Armed Forces Office

Armed Forces Office ; - SKA - ; XX
	; ; Internal association badge
Lineup	1959
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Organizational area	Force Base
Type	Command authority
Insinuation	Kdo SKB
Location	Bonn
Web presence	Website SKA
guide
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
	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
	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
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
09	Brigadier General Walter Hebben	April 1, 1980	September 30, 1984
08th	Flotilla Admiral Günter Fiebig	June 1, 1976	March 31, 1980
07th	Brigadier General Helmut Bapistella	April 1, 1973	May 31, 1976
06th	Brigadier General Werner Boie	1st October 1969	March 31, 1973
05	Colonel i. G. Werner Kaminski	April 1, 1968	September 30, 1969
04th	Colonel i. G. Rolf von Tresckow	October 1, 1965	March 31, 1968
03	Colonel i. G. Heinz-Joachim Müller-Lankow	April 1, 1964	September 30, 1965
02	Colonel i. G. Günther von Below	December 1, 1960	March 31, 1964
01	Colonel i. G. Bock	December 15, 1959	November 30, 1960

Formerly subordinate departments

coat of arms	Department	comment
	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

coat of arms	Department
	Leadership Academy of the Bundeswehr , Hamburg
	Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , Potsdam
	Logistics school of the Bundeswehr (Hamburg)
	Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg , Hamburg
	University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich , Munich
	Bundeswehr infrastructure staff

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 .

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[1] 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).

[2] Press and Information Center of the Armed Forces Base: Armed Forces Office - About Us. Bundeswehr, accessed on October 16, 2019 .