Army Officer School III

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Army Officer School III
- HOS III -

active 1958 to 1974
Country Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Logo Heer with lettering.svg army
Type Army officer school
Insinuation Army Office
Location Munich

The military officer school III (HOS III), the third of three military officer schools for forming the officer candidates of the Army . The school existed from 1958 to 1974 and was based in Munich . Her successor was the Army Officers School (OSH) in Hanover.

She gained importance u. a. in the sporting field, as an organizational supporter of the 1972 Summer Olympics and as a training center for the army for modern and military pentathlon .

history

In the fall of 1957, the Federal Ministry of Defense , headed by Franz Josef Strauss , decided that the third army officer school should be built in Munich and not in Böblingen . The Bundeswehr Medical and Health Academy (later: Medical Academy ) had its headquarters in the Bavarian capital . Due to the lack of accommodation for the 1,000-man project, the project could not be tackled in 1957.

After the advance staff had arrived at the Funkkaserne in Freimann in January 1958 , they took over two blocks in the Stetten-Kaserne ( Schwere-Reiter-Straße ) on Oberwiesenfeld in Schwabing-West , which from 1945 to 1956 served as the Indiana Depot of the United States Army had acted. A preparatory course for teaching officers began in April, and official school operations began in July with the 7th OA course. As with other associations, the subordination to the Troop Office (from 1970 Army Office) in Cologne.

In the 1960s, the Munich I Tax Building Authority was responsible for further construction work in two sections. During this time u. a. a new three-storey, skeleton-like lecture hall building was built, which was inaugurated in 1964. In particular, a lecture and cinema hall with a capacity of 700 seats could be realized; the auditorium was inaugurated in 1967. The Munich sculptor Blasius Gerg designed a concrete sculpture for the entrance area, which showed the school landmark, a knight's helmet. The painter and graphic artist Günther Graßmann submitted further designs for the interior of the building . After the Tannenberg flags had already been handed over at HOS III in 1963 , a memorial was inaugurated in the lecture hall building in 1966 for those who fell in the 1926 Fahnenjunker course in Dresden at the Dresden Infantry School .

In 1961 the officers ' and ensign's home was inaugurated. The farm buildings were handed over less than a year later. The Kulmbach company WABAG planned a modern indoor swimming pool for HOS III, which was inaugurated in 1967. In addition, the inauguration of the renovated chapel took place. The building arrangement also resulted in the establishment of a roll call area.

The founding committee of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich was constituted in 1973 in the presence of Federal Defense Minister Georg Leber in the Stetten barracks. This was followed by the dissolution of inspection and teaching groups at HOS III. On July 5, 1974, in the course of the establishment of the two Bundeswehr universities in Munich and Hamburg, the Army Officer Schools I to III were merged into the Army Officer School (OSH) in Hanover, later Dresden.

structure

HOS III was headed by a commander with the rank of brigadier general , who was supported by a school staff (S1 to S4). In addition to the teaching staff, such as military, sports, language and law teachers, the school was also associated with the military doctor , the troop administration, the military chaplains and the library . The focus was initially on two teaching groups (A and B), which were divided into seven inspections (the seventh was set up in 1964) and a total of twenty-one lecture halls . In 1969 a further (C) teaching group was added, which was dissolved again in 1972. In addition, a training battalion was attached to HOS III.

Commanders

Training battalion

The HOS III was temporarily subordinated to a training battalion (LehrBtl HOS III) set up in the Eberhard Finckh barracks in Großengstingen in August 1958 . This in turn was subject to a battalion command group with further subdivisions. It followed on from the tradition of the Royal Bavarian Infantry Body Regiment . In 1959 it moved to the Heuberg camp near Stetten on the kalten Markt . A year later, the battalion moved to the Jensenkaserne in Munich. In 1963 the training battalion took over the Kronprinz-Rupprecht barracks in the Am Hart district of Munich . The training battalion was reorganized as Panzergrenadierlehrbataillon 283 in 1959 and renamed as Panzergrenadierlehrbataillon 243 in 1970 and as Panzergrenadierbataillon 243 in 1973. In 1970 the subordination to the HOS III ended; the 24th Panzer Grenadier Brigade in Landshut took over their duties.

Training, education and upbringing

With the commissioning of the three army officer schools, a "standardization" of officer training was aimed for. Over time, several thousand were at the HOS III profession , - time - and reserve officers trained military technically and scientifically.

The military history lessons, standardized in 1957 by a "basic program", which covered a period from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Second World War , gained importance at the army officer schools . For example, Lieutenant Colonel Karl-Hermann Freiherr von Brand zu Neidstein , temporarily head of the Military History Museum in Raststatt , was a teacher for “military and war history” in the teaching groups of HOS III. Later, the group of specialist troop teachers took over the field of "military history".

From 1968 a scientific group was set up at HOS III . From 1968 to 1973 it was headed by the Scientific Director Franz W. Seidler (History), who was assisted by numerous guest lecturers from various fields such as history, education, psychology, natural sciences, political sciences and economics. It lectured u. a. the Scientific Director Helmut Ibach (Political Science), the Scientific Council Rolf K. Hočevar (Political Science) and the Scientific Senior Councilor Christiane Busch-Lüty (Economics).

International

The Army Officer School maintained closer relations (cadet exchanges, etc.) with the military academies of the NATO countries and the like. a. the United States Military Academy in West Point, the Accademia Militare in Modena and the Army War School in Ankara.

