Freiherr vom Stein barracks (Diez)
 Freiherr vom Stein barracks Diez
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Federal Police Training Center Diez | ||
| local community | Diez | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 23 ' N , 8 ° 2' E | ||
| Opened | 1959-1960 | ||
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| Federal Police Training Center Diez |
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| BWI Informationstechnik GmbH SC Koblenz VOS Diez driving school group Diez driving school group Diez 2 Feldersatzbataillon 310 (GerEinh) Feldersatzbataillon 330 (GerEinh) field replacement company 340 (GerEinh) field message center army front messages company 300 (ta) Front messages training company 300 (ta) Heeresinstandsetzungslogistik measurement region 7 Diez corps supply commander 3 logistics battalion 462 logistics regiment 46 logistics center the Armed Forces logistic control point 23 logistics center of the Armed Forces logistic control unit 7 material equipment medical field 41/1 material battalion 310 medium ordnance repair company 539 medium ordnance repair company 540 mobilization preparatory group replenishment command 3 replenishment battalion 310 supplies battalion 320 supplies battalion 350 (GerEinh) replenishment battalion 462 supplies command 3 pioneer training company 14 / III Quartiermeister battalion 907 Quartier Regimentsmarsch 903 radio company 990 Radio Company 991 Radio Company never 993 Radio Battalion 990 sanitary unit Diez Medical Center Rennerod entity Diez heavy fuel transportation company 317 Standortarzt Diez Truppenarzt Diez Site Management Diez Transport Regiment 3 -commissioned officer training company "Andernach" Supply and Education Center 463 monitoring body for public tasks of the Medical Services of the Bundeswehr West Dental Group 402/1 dental clinic (Terr) H 407 dental station H 5 (Division dental station) 2./Transportbataillon 370 4./Transportbataillon 370 5./Transportbataillon 370 3./Nachschubbataillon 5 |
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Location of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Kaserne Diez in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The 29.8 hectare Freiherr-vom-Stein-Kaserne in Diez -Ost was built as a Bundeswehr location in 1956 on the former site of the so-called main camp (Stalag) XII A, a prisoner-of-war camp established by the National Socialists in World War II . In 1960 the barracks of the camp were completely replaced by new barracks . Mainly supply units and logistics units with 982 posts were stationed in the barracks . The barracks were abandoned by the German armed forces in mid-2015. Before a civil conversion of the site could be planned and implemented, it was converted into a reception facility for asylum seekers (AfA) in September 2015 , in which over 700 asylum seekers and refugees were accommodated. The Diez Federal Police Training Center has been housed in the barracks since September 2017 and is to remain at the site permanently.
Prehistory, construction and stationing history
In connection with the attack by the German Wehrmacht on Poland on September 1, 1939, a prisoner-of-war transit camp ("Dulag") was set up on the later barracks, which mainly consisted of wooden barracks. From January 1940 it was converted into a prisoner of war main camp ("Stalag") of the Wehrmacht and was given the designation XII A. It was designed for the simultaneous internment of up to 43,000 prisoners of war . Mainly Belgians, French, British, Poles, Russians, Americans and Italians were recorded. Almost 100,000 soldiers and political prisoners were registered in the prison camp between 1939 and 1945. They were housed in inhumane conditions and committed to forced labor. The number of victims is still unknown. 500 Soviet prisoners of war were transferred from Stalag XII A to the Buchenwald concentration camp and executed there. On December 23, 1944, the prisoner-of-war camp was accidentally bombed by Allied air forces whose target was the Limburg train station. 80 prisoners died, as many prisoners were injured. On March 27, 1945, the camp was finally liberated by US troops.
After the end of the Second World War, prisoners of war were again accommodated by US troops from the end of March 1945 in the camp, which was now known as the Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosure A19. 30,000 to 35,000 Wehrmacht soldiers were interned here. The conditions in the camp were gradually improved, for example through the installation of sanitary facilities and the construction of a hospital, which was brought from Heidesheim to Diez in June 1945. The prisoner-of-war camp was handed over by the American troops to the French occupation forces on July 10, 1945, with around 22,000 remaining prisoners of war. The camp was subsequently evacuated by releasing the prisoners, taking them to other camps or to France for reparation work.
