Armaments command
Armaments commandos , known as military industry offices until 1939 , were from 1935 in the German Reich executive departments of the military industry inspector and specifically responsible for mobilizing the armaments factories (occupancy and production proposals, instructions for workers as well as production and operating resources, supervision of plant air protection and plant security measures) , participation in the ongoing production and procurement of the Wehrmacht parts as well as the administration of the budget allocated by the Wehrwirtschaftsinspektion.
Tasks / organization
On April 1, 1935, the reorganization of the military economy ordered by “Der Reichswehrminister No. 400/34 gK WWi (Ib) of December 19, 1935” came into force. As coordinating central bodies at the military district level, it created the Defense Economic Inspections (Wi In) as well as the military economic offices (WWiSt) subordinate to them. On November 22nd, 1939, the military offices were renamed to Armaments Commands (RüKdo).
With the Fuehrer's decree of May 7, 1942, the reorganization of the armaments industry was ordered. They transformed the previous armaments inspections into an armaments inspection subordinate to the Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition (from September 1943 Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production) as well as an armaments inspection subordinate to the Wehrwirtschaftsamt (Wi Amt) of the High Command of the Wehrmacht . Both departments were headed by the previous armaments inspector, who also assumed the position of defense economics inspector. The personnel transferred to the area of the (new) armaments inspections were subordinated to the Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition, but otherwise retained their membership of the Wehrmacht. The latter naturally also applied to the personnel employed in the defense industry inspections. The armaments commandos remained in existence as armaments departments and, as the branch office of the Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition, subordinated to the (new) armaments inspections. In addition, they were available to the military economics inspector to deal with military and purely military matters.
When the reorganization of the military economy in the Reich, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and in the Generalgouvernement came into force on February 1, 1943, the duties previously assigned to the defense industry inspections at the armaments inspections and at the military district commandos were carried out by the military economy officers deployed there by the Armed Forces High Command, in the case of the armaments commandos themselves, under the responsibility of the armaments commander, in accordance with the technical instructions of the military economic officers appointed to the superior armaments inspections. "
List of armaments commands
(From the Federal Archives, Armaments Command)
- Armaments Command Augsburg
- Armaments Command Berlin I
- Armaments Command Berlin II
- Armaments Command Berlin III
- Armaments Command Berlin IV
- Armaments Command Berlin V
- Bielefeld Armaments Command
- Braunschweig Armaments Command
- Bremen Armaments Command
- Wroclaw Armaments Command
- Chemnitz Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Coburg
- Armaments Command Dessau
- Armaments Command Dortmund
- Arms Command Dresden
- Armaments command in Düsseldorf
- Eisenach Armaments Command
- Armaments command Frankfurt am Main
- Armaments command Frankfurt on the Oder
- Armaments command Freiburg-Villingen
- Armaments command Giessen
- Gleiwitz Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Graz
- Armaments Command Hall I
- Armaments Command Hall II
- Armaments Command Hamburg I
- Armaments Command Hamburg II-Lüneburg
- Armaments Command Hanover
- Innsbruck Armaments Command
- Armaments Command IX
- Carlsbad Armaments Command
- Arms Command Kassel I
- Arms Command Kassel II
- Katowice Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Kiel
- Klagenfurt Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Koblenz
- Arms Command Cologne I
- Arms Command Cologne II
- Armaments Command Leipzig
- Liegnitz Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Linz
- Armaments Command Litzmannstadt
- Lüdenscheid armaments command
- Armaments command Ludwigshafen
- Armaments Command Magdeburg I
- Armaments Command Magdeburg II
- Mannheim Armaments Command
- Metz Armaments Command
- Armaments command Mödling
- Munich Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Nuremberg
- Osnabrück-Recklinghausen Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Poznan
- Armaments Command Potsdam
- Regensburg Armaments Command
- Reichenberg Armaments Command
- Saarbrücken Armaments Command
- Schwerin Armaments Command
- Szczecin Armaments Command
- Strasbourg-Colmar Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Stuttgart I
- Armaments Command Stuttgart II
- Troppau Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Ulm
- Weimar Armaments Command
- Armaments Command Vienna
- Armaments Command Wiesbaden
- Armaments Command Würzburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Federal Archives, Armaments Command Kassel, Available at: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 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. . Retrieved May 13, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.argus.bundesarchiv.de/Bestaendeuebersicht/index.htm?search=R%C3%BCstungskommando&KontextFb=KontextFb&searchType=any&searchVolumes=all&highlight=true&vid=Bestaendeuebersicht&kid=Bestaendeuebersicht&kid=57C7D398E36245CA&Kid=57C7D3988E36245CA&Kid=57C7D0258E36245Ca
