Bad Aibling Air Base
The airbase Bad Aibling was an air base of the Air Force of the Armed Forces near the Upper Bavarian Bad Aibling .
history
The air base was built between 1936 and 1937 on the site of a former sports airfield. On October 1, 1936, an air base command of the Luftwaffe took over the site. Actual flight operations began in 1937. In the north of the air base there was a large aircraft hangar and a large repair hangar. There were also other farm and accommodation buildings here. Two more large hangars were connected in the northeast corner. The I./JG 135 was stationed here as the first active flying unit from April 1937 . From 1940 to 1945 various, frequently changing flight pilot schools, destroyer schools, fighter pilot schools and the Stuka pre-school 1 and 2 were housed here. As the last school association, the Bomb and Target Finder School Greifswald moved here from September 1944.
The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1937 and 1945.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 1937 | October 1938 | I./JG 135 (I. Group of Jagdgeschwader 135) | Heinkel He 51 , Fiat CR.32 , Messerschmitt Bf 109B / D |
| July 1938 | July 1938 | II./JG 135 | Heinkel He 51 |
| May 1939 | August 1939 | I./JG 51 | Messerschmitt Bf 109E |
| January 1945 | April 1945 | III., IV./NJG 6 | Messerschmitt Bf 110 , Junkers Ju 88G |
| April 1945 | April 1945 | I., III./JG 27 | Messerschmitt Bf 109K |
After the end of the Second World War, the US military government took over the air base as Airfield R.86 . First, she set up camp PWE 26 for prisoners of war there. Günter Grass and Joseph Ratzinger , among others, were interned here.
From 1946 the area was used for the accommodation of Displaced Persons (DPs). Initially under the administration of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), later the International Refugee Organization (IRO), the residents of the Bad Aibling DP camp were former soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army who died after the occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 as prisoners of war were deported to Germany. From the winter of 1948/49 on, the former barracks of the air base housed a DP camp for children and adolescents from 20 nations who came under the mandate of the IRO: the Bad Aibling Children's Village ( IRO Children's Village Bad Aibling ). The facility was the largest of its kind within the American occupation zone ; it closed its doors at the end of 1951.
The area was taken over by the US Army in 1952 . During the Cold War it was gradually expanded by the United States Army Security Agency (ASA) to become a listening station for the American foreign intelligence services. After the base was handed over to the Federal Republic of Germany on September 30, 2004 , it is used for purely civilian purposes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp 32-33 , accessed on September 11, 2014.
- ^ Franz Schwaiger: " Memories with horror ". www.mietraching.de. Seen on December 27, 2014
- ↑ stern.de: Did Grass dice with the Pope in the ground? , accessed on September 11, 2014
- ↑ Christian Höschler: From the self-government Repatriierungsstillstand. Former soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army as Displaced Persons in Bad Aibling, 1946–1947 . In: Christian Pletzing and Marcus Velke (eds.): Camp - Repatriation - Integration. Contributions to displaced persons research . Biblion Media, Leipzig 2016, p. 19-46 ( kubon-sagner.com ). From self-government to the repatriation deadlock. Former soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army as Displaced Persons in Bad Aibling, 1946–1947 ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christian Höschler: The IRO Children's Village Bad Aibling: A Refuge in the American zone of Germany, 1948-1951 . Dissertation, LMU Munich. 2017 ( uni-muenchen.de ).
Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 40 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 10 ″ E