Training area armored forces

Training area armored troops - Trainer PzTr -
Association badge
Lineup	1956 / Oct. 1, 2007
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Army training facility
Insinuation	Training center Munster
Location	Muenster
Web presence	Website Educator PzTr
commander
ladder	Colonel Bernd Prill

The Armored Corps Training Center ( AusbBer PzTr ) is a training device of the German Federal Armed Forces in Munster . Organizationally, it is part of the Munster training center and is particularly responsible for the training and education of the officers and non-commissioned officers of the armored troops group , which includes the two armies of armored troops and the armored infantry troops . From 1957 to 1963 and again from 1991 to September 30, 2007, the area was called Panzer Troop School ( PzTrS ). In order to preserve the traditional term, the property in which the training area is stationed was renamed “Kaserne Panzer Troop School”.

assignment

The armored troops training area is responsible for training to become troop leaders , commanders , platoon leaders and shooting instructors, as well as training company commanders and battalion commanders . In addition, there are retraining courses on newly introduced weapon systems.

the Armored Corps and Mechanized Infantry troops responsible and also trains members of friendly forces. The training includes course-related training for NCOs with portepee and officers, general military career courses for NCOs and sergeants, the training of reservists and members of foreign armed forces.

At the Armored Troops Firing Training Center , military leaders are trained at the level of a reinforced armored troop company , while the PzTr simulation center supports course-related training with firing and combat simulators .

The teaching collection of the training area is located at the German Tank Museum in Munster.

organization

The training center is led by a commander with the rank of a colonel ( salary group B 3), who is at the same time general of the armored troops and thus the highest representative of both branches of service as well as responsible for maintaining tradition and representing them in the international arena.

The armored forces training area is divided into:

• I. Inspection (officer training)
• II. Inspection (sergeant training)
• Armored forces firing training center
• Armored forces simulator center

Internal association badge

Internal association badge

The internal association badge, worn as a breast tag, among other things, shows a sword and a hand holding it with a reinforced forearm on a silver background. It corresponds to the internal association badge of the former armored forces school. The "S" is reminiscent of the former status as one of S chools the army .

The association badge also corresponds to that of the former armored forces school and shows, like all schools and centers of the army, two crossed swords on a red background. In addition, an "S" indicates that it was an Army school. The pink border corresponds to the weapon color of the armored forces. The association badge is worn on the left sleeve of the service suit.

history

The origins of the Panzer Troops Training Center go back to the troop schools for the Panzer and Panzergrenadier troops in Munster that were set up on March 22, 1956, as well as the schools for the tank reconnaissance and tank hunter troops in Bremen . In 1957 the two schools in Munster were merged to form the armored troop school in order to do justice to the close connection between these two branches of service in combat. From 1957 the armored troop school was subordinate to an armored training battalion and an armored infantry training battalion. On June 1, 1958, the Panzerlehrkampfgruppe headquarters and staff company was set up and subordinated to the school, and with effect from February 1, 1959, it was reclassified to Panzerlehrbrigade 9 . In 1963, the school was renamed the Combat Troop School II ( KpfTrS II ). In 1967 the Combat Troop School III (formerly: Panzerjägerschule) was moved to Munster and in 1972 merged with Combat Troop School II to form Combat Troop School II / III . In 1975 the Army Technical School for Education was incorporated and the school was renamed Combat Troop School 2 and Army Technical School for Education (KpfTrS 2 / FachSHErz). For reasons of capacity, the training of the tank mortars and mechanics was moved to the combat force school 1 and the technical troops 1 school in Aachen in 1976 . In 1981 the Army Technical School for Education was relocated to Darmstadt and the school in Munster was designated as Combat Troop School 2 ( KpfTrS 2 ), this time with an Arabic number.

Between 1988 and 1990 the architect Karl-Heinz Lorey constructed the building for a new teaching center in Munster. Since 1991 the school in Munster has been renamed Panzer Troop School again . As part of the transformation of the Bundeswehr was October 1, 2007. Training Center armored troops ( AusbZ PzTr ) established that the tasks of that time the Army Office took imputed Panzertruppenschule. An exception was the reconnaissance- specific training of the tank reconnaissance , which was previously integrated into the troop school. The armored reconnaissance troops, which were transferred to the army reconnaissance troops and formerly belonged to the armored combat troops , have since been trained in the army reconnaissance troop training area. The post of commander has not been intended for brigadier generals since 2007 . Since July 1, 2015, the training center has been renamed the training area.

Commanders

Surname	Beginning	The End
Brigadier General Oskar Munzel	1956	1956
Brigadier General Günther Pape	1956	1960
Brigadier General Anton Detlev von Plato	1960	1962
Brigadier General Werner Drews	1962	1964
Brigadier General Ernst Philipp	1964	1968
Brigadier General Kurt Deichen	1968	1969
Brigadier General Rudolf Wätjen	1969	1970
Brigadier General Alfred Müller	1970	1975
Brigadier General Hans-Joachim Mack	1975	1978
Brigadier General Joachim Graf von Schwerin	1978	1982
Brigadier General Detlef Ahrens	1982	1987
Brigadier General Georg-Heinrich Roth	1987	1989
Brigadier General Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof	1989	1991
Brigadier General Rüdiger Drews	1991	1994
Brigadier General Wolfgang Beltermann	1994	1999
Brigadier General Christian Trull	1999	2002
Brigadier General Wolf-Dieter Langheld	2002	2003
Brigadier General Klaus Feldmann	2003	2007
Colonel Artur Schwitalla		Sep 2015
Colonel Jochen Schneider	Sep 2015	19th May 2017
Colonel Michael Knoke	19th May 2017	October 2018
Colonel Bernd Prill	October 2018	-

literature

• Circle of Friends of the Officers of the Armored Troop (Ed.): 50 years of the armored troops of the Bundeswehr . Verlag Schneider, Uelzen 2006, ISBN 3-935107-05-6 .
• Stefan Heydt, Christian Bannert (project officer): The army schools . On behalf of the Army Office , Fölbach-Medienservice, Munich 2011, p. 86 ff.

Web links

• Training area armored forces
• German tank museum

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural-historical identity , 2nd, revised edition, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , passim ; Preview over google books

Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 56 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 7 ″  E