From 1946 to 1948, the French army interned former Nazi functionaries and other civilians in the camp who were suspected of having committed crimes during the Nazi era. A camp for displaced persons was later set up, in which Holocaust survivors and foreign forced laborers in particular received temporary accommodation on their way to their homeland. From 1952 to 1956, French troops and precursor units of the later Bundeswehr were finally housed. On November 3, 1956, the Bundeswehr officially took over the camp as a barracks.
In November 1956 the NCO training company "Andernach", which had been set up on August 1, 1956 in the Krahnenberg barracks in Andernach , moved into the barracks of the former prisoner of war camp. On February 26, 1957, this unit moved to the Rheinbach camp , where it was finally renamed the 1st Guard Company of the Guard Battalion BMVg on March 31, 1957 .
At the beginning of March 1957, the middle field repair company 539 and the middle field repair company 540 were set up in the barracks in Diez-Ost. As early as March 14, 1957, the middle field equipment repair company 539 was relocated to the Spilburg barracks in Wetzlar . The middle field equipment repair company 540 came to the Fritsch barracks in Koblenz in 1957 .
On May 16, 1957, the field equipment regiment 504 was set up in the barracks and transferred to the Rhine barracks in Koblenz in January 1958 . On April 15, 1959, it was renamed to Repair Regiment 3.
The Quartermaster Regiment 903 was set up in the barracks in 1957. Among other things, the Quartiermeisternachschubbataillon 907 and the Quatiermeisternertransportbataillon 914 stationed in Zweibrücken were subordinate to him. On March 16, 1959, the reclassification to Transport Regiment 3 of III. Corps . The regiment was renamed to Corps Supply Commander 3 on January 1, 1962. In 1972 there was another reclassification to Supply Command 3 . In 1993 the association was relocated to the Rhine barracks in Koblenz and dissolved on October 31, 1995.
On April 1, 1959, the heavy fuel transport company 317 set up in 1957 came from Zweibrücken to the barracks in Diez. It was subordinated to the 310 Material Battalion and finally disbanded on May 1, 1963.
In 1959/1960 the barracks were rebuilt. The wooden barracks were replaced by modern accommodation, staff and supply buildings. In 1960 the barracks were named "Freiherr-vom-Stein-Kaserne".
From July 1, 1956, the quartermaster supply battalion 907 with staff platoon 907, quartermaster supply company 929, quartermaster supply company 934 and quartermaster repair company 939 was set up. On February 1, 1957, the battalion received his leadership. On February 27, 1958, the battalion was renamed Quartiermeisterbataillon 907 and relocated to Diez with Quartermaster Supply Company 929 and Quartermaster Repair Company 939, with the staff moving into Castle Oranienstein, the two companies their quarters in the city barracks, later Wilhelm-von -Nassau-Kaserne Diez took. In Andernach only the quartermaster supply company 934 remained. On April 1, 1959, the battalion was renamed again to Material Battalion 310. On July 1, 1960, the units of the battalion were able to move into the new Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks in Diez, including the Headquarters of the 310 Materials Battalion.
In 1960 the ( pioneer ) training company 14 / III was set up in the Freiherr vom Stein barracks . In the same year she was transferred to Zweibrücken, and in 1962 to Daaden-Emmerzhausen. On January 1, 1966, the training company 14 / III was dissolved.
