Hiller barracks

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Aerial view of the Hiller barracks
Logo of the Hiller barracks

The Hiller barracks is a listed barracks of the Austrian armed forces . It was built between 1940 and 1943 in the southern Ebelsberg district of Linz to accommodate around 6000 men in an area of ​​162,989 m². The barracks was named after Johann von Hiller . It should be closed and sold by January 2016. In February 2016, the barracks were sold to a private foundation from the XXXLutz group for 41 million euros. 1000 apartments are to be built on the site.

History of origin

Edification

After the invasion of the German Wehrmacht on the orders of Adolf Hitler in 1938 and the " annexation of Austria " to the German Reich , the construction of numerous barracks for the air force ( Hörsching ), the Danube flotilla of the navy ( Obere Donaulände ) and the pioneers ( planned but not realized) in Ottensheim . The Schutzstaffel (SS) were handed over on August 4, 1938, the "Aubrunnergründe" in Urfahr-Auhof to build a barracks. However, the barracks was built in Linz-Ebelsberg . Originally, the large barracks should extend between Wiener Strasse and today's Hillerstrasse as far as the slopes of the Traun (Panholzerweg) and, in addition to other functional military buildings, a total of around thirty crew buildings were planned.

Memorial plaque of the Hiller barracks

History of founding and deployment in the barracks camp of the SS barracks Ebelsberg

After submitting the III. Sturmbannes of the SS-Totenkopfstandarte 1 "Upper Bavaria" was set up by the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , with effect from April 1, 1938, the 4th SS-Totenkopfstandard in Linz-Steyr and then moved to Ebelsberg. The 4th SS Totenkopf Standard "Ostmark" initially only consisted of the 1st SS Totenkopfsturmbann , which was divided into four hundred groups. In the course of the relocation to Linz-Ebelsberg, the new Totenkopfstandarte was renamed "Ostmark" and it was reinforced by a news centenary and the II. SS Totenkopfsturmbann with the 5th to 8th hundred. In Linz-Ebelsberg the 4th SS-Totenkopfstandard "Ostmark" was trained militarily and until August 1939 it was also used for guard duties in the developing concentration camps Mauthausen and Gusen. For example, from mid-January 1939, on the basis of a Führer decree of August 17, 1938, members of the General SS born between 1903 and 1913 received military training every three months as so-called “police reinforcements” in Ebelsberg. General military training took place in the provisional barracks north of the “Mayr z'Reith” (summer farmer) and in the Traunauen. Most of the infantry weapons came from Czech booty stocks. The barrack camp was used as military accommodation until July 1940. The camp consisted of around 25 crew barracks and a few smaller huts for logistics facilities.

When the war began, each unit was assigned a field post number. At the beginning of February 1940, the 4th SS standard "Ostmark" was attached to the 2nd battalion of the 5th SS skull standard. In June 1940 the 4th SS-Totenkopfstandard was moved to the Netherlands . In November 1940, the 4th SS Totenkopf Standard replaced the SS Totenkopf Standard 11 used in coastal protection. Most of the members of the 4th SS Totenkopf Standard merged into the SS Totenkopf Division created by Theodor Eicke in 1939 from parts of the police and SSTV . The 4th SS Totenkopf Standard itself was never part of this division.

After the withdrawal of the 4th SS-Totenkopfstandard "Ostmark", the barrack camp was still used for military purposes. The SS-Totenkopfstandarte 5. "Dietrich Eckhardt" was set up in the spring of 1939 by renaming the SS-Totenkopfstandarte 2 in Berlin-Adlershof and Oranienburg . By order of November 11, 1939, the 5th SS Totenkopf Standard was moved to Linz and Vienna in order to form SS Totenkopf Standard 13 there. A battalion should be based in Linz. In January 1940, parts of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion and the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th SS Totenkopfstandarte from Oranienburg were temporarily assigned to the SS barrack camp Ebelsberg as III. SS-Totenkopfsturmbann contracted. On July 29, 1940, the standard was dissolved, and therefore the phase of setting up the III in the barrack camp at “Mayr z'Reith” ended. Battalions.

