Army Research Institute

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With Heeresversuchsanstalt were in the era of National Socialism of the Army for research and testing of new weapons technology called trial sites.

Hillersleben Army Research Institute

In the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide near Hillersleben in Saxony-Anhalt , the Wehrmacht had been testing artillery weapons since 1936 and later also heavy weapons such as the Dora gun . After the rest of the Czech Republic was broken up in 1939 , weapons captured there were brought to Hillersleben and tested. On April 13, 1945 troops of the 9th US Army and the 2nd Armored Division reached Hillersleben.

The Soviet Army used the site from 1945 to 1994 . Today it is the military training area Altmark with the Combat Training Center army the Bundeswehr . In the old barracks of the Hillersleben troop accommodation, the Bundeswehr's foreign training for operations in Kosovo a. carried out ( local battle only ). A little north of today's Hillersleben is the Planken military training camp, which is used by national and international troops as accommodation for their soldiers. A modern repair park and further accommodation in the middle of the military training area are connected. The control center of the combat training center is located a little north of Hillersleben, in Letzlingen . A tank battalion is also housed there, which regularly acts as a training opponent for the various units.

Army research institute Kummersdorf-Gut

The Army Weapons Office was located in Kummersdorf-Gut near Luckenwalde in Brandenburg until 1945 . Before the establishment of the research institute in Peenemünde, initial research on rocket technology was carried out here. Even nuclear research were operated here.

Army Research Center in Mittersill

In Mittersill ( Austria ) shortly after the annexation of Austria, an army research institute was built to test cable cars. A separate connecting railway was built for this purpose. The facility was dismantled after 1945.

Munster North Army Research Center

This facility, often referred to as the Heeresversuchsanstalt Raubkammer , on the Munster -Nord military training area in the Lüneburg Heath , has been in military use since 1892. Chemical warfare agents have been tested since 1916.

Today Munster is the largest location of the Bundeswehr . The Defense Science Institute for Protective Technologies (NBC protection) is located here alongside other facilities .

Army research institute Peenemünde

The Peenemünde Army Research Institute, established on the island of Usedom in 1936 , served the development of missile technology. After the Second World War , the area was first used by the Group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany (GSSD) and later by the NVA .

literature

  • Philipp Aumann: Armaments put to the test: Kummersdorf, Peenemünde and total mobilization . Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-864-6 .
  • Till Bastian : high tech under the swastika. From the atomic bomb to space travel. Militzke, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-86189-740-7 , pp. 97-125.
  • Volkhard Bode, Gerhard Kaiser: Missile tracks. Peenemünde 1936–1996. A historical report with current photos. Christoph Links, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86153-112-7 .
  • Walter Dornberger: Peenemünde - The history of the V weapons. RhinoVerlag, Ilmenau 2018, ISBN 978-3-932081-88-0 . Extended new edition of the third edition published in 1958, Book V2 - The Shot into Space. Bechtle Verlag, Esslingen 1981.
  • Joachim Engelmann: Secret armory Peenemünde. V2 - "Waterfall" - "Butterfly". Podzun-Pallas, Friedberg, ISBN 3-7909-0118-0 .
  • Wolfgang Gückelhorn, Detlev Paul: V1 - "Eifelschreck" kills, crashes and impacts of the flying bomb from the Eifel and the right bank of the Rhine 1944/45. Helios, Aachen 2004, ISBN 3-933608-94-5 .
  • Günther Jikeli (ed.): Rockets and forced labor in Peenemünde. The responsibility of memory . Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Schwerin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86498-750-2 ( PDF ).
  • Martin Kaule: Peenemünde. From the missile center to the monument landscape. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-764-9 .
  • Manfred Kanetzki: Operation Crossbow: Bombs on Peenemünde . Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 3-86153-805-9 , 978-3-86153-805-9.
  • Bernd Kuhlmann: Peenemünde - The missile center and its industrial railway. 2nd Edition. GVE, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89218-081-4 .
  • Jürgen Michels: Peenemünde and its heirs in East and West. Development and way of German secret weapons. With the collaboration of Olaf Przybilski. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1997.
  • Christian Mühldorfer-Vogt (Ed.): The operation can be carried out with prisoners - forced labor for the war rocket . Peenemünder issues 3; Historical-Technical Museum Peenemünde , Peenemünde 2009.
  • Volker Neipp: With screws and bolts to the moon - the incredible life's work of Dr. Eberhard FM Rees. Trossingen 2008. History of the deputy Wernher von Brauns, Eberhard Rees, from Peenemünde to the USA. Springerverlag Trossingen, ISBN 978-3-9802675-7-1 .
  • Botho Stüwe: Peenemünde West. Bechtermünz Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-8289-0294-4 .

Web links

Commons : Heeresversuchsanstalten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.deutschesheer.de
  2. ↑ Gerald Breitfuss: "The Pinzgauer Local Railway"