While the radio company 993 was set up in Rengsdorf in the Westerwald on November 4, 1959 and relocated to Diez in 1961, its sister companies 990 and 991 did not come into being until 1961 in the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks. The broadcasting battalion 990 was formed from the companies in 1962, which was finally relocated to Andernach on November 1, 1962 to operate the Bundeswehr radio station “ Radio Andernach ”. In the Krahnenberg barracks there, the battalion was renamed numerous times: from May 1963 it was called Rundfunkbataillon 701, from April 1965 PSK transmitter battalion 701, from April 1971 PSV transmitter battalion 1, from 1974 PSV transmitter battalion 1, from 1975 PSV battalion 1, from April 1, 1981 PSV battalion 850 (partially active), from October 1990 telecommunications battalion 950 operational information , from 1998 battalion operational information 950. On July 1, 2002 it was initially relocated to Mayen before it came to Koblenz in the same year. On January 31, 2014, the battalion was finally dissolved.
On April 1, 1962, the 310 material battalion became the 310 supply battalion. In 1967 the battalion was split into 310 supply battalion and 320 supply battalion. The 321 supply company was incorporated into 320 supply battalion. Both battalions were still stationed in the barracks.
In 1967 the 5th company of the newly established operating material transport battalion 390 in Buch near Kastellaun was housed in the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks.
The supply battalion 320, which emerged in 1967 from parts of the supply battalion 310 and stationed in the barracks, was disbanded in 1971. It essentially went up in the replenishment training center 300, which was set up in Oranienstein Castle from 1972 to 1990.
In 1971 the mobilization base of the barracks housed the material of the supply battalion 350 ( equipment unit ) set up in 1970 in the Fritsch barracks in Koblenz . This battalion was also used in 1972 to set up the replenishment training center 300 and disbanded.
The partially active front news training company 300, which was set up in the former gendarmerie barracks in Bad Ems in 1970, was relocated to the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks in 1971. In 1979 it was renamed to partially active Front News Company 300, and in 1980 it was renamed as Front News Teaching Company 300 (partially active). This unit remained in existence until 2002 and was then incorporated into the Bundeswehr Field Intelligence Center based in the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks.
On September 1, 1971, the 5./Betriebsstofftransportbataillon 390 became the 5./Transportbataillon 370, which remained in the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks until its dissolution on March 26, 2003.
The 4th / Transport Battalion 370, which was set up in the Hochwald barracks Hermeskeil on May 1, 1967 , was relocated to the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks on July 1, 1974 and remained there until it was closed on March 26, 2003.
In 1975 the 4./Nachschubbataillon 340, which emerged from the Materialkompanie 309 and the 4./Nachschubbataillon 310, was renamed to 3./Nachschubbataillon 5.
In 1980, a platoon of the 6th / Resupply Battalion 5 (equipment unit) from the Steuben barracks is activated and moved to the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks.
In the course of the restructuring of the material companies of the III. Corps, the equipment of 3rd / Resupply Battalion 5 was moved to the Steuben barracks in Gießen. The 5./Nachschubbataillon 310 was newly formed in the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Kaserne from the staff of the previous 3./Nachschubbataillon 5 and received its equipment from the previous 5./Nachschubbataillon 310 from Koblenz, which was formed in 1980 from the Umschlagstaffel . The active platoon of 6./Nachschubbataillon 5 (equipment unit) came back to this location in Giessen.
The field replacement battalions 310 and 330 were stationed as equipment units in the mobilization base of the Freiherr vom Stein barracks in the 1980s. Also in the 1980s, the mobilization preparation group of Supply Command 3 was based here.
From January 1, 1986, there was the Diez driving school group and, from October 1, 1990, the Diez 2 driving school group, which were housed in the barracks. Both driving school groups were dissolved with the formation of the Bundeswehr driver training centers on March 31, 1994.
With the taking of Army Structure V in 1993, the supply battalion 310 was restructured and took over companies with locations in southern Germany. In addition, it was subordinated to the 22nd Supply Transport Regiment as part of Logistics Brigade 2 . The 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th companies remained at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Kaserne site in Diez, while the previous 2nd company was disbanded.
The 2nd / Transport Battalion 370, which was set up in Hermeskeil on May 1, 1967, was relocated to the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Kaserne in 1993 and disbanded on March 26, 2003.
