Army Sergeant Academy

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Army Sergeant Academy

Lineup 1959
Country Flag of Austria.svg Austria
Armed forces Federal Army
Type NCO school
Insinuation Federal Ministry for National Defense
Location Enns , Towarek school barracks

The Army NCOs' Academy ( HUAk ) of the Federal Army is located in the Towarek school barracks in Enns (Upper Austria). Today around 250 NCOs and 250 staff NCOs are trained annually by the Army NCOs.

history

Army Sergeant Academy Enns, avenue to the main building

The building of the Army NCOs' Academy in Enns was built between 1906 and 1908 as a military secondary school or cadet school . Up until 1918, 160 pupils were taught each year.

In 1919 the barracks served as a branch of the Episcopal Boys' Seminar Petrinum from Linz for one year and from 1921 to 1936 three classes from the Enns Citizens School were housed in the NCO building before they moved to the old savings bank building in the city of Enns.

Since the armed forces had only been allowed to set up a single military school for the training of offspring officers after the First World War , an army school was set up in 1922 with the command and the three-year officer candidate courses in Enns and later with a course for physical training in Wiener Neustadt . In 1926, a two-year course at the Army School opened the officer's career to particularly talented and proven NCOs, although this only led to the rank of captain . As early as 1922, however, the 107 so-called "Volkswehr lieutenants" who had been transferred from the Volkswehr to the First Federal Army had been trained. Without any special preparation, these had been appointed NCOs solely on the basis of their service performance. In 1928, the three-year course for high school graduates was renamed "Officers Academy" and that for NCOs into "Officers School".

In August 1934, the military academy returned to its old location in the castle in Wiener Neustadt . The commanding officer at the time, Colonel Rudolf Towarek , became the first director of the rebuilt Theresianum, and the Enns barracks is named after him. A company of the 8th Alpenjäger Regiment, which had been stationed in Wels until then, moved into the now empty barracks in Enns.

During the occupation after the end of World War II , the barracks housed soldiers of the United States Army . Their task was to monitor the zone borders on the Enns.

From 1953 a section of the B-Gendarmerie , consisting of high school graduates from various gendarmerie elementary schools, was housed in the barracks.

The 13th January 1959 marked the actual hour of birth of the Army NCO School in Enns as the central training facility for all NCOs in the Austrian Armed Forces. With the start of a restructured NCO training in 1995, the Army NCOs School (HUOS) was upgraded to the Army NCOs Academy.

The barracks have been named since 1967 after Major General Rudolf Towarek , who was in command of the Theresian Military Academy in the First Republic .

goals and tasks

The Army NCOs' Academy is responsible for training NCOs in the Austrian Armed Forces to become executives. The training takes place in accordance with the respective deployment concept of the armed forces according to the principles of adult education and takes into account not only technical but also social skills.

NCO course

The NCO will be trained in the armed forces in 44 weeks. First, a one-week admission test must be completed, followed by a 15-week training in:

  • Training methodology
  • Leadership behavior
  • Training to become an instructor
  • Lead in combat
  • Legal studies
  • Defense policy training

The whole thing is framed by a sporty training session.

This is followed in six weeks by the practical "general basic training" and again a block of seven weeks at the academy with the following topics:

  • Army science , combat theory
  • Peace Support Operation
  • NCO model
  • Stress exercise
  • Gun and shooting service
  • Service operation
  • care

With the troops, the prospective NCO will then receive technical training in 14 weeks. The one-week retirement seminar at the academy concludes.

Staff NCO course

The army sergeant's course lasts 43 weeks and consists of four blocks. The first block consists of a one-week entrance exam at the academy. If the admission test is passed, a 24-week training follows in the following areas:

  • Leadership in action
  • Army Studies
  • Staff service
  • Service operation
  • Legal studies
  • Political education
  • Personality development
  • Training methodology
  • Physical training
  • Foreign language training

The whole thing is framed by a sports and sports education training by the Federal Institute for Physical Education. In the third, 17-week block, the soldier is trained in his branch of service in the troops. At the academy, the last block follows with the one-week final exam.

Subsequent use

In addition, an eight-week advanced training course for high-level subsequent uses is offered:

  • Staff service
  • Command post operation
  • Staff exercise
  • Presentation technology
  • guide
  • Negotiation
  • Leadership support
  • Project management
  • Personal work technique
  • Project work
  • CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management)
  • education
  • Professional ethics
  • Legal studies
  • Political education
  • Physical training
  • Foreign language training (military technical English )

Graduates from different schools

From 1922 to 1934 400 officers were trained in Enns:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Army: History of the Army NCOs' Academy (accessed October 7, 2008)
  2. ↑ Austria's Armed Forces: Basic Training (accessed October 7, 2008)
  3. ↑ a b Austria's Armed Forces: Further Education (Accessed October 7, 2008)

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 26.6 ″  N , 14 ° 28 ′ 28.3 ″  E