Training area Armed Forces Joint Tactical Fire Support / Indirect Fire

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Training area Armed Forces Joint Tactical Fire Support / Indirect Fire
- Trainer STF / IndirF -

Association badge

Association badge
Lineup 1956
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Armed forces Logo of the army of the Bundeswehr army
Branch of service artillery
Type Army training facility
Insinuation Wappen training center Munster Training center Munster
Location Idar-Oberstein
Gun color crimson
Web presence STF / IndirF trainer
commander
Head of STF /
IndirF trainer and general of the artillery force 		Colonel Dietmar Felber

The training area Armed Forces Joint Tactical Fire Support / Indirect Fire ( Trainer STF / IndirF ; until June 30, 2015 Artillery School - ArtS ) is the central training center for indirect fire . He is subordinate to the training center Munster and is stationed in Idar-Oberstein in the property " Artillery School ".

assignment

The training area trains all artillerymen and mortar soldiers (officers, NCOs and candidates) in various courses. He is responsible for their individual education , training and further education and for the preparation of all tactical fire support coordination elements such as the Joint Fire Support Team (JFST), Joint Fire Support Coordination Team (JFSCT) and Joint Fire Support Coordination Group (JFSCG).

structure

Large hall in the house of the Artillerist Comradeship Idar-Oberstein eV with city coat of arms (center) and coat of arms (former) offices of the location

The Armed Forces Joint Tactical Fire Support / Indirect Fire training area is part of the Munster training center. The leader is a colonel ( A 16 ) and in personal union also " general of the artillery force ". He is thus the highest representative of the military and subordinates to the Army Inspector in the special area of responsibility.

The training area is divided into:

  • Staff platoon
  • STF / IndirF supply area
  • Dutch Armed Forces Liaison Officer and Dutch Inspection
  • Flight safety unmanned aerial vehicles
  • Troop teacher (since 2020 also Special Branch Instructor Competence Center)
  • Aerological measurement train
  • Teaching and training
    • Officer training
      • I. Officer training inspection (OffzAusb)
      • Inspection language training (InSprAusbOA),
    • II. Inspection NCO training (UffzAusb)
    • Central Training Facility Armed Forces Joint Tactical Fire Support / Indirect Fire (ZA STF)

The Sergeant Candidate / Sergeant  Candidate Battalion 1 (FA / UA Btl 1) in Sondershausen has been subordinate to the Army Sergeant's School since mid-2016 .

history

Klotzberg barracks

The Artillery School (ARTS) was a central training facility of artillery troops of the Army in 1956 in Idar-Oberstein , Klotzberg barracks founded. She was subordinate to the General of the Artillery in the Army Office . In the 1960s, facilities in Baumholder (Wilhelmswald camp, Aulenbach camp and in the streets Hinterm Turm and Grünbacher Weg ) were also used. The focus was on the training of pipe artillerymen . The school was supported by the troops of the Artillery Training Regiment 5 in Idar-Oberstein and Kusel .

The artillery troop school was formed with advance personnel from April 26, 1956 and was set up on June 29, 1956. On April 1, 1957, it was renamed the Artillery School and began operations with teaching groups A and B in the Klotzberg barracks. A reorganization took place on July 30, 1959: teaching group A was renamed teaching group B and teaching group B was renamed teaching group C. On April 1, 1961, teaching group D was set up in the Klotzberg barracks. On October 1, 1964, teaching group A was reorganized, moved to the Rilchenberg barracks in 1967 (today's property name: Artillery School ), and dissolved in 1969. In June 1967 the staff of the artillery school moved from the Klotzberg to the Rilchenberg barracks. 100 years of ArtS was also celebrated this year . Teaching group B was dissolved on October 1, 1981 and the artillery rocket school previously stationed in the Selfkant barracks Geilenkirchen was integrated as a new teaching group B, but was stationed in the Rilchenberg barracks until it was dissolved on September 30, 2007. Teaching group C remained in the Klotzberg barracks until it was dissolved on December 31, 1994. Teaching group A ended its activity on September 30, 2007. At times, the Idar-Oberstein Officer Candidate Battalion was affiliated with the school.