From October 1, 1993 to March 31, 2002, the field replacement company 340 existed as a device unit in the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks.
In 1996 the supply battalion 310 was subordinated to the logistics regiment 21 in Dornstadt, but remained in Diez with the 1st, 3rd and 5th companies.
On October 1, 2002, the logistic control point 23 of the logistics center of the Bundeswehr was set up in the barracks. It was renamed Logistic Control Center 7 on January 1, 2006. It was then dissolved on June 30, 2015.
In 2002 the Bundeswehr's field news center was set up in the Freiherr vom Stein barracks and parts of the partially active front news training company 300, which was dissolved that same year, were used for this purpose.
On December 31, 2002, the supply battalion 310 was disbanded.
On June 26, 2002, the establishment of the staff with the staff company of the logistics regiment 46 in the Freiherr vom Stein barracks in Diez was ordered. From July 1, 2002, personnel and material from the 310 Supply Battalion, the 8 Air Force Supply Regiment and the 370 Transport Battalion were drawn in. On January 1, 2003, the 462 Logistics Battalion was formed in the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks. The commissioning of the logistics regiment 46 took place on October 9, 2003. The regiment was assigned the logistics battalions 461 in Walldürn and 462 in Diez, the supply and training center 463 in Diez and the special pioneer battalion 464 in Speyer. On July 1, 2005 the subordination of the transport battalion 10 in Ellwangen and the logistics battalion 12 in Veitshöchheim , which were renamed on October 1, 2005 in transport battalion 465 and logistics battalion 467 (from mid-2006 with location in Volkach). As of January 1, 2006, the 462 Logistics Battalion was reclassified to the 462 Supply Battalion in Diez. While the 461 logistics battalion left the association on January 1, 2007 and was placed under the 47 logistics regiment, the regiment received the 466 repair battalion in Volkach. The supply and training center 463 formed on April 1, 2003 was closed on December 31, 2007. With the Bundeswehr reform 2011 came the end of the logistics regiment 46. It was dissolved on December 31, 2012. The four battalions subordinate to him were initially assigned to the 47th Logistics Regiment, with three of them being disbanded. This also included the 462 supply battalion in Diez, which was decommissioned on September 30, 2014.
BWI Informationstechnik GmbH SC Koblenz VOS Diez was housed in the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks from August 1, 2009 until the site was closed .
From March 7, 2012 until the barracks were closed, the Army Repair Logistics, measuring area 7 Diez, was stationed here.
The monitoring body for public law tasks of the medical service of the Bundeswehr West was set up in the barracks on January 1, 2013 and existed until June 30, 2016.
The medical area 41/1 at the site was equipped with material for medical care between July 1, 1972 and June 30, 1997. The medical officer Diez was stationed in the barracks between March 1, 1965 and December 31, 1997. In the 1980s, the troop doctor Diez was also employed. The Rennerod medical center, Diez unit, and the Diez medical team were in the barracks from July 1, 2004 until it was closed on September 30, 2015. The dental station H 5 (division dental station) existed from March 1, 1965 to September 30, 1972, the dental station (Terr) H 407 from October 1, 1972 to March 31, 1981 and the dentist group 402/1 from April 1, 1981 to 31. December 1998.
With the stationing decision in 2011 , the end of the Bundeswehr location Freiherr-vom-Stein-Kaserne in Diez was sealed. Of 1,520 posts in the Diez locations, only 150 were to remain in Oranienstein Castle, although millions of euros had been invested in the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks by 2011, for example through the energetic renovation of all buildings, the establishment of an IT network and one new farm building.
With this decision, the considerations to convert the barracks began. In 2012, the then Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Kurt Beck , declared that he would support this process. After the land became vacant, the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks took over the property. In 2014, the district administrator of the Rhein-Lahn district , Frank Puchtler , announced that the state was funding a feasibility study for the conversion of the barracks with a grant of 9,254 euros.
