Armed Forces Office
Armed Forces Office |
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Lineup | 1959 |
Country | Germany |
Armed forces | armed forces |
Organizational area | Force Base |
Type | Command authority |
Insinuation | Kdo SKB |
Location | Bonn |
Web presence | Website SKA |
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Head of office | Major General Franz Weidhüner |
Deputy Head of Office | Brigadier General Frank Schmitz |
The Armed Forces Office ( SKA ; until April 1, 1975 Bundeswehramt ) is an agency of the Bundeswehr based in the Federal City of Bonn . It is a division-level command authority and is directly subordinate to the Inspector of the Armed Forces Base. It is run by the head of office, a major general or rear admiral .
As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr , the Armed Forces Office was placed under the Armed Forces Command in Bonn in 2013 . In the course of this change of subordination, some departments that were still subordinate to the Armed Forces Office are subordinated to other capability commands of the armed forces base.
tasks
It performs specialist tasks for the Bundeswehr and the armed forces and official tasks for the armed forces base. In addition, he is responsible for managing a large number of different departments. These departments are essentially assigned to training and research, international cooperation and national representation. Compared to the directly to the Inspector of the Joint Support below departments of the organization area Streitkräftebasis the Armed Forces Office accepts as command authority the tasks of personnel management, military security, organization, training, reservists affairs , the alarm system and the mobilization , rapid response and preparedness, the physical protection , coordination of information technology and the management of funds for the armed forces base and measures under cost-performance responsibility.
organization
The following departments are or will be subordinate to the Armed Forces Office as part of the restructuring of the Bundeswehr:
coat of arms | Department |
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Bundeswehr Information Center , Strausberg | |
Center for verification tasks of the Bundeswehr , Geilenkirchen | |
Military Music Center of the Bundeswehr , Bonn | |
School for service dogs of the Bundeswehr , Ulmen | |
Sports school of the Bundeswehr , Warendorf |
coat of arms | Department |
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Bundeswehr Command USA and Canada , Reston / US | |
German delegation from Great Britain , Harefield | |
German delegation Netherlands , Brunssum | |
German share George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies | |
German share NATO School , Oberammergau | |
Integrated specialist and training center SASPF Bundeswehr, Aachen | |
Military Attaché Staffs (65) | |
German military shares in the multinational area |
Head of office
No. | Surname | Beginning of the appointment | End of appointment |
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17th | Major General Franz Weidhüner | December 14, 2017 | |
16 | Major General Werner Weisenburger | 29th August 2013 | December 14, 2017 |
15th | Major General Thomas Wollny | September 28, 2007 | 29th August 2013 |
14th | Rear Admiral Christoph Diehl | May 19, 2005 | September 28, 2007 |
13 | Major General Dieter Henninger | March 28, 2001 | May 19, 2005 |
12 | Major General Winfried Dunkel | January 19, 1995 | March 27, 2001 |
11 | Major General Manfred Eisele | April 1, 1994 | December 31, 1994 |
10 | Major General Roland Lankers | October 1, 1984 | March 31, 1994 |
9 | Brigadier General Walter Hebben | April 1, 1980 | September 30, 1984 |
8th | Flotilla Admiral Günter Fiebig | June 1, 1976 | March 31, 1980 |
7th | Brigadier General Helmut Bapistella | April 1, 1973 | May 31, 1976 |
6th | Brigadier General Werner Boie | 1st October 1969 | March 31, 1973 |
5 | Colonel i. G. Werner Kaminski | April 1, 1968 | September 30, 1969 |
4th | Colonel i. G. Rolf von Tresckow | October 1, 1965 | March 31, 1968 |
3 | Colonel i. G. Heinz-Joachim Müller-Lankow | April 1, 1964 | September 30, 1965 |
2 | Colonel i. G. Günther von Below | December 1, 1960 | March 31, 1964 |
1 | Colonel i. G. Bock | December 15, 1959 | November 30, 1960 |
Formerly subordinate departments
coat of arms | Department | comment |
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Center for Transformation of the Bundeswehr , Strausberg | Renamed the Bundeswehr Planning Office in 2012 | |
Central military motor vehicle station , Mönchengladbach -Rheindahlen | Decommissioned in 2012 | |
Office for Telecommunication and Information Systems of the Bundeswehr , Rheinbach | Decommissioned in 2002 | |
Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr , Strausberg | Decommissioned in 2012 | |
Military History Research Office , Potsdam | Decommissioned in 2012 |
See also
- Logistics command of the Bundeswehr
- Information technology command of the Bundeswehr
- Strategic Reconnaissance Command
- Territorial Tasks Command of the Bundeswehr
- Multinational Command Operational Leadership
Web links
- Armed Forces Office page
- BMVg brochure on realignment, June 2012 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thorsten Loch: The face of the Bundeswehr: communication strategies in the volunteer recruitment of the Bundeswehr 1956 to 1989 (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 8 ). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58396-0 , p. 23 (at the same time the dissertation Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, 2006).
- ↑ Press and Information Center of the Armed Forces Base: Armed Forces Office - About Us. Bundeswehr, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 55.4 " N , 7 ° 2 ′ 39.9" E