during its existence . The location was founded in 1906 - at that time with around 40 soldiers. It was not until 1957 that the construction of today's brick barracks began. The federal government previously acquired the barracks site from the municipalities of Sigmaringen, Sigmaringendorf and Bingen . It was called Graf-Stauffenberg-Kaserne since 1961 . Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was the main actor in the unsuccessful assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 on Adolf Hitler .

The barracks totaled around 215  hectares , with around 129 hectares in the Sigmaringen district , around 61 hectares in the Sigmaringendorf district and around 25 hectares in the Bingen district. The barracks were located in the Sigmaringen district - around 65 of the 129 hectares are built on and around 64 are undeveloped. The practice area covered 133 hectares and the shooting range 12 hectares. In 2011, 1425 soldiers (around 1050 to 1150 soldiers and around 200 military service ) were stationed at the Sigmaringen site and up to 213 civil servants were employed.

As a result of adopted in 2010 basic Bundeswehr reform that struck Bundeswehr structure Commission before a relocation of the Staff of the 10th Panzer Division to Bavaria and thus the relocation of most of the soldiers of the bar. German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere ( CDU ), on 26 October 2011 at the federal cabinet the stationing concept in 2011 before after the site Sigmaringen which currently has 1,860  posts (as of 26 October 2011) should be abandoned. The organizational measures at the site saw the dissolution of the 10th Panzer Division, parts of the artillery battalion 295 , the recruit company , the command support battalion 291 , the specialist medical center and the supply and repair center of medical equipment as well as the relocation of the Eurocorps telecommunications company to Lebach and the 2nd / Feldjäger battalion 452 to Stetten Market before. The closure exerts a major economic impact on the region: each year around 3.5 million euros were paid to civilian companies, such as cleaning companies and suppliers, in the barracks. In addition, contracts were awarded to civil construction companies - in 2010 worth around eight million euros.

According to Wolfgang Kopp , Brigadier General ret. D. and chairman of the "Friends of the 10th Panzer Division" based in Sigmaringen, the danger of dissolution was ignored. “From a purely military point of view, there are no reasons for the Bundeswehr to withdraw from Sigmaringen. The infrastructure [...] was carefully preserved, 28 million in five years is not a small amount. "

Inside the barracks there was a team home , a weight room, two sports halls, two sports fields, a beach volleyball field and several tennis courts.

Between mid-February and the end of April 2015, the barracks was used briefly as emergency accommodation for asylum seekers . The remaining Bundeswehr operations continued in parallel. The average occupancy of the barracks was 280 in February, 188 in March and 78 in April. Most of the refugees came from Kosovo . As announced on June 30, 2015 and officially confirmed on July 3, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Integration now intends to set up an initial reception center for at least 500 refugees here. It started operations in August 2015. Since the barracks and the real estate were handed over to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) on December 31, 2015 , the ministry agreed with the BImA to partially use the barracks to accommodate refugees until at least the end of 2016.

Troops and military departments in the barracks

In October 2011 the following units were stationed in the barracks:

literature

  • Kurt Finker: Stauffenberg and July 20, 1944. 7th revised edition. Union-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-372-00298-9 .
  • Klaus Achmann, Hartmut Bühl: July 20, 1944, life pictures from the military resistance. 2nd Edition. Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0488-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Simone Dürmuth: Series. There are more than 4600 soldiers in the district . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from October 30, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b 5000 employees work in four barracks in the Sigmaringen district . In: Südkurier of January 13, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Michael Hescheler (fxh): City calls planning law “decisive factor”. When the soldiers leave Sigmaringen, the municipalities have planning sovereignty over the site . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of January 27, 2012.
  4. ↑ See Sigmaringen . In: Ulrike Puvogel / Martin Stankowski with the assistance of Ursula Graf: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . ed. from the Federal Agency for Civic Education. 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 82.
  5. ^ Karlheinz Fahlbusch: Location decision .
  6. ^ The effects of the stationing concept in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Federal Ministry of Defense, October 26, 2011, archived from the original on October 26, 2011 ; Retrieved October 26, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Karlheinz Fahlbusch: "The danger of dissolution was ignored". In: Südkurier of November 30, 2011.
  8. ↑ a b Michael Hescheler: Refugees stay for a year and a half from July 3, 2015.
  9. ↑ Michael Hescheler: At least 500 refugees should live in barracks . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from June 30, 2015.
  10. ↑ Refugee aid: initial reception in the barracks. Bundeswehr, accessed on September 25, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Christoph Wartenberg: Are there refugees in the barracks? . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from June 30, 2015.