Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein barracks

Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein barracks
	Accommodation building of the Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein-Kaserne in Hanover , 2015
country	Germany
local community	Hanover
Coordinates :	52 ° 25 ' N , 9 ° 44' E Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '24 " N , 9 ° 44' 11" E
Opened	1913
Stationed troops
School for military police and staff service of the Bundeswehr
Old barracks names
Formerly stationed units
Air Force ; Infantry ; War ; School Army Officer School I	; ; ;
Location of the Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein barracks in Lower Saxony

The Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein-Kaserne in Hanover is a barracks of the Bundeswehr , in which up to 7000 soldiers are trained annually. The facility was expanded to become one of the most modern military training facilities in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century .

The barracks is named after Sergeant Tobias Lagenstein . This makes it the first barracks to be named after a Bundeswehr soldier who died in a foreign deployment . Previously, the barracks was during the time of National Socialism as Emmich barracks after the Prussian Infantry General Otto von Emmich and from 1956 until March 28, 2018 as Emmich Cambrai Barracks in addition to the Battle of Cambrai during the First World War named.

The barracks area is located on Vahrenwalder Straße , at the corner of Kugelfangtrift in the Hanover district of Vahrenheide .

history

The flying station on the Vahrenwalder Heide with a mounted biplane ;
Collotype ; colorized postcard no. 665 of the North German paper industry , 1914

The same building as the left - one of the two buildings at the Kugelfangtrift that from the time of the first airport are preserved

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover around 1850, there was a parade ground on the Vahrenwalder Heide , which today is remembered by street names such as Großer Kolonnenweg or Kugelfangtrift . According to an older edition of the address book of the city of Hanover , shooting ranges were set up there that could only be reached via dirt roads in the heath landscape . At the time of the German Empire at the beginning of the 20th century, Karl Jatho made his first flight attempts on the extensive open-air site.

On the edge of the airfield, an air barracks for the Prussian army was built in 1913 , which was called a motor vehicle barracks from 1918 and was called Cambrai barracks from 1933 . The airship barracks , built on the airfield in 1915 , became a fusilier u. Infantry barracks , the Train barracks built in 1916 became a machine gun barracks in 1920 ; after 1933 both were combined to form the Emmich barracks .

The building 14 the barracks,
2,015 seat from school staff, school Commander and Staff of the School of Military Police and Headquarters Service Bundeswehr

During the Weimar Republic in 1928 the city of Hanover approved Hanover-Vahrenwald Airport, the city's first airport; today, large areas serve as the old airport commercial area . In addition, as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht in 1936, the so-called " War School " was built on Vahrenwalder Strasse, then still known as Staader Chaussee , at the location of today's barracks .

Stumbling stone on Bohlendamm opposite the Lower Saxony state parliament for Heinrich Börner (* 1919) who was executed on April 13, 1940 at the shooting range of the barracks in Vahrenheide

The NS - Military Justice served terrain at the Kugelfangtrift as a place of execution for enforcement of death sentences to soldiers, especially because of desertion or even on the walls painted slogans: After a final night in the remand prison of the armed forces at Waterloo Place 16 the convicts were transported to Kugelfangtrift and tied to a stake. According to the "fire" command shot commands from each ten men in the presence of the military district pastor Theodor Laasch or primarily in Limmer working Superintendent Kurt Feilcke the convicts, most of the later local MG -Stands number 8. A total of 43 soldiers are executed in this way have been; According to the little information available, she is said to have been buried in the " Limmer military cemetery ", today's Fosselfeld cemetery .

During the Second World War , there was a labor camp at Hackethalstrasse 79 with wooden barracks for the barracks, in which so-called “ Eastern workers , Poles and prisoners of war ” had to report for “ labor deployment ”. In addition, another 300 Dutch , Belgians , Czechs and Italians are said to have been used for "machine, transport and auxiliary work".

