Combat Training Center Army
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Combat Training Center Army |
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| Lineup | 1995 |
| Country |
 Germany
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| Armed forces | armed forces |
| Armed forces |
 army
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| Type | Army training facility |
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Training command
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| Location | Gardelegen , district of Letzlingen |
| Web presence | GefÜbZH |
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| ladder | Colonel Michael Knoke |
The Heer Combat Training Center (GÜZ, formally: GefÜbZH) is a central training facility of the Army and is located in Letzlingen on the Altmark military training area in the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide .
TrÜbPl Altmark and GÜZ
The Altmark military training area is one of the largest training areas. With an area of 232 km², it ranks third in Germany after Bergen and Grafenwöhr . The Army Combat Training Center is a central training facility of the Army and reports directly to the training command. The center is a training facility for the practice of combined arms combat and for the practice of tasks in the army's extended spectrum of operations. At the moment the GÜZ is the only central training facility of the army with the qualification for team training of level E (task force). Above all, reinforced units of the army and units of foreign armed forces exercise.
In September 2015, 1,100 workers were employed in the GÜZ, 440 of them in the civilian sector.
assignment
The center plans, leads and directs the combat exercises, which are carried out under operational conditions and over several days. The knowledge gained is collected and used to further develop management and deployment principles, management structures, equipment, and management and deployment systems. To this end, the center works together with the Army Office. The center also conducts preparatory training.
execution
Combat vehicles and soldiers (up to 1500) participating in an exercise will be equipped with AGDUS . This means that brigade combat simulations can also be displayed and tracked for individual soldiers up to the commander. Position, movement, fire / efficiency and radio conversations are recorded in a computer control center. As a result, there is the possibility, above all, of showing the management staff in a specially designed cinema after the exercise has ended, showing the action on a map of the exercise area. For this purpose, the recorded data can be reproduced on a projection screen with precise timing. In the headquarters of the GÜZ there are 73 rooms available on an area of 2874 square meters, including a management center with 22 workplaces, an evaluation center with 25 workplaces and an auditorium for 200 people. The GefÜbZH was developed by the armaments company Rheinmetall and has been operated by its subsidiary Rheinmetall Dienstleistungszentrum Altmark GmbH since 2008. Around 25,000 soldiers undergo training here each year, with each exercise lasting around two weeks.
history
In earlier years, the then still very wooded area was intended for hunting by the emperor and the nobility.
The military development of the site began in 1934 by the Third Reich and its military . The villages of Schnöggersburg , Salchau and Paxförde in the heath had to be abandoned in 1936 for the purpose of building the military training area. At the time of the Third Reich, the area was used as a testing site for artillery and anti-tank weapons, as well as for captured weapons as the Hillersleben Army Research Center. Among other things, the largest Dora cannon ever used was tested here, for which the 30-kilometer-long shooting range was particularly suitable. On the so-called “A-Platz”, a copy of the Siegfried Line fortification “Scharnhorst” was built for testing and training purposes.
After the end of the Second World War , the 47th Guards Panzer Division of the Red Army - the unit that first reached Berlin in 1945 - took over the area. Due to favorable military strategic conditions, the military training area was used and expanded by the troops of the Soviet armed forces . During this time around 80% of the forest was cleared. A weapons / ammunition test site for the Red Army was set up here under Soviet leadership.
In 1994 the Bundeswehr took over the training area from the retreating Soviet armed forces and cleared it of ammunition. The clearance was officially completed on August 22, 2007. Starting in 1995, the center was built, including a new barracks built in Letzlingen in 1999, which was renamed Altmark barracks on September 4, 2007 . The Bundeswehr has been running courses since 2000. Here, units up to the size of a battalion are trained with simulation systems without a sharp shot. The military training area is used about 250 days a year and is considered one of the most modern in the world. Most of the military training area is in the area of the town of Gardelegen .
Facilities
On the military training area there are several recreated village and city scenes that are modeled on Afghan and Kosovar villages, such as Plattenhausen, Stullenstadt and Salchau in the former town center of Salchau. Shortly before they are relocated abroad, associations complete a final training session here to prepare them for deployment. Exercises are carried out in which the contact with the civilian population, as is customary on missions abroad, is practiced - simulated with our own performers. In addition to the Bundeswehr, units from other nations, such as the Dutch armed forces and the armed forces of Singapore, also prepare for missions in the combat training center . The military training area also has an airfield with a 1700 meter long grass runway.
The " Schnöggersburg practice town ", named after the Schnöggersburg desert , has been built since 2012 in the area of the former village of the same name. The first parts of the approximately six square kilometer practice area were handed over in autumn 2017. With more than 500 buildings and skyscrapers, streets, subway tunnels, sewers and an industrial area, the practice town will contain typical urban development as well as a 22-meter-wide river and a forest area. Combat groups with up to 1,500 soldiers will train in the training town from 2018. The planned practice area is unique in Germany in this size. The costs amount to around 140 million euros.
literature
- Stefan Heydt, Christian Bannert (project officer): The army schools . On behalf of the Army Office , Fölbach-Medienservice, Munich 2011, p. 218 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Army Combat Training Center under new management
- ↑ a b The Army Combat Training Center (GefÜbZH) in the Letzlinger Heide , Hardthöhenkurier, edition 2/2016, pp. 46–50
- ↑ Christian Fuchs and Hauke Friederichs: We are the god of war here , DIE ZEIT Nº 34/2015
- ↑ http://www.baainbw.de Website of the BAAINBw accessed on September 6, 2015
- ↑ Jürgen KG Rosenthal: The Battle Simulation Center Heer (GÜZ) is the central training facility for simulation in the army , Hardthöhenkurier, issue 2/2013
- ↑ 300 years of garrison town
- ^ Military training town: parts of Schnöggersburg handed over . ( zdf.de [accessed December 16, 2017]).
- ↑ Shooting more beautifully in "Schnöggersburg". Spiegel online from June 20, 2012, accessed November 19, 2012
- ↑ The Bundeswehr is supposed to learn house warfare in Israel. Die Welt, August 30, 2015.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 36 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 10 ″ E