Army and Air Force Intelligence School
| Army and Air Force Intelligence School | |||
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Northern school building on the former roll call square |
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | civil used | ||
| local community | Halle (Saale) | ||
| Coordinates : | 51 ° 30 ′ N , 11 ° 56 ′ E | ||
| Opened | 1934 to 1937 | ||
| Formerly stationed units | |||
| * Flak Regiment 33 of the 2nd Flak Division * Army and Air Force News School * Air News Training and Experimental Department * 104th Infantry Division (United States) "Timberwolf" * 7th Armored Division (April - June 1945) |
  
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Location of the Army and Air Force Intelligence School in Saxony-Anhalt |
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The buildings of the Army and Air Force Intelligence School and the General Maercker barracks belonging to the site were built between 1934 and 1937 based on designs by Ernst Sagebiel . You are in Halle (Saale) in the Heide-Süd district on Heideallee.
history
As part of the initially secret armament of the Wehrmacht , the construction of a new Army and Air Force intelligence school in Halle (Saale) was planned and implemented from October 14, 1934. In the very short construction period up to the use of the first buildings from 1935, material was transported by rail, for which a siding to the school had been laid by the Halle-Hettstedter Railway . A total of 160 buildings with around 1.2 million m³ of enclosed space were built.
The school was to become part of the development of a modern air force in the course of the German Reich's preparations for war . In order to disguise the activities in Halle, the planning of the building was initially carried out under the guise of building a "noodle factory".
In 1935 the Army Intelligence School , which had been stationed in Jüterbog , moved to the location. The Army and Air Force Intelligence School, which was put into service as a result, was separated again in 1936 at the same location into the two Wehrmacht sections, Army and Air Force. The air base in Halle-Nietleben, which had been rededicated for military use, also belonged to the Air Force Intelligence School . He was under the airport area command 7./III (Grossenhain / Saxony) of the Luftgau command III (Berlin).
From 1935 to 1937 the Luftnachrichten teaching and testing department was also located at the site, which was then relocated to Köthen . The Flak Regiment 33 of the 2nd Flak Division was stationed in the General Maercker Barracks .
The school's first commanding officer was Major General Ernst Sachs from 1934 to 1936 .
In April 1945 Halle was taken largely without a fight by the 104th US Infantry Division of the 9th US Army , and the school and barracks were taken over by the latter and parts of the 7th US Panzer Division.
From around July 1945, the 8th Guards Army of the Soviet occupation forces took over the barracks. Halle was the headquarters and location of the 27th Guards Mot.-Rifle Division . Up to 9,000 soldiers were stationed at the entire Halle site. In the western part of the property there was probably a mobile missile technology base, field post number 38673, since the mid-1960s. Among other things, this was responsible for the storage, maintenance and transport of nuclear warheads for the Luna and Totschka system. Thus nuclear weapons were probably stored in Halle for more than 20 years . Possibly in 1989, but at the latest in 1991, the nuclear warheads were withdrawn, which until then had been in two underground bunkers. After German reunification , the Soviet troops withdrew from Halle by July 1991 as a result of the two-plus-four treaty .
In 1994 the city of Halle (Saale) and the state of Saxony-Anhalt acquired the location from federal assets . From 1995 after the renovation of the z. Partly very polluted location in the area of the barracks area parts of the new residential area Heide-Süd. The listed buildings of the former news school were also renovated and are now used by various departments of the Martin Luther University as well as for numerous university and non-university research institutions on the Weinberg Campus .
Buildings
The complex originally consisted of around 160 buildings, including the school buildings of the Army and Air Force Intelligence School , the accommodation and residential buildings of the General Maercker barracks, officers ' mess, warehouses, armored halls and workshops. The spatial center of the news school is a roll call area , the entrance to which is flanked by two pavilion-like guard houses. To the right and left of the roll call square are the school buildings in the form of two large four-storey three-wing complexes, the inner courtyards of which are delimited by colonnade-like corridors towards the roll call square.
The barracks area was connected to the school and was accessed by an approx. 1.5 km long, oval garrison road. The buildings are designed as simple plastered buildings with hipped roofs and laid out in a kind of garden city-like ensemble.
In contrast to the monumental and archaic architecture of representative buildings of the Nazi regime, a simple, functional architecture was used here, as is often the case with buildings for the Air Force.
The Halle Geological Garden , which was laid out in 2002, is located in the inner courtyard of the southern school building .
The Halle-Nietleben Air Base included a. the air traffic control building and two hangars that no longer exist today. The sidings from Halle-Nietleben station existed until the end of the nineties.
Refurbished accommodation building; current user Martin Luther University
Colonnade of the southern school building
View of the southern three-wing school complex, the geological garden in the inner courtyard
Former roll call square from the southwest with guard houses in the background
Accommodation building of the former barracks that has not yet been renovated
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.scheer-halle.de/hlns/hlns_nav.htm#HuLnS_Informationen ; last accessed on Feb. 10, 2013
- ↑ Display board at the entrance to the northern school building, read on March 8, 2014
- ↑ http://www.scheer-halle.de/hlns/hlns_nav.htm#HuLnS_Kommandeure ; last accessed on Feb. 10, 2013
- ^ German Liaison Command to the Soviet Armed Forces (ed.): Directory of field post numbers (western group of the troops) . July 17, 1992, p. 37 .
- ↑ Sascha Gunold: The historical source: Photos of a Soviet nuclear weapons storage facility in Halle / Saale. In: Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (Ed.): Military History. Journal for Historical Education: Issue 1/2018. Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, March 28, 2018, p. 28 , accessed on March 29, 2018 .
literature
- Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 .