Sports

On the one hand, HOS III was responsible for the official sports training of the officer candidates; the German sports badge etc. could be acquired. They also took part in the annual sports festivals of the Bundeswehr officers' schools.

On the other hand, it acted as a training center for the German army for the modern and military pentathlon . The school produced internationally successful military athletes such as Herwig Wrede and Eckhard Henning . The modern pentathlete Theodor Dieker , who won two German championships in the 1960s, was one of the army athletes .

In the run-up to the XX. During the Summer Olympics , Army Officer School III supported the organizing committee in 1971/72 as a staff group in the Munich Military District Command VI by providing real estate (including accommodation for sports interpreters) and organizing the Federal Armed Forces deployment. For the preparation of the games, teaching was temporarily suspended. From May to August 1972, pre-Olympic test competitions were held at the Army Officer's School. Several volleyball teams trained in the local gym. Around 20,000 Bundeswehr soldiers were deployed by the HOS III working group, including 30 project officers on the nearby Olympic site . Four management officers were assigned to the Olympic headquarters , which is managed by Willi Daume , NOK President.

Library

In 1958 the library of HOS III was founded. It had a technical (military and scientific source material), a troop (entertainment literature) and a seminar library (basic literature and reference works). In 1974 over 19,200 volumes were transferred to the holdings of the Munich Defense Department Library VI (WBB). Today there are around 12,300 volumes from the fields of military affairs and military history in the university library of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich , which has been looking after and expanding the acquired scientific specialist library WBB since the 2000s.

Publications

Some of the work done at HOS III was included in the series of publications on the Inner Leadership of the Command Staff of the Armed Forces . From 1959 to 1962, HOS III published the 33-volume series of studies on questions of time , in which Gert Verstl u. a. published. In 1966/67 a small series of publications was published in which, for example, the course work by Klaus Olshausen appeared. In 1970, Seidler was the editor of the only volume of studies at the Munich Army Officer's School for Munich's Olzog Verlag .

literature

  • Othmar Pollmann (Zsgest.): Heeresoffizierschule III Munich, 1958–1974. A portrait . Army Officer School III, Munich 1974.

Web links

Commons : Heeresoffizierschule III  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ State Capital Munich, Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulations (Ed.): From the barracks to the city quarter. For the conversion of military areas in Munich . Munich 2013, p. 25.
  5. ↑ Rüdiger Wenzke , Irmgard Zündorf: "An iron curtain has come down." Military history in the Cold War 1945–1968 / 70 . In: Karl-Volker Neugebauer (Hrsg.): Basic course in German military history . Volume 3: The time after 1945. Armies in transition . Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58100-3 , p. 112.
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  10. ↑ a b c d Othmar Pollmann: Army Officer School III Munich, 1958–1974. A portrait . Munich 1974, p. 56.
  11. ↑ Helmut R. Hammerich : Commission comes from compromise. The army of the Bundeswehr between the Wehrmacht and the US Army (1950 to 1970) . In: Helmut R. Hammerich, Dieter H. Kollmer , Martin Rink , Rudolf J. Schlaffer (Eds.): Das Heer 1950 to 1970. Concept, organization, deployment (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany . Vol. 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57974-6 , p. 329, fn. 255.
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  15. ^ Friedhelm Klein : Military history in the Federal Republic of Germany . In: Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck u. a .: Military history in Germany and Austria from the 18th century to the present (= lectures on military history . Vol. 6). Mittler, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-8132-0214-3 , pp. 183-214, here: pp. 198 f.
  16. ^ Othmar Pollmann: Army Officer School III Munich, 1958–1974. A portrait . Munich 1974, pp. 58, 60.
  17. ^ A b Othmar Pollmann: Heeresoffizierschule III Munich, 1958–1974. A portrait . Munich 1974, pp. 65, 68.
  18. ^ Othmar Pollmann: Army Officer School III Munich, 1958–1974. A portrait . Munich 1974, p. 43.
  19. ^ A b Othmar Pollmann: Heeresoffizierschule III Munich, 1958–1974. A portrait . Munich 1974, p. 68.
  20. ↑ Army Officer School III: Army Officer School III Munich . Munich 1967, no p.
  21. ↑ Rudi Trost: 100 Years of Modern Pentathlon Olympic, 1912–2012. From its founder and father, the French Baron Pierre de Coubertin to the savior of the Pentathlon as an Olympic discipline, the German Dr. Klaus Schormann . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89899-897-0 , p. 298.
  22. ^ Organizing Committee for the Games of the 20th Olympiad Munich 1972 (Ed.): The Games. The official report . Volume 1: The Organization . ProSport, Munich 1974, p. 366.
  23. ^ A b Othmar Pollmann: Heeresoffizierschule III Munich, 1958–1974. A portrait . Munich 1974, p. 46.
  24. ^ Othmar Pollmann: Army Officer School III Munich, 1958–1974. A portrait . Munich 1974, p. 47.
  25. ^ Hans-Joachim Genge: Structure and development of the library system of the Bundeswehr and its libraries in Bavaria . In: Paul Niewalda (Hrsg.): Library landscape Bavaria: Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Max Pauer . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-447-02899-8 , p. 366, fn. 92.
  26. ↑ Libraries of the former Army Officer's School III and the Air Force University of Applied Sciences ( memento of the original from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , unibw.de, accessed on January 20, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unibw.de
  27. ^ A b Othmar Pollmann: Heeresoffizierschule III Munich, 1958–1974. A portrait . Munich 1974, p. 44.