Marine Arsenal (Germany)

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Naval Arsenal
- MArs -

Navy Arsenal (Bundeswehr) - Emblem.jpg
State level Federation
Supervisory authority Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Bundeswehr (BAAINBw)
founding 1957
Headquarters Wilhelmshaven
Authority management vacant
Servants 1745
Web presence Naval Arsenal
Construction port of the naval arsenal in Wilhelmshaven
The American workshop ship USS Ulysses (ARB-9), which was later handed over to the German Navy as Odin

The naval arsenal (MArs) is an agency of the Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and Utilization division , which is subordinate to the Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and Utilization (BAAINBw). Its main task is the material maintenance of watercraft and land facilities of the German Navy and of ships and boats of the Bundeswehr as a whole.

history

Even during the first planning for rearming the Federal Republic of Germany, there were considerations in 1953 for a "military contribution port" in Wilhelmshaven that would be subordinate to the Blank Office . After the founding of the Bundeswehr on November 12, 1955 and the associated establishment of the Bundesmarine , technical capacities had to be created to support and maintain materials for ships and boats. On March 27, 1957, the then Federal Ministry of Defense decided to set up two naval arsenals in Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. Initially under military control, they were already subordinated to the BWB on November 14, 1957, and in March 1959 also organizationally .

The arsenals were set up on the site of the former Kriegsmarine shipyards in Wilhelmshaven and Kiel . These went back to the naval shipyards of the former Reichsmarine , the Imperial Navy and the Prussian Navy . The naval shipyards had been dismantled and destroyed by the Allies after the Second World War . Reconstruction in Wilhelmshaven began on August 1, 1957.

April 1, 1974, the two arsenals were organisationally a department Naval Arsenal in Wilhelmshaven with the two Arsenal businesses combined Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. The arsenal operations were subordinate to branch offices u. a. in the bases in Flensburg and Olpenitz . The workshop ships Odin and Wotan , which are subordinate to the Arsenal, were stationed in Olpenitz and Wilhelmshaven, respectively. At that time, about 5000 people were employed in the arsenal.

After German reunification in 1990, the workshop ships were decommissioned and the branch offices were reclassified. This was associated with a reduction in the number of staff.

As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr and the associated stationing concept , the then Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière decided on October 26, 2011 to close the Kiel arsenal facility on December 31, 2015, at which time it was greatly reduced in size from the naval arsenal and incorporated into the WTD 71 incorporated.

tasks

The naval arsenal has the following tasks:

  • Scheduled and unscheduled maintenance of materials for ships and boats in the Navy
  • Immediate repairs on ships and boats of the Navy
  • Changes to maritime defense equipment
  • Commissioning and processing of industrial services for the navy
  • Technical basic work for material maintenance measures and conversion planning
  • Technical and logistical support measures

The naval arsenal also supports naval land services and the maintenance of ships and boats of the German armed forces that do not belong to the navy. The tasks also include supporting the Navy during operations by sending maintenance personnel to the Navy’s operational areas .

The main focus of the activities of the naval arsenal is the repair of the military installations on warships , while the maintenance of the material for the shipbuilding components such as the hull, propulsion and energy generation on ships is mostly outsourced to civilian shipyards . Ships that are due for scheduled repairs hand in their military equipment such as weapons and sensors in the arsenal and are then repaired in a civilian shipyard. Then the military systems that have been serviced in the arsenal or in the industry are reinstalled in the arsenal and integrated into the overall warship system. The arsenal supervises the construction of civil shipyards and industrial companies.

organization

The organization created in 1974 essentially continues to this day. Central elements for economic and technical issues in Wilhelmshaven and the two arsenal operations in Kiel and Wilhelmshaven are under the management of the naval arsenal in Wilhelmshaven. A branch office at the Warnemünde naval base is subordinate to the Kiel arsenal . In both companies there are workshops for ship and equipment as well as for command systems and weapons.

At the former location of the arsenal in Kiel, which was closed at the end of 2015, a 52 hectare property with 1550 meters of quay length and 25 hectares of water, 44 posts remained for the care of the submarines and minehunters. There are also posts for the naval units and the port facilities.

staff

As a department of the defense administration, the naval arsenal only employs civilian personnel. The headcount is 1,720 employees (as of 2012), there are about 320 a year apprenticeships in technical professions industrial mechanic / -in , mechatronics / -in , IT systems engineer / -in , electronics / technician for devices and systems , system computer / -in offered. As part of the reduction in civilian personnel in the Bundeswehr, further personnel will also be cut in the naval arsenal.

literature

  • Gerhard Koop: From the Imperial Shipyard to the Naval Arsenal. Wilhelmshaven as the center of marine technology since 1870 . Bernard U. Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1982, ISBN 978-3-7637-5252-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Federal Ministry of Defense, press and information staff: stationing planning according to federal states. (No longer available online.) Bundeswehr, April 17, 2013, archived from the original on August 4, 2014 ; accessed on August 7, 2017 .
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  3. a b Portrait of the Naval Arsenal. In: The Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Bundeswehr. Bundeswehr, May 13, 2016, accessed on August 7, 2017 .
  4. Ceremony - The naval arsenal is history. In: Kiel News. Retrieved August 7, 2017 .
  5. The Kiel Arsenal is back. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .