Office for Military Studies

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Office for Military
Studies - AMK -

Coat of arms of the Bundeswehr Office for Military Studies

Internal association badge
Lineup 1961
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Organizational area Force Base Force Base
Strength 130
Insinuation Internal association badge Kdo SKB Kdo Force Base
Location DEU Bonn COA.svg Bonn - Mehlem

The Office of Military customer ( AMK ) to an office of the Joint Support Service (SKB) of the Bundeswehr or Tarn designation of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) to be.

According to media reports, it is not a separate department, but merely a legend for the BND or its branch offices. As part of the transparency of the former BND president offensive Gerhard Schindler , the code name should be abandoned. According to further reports in the media, BND employees were used to camouflage z. B. State "Office for Military Studies" at the landlord and soldiers are transferred to the AMK for camouflage. The AMK would not exist, but would be identical to the BND. The soldiers employed there are not subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Defense . The AMK should be the personnel department responsible for soldiers to BND troops on duty displaced were or commanded. According to the BND, around 750 soldiers (approx. 11.5 percent) are among its approximately 6,500 employees.

The AMK is mentioned in official documents, such as in a decision of the Federal Administrative Court of 2012 or the Budget Act 2019. There, information is given on the main features of the organization of the armed forces according to Art. 87a paragraph 1 sentence 2 of the Basic Law and the AMK is shown as part of the armed forces base. In the stationing brochure of the Bundeswehr 2011, however, it is neither to be found nor in the list of services on the SKB homepage.

An alternative abbreviation for AMK should be "AMilKde".

History and deployment

According to the Bundeswehr location database, the AMK was set up in Bonn in 1961 and later moved to the Waldmann barracks , Saarstrasse 14, in Munich . Possibly. In 1986 it is said to have moved to its current location in Bonn-Mehlem, Nippenkreuz 19. However, the AMK is to move to the branch office of the BND in Pullach .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Armin E. Möller: The Office for Military Studies in Bonn - secrecy is part of business. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , July 28, 2011, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  2. Florian Fade: Phantom authorities of the BND are dissolved. In: welt.de. Die Welt , April 2, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  3. Florian Fade: The 10 most secret secrets of the BND. In: bild.de. Bild (newspaper) , April 1, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  4. Carola Dorner: secret job foreign agent - "James Bond would not get through the interview". In: spiegel.de. Der Spiegel , May 15, 2013, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  5. What you didn't know about the BND. In: rp-online.de. Rheinische Post Online , accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  6. The departments - 11 departments, one order. In: bnd.bund.de. Federal Intelligence Service , accessed on December 21, 2018 : "Around 6,500 people work in the BND."
  7. ^ The foreign intelligence service of Germany . Federal Intelligence Service - Press and Public Relations, Berlin 2014, p. 34 (64 pp.).
  8. Decision BVerwG 1 WB 29.11. In: verwg.de. Federal Administrative Court, March 28, 2012, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  9. Budget Act 2019. (PDF) In: bundestag.de. German Bundestag , August 10, 2018, p. 2141 , accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  10. The stationing of the Bundeswehr in Germany - October 2011. (PDF) In: https://www.bundeswehr.de/ . Federal Ministry of Defense , accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  11. ^ Press and Information Center for the Armed Forces Base: Departments in alphabetical order: A. In: streitkraeftebasis.de. Force Base , August 11, 2017, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  12. a b Bundeswehr location database. In: zmsbw.de. Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Handover of the location at the slouch hats. In: bayerische-staatszeitung.de. Bayerische Staatszeitung , October 10, 2015, accessed on December 21, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 7 ″  E