The Army Officer School I (HOS I) 1968, reception area and lecture hall building

Memorial stone "250 years of military police 1740 to 1990"

After the end of the war, the site remained unused for around a decade. With the rearmament , the military installation was given the name Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne, in April 1956 the Army Officer School I began its service. In the following decades, more than 50,000 young officers and officer cadets received their training in Hanover-Vahrenheide, before the facility was relocated to Dresden in 1998 in connection with German reunification .

In 1990 a memorial stone with the inscription was erected on the barracks site in Hanover :

Suum cuique

250 years Military Police 1740-1990

Donated in October 1990 on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Kameradschaft der Feldjäger eV
Modellarbeit and Guss Buderus

After various other ideas for the use of the Emmich-Cambrai barracks, the decision was made to relocate the Bundeswehr military police school from Sonthofen to Hanover. The federal government then invested around 80 million euros in renovations and extensions between 2007 and 2009. The comparatively well-preserved buildings from the 1930s were renovated once more , as well as the poorly preserved buildings from the 1970s. At the beginning of the 21st century, 25 existing buildings and eight new buildings were converted into one of the most modern military training centers in Europe: around 900 single rooms were furnished in a modern way for around 7,000 course participants a year, for example at the " School for Military Police and Staff Service ". In addition, teaching is provided in the specialist medical center. The Bundeswehr's "Service Center Object Management" is also housed on the barracks site.

In the Military Police Museum , the place since 2009 to around 1,200 m² military history teaching collection (MGLS) with about 250 exhibits on the history of this branch of service.

In the course of coming to terms with the past , a renaming of the Emmich-Cambrai barracks was proposed in 2014, as the late namesake Otto von Emmich is accused of participating in war crimes in the First World War. However, the Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen refused. Vice-Admiral Manfred Nielson stated in writing to an initiative by historians that "there is no reason to pursue a change in the name," as there was no scientific investigation into an alleged personal guilt Emmichs.

The terrorist investigations against Bundeswehr soldiers from 2017 onwards uncovered several cases of right-wing extremism in the Bundeswehr , triggering an ongoing public debate. After the doubts expressed publicly by Defense Minister von der Leyen about the leadership as well as the attitude of the troops, the commander of the "Feldjäger Command of the Bundeswehr" (BrigGen Schnittker) stationed in the neighboring Scharnhorst barracks was "shocked" by the criticism of the Minister. As a result, the majority of the regular military police stationed in the Emmich Cambrai barracks spoke out in favor of renaming the military facility. The regional chairman north of the Bundeswehrverband , Andreas Brandes, described a possible renaming due to alleged war crimes by Otto von Emmich as “more than irritating” and emphasized that “the minister wanted it differently.” Although Brandes could also rename it after the 2011 in Afghanistan killed sergeant Tobias able Stein imagine, but first the ongoing discussions on a possible change would have the tradition decree of the Bundeswehr to be completed.

At the beginning of July 2017, the Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne again came into the focus of the media after several thousand illegally hoarded cartridges were found there in a soldier's locker.

Ursula von der Leyen visited the Hannoversche Feldjäger-Kaserne during her summer trip in 2017, when the sports soldiers made their vows after completing their military service there on August 4th and numerous sergeants and non-commissioned officers were sworn in on the same day .

Renaming of the barracks

On March 28, 2018, in the presence of Federal Defense Minister von der Leyen, the barracks were renamed from “Emmich Cambrai barracks” to “Hauptfeldwebel Lagenstein barracks”.

literature

oV : Hanover, your garrison. Information brochure for soldiers and guests , location brochure (36 pages), 4th edition, Kissing: WEKA, Verlags-Gesellschaft für Current Publications, 1995.

Wolfgang Leonhardt : From the Army Officer School to the Feldjägermuseum , in ders .: List, Vahrenwald, Vinnhorst. Three districts of Hanover with history (s) , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8448-7810-3 , pp. 106–110; Preview over google books .

