Special Operations Training Center

Training Center for Special Operations ; - AuspZSpezlOp -
	; ; Association badge
Lineup	July 12, 1979 (as an international remote surveillance school)
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Army training facility
Insinuation	Training command
Location	Pfullendorf
Web presence	Website AuspZSpezlOp
commander
commander	Colonel Albrecht Katz-Kupke
Head of Teaching / Training and Deputy commander	Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Lauer

The Training Center Special Operations ( AusbZSpezlOp ) based in the Staufer barracks in Pfullendorf , Sigmaringen district , Baden-Wuerttemberg is one of the Army Training Centers and in particular for the training of special forces and Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces and friendly forces responsible. Until 2003, the name was International Fernspäh school .

history

In 1961, teaching group R was set up at the then air landing and air transport school in Altenstadt / Schongau in Upper Bavaria for the training of televsioners in the German armed forces. The Fernspählehrkompanie 200 emerged from it.

In 1973 the tele-spy training center 900 was set up in Neuhausen ob Eck to train tele-spies. A year later, the first considerations began to establish an international tele-spying school. From 1977 Belgium , the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sent soldiers there to plan the establishment of a joint school with Germany . This was founded on July 12, 1979 as an international remote spying school, including the remote spying training center 900, which was dissolved at the same time. On May 1, 1980, the school was relocated to Weingarten , and in 1997 to Pfullendorf. After the dissolution of the corps , Fernspählehrcompanie 200 was subordinated to the Special Operations Division on July 1, 2006, and the Rapid Forces Division (DSK) since 2014. On April 1, 2003, the company was renamed the Special Operations Training Center. With the restructuring into a training center, the entire training in the area of SERE ( Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Extraction ) was concentrated at the Pfullendorf location, the corresponding inspection at the previous airborne / air transport school was transferred to Pfullendorf and reorganized there.

On January 27, 2017, seven soldiers of the training center from the rank group of the teams were banned from performing their service on the basis of Section 22 Soldiers Act due to dubious admission rituals. Investigations by the Hechingen public prosecutor's office should investigate suspicions of deprivation of liberty , dangerous bodily harm , depictions of violence and coercion by superiors. According to Spiegel Online , in October 2016 a woman, probably a lieutenant , complained to the German Bundestag's defense commissioner about degrading rituals; Among other things, soldiers had to undress and were then photographed by superiors. In other cases, male and female soldiers, also undressed, would have had to insert a tamponade into their anus .

In the course of the "processing" of the incidents, Federal Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen drew personal consequences (as it turned out prematurely and unfounded), as all the allegations turned out to be unfounded. On March 1, 2017, Colonel Thomas Schmidt was released from his duties as commander and the command was handed over to Colonel Carsten Jahnel. In addition, according to Spiegel, the head of the internal leadership department in the Federal Ministry of Defense, Colonel Burkhard Köster , was released from his duties.

Commanders

Surname	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment
Colonel Albrecht Katz-Kupke	December 13, 2018
Colonel Carsten Jahnel	1st March 2017	December 13, 2018
Colonel Thomas Heinrich Schmidt	June 21th 2013	1st March 2017
Colonel Peter Seidenspinner	August 21, 2005	June 21th 2013
Colonel Fritz Urbach	June 1, 2003	August 21, 2005

Nations involved

According to the Memorandum of Understanding that was concluded between Germany and its partners, soldiers from friendly nations are also trained in Pfullendorf. The United Kingdom was a founding member, but dropped out over time and has been training its soldiers in its own training units ever since. Before that, soldiers from the Special Air Service (SAS) were trained in Germany. The remaining nations are Belgium , Greece , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Romania , Turkey, and the United States .

structure

The AusZSpezlOp is structured as follows:

Rod
Support area
Exercise Center for Special Operations (ÜbZSpezlOp)
International Special Training Center (ISTC, international training area)
Head of teaching / training with II., III. and IV. Inspection and Special Training Company 209

Rod

The staff forms the military administrative part of the training center. It is divided into the classic staff departments that assist the commander. These departments are headed by officers with a NCO or by staff officers with an officer as a deputy.

International Special Training Center (ISTC)

The ISTC forms the international part of the Educational Training Center. It reports directly to the commanding officer of the training center. Planning and leadership as well as sniper and medical courses are held at the ISTC .

Head of Teaching / Training

The II., III. and IV. inspection as well as the special training company 209.

The II. Inspection leads survival and medical courses for special forces and specialized forces such. B. Paratroopers through.

The III. Inspection also conducts career and special courses for specialized personnel, primarily paratroopers with advanced basic skills . In this case, training in the field of "urban attack techniques" shooting technique, combat, mission planning, "Patrol Ling" and "water-side infiltration of operating rooms" (be Waterborne infiltration ) is performed.

