Camp Grohn

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Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E

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Camp Grohn was a location of the United States Army in Bremen-Nord after the end of the Second World War from 1945 to 1954.

prehistory

In 1936, the Wehrmacht air force began building an anti-aircraft barracks on the site in Grohn . In 1937 the first soldiers of the 1st Division of Flak Regiment 26 moved into the barracks, which was completed in 1938.

From 1945

Camp Grohn, Bremen

After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , the US Army took over the site in 1945 and renamed it Camp Grohn after the Grohn district in Bremen, where the barracks were located. Bremen formed an enclave of the US zone of occupation within the British-occupied zone , in English the Bremen Enclave .

Various US Army units were stationed at Camp Grohn, including:

  • 29th Infantry Division (May 1945 to January 1946),
  • Parts of the 29th Infantry Regiment,
  • 307th Replacement Group (from 1952 to 1955),
  • the 311th Infantry Regiment of the 78th Infantry Division (from November 1945 to May 1946) and
  • Parts of the 18th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division (from October 1946 to July 1948).

DP camp

Camp Grohn became one of the largest camps for displaced persons (DPs), accommodating up to 5,000 displaced persons before they emigrated to the United States or other countries. The camp was Grohn by the International Refugee Organization operated (International Relief Organization IRO).

Later use

Shortly after the establishment of the Bundeswehr , Camp Grohn was handed over to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1955 and renamed the Roland barracks . The barracks existed until 1999 when the area was bought by the then International University Bremen, now Jacobs University Bremen . She started her studies there in 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flakkaserne - Bremen-Grohn on www.historic.de
  2. ↑ www.usarmygermany.com Bremen Port Command
  3. ↑ US Army Installations - Bremerhaven
  4. ^ Photographs from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  5. ↑ Information on www.dpcamps.org
  6. ↑ Information on Grohn on the website of the International Tracing Service
  7. ↑ Church newspaper of the parish of St. Martini in Bremen-Lesum, December 2016 - February 2017, "From here it went overseas ..." (pdf) ( Memento from December 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Information on http://www.kasernen-und-gebaeude.de
  9. ^ Senate press office Bremen: International University Bremen buys Roland barracks in Bremen-Grohn

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