Janet von Stillfried : Barracks and site hospital - military district command XI , in this: The Sachsenross under the swastika. Travel guide through Hanover and the surrounding area 1933–1945 , with numerous illustrations, MatrixMedia-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-932313-85-1 , pp. 118–131, especially pp. 125–129.

Christian Bohnenkamp: Vow with background noise / Von der Leyen is coming - but not everything in the barracks is going according to your ideas. In: Neue Presse of August 4, 2017, p. 16.

Web links

Commons : Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Services of the armed forces base : Contact / school for military police and staff service of the Bundeswehr .

oV : Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne / Soldier is said to have hoarded ammunition in locker / 2321 cartridges combat ammunition, 630 cartridges practice ammunition and five practice grenades ... on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 7, 2017, updated on July 10, 2017.

Christian Bohnenkamp: Bundeswehr / New name for Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne / Troop wants to name them after a fallen sergeant major. General criticizes Minister von der Leyen on the website of the Neue Presse on June 14, 2017.

Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne, Kugelfangtrift 1, 30179 Hanover on the side hannover.de .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Janet von Stillfried: Barracks and site hospital - military district command XI , in this: The Sachsenross under the swastika. Travel guide through Hanover and the surrounding area 1933–1945 , MatrixMedia-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-932313-85-1 , pp. 118–131, in particular pp. 125–129.
↑ Thomas Wiegold: For the first time, barracks are given the name of a fallen Bundeswehr soldier. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
↑ Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne renamed to Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein-Kaserne Focus, March 28, 2018
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Christian Bohnenkamp: Vow with background noises / Von der Leyen comes - but in the barracks not everything is going according to your ideas. In: Neue Presse of August 4, 2017, p. 16.
↑ ^a ^b Klaus Mlynek : Vahrenheide. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 637.
^ Address book from 1853, compare Helmut Zimmermann : Kugelfangtrift , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 152.
^ Klaus Mlynek: Jatho, Karl. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 187 f.
^ ^A ^b Klaus Mlynek: Barracks. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 339.
↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1946. In: Hannover Chronik , pp. 241–244; here: p. 244.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Wolfgang Leonhardt: From the Army Officer School to the Feldjägermuseum , in ders .: List, Vahrenwald, Vinnhorst. Three districts of Hanover with history (s) , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8448-7810-3 , pp. 106–110; Preview over google books.
↑ Reproduction of the text on the memorial stone shown above.
↑ Von der Leyen: Renaming of Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne important signal , Die Welt, March 28, 2018

[v._Stillfried-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Janet von Stillfried: Barracks and site hospital - military district command XI , in this: The Sachsenross under the swastika. Travel guide through Hanover and the surrounding area 1933–1945 , MatrixMedia-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-932313-85-1 , pp. 118–131, in particular pp. 125–129.

[2] Thomas Wiegold: For the first time, barracks are given the name of a fallen Bundeswehr soldier. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .

[3] Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne renamed to Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein-Kaserne Focus, March 28, 2018

[Nebengeräusche-4] Christian Bohnenkamp: Vow with background noises / Von der Leyen comes - but in the barracks not everything is going according to your ideas. In: Neue Presse of August 4, 2017, p. 16.

[SLH_Vahrenheide-5] Klaus Mlynek : Vahrenheide. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 637.

[6] Address book from 1853, compare Helmut Zimmermann : Kugelfangtrift , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 152.

[7] Klaus Mlynek: Jatho, Karl. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 187 f.

[SLH_Kasernen-8] A ^b Klaus Mlynek: Barracks. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 339.

[9] Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1946. In: Hannover Chronik , pp. 241–244; here: p. 244.

[3_Stadtteile-10] Wolfgang Leonhardt: From the Army Officer School to the Feldjägermuseum , in ders .: List, Vahrenwald, Vinnhorst. Three districts of Hanover with history (s) , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8448-7810-3 , pp. 106–110; Preview over google books.

[11] Reproduction of the text on the memorial stone shown above.

[12] Von der Leyen: Renaming of Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne important signal , Die Welt, March 28, 2018