Rettberg barracks
 Rettberg barracks
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Rettberg barracks at the 2011 open house |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Eutin | ||
| Coordinates : | 54 ° 8 ' N , 10 ° 38' E | ||
| Opened | 1913-1915 | ||
| Stationed troops | |||
| Reconnaissance Battalion 6 "HOLSTEIN" |
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| Formerly stationed units | |||
| III. Btl of the Infantry Regiment No. 162 Reichswehr Regiment 17 Infantry Regiment 46 Infantry Regiment 6 Panzer Pioneer Company 180 |
  
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Location of the Rettberg barracks in Schleswig-Holstein |
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The Rettberg barracks is a barracks of the Bundeswehr in Eutin , Schleswig-Holstein .
history
The new barracks, which began in 1913 on Oldenburger Landstrasse, at that time still the Principality of Lübeck , were completed in 1915 and the new III. Battalion (1913) of the "Lübeck" Infantry Regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 . In order for this not to the training area of Luebeck on the Palinger Heath was instructed was such an established between Eutin and Zarnekau. Nevertheless, until its completion, the battalion had to travel by train to Lübeck to practice.
After the First World War, this was the first volunteer battalion (I / 162) stationed, which from March 1919 Otto Dziobek later at the suggestion of commanding, Major von Rettberg the history of the Infantry Regiment Luebeck (3 Hanseatisches) Nr. 162 to whose 25th Foundation Day wrote. In 1920 - the IX. The Army Corps had meanwhile been wound up - the 2nd Battalion of the 17th Reichswehr Regiment moved into the barracks. In 1936 the 2nd Battalion of the 46th Infantry Regiment of the Wehrmacht followed . After the war and the dissolution of the imperial regiments, Eutin also became the location of the 6th Infantry Regiment . In their companies, the tradition of the former 162nd, 163rd and 31st regiments was to be continued during the Weimar Republic .
The barracks were named "Rettberg-Kaserne" on their 25th anniversary by Udo de Rainville. His father Franz de Rainville was the boss of the 9th Company and was appointed commander of the Eutin battalion in November 1914 . As the commander of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89 , he was awarded the Order of Pour le Mérites in October 1918 . The eponymous colonel, Karl von Rettberg , moved as a major with the rank of commander of the III. Battalion of the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163 , sister regiment of the 162nd ( 81st Infantry Brigade ), went to war. Injured in the incidents of lions , he returned recovered and was appointed regimental commander of the 162s after the Battle of Noyon (1914) as the successor to Colonel Otto von Koppelow . He shaped the regiment, as z. B. did a Georg Sick with the 163rd until July 1917.
During the Second World War , the 1st Battalion of the 6th Infantry Regiment was continuously in action. During the war, the Rettberg barracks was home to the newly established "Eutin Army NCO School".
The Bundeswehr has been using the barracks as a location since 1961. Since then, the 6th Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion , which was renamed the 6 Holstein Reconnaissance Battalion in 2008, has been located here . The Eutin driver training center, parts of the Plön Bundeswehr service center and the Plön medical center are also located here . Furthermore, the regional security and support forces of the "Holstein" company of the Schleswig-Holstein State Command ( Territorial Reserve ) use its infrastructure
Stationed units
- Reconnaissance Battalion 6 (H)
- Driver training center Eutin (SKB)
- Sanitary supply center Eutin (ZSan)
- other small offices
Former service units
In the past the following units of the Bundeswehr were located here:
- 1961–1969 Tank Engineer Company 180
- 1961–1971 training company 11/6
- 1970–1981 Homeland Security Command 13
- 1981–1993 Homeland Security Brigade 51
- 1993–2001 Defense District Command 12
- 1993–1995 Telecommunications Training Company 3/6
- 1995–2002 2nd / Leadership Support Regiment 10 (until at least 1997 3rd/10)
- 1993-2008 Panzer Reconnaissance Company 70
- 2002–2008 Panzer Reconnaissance Company 400
Individual evidence
- ^ National Socialism in Eutinian. The Reichswehr / Wehrmacht , dated: July 8, 2017
Web links
- Thinking day - The Reichswehr / Wehrmacht
- The reconnaissance battalion 6 "HOLSTEIN" in Eutin at www.deutschesheer.de
- Website of the Bundeswehr location
literature
- Otto Rönnpag: The history of the Eutin garrison , Eutin 1993
- Otto Dziobek: History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 ; Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1922 Oldenburg i. D., Officers' Association formerly 162