List of other military locations in Germany

Aurich

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Locations of Danish, Norwegian and Luxembourg units

The list of other military locations in Germany lists all military facilities of Norwegian , Danish and Luxembourg associations in Germany . All locations are now closed. In order to preserve the originality, the place names - as far as it seemed reasonable - follow the designations customary in the respective armed forces (ie later community reforms are not taken into account).

history

After the end of the war, Great Britain quickly realized that its troops were insufficient to militarily secure its very large zone of occupation in northwest Germany. Therefore it turned to its allies for support. Canada and Belgium as well as Polish associations in exile had participated as part of the (BR) Twenty-first Army Group under Field Marshal Montgomery in the conquest of the German Reich and took on occupation tasks in clearly defined rooms until 1946. Only Belgium left its troops permanently - until after reunification - in Germany, while the Canadian and Polish-exile units were withdrawn or dissolved.

With the intensification of the East-West antagonism in 1947, the Scandinavian partners could no longer ignore British pressure and, first Norway, then Denmark decided to send one brigade each - called the "Tyskland Brigade" and "Den Danske Brigade" - to Germany. to relieve Great Britain. The Norwegian troops - to the chagrin of the British, training units and not combat units - were initially stationed at the Harz with the HQ in Northeim , the Danish troops in East Friesland with their headquarters at Jever air base. Norway moved its brigade in 1948 to the area north of the Kiel Canal (HQ Schleswig), Denmark to Holstein (HQ Itzehoe). The Norwegian and Danish brigades were supposed to delay a possible advance of Soviet forces towards Jutland until reinforcements had arrived. After the Scandinavian troops had moved into their garrisons, Great Britain moved its occupation forces from Schleswig-Holstein to other theaters of war, in particular to Malaya .

The associations were subordinate to the following high command:

The Norwegian Tyskland Brigade with its staff in Schleswig was subordinate to the (NO) Germany command in Neumünster and, for operational matters, initially to the 5th Yorkshire Division (BAOR), then to the British regional command Hanover. In April 1953, the brigade was bid farewell with a troop parade at the RAF Schleswigland air base (the Jagel naval air base ) in the presence of Crown Prince Olav .

The Danske Brigade was led by a brigade staff, which had been set up at Jever Air Base in 1947 and was relocated to Itzehoe in 1949 , to which BAOR was subordinate. After the establishment of the NATO command structure, the (DA) brigade and the (NO) brigade were subordinate to the AFNORTH staff. The withdrawal of the Danish troops took place on April 15, 1958.

The situation was different with the stationing of troops in southern Germany . The USA completely renounced the support of foreign troops in their zone and France made only one exception in this matter by allowing Luxembourg to station a battalion in Bitburg with parts in Saarburg . The stationing of the infantry battalion lasted from 1945 to 1955, although it was not integrated into the French army, but was subordinate to the VII (US) Corps and thus USAREUR.

Lower Saxony

Location	property	Previous user	Troops	Year of dissolution	Reuse	Remarks
Aurich	Maple Leaf Barracks	BAOR	(DA) Troop section 1947	1949	BAOR	German name: Blücher barracks
Braunschweig	Wellesley Barracks	BAOR	(NO) Troop section 1947	1948	BAOR	German name: Luftnachrichten-Kaserne
Goslar	Manchester Barracks	BAOR	(NO) Troop section 1947	1948	BAOR	Goslar Air Base
Goettingen	Nordleida barracks	Border Barracks (BAOR)	(NO) Troop section 1947	1948	Border Barracks (BAOR)	German name: Zieten barracks
Hildesheim	Tofrek Barracks	BAOR	(NO) Troop section 1947	1948	BAOR	Hildesheim Air Base
Jever	Cardigan barracks	RAFG	(DA) The Danske Brigade 1947	1949	RAFG	Jever Air Base . Relocation to Itzehoe
Northeim	Scharnhorst barracks	(NO) German command 1947	Norwegian Army	1948		Relocation to Neumünster
Varel	Friesland barracks	BAOR	(DA) Troop section 1947	1949

Rhineland-Palatinate

Location	property	Previous user	Troops	Year of dissolution	Reuse	Remarks
Bitburg	Caserne Luxembourgeoise	Kaserne Mötscher Strasse	2nd Battalion d'Infanterie 1945	1955	FFA	1945-1946 parts of the battalion were stationed in Saarburg.

