NATO School Oberammergau
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| founding | 1953 |
| Sponsorship | Allied Command Transformation |
| place | Oberammergau |
| state | Bavaria |
| country | Germany |
| management | Colonel Michael A. Davis (USA Army) |
| Students | approx.12,000 (as of 2010) |
| Employee | more than 200 (as of 2010) |
| Website | www.natoschool.nato.int |
The NATO School Oberammergau in Oberammergau ( Bavaria ) is the primary training and education center of NATO at the operational level.
history
The school is located on the grounds of the 1935 built former Conrad von Hötzendorf - barracks in Oberammergau district of St. Gregory at the foot of Laber . These barracks and the area were used for training purposes from the very beginning.
In October 1937 the mountain news department 54 of the 1st mountain division of the Wehrmacht moved into the barracks. When this unit was relocated to the Balkans, Messerschmitt AG used the site, developed rocket engines there and produced the first series of military aircraft with jet engines of the Messerschmitt Me 262 type in an underground factory .
After the war ended in 1945, the underground factory was dismantled. American units took over the barracks in order to use them as training grounds from then on. Today's NATO School emerged from the US Army Special Weapons School founded in March 1953 and offered two courses that year. In 1975 it was renamed NATO School (SHAPE) .
On December 18, 1984, terrorists from the Red Army Faction attempted to detonate a bomb in the NATO school, but this failed.
In 2003 the school was given its current name NATO School as part of its subordination to the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation . In 2005 the Manfred Wörner Hall was inaugurated, a new lecture hall named after Manfred Wörner .
General
In 2010, more than 90 different courses on politics and strategy were offered to NATO members and various NATO partners. The school is run by German and US military personnel. It employs more than 200 people, military and non-governmental organizations , from over 25 countries. More than 10,000 course participants from 60 countries attend the NATO School every year. Over 185,000 participants have been trained there since it was founded. Colonel Timothy E. Dreifke (USA Air Force) has been in command since 2017.
Web links
- Official website
- School website at www.bundeswehr.de
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Hötzendorf barracks. In: Natoschool (English).
- ^ Butz Peters: Deadly error. The history of the RAF. Argon, Berlin 2004, p. 601.
- ↑ Steffen Maluche: NATO school: great reputation in the area of security policy. Federal Ministry of Defense, August 14, 2012, accessed on June 3, 2013 .
- ↑ http://www.natoschool.nato.int/Media/News/2017/20170517_CoC
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Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '36.4 " N , 11 ° 4' 54.5" E