Kunduz military camp
Kunduz military camp | |||
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country | Afghanistan | ||
local community | Kunduz Province | ||
Coordinates : | 36 ° 40 ′ N , 68 ° 54 ′ E | ||
Stationed troops | |||
Battalion of the Afghan National Army Unit of the Afghan riot police |
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Formerly stationed units | |||
German shares in ISAF | |||
Location of the Kunduz military camp in Afghanistan |
The Kunduz was a camp of the German Bundeswehr in Kunduz , Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan and was located on the eastern shore of the Kunduz River at the foothills of the Hindu Cush . The first 27 Bundeswehr soldiers arrived in Kunduz on October 25, 2003. From October 25, 2003, the field camp was also responsible for the Provincial Reconstruction Teams of the ISAF Regional Command North in Kunduz, which had been led by the USA until then . A total of 25 Bundeswehr soldiers were killed in the Kunduz area.
The Bundeswehr invested around 250 million euros in the infrastructure of the camp. The last German soldiers were moved from Kunduz to Camp Marmal near Mazar-e Sharif on October 19, 2013 . Then the honor grove in the Kunduz military camp , the memorial for fallen soldiers, was transferred to Germany. Colonel Jochen Schneider was the last German commander of the camp.
On October 6, 2013, German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière handed over the camp to his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Omer in a solemn ceremony in the presence of Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and ISAF commander US General Joseph F. Dunford . Since then, half of the camp has been used by the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Afghan riot police (ANCOP). The ANA plans to station a battalion of the 249th Corps here. In March 2014, the ANCOP stationed 160 soldiers in the camp and received a training center from NATO. The former camp has now been cut off from electricity and water and is in danger of deteriorating.
The then German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg during a visit to the field camp on November 12, 2009.
Launch of a concentration camp reconnaissance drone in Kunduz
See also
- German participation in the war in Afghanistan
- List of International Security Assistance Force encampments
Individual evidence
- ↑ n24 ( online )
- ↑ At the end of a mission
- ↑ Zeit Online: The armed forces camp, which cost 250 million euros, expires on March 30, 2014