Army Office

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Army Office
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Combat Simulation Center for the Army (Bundeswehr) .svg
active February 16, 1956 to June 27, 2013
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Logo Heer with lettering.svg army
Type Higher command authority
last seat Cologne
motto Army Office - The future in sight
management
last head of office Major General Erhard Drews
last deputy head of office and commander of army schools Brigadier General Heinrich Fischer

The Army Office ( HA ; until September 30, 1970 Truppenamt - Tr ) in Cologne was a department of the Army of the Armed Forces on the divisional level , the remaining tasks mostly on the merged in June 2013 Office of the Army Development and the Training Command have been transferred. The appeal to dissolve the Army Office took place on June 27, 2013.

General

Under the leadership of the head of the office , around 917 soldiers (including 503 officers , 249 NCOs and 165 men ) and 124 civilian employees were responsible for the conceptual development of the army as well as training and equipment. Furthermore, the Army Office was responsible for organizational principles in the army , for issues relating to the systems in use and for the logistics of the army. The schools and centers of the army were subordinate to the Army Office . The Army Office was most recently subordinate to the Army Command. In accordance with the realignment of the Bundeswehr and the stationing concept in 2011 , the Army Office was dissolved and reclassified into the Office for Army Development . The newly established training command took over the management of the army's training areas .

Tasks of the Army Office

The overriding objective was to further improve operational capabilities, training, armaments and the organization of the army. This resulted in the following core tasks of the Army Office:

  • Further development of the functional areas of responsibility of the army in accordance with the conceptual specifications of the army command staff ,
  • Control and monitoring of the information technology system Army,
  • Further development of the army's branches of service,
  • Development and processing of regulations,
  • Development and processing of basics in the areas of personnel and training,
  • Management of the subordinate departments.

In addition, the Army Office maintained contact with foreign armed forces both through foreign liaison officers stationed in Cologne and through a liaison organization in several countries.

Organizational structure

Head of office

Main building of the Army Office in Cologne-Raderthal
Motor vehicle stand of the head of office

At the head of the Army Office was the head of office, with the rank of major general . His deputy , the chief of staff , the chief legal advisor (LRB), the chief medical officer (LSO), the controlling and stage managers for officer training, non-commissioned officer training, troop training and reservist training in the army were directly subordinate to this . Furthermore, the liaison officers of foreign armed forces were in direct contact with the head of the office.

Deputy Head of Office

The deputy head of office , with the rank of brigadier general , was also the commander of the army schools. All of the army's training facilities were subordinate to him. In addition, the general of the telecommunications troops and the general physician of the army were subordinate to him. Brigadier General Heinrich Fischer has held this post since March 27, 2008 .

Chief of Staff

The chief of staff , also a brigadier general, was the disciplinary superior of the specialist departments I to V, the staff departments (G1, G3, S4, S6), the support area and the coordination and deployment evaluation department. He was also responsible for the administration department. The post was not occupied recently.

Headquarters companies

Two headquarters companies acted for the soldiers of the Army Office as a personnel department with company commanders and company sergeant major . They were the agency for the teams. At headquarters companies were combined into a staff battalion .

Departments

The departments I to V were each led by a brigadier general. The departments had the following responsibilities:

  • Department I (Army Development): Conceptual basis for further development and planning requirements for the development of the army's defense material.
  • Department II (training): all basic and cross-sectional training matters in the army.
  • Department III (Army Armaments): Armaments projects of the Army.
  • Department IV (Organization): Conception of the organizational structure of the army, supervision of the implementation of organizational and structural measures, development of strength and equipment certificates (STAN) as well as development of the organizational basis for tasks, structure, posts, equipment and material.
  • Department V (usage / logistics): central management and control tasks of army logistics (until April 2008: logistics center of the army ).

Subordinated areas

formerly subordinate area

All central training institutions of the Army were subordinate to the Army Office until mid-2013:

The subordinate command area therefore included more than 12,000 soldiers and 3,000 civilian employees at the schools and centers of the army.

deployment

The headquarters of the Army Office was in the Konrad-Adenauer-Kaserne in Cologne. The Division IV and part of Division II were in the Major General Baron von Gersdorff army barracks in Euskirchen , in the Rhine barracks in Koblenz were stationed parts of Division III, and V was the abbot. In the Ahr Valley Barracks in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler housed.

history

Association badge of the former military office

The Army Office was set up on February 16, 1956 as Department V / Troop Departments as a branch of the Federal Ministry of Defense in Cologne. On June 10, 1956, the troop office was established and the name was changed to Army Office on October 1, 1970. In 1986, a memorial was set up at the Army Office building to commemorate the resistance fighter General Friedrich Olbricht . In the course of the dissolution of the GDR, there were intensive contacts with the NVA in August 1990 to ensure the formation of an all-German army. In 1995 the office was comprehensively restructured and from then on it was even more responsible for the conceptual development of the army. In the course of the tenth reclassification, the logistics center of the army was incorporated as Department V on April 1, 2008 . The Army Office was dissolved on June 27, 2013 as part of the takeover of the ARMY2011 structure . The tasks of the Army Office were largely transferred to the successor organizations, the Office for Army Development in Cologne and the Training Command in Leipzig. Further tasks will also be transferred to the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Bundeswehr in Koblenz.

Heads of office

Lieutenant General Wolfgang Odendahl (left) with US General Maxwell R. Thurman (1989)
No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
17th Major General Erhard Drews January 1, 2013 June 27, 2013
16 Brigadier General Heinrich Fischer (acting) June 1, 2012 December 31, 2012
15th Major General Wolf-Joachim Clauss November 15, 2006 May 31, 2012
14th Major General Wolfgang Korte March 1, 2005 November 15, 2006
13 Major General Jürgen Ruwe October 1, 2003 March 1, 2005
12 Major General Werner Widder March 31, 2001 September 2003
11 Major General Manfred Dietrich April 1, 1999 March 31, 2001
10 Major General Jürgen Reichardt April 1, 1994 March 31, 1999
09 Lieutenant General Ernst Klaffus April 1, 1990 March 31, 1994
08th Lieutenant General Wolfgang Odendahl 1st December 1986 March 31, 1990
07th Lieutenant General Gerhard Wachter April 1, 1986 November 30, 1986
06th Lieutenant General Werner Schäfer April 1, 1983 March 31, 1986
05 Lieutenant General Horst Wenner 1st October 1979 March 31, 1983
04th Lieutenant General Heinz-Georg Lemm April 1, 1974 September 30, 1979
03 Lieutenant General Hubert Sonneck 1st October 1968 March 31, 1974
02 Lieutenant General Hellmuth Mäder October 1, 1960 September 30, 1968
01 Major General Hellmuth Reinhardt June 1, 1956 September 30, 1960

literature

  • Stefan Heydt, Christian Bannert (project officer): The army schools . On behalf of the Army Office, Fölbach-Medienservice, Munich 2011, p. 10 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Luchtenberg: The Army Office is now history. www.deutschesheer.de, July 12, 2013, accessed on July 17, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Presentation of your own department. In: www.deutschesheer.de. April 16, 2011, accessed December 10, 2011 .
  3. ^ Training command "today". www.deutschesheer.de, July 9, 2013, accessed on July 17, 2013 .


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