POW camp and resettlement camp in Ufer 3

From 1940 the barrack camp at “Mayr z'Reith” was no longer occupied by SS troops, SS units or SS sub-units. As the "War in the West" progressed, the existing facilities served temporarily as a prisoner of war camp . However, a deployment of armed SS forces as a guard can be ruled out. The prisoner of war camp was likely to have been dissolved by the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1942. In the archive of the city of Linz, a "Barracks camp SS Ebelsberg" in Ufer 3 was mentioned for the first time in a warehouse inventory list from October 1941.

From the spring of 1942, the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Vomi) was able to rent the first four ready-to-move-in team buildings of the Ebelsberg barracks from the SS to accommodate the " Buchenland Germans ". The National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) was responsible for creating and maintaining the necessary infrastructure . Vomi and NSV operated the “Aumühle” pig farm in the neighboring municipality of Pichling. With the fattening of up to 1000 pigs, the large agricultural operation served to supply the "resettlers and refugees from the east" housed on the current barracks area and in the Ebelsberg barracks camps. The facility was built as part of the National Socialist emergency building program and was classified as vital for supplying the population. Polish forced laborers and difficult-to-educate young people were brought in to work there. The barracks were used for the US military administration from 1945 until 1951.

The barracks as a DP camp "Star of David"

The Star of David

In order to coordinate the large number of Displaced Persons (DP) in and outside of camps, the American military government set up special staffs. Their task was to coordinate DP activities, carry out the policies and instructions of the higher headquarters, prepare situation reports and monitor the supplies and the camp commanders. An American officer and several soldiers were responsible for each of these DP camps .

In late autumn 1947, the Jewish displaced persons liberated from the Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamps and distributed in the Upper Austria area (especially in Bad Ischl , Bad Gastein and Ranshofen) were brought together in Ebelsberg. The previous American military facilities were relocated to the USFA ( US Forces in Austria ) Ordnance and Engineer Depot Wegscheid. The peculiarity of the “ Star of David ” or “Camp Rosen David” camp was that the camp residents were made up exclusively of “members of the Israelite nation”. In addition to these Jewish displaced persons, there were also Romanian Jews from the Vienna area. As a result of the closure of other camps, the elderly, the sick and the disabled were brought to Ebelsberg and given their own rehabilitation programs.

Overall, the Star of David camp developed into a model camp for around 1,600 Jewish displaced persons. For example, while the Wegscheid camp was considered one of the worst in Austria, the Davidstern camp in Ebelsberg was known as a camp with acceptable living conditions compared to other Upper Austrian camps. A number of “ethnic Germans” worked in the “Star of David Camp”. At that time there were various black market centers in the Linz area . In the Ebelsberg camp, you could buy food from American stocks such as chocolate , rice and tropical fruits . High quality alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and spirits were also available. Buyers came from all over Linz. "You can buy practically anything in Ebelsberg," was the popular saying ".

After all, the camp was an employer . A whole range of work was carried out for payment by external workers. Winter coats and textiles were produced and marketed by the residents . While the Jewish camp Bindermichl appears again and again in situation reports as a transshipment point for “goods of all kinds” and a location for the “big shops”, the Davidstern camp was, among other things, a tip for spirits. The camp administration and the Jewish Central Committee intervened when they learned of major machinations.

Culture, training and social programs have been set up. Emigrants were prepared for life in Israel . A magazine appeared in the camp , the magazine of "Obschestvo Remeslennogo i selskochosjaistvennogo Truda = ORT (Organization for Craft and Agricultural Work).

The Jews were particularly supported by the Jewish aid organization , the "JOINT" ( American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ). The Jews gradually exerted a considerable influence on economic life and the pricing of this scarce commodity, and there was a certain amount of travel to the camp from the American occupation zone.

