Training music corps of the Bundeswehr

Training Music Corps of the German Armed Forces - Training CorpsBw -
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Lineup	July 1, 1960
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Organizational area	Force Base
Branch of service	Military music service
Strength	≈150 men and women
Insinuation	Military Music Center of the Bundeswehr
Location	Hilden
commander
Lieutenant colonel	Michael Euler

The training music corps of the Bundeswehr (ZusatzMusKorpsBw) was set up in Siegburg on July 1, 1960 and has been stationed in the Waldkaserne in Hilden since 1969 . The new construction of the training center there necessitated a temporary relocation of the training company until April 2018 to the neighboring Bergische Kaserne in the Hubbelrath district of Düsseldorf, which was being dissolved at the time . As a military band with special main task it is next to the other 13 Band of the Armed Forces the Military Music Center of the Bundeswehr in Bonn assumed.

Every year the training music corps goes on a concert tour with numerous benefit concerts in which the musicians prove the success of their training.

Order and offer

The task of the training music corps is to pave the way for young musicians to become professional orchestral musicians and to prepare them for future employment in the military music service of the Bundeswehr. In a 4-year apprenticeship, combined with a bachelor's degree at the Robert Schumann University of Music in neighboring Düsseldorf, you will receive the necessary tools. A competence team, consisting of teaching sergeants, three officers from the military service and a conductor , coordinate and manage the training company, which offers space for up to 150 musicians.

Employment requirements for military music service are

• Commitment as a temporary soldier for 12 years
• Successful completion of a musical and military aptitude test

After being hired as a non-commissioned officer , the following training phases are planned:

• 4-month basic training with predominantly medical service tasks
• 7-month “basic music module” to prepare for the aptitude test at the Robert Schumann University. In addition to their main instrument, all course participants also receive piano lessons as a minor . Orchestral playing and chamber music form a training focus.
• 3 years of comprehensive "music-related advanced module" with a bachelor's degree. Professors and lecturers - often members of renowned orchestras - stand for first-class, practice-oriented studies. All instruments that are used in a modern symphonic wind orchestra are taught. The course is supplemented by regular participation in rehearsals and concerts by the symphonic wind orchestra of the training music corps.
• 10-week training at the Bundeswehr Medical Academy in Munich.

With the passing of the sergeant examination, the activity in the training music corps ends. The music soldiers are assigned to a music corps according to need.

history

Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Deisenroth, known as a composer and arranger of numerous pieces of music and in 1947 founder of the Hilchenbacher Volksmusikschule, a predecessor of the Philharmonie Südwestfalen . July 1960 as a training train with the staff music corps. In November 1960, Captain Ludwig Kühlechner became the head of the training platoon and in December the first concerts took place under his staff leadership and that of his deputy, Oberstabsfeldwebel Joseph Hoser. In 1961, contracts for a training program were concluded with the State University of Music Rhineland in Cologne (today: University of Music and Dance Cologne ). Their lecturers ensured qualified training. The number of applicants rose steadily and the spatial conditions in the Brückberg barracks in Siegburg became increasingly narrow and were ultimately no longer suitable for an orderly training company. On May 5, 1969, the training music corps was moved from Siegburg to the forest barracks in Hilden . Under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Höfele, training began in 1976 according to a completely new concept, which included studying at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. The first aspiring music officers were able to be trained in the training music corps from 1978 onwards and completed their studies at the music college in Düsseldorf with the Kapellmeister exam. Colonel Michael Schramm , former head of the military music service of the Bundeswehr and head of the training music corps from 1991 to 1995, was the first to graduate from the Kapellmeister exam according to the new concept.

The first female soldiers began their training in Hilden in 1991.

The construction of the training center in Hilden caused a temporary displacement of the forming operation by April 2018, the forest adjacent barracks and the time resolution conceived in Bergisch barracks in Düsseldorf district Hubbelrath . This was only slightly less convenient to the cooperating civil organizations. Mainly because of the lack of structural conditions for the military music training company, it was a temporary solution. When the musicians moved out of Hubbelrath, this location was given up by the Bundeswehr.

The keys to the newly constructed rehearsal and practice building in Hilden took place on April 20, 2018. In the days that followed, the Bundeswehr's training music corps returned to the Waldkaserne after the new training center was completed. Two new buildings were built there with approx. 6,400 square meters of usable space, including 140 accommodation rooms, 68 practice rooms and 34 classrooms for the future musicians of the training music corps. The entire building complex is tailored to the special requirements of military music. A special feature is the polygonal part of the building in the middle of the building complex with two rehearsal rooms and a recording studio.

Chronicle of the chiefs of the training music corps

The previous heads of the Bundeswehr training music corps were:

• 1960–1962: Captain Ludwig Kühlechner, deputy: Oberstabsfeldwebel Joseph Hoser
• 1962–1963: Captain Philipp Sonntag
• 1963–1964: Captain Ernst Müller
• 1964: -0000Captain Joseph Hoser
• 1964–1965: Captain Herbert Domagalla
• 1965–1966: Captain Fritz Wintermann
• 1966–1967: Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hoser
• 1967–1976: Lieutenant Colonel Fritz Wintermann
• 1976–1978: Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Höfele
• 1978–1980: Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Lukácsy
• 1980–1991: Lieutenant Colonel Ulrich Hollmann
• 1991–1995: Lieutenant Colonel Michael Schramm
• 1995–2001: Lieutenant Colonel Walter Ratzek
• 2001–2007: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kuckertz
• 2007–2008: Lieutenant Colonel Reinhard Kiauka
• since 2008: Lieutenant Colonel Michael Euler

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.kommando.streitkraeftebasis.de/portal/a/kdoskb/!ut/p/c4/FYtLCoAwEENPZGfvzlP42UhapQ7ttKX1A57ekUDyEggtpEq42ePknBBpotlxbx_Tgl3DljVh7BV3xVo9_Tgl3DljVh7BV3xVos/Tgl3DljVh7BV3xVos/Tgl3DljVh6M3xVoFs
2. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/langenfeld/musik-in-schwarz-rot-gold_aid-22361105
3. ↑ http://www.siwiarchiv.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Orchestergeschichte-1957bis1997.Wolf_.pdf
4. ↑ http://www.kommando.streitkraeftebasis.de/portal/a/kdoskb/start/service/archiv/2015/juli/!ut/p/z1/hY9vC4IwEMa_kTfNvy9nJohiklFtb2K4YYZtMpb0og_fROhddBwP3D13v-OAwgWoZPPQMzMoyUZbExpe07g6Vl7ieVWxixDGW7cMoxztsQ8nOP8bodZGPwIjaLkAYhnRb8YGWqBAuXA6JYVZ1AhpBqu9ZkZpZ1LajIvz1No6zsCBIDdLkb_ecW2-E5LkTenHQVakhwV4ZzN7fXdZtzwN5MYkH0WjOrw2pkce13XQfwBp6Wuw/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/#Z7_B8LTL2922LIE70AAC1K67F0OA3
5. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/bergische-kaserne-die-grosse-leere-aid-1.5573515
6. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/langenfeld/musik-in-schwarz-rot-gold_aid-22361105
7. ↑ Armed Forces Office, Military Music Department (Ed.): "With timpani and trumpets". 50 years of military music by the Bundeswehr . 1st edition. Purk, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-9809465-3-3 , p. 84 .

Web links

• militaermusik.bundeswehr.de