Air landing / air transport training base

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Airborne / Air Transport Training
Base (LL / LT)

Association badge

Association badge
Lineup February 1958 as school
since July 2015 as trainee
Country Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Logo Heer with lettering.svg army
Type Army training facility
Insinuation Association badge Infantry training center
Location Altenstadt
Web presence Website Education LL / LT
commander
ladder Lieutenant Colonel Udo Francke
insignia
Internal association badge
LL-LTS (V1) .jpg

The Air Landing / Air Transport Training Base in Altenstadt ( Upper Bavaria ), an air landing and air transport school until June 2015, is the Bundeswehr's central training center for air landing and air transport, parachute jump training and survival training under various conditions. It is part of the infantry training center in Hammelburg .

The Franz-Josef-Strauss barracks with air landing and air transport school
Paratroopers on a training jump
Paratroopers of the Bundeswehr during an air loading exercise with a Bell UH-1 D helicopter
Paratroopers of the Bundeswehr during a training jump over Altenstadt

history

The LL / LTS established by Georg Werner at that time is located on the Burglachberg in the barracks , which has been named after Franz Josef Strauss since February 1993 . The first training personnel and the first parachutists of the battalions were trained by the 11th US Airborne Division in Augsburg (Sheridan and Reese barracks) and at the Gersthofen-Gablingen airfield . The LL / LTS started training in February 1958. In addition to the skydiving courses, various use and career courses are carried out, including a. the lone fighter course . The Sauwaldhof was used as an external training facility for this purpose. Since 1997 the LL / LTS has maintained a partnership with the French skydiving school ETAP in Pau .

Paratroopers are trained in automatic parachuting with olive-colored round-cap parachutes of the T-10 type. The planned introduction of the new automatic round canopy parachutes of the type T3F with reduced dropping height, which was planned in the 1990s, was discontinued after several accidents.

Special forces such as the Special Forces Command , the parachute special trains of the paratrooper regiments and the combat swimmers are trained in the " HAHO " with " parachutes ". With this, depending on the wind, distant destinations can be approached with pinpoint accuracy.

Numerous German champions, European and even world champions in skydiving trained in the sports promotion group at the LL / LTS and represented the Bundeswehr at military jump championships . Group training jumps from Transalls and civilian transport machines take place on the landing area adjacent to the north, next to the school's Altenstadt airfield .

In the training building there is a collection of German paratroopers deployed in various theaters of war in many vivid miniature panoramas in glass showcases.

As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr, the dissolution of LL / LTS Altenstadt was announced in autumn 2011. In the future, this task should be taken over by the training base Air Landing and Air Transport of the International Helicopter Training Center in Oldenburg , which is to be set up from parts of the LL / LTS Altenstadt. The planned closure of the school was announced in 2011. According to State Secretary Christian Schmidt , the Federal Audit Office checked the relocation of LL / LTS to Oldenburg for its profitability.

The Bavarian State Chancellery announced on February 27, 2015 in a press statement that the airborne and air transportation training, according to a decision of the Federal Ministry of Defense is to remain in the Franz-Josef Strauss barracks in Bavaria Old city in the future.

Commanders

Surname Beginning The End
Colonel Walter Gericke 1956 1962
Colonel Harry Herrmann 1962 1967
Colonel Alfred Genz 1967 1974
Colonel Alfred Jenninger 1974 1980
Colonel Karl Heinz Abele 1980 1987
Colonel Ernst Richstein 1987 1990
Colonel Ulrich Quante 1990 1996
Colonel Fritz Zwicknagl 1996 1997
Colonel Friedrich Jeschonnek 1997 1998
Colonel Frank-Detlef Doerr 1998 2003
Colonel Volker Bescht 2003 2005
Colonel Alois Hösle 2005 2009
Colonel Ferdinand Baur 2009 2014
Colonel Carsten Jahnel 2014 2015
Lieutenant Colonel Christian Schoebel 2015 2018
Lieutenant Colonel Udo Francke 2018

Weapon systems and equipment

Association badge

The association badge, like all badges of the military schools, shows two crossed swords on a red background. In addition, an "S" indicates that it is an army school . The badge has a braided green and black border. Green corresponds to the weapon color of the infantry .

The internal association badge shows half of the federal eagle in the heraldic right part of the Gothic coat of arms and in the left coat of arms two open parachutes on two stylized white-blue Bavarian diamonds as a symbol for the location.

literature

  • Walter Gericke (Ed.): Up there on the Burglachberg ... image documentation . Air landing u. Air transport school, Altenstadt near Schongau 1976.
  • Stefan Heydt, Christian Bannert (project officer): The army schools . On behalf of the Army Office , Fölbach-Medienservice, Munich 2011, p. 146 ff.
  • Siegfried Jordan: The air landing and air transport school . Fölbach Media Service, Munich 2005, 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Schlecht: First German in the parachute hall of fame . In: https://www.merkur.de . October 20, 2014 ( merkur.de [accessed April 11, 2018]).
  2. ^ The stationing of the Bundeswehr - October 2011 (PDF; 2.8 MB) BMVg, accessed on October 26, 2011 .
  3. ^ Thomas Wiegold : Bundeswehr locations : Waiting for the Federal Audit Office? Eyes straight ahead! (Blog), August 1, 2013, accessed August 9, 2013.
  4. ↑ Cristian Dewitz: Good news for the Altenstadt location. www.bundeswehr-journal.de, March 10, 2015, accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Christoph Peters: The paratroopers stay in Altenstadt. www.kreisbote.de, March 6, 2015, accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  6. ^ Right-wing extremism allegations against the Bundeswehrkommando KSK Bayerischer Rundfunk on September 10, 2019
  7. ↑ KSK Secret Service wants to take action against right-wing extremist elite soldiers , Ostsee-Zeitung September 10, 2019

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 12 ″  E