Kunduz military camp

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Kunduz military camp
country Afghanistan
local community Kunduz Province
Coordinates : 36 ° 40 ′  N , 68 ° 54 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 40 ′ 25 "  N , 68 ° 54 ′ 12"  E
Stationed troops
Battalion of the Afghan National Army
Unit of the Afghan riot police 		AfghanistanAfghanistan
AfghanistanAfghanistan
Formerly stationed units
German shares in ISAF GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg
Kunduz military camp (Afghanistan)
Kunduz military camp

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.

  • Protected kitchen of the PRT Kunduz (2011)

  • Launch of a concentration camp reconnaissance drone in Kunduz

  • Soviet helicopter wrecks on the edge of the airfield in front of the former field camp

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n24 ( online )
  2. ↑ At the end of a mission
  3. ↑ Zeit Online: The armed forces camp, which cost 250 million euros, expires on March 30, 2014