On July 1, 2013, the artillery school was transferred from the Army Office to the Army Training Command. The further development group was dissolved on October 1, 2013. The staff moved to the Office for Army Development. After the infrastructural prerequisites had been created, the inspection of language training for officer candidates was relocated to Dresden in 2017 with the incorporation as XI. Inspection of teaching group B of the OSH planned. The OA battalion Idar-Oberstein was dissolved at the end of 2012. The III. Inspection AGA was disbanded in the second half of 2013. The Marder IFV shooting simulator (assigned to Inspection II) was disbanded in the first half of 2015.

The shooting simulator, Art (BT 33) for observer training (now called Indirect Fire Training Simulator (ASIF)) was modernized and two simulators were stationed in Idar-Oberstein, one in Munster . Others are planned for Artillery Battalion 131 and Artillery Battalion 295 .

The Rilchenberg barracks were renamed the Artillery School on December 22, 2014 by Colonel Koolman and Lord Mayor Zimmer , so that the "traditional name in Idar-Oberstein" and the type of service are retained. The “STF / Indirect Fire Training Area” will be renamed “Artillery School” on April 1, 2021.

Sleeve badge

The basic form of the association badge corresponds to that of the Office for Army Development. It is a shield with a red background and shows two crossed swords. Under the swords in the base of the shield there is a white "S", which indicates the army's training facilities . The piping of the badge is crimson, corresponding to the weapon color of the military type. The association badge is worn on the left sleeve of the service suit.

Internal association badge

Internal association badge

The internal association badge shows the intertwined letters "A" and "S" for the former artillery school and two crossed cannon barrels on a red background. It is worn as a breast tag on the right breast pocket.

Commanders

Rank Surname vintage Commander of Commander up
Brigadier General Ignaz Peslmüller 1897 06/26/1956 10/10/1957
Colonel Wilhelm Schaeffer 1903 07/10/1957 02/16/1959
Brigadier General Friedrich Albrecht 1905 02/16/1959 09/30/1963
Brigadier General Günter-Joachim Rothe 1915 10/01/1963 09/30/1967
Brigadier General Ulrich Boës 1911 10/01/1963 09/30/1969
Brigadier General Friedrich Buchenau 1914 10/01/1969 06/30/1972
Brigadier General Josef Wilhelm 1921 07/01/1972 08/31/1978
Brigadier General Dieter Fingerhuth 1920 10/01/1978 March 31, 1980
Brigadier General Rudolf Promies 1920 04/01/1980 10/26/1980
Brigadier General Christoph Adolf Fürus 1928 December 07, 1981 03/31/1983
Brigadier General Peter Rohde 1934 04/01/1983 11/28/1986
Brigadier General Heribert Göttelmann 1936 11/28/1986 09/26/1991
Brigadier General Wolfgang Fischer 1935 09/26/1991 March 24, 1995
Brigadier General Reinhard Reichhelm 1937 March 24, 1995 03/20/1997
Brigadier General Jochen Schneider 1947 03/20/1997 10/25/2001
Brigadier General Heinrich Fischer 1951 10/25/2001 03/19/2008
Brigadier General Heribert Hupka 1953 03/19/2008 06/26/2015
Colonel Fiepko Koolman 1956 06/26/2015 March 22, 2018
Colonel Dietmar Felber 1960 March 22, 2018

Former Bundeswehr rocket artillery school

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Artillery School (Bundeswehr) .svg

The training of the rocket artillery took place until 1981 at its own school in connection with the teaching battalion .

  • Missile School of the Army ( RakSH ):

With installation initially from 1958 as part of the artillery school (teaching group D), but located in Cologne-Longerich , from 1964 as a separate school until 1974 in the Donnerberg barracks in Eschweiler. Reclassified with relocation to Geilenkirchen.

  • Artillery Missile School ( RakSArt ):

From 1974 to 1981 in Geilenkirchen in the Selfkant barracks . Disbanded in 1981 and incorporated as teaching group B into the artillery school in Idar-Oberstein. Since 1981, the training of rocket artillerymen has been carried out exclusively at the artillery school in Idar-Oberstein.

Journal of the artillery force "Zu Gleich"

Cover of an edition of the magazine Zu Gleich

Under the leadership of the head of the STF / IndirF training department, the magazine of the artillery troop Zu Gleich has been published since the fourth quarter of 1995 . This battle cry of the artillery was eponymous. Initially in A5 format and irregularly, the magazine has been published every six months since 2002 in DIN A4 format and comprises around 60 pages. Zu Gleich sees itself as an information magazine by artillerymen for artillerymen, for active, non-active and external who are interested in artillery.

