Staff music corps of the Bundeswehr

This article covers today's music corps. For the orchestra that bore this name from 1959 to 2000, see Bundeswehr Music Corps .

Staff Music Corps of the Bundeswehr - StMusKorpsBw -
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Lineup	Apr 1, 1991
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Organizational area	Force Base
Branch of service	Military music service
Strength	≈120 men
Insinuation	Military Music Center of the Bundeswehr
Location	Berlin
commander
Lieutenant colonel	Reinhard Kiauka

Part of the staff music corps of the Bundeswehr

The staff music corps of the Bundeswehr ( listen ^{? / I} ; StMusKorpsBw ) is a representative wind orchestra of the Bundeswehr , stationed in Berlin .

It is used together with the guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense for protocol honorary service. These include state receptions for the Federal President , receptions for the Federal Chancellor and the Defense Minister as well as the inspectors of the armed forces of the Bundeswehr. Concerts with the large symphonic wind orchestra and with smaller chamber music ensembles are also part of the field of activity. The staff music corps also has a marching band with which it can perform the great tattoo in conjunction with the guard battalion . Around 120 regular and professional soldiers as well as conscripts serve in the staff music corps. Like the guard battalion, the soldiers are equipped with the uniforms of all branches of the armed forces. The staff music corps of the German Armed Forces has been led by Lieutenant Colonel Reinhard Kiauka since 2014, and the orchestra regularly has a second music officer in the rank of captain.

In the history of the Bundeswehr there were two staff music corps: one in Berlin and one in Siegburg (today's music corps of the Bundeswehr ).

Today's staff music corps of the Bundeswehr was set up on April 1, 1991 as the Army Music Corps East in Potsdam . In January 1994 it was renamed Heeresmusikkorps 400 and moved to Berlin on April 1, 1995. On July 1, 1996, the name was changed to HMK 400 / Stabsmusikkorps Berlin and on July 1, 2000 to the Bundeswehr Staff Music Corps.

The "old" staff music corps is now called the Bundeswehr Music Corps and was set up on February 16, 1957 as the Bundeswehr teaching music corps in Rheinbach . On February 16, 1959, the company was relocated to the Brückberg barracks in Siegburg and on June 1, 1959, it was renamed the Bundeswehr staff music corps. On July 1, 2000 the staff music corps from Siegburg was renamed the music corps of the Bundeswehr.

Both music corps perform together on special occasions. One of the last joint appearances was together with the guard battalion BMVg at the big tattoo on the occasion of "50 years of the Bundeswehr" on the Republic Square in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin.

management

The previous heads of the staff music corps of the Bundeswehr were:

Period	Rank	Surname
1991-1993	major	Bernd Mannel
1993	major	Wolfgang Helm
1993	Captain	Lutz Bammler
1993-1996	Captain	Friedrich Szepansky
1996-2012	Lieutenant colonel	Volker Wörrlein
2012-2014	Lieutenant colonel	Walter Ratzek
since 2014	Lieutenant colonel	Reinhard Kiauka

Web links

Commons : Stabsmusikkorps der Bundeswehr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armed Forces Office, Military Music Department (Ed.): "With timpani and trumpets". 50 years of military music by the Bundeswehr . 1st edition. Purk, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-9809465-3-3 , p. 84 .
2. ↑ Jens Rosbach: Supreme German military musician leaves. In: deutschlandfunk.de. October 4, 2012, accessed August 24, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Top brass orchestra invites you on a musical world tour. In: lr-online.de. August 8, 2013, accessed August 24, 2020 . 

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