Coat of arms of the gendarmerie school

Predecessor organizations of the Austrian Armed Forces in the Ebelsberg barracks

After the "Displaced Persons" left the barracks in 1951, it was renovated. When the gendarmerie took over the barracks in the summer of 1951, the buildings were in a desolate condition. Doors and windows were missing and floors were partly torn out; the roofs of some objects were covered. Movable inventory such as tables and boxes were completely missing. After the renovation was completed, the barracks were taken over by the Gendarmerie School Linz-Ebelsberg and the Gendarmerie Schools OÖ.I, OÖ.II and the Upper Austria driving unit were housed there.

The two gendarmerie schools and the driving unit, as well as the gendarmerie department K and the gendarmerie department D actually had little to do with the gendarmerie. The Federal Gendarmerie was, so to speak, the namesake, godfather, supervisor and cover for this secret army. Actually, the designation "gendarmerie schools" does not correspond to reality. Rather, it is a question of two partially motorized infantry battalions of four companies plus one headquarters company. Subdivision was a camouflage name for company from the vocabulary of the Federal Gendarmerie. The driving unit Upper Austria. was a lightly armored reconnaissance company.

When Austria gained full sovereignty, the units of the B-Gendarmerie were renamed “Provisional Border Guard Departments ”, from which the large units and troops of the Austrian Armed Forces were later formed. In September 1955, the Provisional Border Guard Department Upper Austria.1 was relocated to Vienna, the Provisional Border Guard Department Upper Austria.2 remained in Ebelsberg and also took over the vacant accommodation buildings on the west side of the barracks area.

Takeover of the barracks by the Austrian Armed Forces

In August 1956 the 4th Brigade was set up in Hörsching as part of Group III of the Austrian Armed Forces. The brigade command (BrigKdo) included the military chaplaincy and the brigade administration office. The Brigadesanitätsanstalt (BrigSanA 4) and the Brigadestabskompanie 4 (BrigStbKp 4) were created. The units of the Provisional Border Guard Department Upper Austria. 2 (Prov.GzSch.Abt OÖ. 2) became companies of Upper Austria. Feldjägerbataillons 13 (FjgBaon 13) and to companies of Upper Austria. Renamed Infantry Battalion 14 (InfBaon 14). At the end of 1956 and in the course of 1957, brigade units were set up, which were garrisoned in Hörsching, Siezenheim, Freistadt and Ebelsberg.

At the beginning of 1958, the following units and sub-units were deployed in the Ebelsberg barracks: Brigade Medical Company 4 (BrigSanKp 4), Headquarters Company of Infantry Battalion 14 (StbKp / InfB 14), 2nd Company of Infantry Battalion 14 (2./InfB 14), Support Company of Infantry Battalion 14 (UKp / InfB 14), Headquarters Company of the Feldjäger Battalion 13 (StbKp / FjgJg 13), 2nd Company of the Feldjäger Battalion 13 (2./FjgB 13), Brigadepanzerjägerkompanie 4 (BrigPzJgKp 4), Brigad Aufklärungskompanie 4 (Brigaufwehrzuggeflieger 4), Brigabwehrzuggeflieger 4 4). In addition, the military music of Upper Austria was played in the Ebelsberg barracks. and a company of the later retirement class "E", which was separated from the Enns Military Academy.

On April 1, 1964, the 4 staff battalion was formed after a long preparatory phase to become the “4 armored staff battalion”. The realignment was completed in the same year. The new armored staff battalion 4 was divided into:

  • Panzer Staff Battalion 4 (Kdo / PzStbB4)
  • Staff company Panzerstabsbataillon 4 (StbKp / PzStbB4)
  • Panzer-Tel-Company Panzer Staff Battalion 4 (PzTelKp / PzStbB4)
  • Panzerjägerkompanie Panzerstabsbataillon 4 (PzJgKp / PzStbB4)
  • Panzerpionierkompanie Panzerstabsbataillon 4 (PzPiKp / PzStbB4)
  • Supply and Transport Company Panzerstabsbataillon 4 (NTKp / PzStbB4)
  • Panzerwerkstattkompanie Panzerstabsbataillon 4 (PzWkstKp / PzStbB4)
Johann von Hiller (1754-1819)