The IV. Inspection at the AusezlOp is the former VI. Inspection of the air landing / air transport school (LL / LTS) in Altenstadt and was set up in Pfullendorf on January 1, 2016. Like the VI before. Inspection of the LL / LTS, responsible for the implementation of survival courses for aircraft crews and particularly endangered personnel as well as courses for cadet officers of the air force and medical service.

The special training company 209 is responsible for the troop, full and post training of young paratroopers. Your job is the three-month basic training (GA) and the special basic training (SGA) for paratroopers. Furthermore, she conducts special training for sergeant candidates who will later be used as command sergeants at the Special Forces Command (KSK).

Exercise Center for Special Operations (ÜbZSpezlOp)

In Pfullendorf there was a training base for the Simulation System for Framework Exercises (SIRA), a combat exercise simulation system for simulation-supported framework exercises at battalion level (AusstPkt GefÜbSimSys Btl). Its task is the training of battalion commanders of the Rapid Forces Division (DSK) and their staffs through IT-supported framework conditions. SIRA supports planning, staff and framework exercises and works according to the principle of a hidden management game in real time. All processes of a battle, an operation or a mission can be followed and evaluated on the computer.

Association badge

Former internal association badge of the International Remote Spying School

The association badge shows, as originally with all association badges of the schools of the army , two crossed swords with the white letter "S" on a red background. The association badge is braided in green and burgundy. Green corresponds to the weapon color of the infantry , which together with paratroopers form the combat troop core of the Rapid Forces Division and which once also comprised the soldiers of the Special Forces Command and, until 1976, the remote scouts. Bordeaux red corresponds to the beret color, among others, of the paratroopers, the special forces command and the former long-distance spy troops.

The former association badge of the International Fernspähschule was still outlined in golden yellow and thus corresponded to the weapon color of the former armies of the Fernspähtruppe and Panzer reconnaissance troops . Today this border would be confusing, because gold yellow as the weapon color of the Army Reconnaissance Forces would rather indicate the Army Reconnaissance Force Training Center , which combines the training of the Army Reconnaissance Force and thus all of the Army's reconnaissance forces since 2007.

Paracross

In the time when the training center was still an international remote spying school, the international remote spying competition Paracross has its origins. In this military all- around competition, the disciplines running with a 40kg backpack , 2 tonne pulling , swimming in clothes , shooting and parachuting were required. The paracross was not to be understood as a comparison of performance, but served as a gathering of national and international military personnel and reservists. Military world championships were held in paracross until 1993, with Germany winning two world championships (1986 and 1987). However, these were discontinued due to international restructuring. These competitions were considered to be extremely tough and demanding (at that time still: "parachuting", "50 km orienteering", "ParaCross obstacle course", "close combat", "shooting-running combination").

literature

Stefan Heydt, Christian Bannert (project officer): The army schools . On behalf of the Army Office , Fölbach-Medienservice, Munich 2011, p. 184 ff.

Sören Sünkler: The special units of the Bundeswehr. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-613-02592-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Christoph Hickmann: Serious attacks . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 28, 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 , p. 6 .
↑ Staufer barracks: Soldiers released after humiliating admission rituals. Südkurier , January 27, 2017, accessed on January 28, 2017 .
^ Matthias Gebauer: Sadistic rituals in combat medic training. Spiegel Online, January 27, 2017, accessed January 27, 2017 .
^ Christian Thiels: Scandal in Pfullendorf. The leadership has failed. Tagesschau.de , February 15, 2017, accessed on December 16, 2018 .
^ The consequences of Pfullendorf . In: Der Spiegel , issue 26/2017, Spiegel-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISSN 0038-7452
↑ Tagesschau.de: After the Bundeswehr scandal - Von der Leyen fires head of department. tagesschau.de, February 11, 2017, accessed on February 28, 2017 .

47.910014 9.256003Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 36 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 22 ″ E

[1] Christoph Hickmann: Serious attacks . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 28, 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 , p. 6 .

[2] Staufer barracks: Soldiers released after humiliating admission rituals. Südkurier , January 27, 2017, accessed on January 28, 2017 .

[3] Matthias Gebauer: Sadistic rituals in combat medic training. Spiegel Online, January 27, 2017, accessed January 27, 2017 .

[4] Christian Thiels: Scandal in Pfullendorf. The leadership has failed. Tagesschau.de , February 15, 2017, accessed on December 16, 2018 .

[5] The consequences of Pfullendorf . In: Der Spiegel , issue 26/2017, Spiegel-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISSN 0038-7452

[6] Tagesschau.de: After the Bundeswehr scandal - Von der Leyen fires head of department. tagesschau.de, February 11, 2017, accessed on February 28, 2017 .