Schleswig-Holstein

Location	property	Previous user	Troops	Year of dissolution	Reuse	Remarks
Flensburg	Hegra Leir	Hereford Barracks (BAOR)	(NO) Troop section 1948	1953	Grenzland barracks (Bundeswehr) until 1993, residential area
Husum	Leicester Barracks	BAOR	(NO) Troop section 1948	1953		German name: Marine-Kaserne
Husum	RAF Husum	RAFG	(NO) Troop section 1948	1953		Husum Air Base
Itzehoe	Borgard Barracks	BAOR	(DA) The Danske Brigade 1949	1958	armed forces	German name: Hanseaten barracks
Kiel-Holtenau	Hendon Barracks	RAFG	(NO) Troop section 1948	1953		Seefliegerhorst Holtenau
Neumunster	McLeod Barracks	BAOR	(NO) German command 1948	1949		German name: Ruhleben or Hindenburg barracks. Relocation to Rendsburg
Rendsburg	Albuhera Barracks	BAOR	(NO) German command 1949	1953	(DA) unit	German name: Eider barracks
Rendsburg	Albuhera Barracks	(NO) German command	(DA) Troop unit 1953	1958	LANDJUT 1962	German name: Eider barracks
Schleswig	Marine barracks	BAOR	(NO) Troop section 1948	1953		German name: Luft Marine Kaserne
	RAF Schleswigland	RAFG	HQ (NO) Tyskland Brigade	1953	1958 Jagel Naval Air Base	Schleswig Air Base
	Caterham Barracks	RAFG	(NO) unit	1953	Barracks Auf der Freiheit (Bundeswehr) until 2004, residential area	Seefliegerhorst Schleswigsee Garrison of the Norwegian Tyskland Brigade 1948–1953

Abbreviations

abbreviation	text
AFNORTH	Allied Forces Northern Europe
BAOR	British Army of the Rhine
THERE	Danish, Denmark
FFA	Forces Françaises en Allemagne
HQ	Headquarters
LANDJUT	Headquarters of the Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NO	Norwegian, Norway
RAF	Royal Air Force
RAFG	Royal Air Force Germany
USAFE	United States Air Force in Europe
USAREUR	United States Army in Europe

literature

Nils Borchgrevink: The norsk brigade i Tyskland 1947–1953 . Oslo 1988.
Tom Kristiansen (red.): Tyskland Brigades: Fra okkupasjon til samarbeid . Oslo 1998.

Web links

www.zone-interdite.net Flash animated world map with military zones (German / English)

Individual evidence

↑ Canada occupied the district of Aurich and the state of Oldenburg , Poland the Emsland , Belgium the district of Steinfurt .
↑ Domestic political reasons also spoke in favor of stationing Danish troops in Holstein instead of Schleswig . The memory of the referendum campaign about belonging to Denmark or Germany was still too fresh.
↑ Bitburg belonged to the Duchy of Luxembourg until the Napoleonic period . The Kastel Charterhouse on the lower Saar with the grave of King John of Bohemia (called Jean de Luxembourg or Jean l'Aveugle) was also included as an exclave of the Luxembourg occupied territory. At the end of 1945 the Luxembourg government had the body exhumed and transferred to the Grand Duchy, where it was given a new burial place in the cathedral's crypt. However, the Luxembourg troops had to give up the part of the Saarburg district they had occupied by mid-1946 , as this area was completely annexed to the Saar area .
↑ Aurich was occupied by Canadian soldiers in 1945, so the soldiers named the barracks after the country's symbol, the maple leaf.
↑ For the Norwegian barracks name cf. Tyskland brigades: Fra okkupasjon til samarbeid, Oslo 1998, photo after p. 96.

[1] Canada occupied the district of Aurich and the state of Oldenburg , Poland the Emsland , Belgium the district of Steinfurt .

[2] Domestic political reasons also spoke in favor of stationing Danish troops in Holstein instead of Schleswig . The memory of the referendum campaign about belonging to Denmark or Germany was still too fresh.

[3] Bitburg belonged to the Duchy of Luxembourg until the Napoleonic period . The Kastel Charterhouse on the lower Saar with the grave of King John of Bohemia (called Jean de Luxembourg or Jean l'Aveugle) was also included as an exclave of the Luxembourg occupied territory. At the end of 1945 the Luxembourg government had the body exhumed and transferred to the Grand Duchy, where it was given a new burial place in the cathedral's crypt. However, the Luxembourg troops had to give up the part of the Saarburg district they had occupied by mid-1946 , as this area was completely annexed to the Saar area .

[4] Aurich was occupied by Canadian soldiers in 1945, so the soldiers named the barracks after the country's symbol, the maple leaf.

[5] For the Norwegian barracks name cf. Tyskland brigades: Fra okkupasjon til samarbeid, Oslo 1998, photo after p. 96.