The barracks was named on May 15, 1967 after Johann Freiherr von Hiller . This commanded the Austrian troops in the battle for Ebelsberg. When the fifth coalition war broke out in 1809, Hiller led the VI. Army corps in Archduke Karl's army. Other units were placed under him, so that he became the commander of all troops on the Enns . On April 20th he was attacked by Napoleon and pushed back to Landshut . Soon after, Hiller succeeded on April 24 at Neumarkt (Upper Palatinate) in defeating the French under Bessières . For this victory he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Maria Theresa Order . He went back to Linz and successfully fought against the attack by the French in Ebelsberg on May 3rd.

In March 1968 the tank workshop company and the supply and transport company Panzerstabsbataillon 4 were merged into one mobilization unit. The supply train, the repair train and the transport train were then relocated from Ebelsberg to Hörsching . The field ambulance was placed under the armored staff battalion. In March 1968 further changes took place in the barracks, the 1st Panzerhaubitzbatterie 4 was renamed the training battery and attached to the Panzergrenadierbataillon 15. For the correct numerical composition of the departments, the former 2nd light field howitzer battery was designated as the first. The third became the second and the former second the third field howitzer battery of the armored staff battalion. On April 1, 1968, the 3rd Company of the 14th Panzer Battalion and the 2nd Company of the 13th Panzer Grenadier Battalion were shut down. In June 1968 the 15 Panzer Grenadier Battalion, made up of cadre soldiers who had been released, mainly Upper Austrian garrisons, was reorganized and stationed in Ebelsberg under the command of Major Karl Kutmann. In September 1968, the command of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Brigade was transferred from Hörsching Air Base to Ebelsberg barracks.

Coat of arms of the armored staff company

On July 1, 1974, the Armored Staff Battalion 4 took on the following structure after restructuring:

  • Command (Kdo)
  • Headquarters Company (StbKp)
  • Panzer Telecommunication Company (PzFMKp)
  • Tank Reconnaissance Company (Pz AufklKp)
  • Anti-tank anti-aircraft battery (PzFlAbt)
  • Panzer Pioneer Company (PzPiKp)
  • Resupply Transport Repair Company (NTIKp).

In 1975 the "Training Regiment 4" was formed consisting of the command, the headquarters company, the tank hunter company, the heavy company and the 1st and 2nd hunter companies. On January 1, 1979, the 4 training regiment was renamed the LWSR 42nd Landwehr trunk regiment. In July 1975, the 4 armored artillery division was detached from the 4th Armored Grenadier Brigade and became a Landwehr troop body. The new "Brigade Artillery Department 4" represented the artillery element of the newly established 4th Jäger Brigade. On July 5, 1975, the 4th Panzer Grenadier Brigade left the II Corps and was placed under the newly formed command of the 1st Panzer Grenadier Division. In Ebelsberg remained the command with the brigade staff withdrawal and the armored staff battalion 4. On July 15, 1975 the 4th Jägerbrigade was formed in Ebelsberg. The brigade was under the responsibility of the Upper Austrian Military Command and the 4th Training Regiment. Colonel Manfred Flödl was appointed commander of the 4th Jäger Brigade. The 4th Jäger Brigade was disbanded on September 30, 1999.

Coat of arms of the Landwehr Tribe Regiment 42

In command area 4 (Upper Austria) the Landwehr Trunk Regiment 42 was formed in Ebelsberg. The Landwehr tribe regiments were divided into staff companies and four to five training companies, which were supposed to cover the weapon-specific elements of the hunter troop in different training elements (companies or platoons). Mob troops were assigned to the Landwehr tribe regiments. These consisted of Landwehr battalions , light Landwehr battalions, blocking battalions, artillery battalions and various support units (tank destroyers, pioneer grenade launchers, s weapons, telecommunications, supplies, transport, San and other companies or trains).

On June 1, 1978, the Brigade Artillery Department 4 (BAA 4) was renamed with the same structure in the "Brigadeartilleriebataillon 4" of the 4th Jägerbrigade. In January 1979, the 4th Brigade Artillery Battalion of the 4th Jäger Brigade was transformed into a Landwehr Trunk Regiment (LWSR 42).