Friends of the artillery troops

The Friends of the Artillery Troop e. V. is based in the Artillery School property . It was founded in 2007 and entered in the register of associations at the Bad Kreuznach District Court . The purpose is to give the members a forum by means of lectures, discussions, publications and encounters on defense-political, tactical-operational tasks of the Bundeswehr in general and technical questions and problems as well as on the further development of the artillery troops in particular. Furthermore, the mission and the importance of the artillery force should be communicated to the public. The association is recognized as a non-profit organization. President is the former general of the artillery and commander of the artillery school, Brigadier General a. D. Heribert Hupka. The online editions of the magazine of the Artillery Troop Zu Gleich can be downloaded free of charge from the association's website.

Artillery Society

The Gesellschaft für Artilleriekunde eV (GfAk) was founded in 1970 at the Artillery School in Idar-Oberstein by active and former artillerymen. Its main goals and services are the operation of an archive, a teaching and study collection on the development of artillery, the dissemination of information about artillery in the past and present and the promotion of historical and scientific work in the field of artillery science.

On August 4, 2020, the German Army Command recognized the Society for Artillery Studies with the official status of a private military history collection . This is the basis for collecting and teaching military history in the division of the Federal Ministry of Defense . The aim of expanding the teaching collection into a German Artillery Museum Idar-Oberstein is being pursued further.

Historical German artillery schools of the army

  • Artillery School (Hanover)
  • Berlin, United Artillery and Engineering School , Prussian Army
  • Jüterbog, Old Camp , Prussian Army / Wehrmacht
  • Neisse OS , Artillery School, Wehrmacht
  • Artillery School of the Jüterbog Army (until 1942)
  • Artillery School I Berlin, then Meißen (1942 to 1945)
  • Artillery School II Jüterbog, then Groß-Born (1942 to 1945)
  • Artillery School III Thorn (later Suippes near Chalons-sur-Marne) (1943 to 1944)
  • SS Artillery School I Glau b. Berlin
  • SS Artillery School II Beneschau / Bohemia

Sponsorship with the city of Idar-Oberstein

First day letter on the occasion of 10 years of sponsorship

On June 12, 1988 the city council of Idar-Oberstein decided to offer the Bundeswehr that the city could officially sponsor the artillery school. The sponsorship certificate required for this was signed on June 12, 1988 by Brigadier General Heribert Göttelmann and Lord Mayor Erwin Korb . In 2013, the 25th anniversary of the sponsorship was celebrated during a festive ceremony in the city theater. In May 2014, a city council resolution proposed to the Federal Ministry of Defense to rename the Rilchenberg barracks the artillery school in order to preserve the tradition and the good relations between the city and the armed forces . The STF / IndirF trainer is now based in the Artillery School on the Rilchenberg property in Idar-Oberstein and the name will be retained even after the reform of the armed forces.

literature

  • Artillery School (Ed.): 100 years of artillery school. Working group history u. Tradition d. Artillery, Idar-Oberstein 1967.
  • Stefan Heydt, Christian Bannert (project officer): The army schools. On behalf of the Army Office , Fölbach-Medienservice, Munich 2011, p. 32 ff.
  • Marc Kasper (Red.): 50 years of the artillery school. September 10, 2006. 1956-2006. Publishing house Sudau, Idar-Oberstein 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet presence training area Armed Forces Joint Tactical Fire Support / Indirect Fire
  2. ↑ P. 24 ff: Outline graphic and explanations of the sub-units
  3. ↑ Journal Zu Gleich 1/2015 (PDF).
  4. ↑ At the same time. In: http://www.freundeskreis-artillerietruppe.de/ . Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  5. ^ Society for Artillery Studies eV
  6. ^ First steps to the German Artillery Museum
  7. ↑ Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover. Volume 1: From the beginning to the beginning of the 19th century. Schlueter, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , pp. 199, 246, ( books.google.de ).
  8. ↑ The city ​​and artillery school celebrate a large community festival together. In: https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/ . Rhein-Zeitung , May 31, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2019 .
  9. ^ [ Artillery school and town celebrated the 25th anniversary of their sponsorship . In: http://www.idar-oberstein.de/ , June 21, 2013.]
  10. ↑ Idar-Oberstein artillery school remains. Rhein-Zeitung , May 21, 2014, accessed on August 24, 2020 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 37.3 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 1.6 ″  E