After the Bundeswehr had left the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks by mid-2015, a new need arose. Due to the wave of refugees due to the ongoing war in Syria , the barracks' accommodation buildings should now be used as a reception facility for asylum seekers from the end of 2015. However, the worsening situation at the beginning of September 2015 forced the establishment of the initial reception center to be brought forward. From September 10 to 12, 2015, the German Red Cross, as the operator of the facility, prepared the barracks to accommodate refugees together with the Technical Relief Organization. 429 refugees moved in immediately. However, as the influx of refugees continued, the capacities had to be further increased to accommodate up to 800 refugees. At the end of September 2015, 749 refugees were already admitted to the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks.
In November 2016, the Federal Ministry of the Interior announced that it would use the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks from September 2017 as a training center for the Federal Police until at least 2023. This was intended to ensure that sufficient training capacities are available nationwide by increasing the number of posts in the Federal Police by 7,500 posts. It was planned to accommodate up to 500 police students at the site now. The initial reception facility for asylum seekers had to gradually evacuate the barracks. As a result, the residents were distributed to other facilities and communities and the accommodations were no longer occupied. The Diez Federal Police Training Center was opened as planned in September 2017.
In December 2018, the mayor of Diez , Michael Schnatz, declared that the federal police training facility would remain permanently in the Freiherr-vom-Stein barracks.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf-Peter Kahl: No future without a past, in: Nassauische / Frankfurter Neue Presse of March 30, 2015
- ^ Mario Linowski: End of war 1945 Diez / Rhein-Lahn. A piece of history. Now 70 years ago - Bombs are falling on STALAG !, Internet article from December 23, 2014
- ↑ Rolf-Peter Kahl: No future without a past, in: Nassauische / Frankfurter Neue Presse of March 30, 2015
- ↑ To commemorate the end of the war, in: Frankfurter / Nassauische Neue Presse of March 6, 2015
- ↑ a b State Center for Civic Education Rhineland-Palatinate, Section Commemorative Work: Captivity in the Rhine meadow camps 1945 to 1948. The Dietz camp (PWTE A19), Osthofen 2015
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad of the Bundeswehr Center for Military History and Social Sciences
- ↑ a b c d e German Federal Armed Forces Association, Regional Association West, Comradeship ERH Diez - Limburg: Timetable of the Federal Armed Forces in Diez, accessed on April 13, 2020
- ↑ a b c d e VdRBw district group Münster: History of the Bundeswehr's supply force, PDF file, accessed on April 17, 2020
- ^ Rhein-Zeitung: Bundeswehrreform: Five locations in the country will be dropped, article from October 26, 2011, accessed on April 18, 2020
- ^ Rolf-Peter Kahl: A barracks steps away, in: Nassauische Neue Presse from August 20, 2014
- ^ Rhein-Zeitung: Prime Minister Beck promises Diez help with conversion, article from September 16, 2012, accessed on April 18, 2020
- ↑ Frank Puchtler: Press release "Feasibility Study is Funded" from January 3, 2014, accessed on April 18, 2020
- ↑ Fabian Fasel / THW Montabaur: Barracks become accommodation for asylum seekers, report from September 12, 2015, accessed on April 18, 2020
- ↑ Dominik Zeiler / THW Montabaur: Work in the refugee facility in Diez continues, message from September 22, 2015, accessed on April 18, 2020
- ↑ Blick aktuell: The number of refugees continues to rise - 746 asylum seekers in the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Kaserne, report from September 29, 2015, accessed on April 18, 2020
- ↑ Christof Hüls: Diez: Remaining refugees move out and 500 prospective police officers move in Diez: Barracks becomes police school, in: Frankfurter / Nassauische Neue Presse from November 30, 2016, accessed on April 18, 2020
- ↑ Verbandsgemeinde Diez: Federal Police has opened a training facility, accessed April 18, 2020
- ↑ Michael Schnatz: Federal Police remains permanently in Diez, notification dated December 6, 2018, accessed April 18, 2020