With effect from March 31, 1994, the responsibility of the 4th Jäger Brigade was transferred to the successor to the 42nd Landwehr Trunk Regiment. This newly created name was not very long-lived either, since the regiment was dissolved again in 1999 and the Jäger Battalion 15 of the 6th Jäger Brigade in Absam / Tyrol was formed from it. The 4th Jägerregiment consists of a command, a headquarters company, three Jäger companies and a heavy company. In the period from 1980 to 1994, the 4th Jäger Brigade, established in 1975, had its highest combat strength . The approximately 3,000-strong brigade consists of a mass of militiamen and a core of professional soldiers . Around 300 ranks of the service and militia rank were in use for the key positions . Professional soldiers were used in the higher command levels. The small units of the 4th Jägerbrigade were led by 2 officers from the service and 3 officers from the militia.

On October 4, 1982 a building was erected called the "Soldier's Home". It is intended to offer the soldiers of the Hillerkaserne Ebelsberg useful leisure time activities. In the same year, major changes were made to the infrastructure. The barracks object bought in 1945 by the "Prunner Prunnberg weaving mill" returned to the federal administration in a completely devastated state. After the first renovation work , the barracks command, the telephone exchange, the teleprinter and the NCO's mess were relocated to this building and various magazines were housed in this building.

On October 15, 2009 the barracks were placed under monument protection.

The restructuring of the Austrian Armed Forces and its impact on the Hiller barracks

In 1968 there was a massive reorganization of the Austrian Armed Forces. The new organizational scheme of the Federal Army in 1968 required the creation of a reserve army . For this purpose "reserve troops of the territorial defense organization" were to be formed. The replacement troops were another element of the reserve army . In Group III of the Austrian Armed Forces, the Reserve Battalion 300 of the Upper Austrian Military Command, which had been in existence since 1963, served for this purpose. with a headquarters company and 5 Landwehr companies. The reorganization of the Ebelsberg barracks had an impact in 1968 in that the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 15 was now designated as a "reserve force of the field army".

The amendment to the Defense Act of August 1, 1971 brought about the most far-reaching reorganization of the armed forces through the shortening of military service time of the regular military service from nine to six months with 60 days of weapons exercises (military exercises). Voluntary weapons exercises (cadre exercises) should serve as reserve cadre training. In order to reduce the consequences of the loss of soldiers from the regular military service from the 7th to the 9th month, the amendment to the Defense Act provided for the possibility of “full service” for 8 months (instead of weapons exercises). The formation of the standby force appeared to be a priority, since the shortening of military service would have lost the peace army’s previous readiness for action.

On June 6, 1972, the federal government decided on the "Army Division 1972" . An army command was established and subordinated to the BMLV. Instead of the previous three command areas, there were only two, the areas (corps) East and West. In every federal state, with the exception of Vorarlberg, a Landwehr brigade was formed that was subordinate to the military command (MilKdo).

On July 10, 1987, the Council of Ministers resolution with the "Army Division 1987" provided for a reduction of 200,000 men instead of the targeted 300,000. With it, the further expansion of the mobilization framework was practically stopped. Only the infantry parts of the Landwehr should be expanded to a modest extent.

In 1995, the "New Army Division" enacted in July 1992 was implemented. In addition to the three tank grenadier brigades, there were 13 hunter regiments, which were formed from the 30 Landwehr trunk regiments. The operational organization comprised 16 brigades with a mobilization level of 150,000 men including the reservists . Associated with this was the abandonment of spatial defense and the transition to an operational disposition near the border. The three armored infantry brigades of the armed forces were:

Coat of arms of the armored staff battalion 4
  • 9th Panzer Grenadier Brigade (Götzendorf),
  • 3rd Panzer Grenadier Brigade (Mautern)
  • 4th Panzer Grenadier Brigade (Ebelsberg).

