Military Technical Academy

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Military Technical Academy
founding 1876
Re-establishment: 1903
Closure: 1918
Sponsorship Prussian Army
place Berlin, Fasanenstr. No. 112 (1904); No. 87 (1917)
director Anton von Kersting (1903–1912)
Heinrich Serno (1912–1918)
Website not applicable
The Cranzbau (1904/05) on Hertzallee on the site of the former Army Weapons Office

The Military Technical Academy ( MTA ) was originally founded in 1876 and re-established in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1903 as a higher military training facility of the Prussian army for the technical and scientific training and professional training of officers of all branches of arms and at the same time the foster home of military science. Administrative officials were also trained there. The academy had to be closed in 1919 under Article 176 of the Versailles Treaty .

Weapons research

The academy, newly founded in 1903, had its own ballistic and chemical laboratory , among other things . Weapons were tested and developed here on behalf of the military and in cooperation with industry. After the end of the First World War, the laboratory manager Carl Cranz continued to operate this laboratory, disguised as the "Laboratory for Technical Physics" and later merged into the Faculty of General Technology at the TH Charlottenburg , which in 1935 became the " Defense Technology Faculty".

education

The training of the artillery - and pioneer officers carried out since 1807 separately to the United Artillery and Engineering School . In 1834, the training of officers of genius was initially transferred from there to the Military Technical Academy, and after it was re-established in 1907, the artillery and engineering school was completely incorporated into it.

The training after the re-establishment was divided into the arms, engineering and transport departments and took place at the academy over a period of three years. The academy was subordinate to the General Inspectorate of Military Education and Training .

Well-known lecturers

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Engler: The financing of the Reich capital , 2004. ISBN 3-11-018047-2
  2. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 13. Leipzig 1908, p. 831. ( online )
  3. ^ TU and National Socialism (PDF; 67 kB), May 8, 2005.
  4. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon. Leipzig 1905–1909, Volume 13, p. 831.
  5. ↑ Brockhaus-KKL5 vol. 2, p. 187.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 32 "  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 45"  E