Military technical school of the land forces "Erich Habersaath"

MTS of LaSK - X -
founding	1964
Sponsorship	NVA , LaSK command
place	Prora
country	GDR
Kdr. Of the MTS	Major General Willi Dörnbrack (1984–1989)

Graduate medal of the military school "Erich Habersaath"

The military technical school "Erich Habersaath" (short MTS of the LaSk or MTS Prora) was a training facility for the land forces of the NVA in Prora . It was named on December 1, 1969 after the workers' leader Erich Habersaath .

history

The laying of the foundation stone for the site, which was originally planned as a KdF seaside resort but was never used as such, took place on May 2, 1936, but construction did not start until November. The military school was then located in one of these six-story blocks after the Second World War. In 1968 a technical non-commissioned officer school (TUS) was established, which was named after Habersaath (1893–1918; worker leader and the first victim of the November Revolution in Berlin) a year later. The Land Forces Missile Training Center 40 , under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Martin, was also located in Prora as an independent training facility for the land forces' rocket troops. The RAZ-40 was deployed on January 1, 1977. The RAZ-40 was created by merging the RAA 25 (tactical missiles) and the RAA-15 (operational tactical missiles). It served to train soldier specialists and to train NCOs of the rocket troops of the NVA land forces. There are also qualifications of cadets carried out and officers. On November 30, 1986, the RAZ-40 was dissolved and taken over as subject 8 in the military technical school "Erich Habersaath".

In the communications engineering department, specialists were trained in the repair of military radio and telecommunications technology.

In 1990 the school was taken over by the Bundeswehr . It was then disbanded on September 30, 1991 on the orders of the Bundeswehr Command East .

literature

• Torsten Diedrich, Hans Ehlert , Rüdiger Wenzke: In the service of the party: manual of the armed organs of the GDR. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 .
• Stefan Wolter: Prora - In the middle of the story. Vol. I: The southern colossus and the culture of remembrance , Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-3237-8 .

Web links

• Text of the school's marching song at Denk-MAL-Prora.
• Data on history at Denk-MAL-Prora.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerd Langguth: Angela Merkel: Rise to Power: Biography (=  DTV . Volume 34414 ). 2nd Edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34414-2 , pp. 155 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 54 ° 26 ′ 50.2 "  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 14.8"  E