The following task forces were subordinate to the Upper Austrian Brigade:

  • Panzer Staff Battalion 4 (Ebelsberg)
  • Panzerbataillon 14 (Wels)
  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 13 (Ried)
  • Panzerartilleriebataillon 4 (Gratkorn).

In the course of this reorganization, the brigade reconnaissance company was transferred to the Upper Austria military command. In return, the 4th Panzer Grenadier Brigade received the 3rd Jäger Company from the 43rd Landwehr Trunk Regiment as a new tank reconnaissance company.

In March 1998, the “STRAN structural adjustment for the new army structure” took place with the resulting measures and effects for the conscripts in the militia until 2000. In the foreground of the structural adjustment was the optimized presence capability for assistance and security tasks while reducing the number of commanders, departments and associations. In 1998 the 10th Panzer Battalion of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Brigade was housed in Ebelsberg. Likewise, the 9th Panzer Artillery Battalion (Baden) from the 3rd Panzer Grenadier Brigade (Mautern) comes under the command of the Upper Austrian 4th Panzer Grenadier Brigade. In 1999 the tank destroyer company of Panzergrenadier Battalion 13 was reorganized into the combat support company equipped with the "Kürassier" tank destroyer.

In March 2002 the "REORG reorganization" took place. This led to the subordination of reconnaissance battalion 1 (Gratkorn) and reconnaissance battalion 2 (Salzburg). The supply regiment 2 in Salzburg was dissolved and the supply transport repair company (NTIKp) was subordinated to the armored staff battalion 4 in Ebelsberg.

At the beginning of 2005, reclassifications took place again, this time due to "The Management 2010" . The current reform of the Armed Forces pursued, among other things, the adaptation of military tasks to the changed security-political conditions with the creation of structures that enabled Austria's military participation in crisis management and multinational conflict prevention. The density of personnel in the troops was achieved by reducing the mobilization strength to 55,000 soldiers and by reducing the number of brigades from five to four. The number of battalions was reduced from fifty-seven to thirty-nine and the military command was downsized while maintaining their territorial functions.

Women in the army

The Austrian Armed Forces have been accepting female soldiers since April 1998. One goal of the Hiller barracks in Ebelsberg is to increase the proportion of women in the army. In 2013 women represented a minority in the armed forces. According to statistics from the Ministry of Defense, only 330 women in uniform or two percent of the army personnel are doing their service. The Hiller barracks regularly offers “taster days” for women to give them an insight into the everyday life of a female soldier. It is hoped that this will increase the proportion of women.

Sale of the Hiller barracks

The Hiller barracks, around 20,000 m² in size, should be sold by January 2016. According to the State Military Command, a continuation would have no military benefit and the closure is mainly for cost reasons. The units and soldiers from the Hiller barracks were to be relocated to the Hörsching barracks .

The buildings of the barracks, which are under monument protection, are to be largely preserved and converted into apartments. The conversion of the barracks into a residential area would have an impact on the infrastructure, the traffic and the traders in Ebelsberg. The surrounding armed forces area with a further 50,000 m² is also to be sold. The conversion of the Hiller barracks would therefore be the largest new building area in Linz.

In February 2016, the barracks were sold to a private foundation from the XXXLutz group for 41 million euros. 1000 apartments are to be built on the site.

See also

literature

  • Othmar Rittenschober: The history of the Hillerkaserne in Linz-Ebelsberg (I). In: Pallasch - magazine for military history. Salzburg 2010, issue 33.
  • Othmar Rittenschober: The history of the Hillerkaserne in Linz-Ebelsberg (II). In: Pallasch - magazine for military history. Salzburg 2010, issue 34.
  • Othmar Rittenschober: The history of the Hillerkaserne in Linz-Ebelsberg (VI). In: Pallasch - magazine for military history. Salzburg 2011, issue 38.
  • Manfred Carrington , Andreas Reiter: The south of Linz. Past and present of the localities. Linz 2007, ISBN 978-3-200-01044-4 .

Web links

Commons : Hiller-Kaserne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 48 ″  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 16 ″  E

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