Upper Bavarian Research Institute

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Upper Bavarian Research Institute was in World War II , the code name for the October 1943 in the Conrad-von-Hötzendorf - barracks after Oberammergau shifted development department of the Messerschmitt AG in Augsburg . This comprised the project and construction, statics and test construction with a total of around 2200 employees.

history

The Upper Bavarian Research Institute was founded in February 1945 by Dr.-Ing. Hans Kammler ( Waffen-SS , Jägerstab ) controls under the leadership of Production Manager Dir. Karl Linder ( Messerschmitt GmbH Regensburg ) according to program 227 / I of December 15, 1944 , to maximize the deployment of Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter aircraft towards the end of the war. Kammler concentrated on this

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under the leadership of director Gerhard Degenkolb in the "OFA Oberammergau", in order to move from Oberammergau the large underground relocation companies such. B. to lead B8 Bergkristall in St. Georgen an der Gusen . In this context, the "OFA O´Gau" set up the "permanent Bergkristall branch" in St. Georgen / Gusen on March 10, 1945 in order to immediately clarify technical questions in connection with the large-scale production of Messerschmitt jet fighters to be able to. The so-called “Linzer Kurier” ran daily between Oberammergau and St. Georgen / Gusen to maintain the connection.

In Oberammergau, too, around 500 forced laborers drove a tunnel system measuring around 150 by 90 meters into the slopes of the "Laber" mountain towards the end of the war. These forced laborers were housed in the "Rainenbichl" barracks camp. The cover name for this U relocation was "Cerusit".

Road tunnel in Eschenlohe , former U-relocation "Ente"

In neighboring Eschenlohe , Messerschmitt AG operated a hidden production facility in two bomb-proof walled up road tunnels, the U-relocation “Ente”, from 1944 , also controlled from Oberammergau.

Professor Messerschmitt worked in Oberammergau as early as November 1944 on the development of the Messerschmitt P. 1101 . The abbreviations “O´gau”, “Obb. Forschungsanstalt O´gau "or the telegram (short) address ( wire word )" forschan ogau "is used.

The Upper Bavarian Research Institute Oberammergau was captured by American troops on April 29, 1945 . The American troops then use their facilities as a meeting point for captured German technology. The former Conrad von Hötzendorf barracks is now home to the Bundeswehr Administration School IV and the NATO School .

literature

  • Richard Heigl: Messerschmitt AG in Oberammergau (1943-1945) - outsourcing, projects, deployment of foreign workers . In: Mohr - Löwe - Raute - Contributions to the history of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district - Volume 3 . Association for history, art and cultural history in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen eV, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1995. pp. 233–263.
  • Christine Rädlinger : local armaments factories ". In:" Between tradition and progress - Oberammergau 1869–2000 . Oberammergau community. Oberammergau, 2002. pp. 198-207. ISBN 3-930000-08-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf A. Haunschmied , Jan-Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany-Durda: St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered . BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7440-8 . P. 171ff

Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 33 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 58"  E