Transport service lake of the Bundeswehr
The Bundeswehr's See Transport Service was a logistical facility of the Bundeswehr under national responsibility.
background
When the Bundeswehr was set up in the 1950s, the need for transport and supply routes became apparent. Only they could ensure the supply and support of the armed forces in times of peace and defense . According to NATO's alliance strategy , logistics was a purely national matter. So national institutions had to be created. The dependence of the Federal Republic of Germany on the sea supply became clear.
Hamburg
On May 12, 1959, the Inspector of the Navy , Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge , ordered that a "Transport Service See of the Bundeswehr" was to be set up by May 19, 1959. Your task should be to deal with all military transport issues relating to coastal and ocean-going shipping centrally; this also included the handling of goods in the ports and off the coast. In the same ruling it was stipulated that the Bundeswehr forwarding point, located in Bremerhaven, was to be integrated into the Bundeswehr's sea transport service. The routing point had the incoming materiel in the port of Bremerhaven, the Bremen Airport , Frankfurt Airport and Cologne-Wahn received and to the armed forces routed.
The service department was subordinated to the commander in the military area command I and technically to the inspector general of the Bundeswehr .
In peacetime, the transport service had to plan and carry out all military maritime transport operations with merchant ships as well as the related transshipment. In the event of a defense, it should represent the interests of the Federal Armed Forces and the allied armed forces at the Supreme National Maritime Authority in the Federal Ministry of Transport by providing civilian sea transport space and means of handling and deploy the allocated means and forces as required.
Consolidation in Bremerhaven
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On October 1, 1974, the Bundeswehr's lake transport service in Hamburg and the Bundeswehr's lake forwarding center in Bremerhaven were merged. The planning / chartering / sea transport sub-unit remained in Hamburg. The Bundeswehr forwarding agency was dissolved and incorporated into the agency. Her name was changed to Transportdienstelle West of the Bundeswehr for six years . It also received the sub-unit of air freight handling in Wahn (Cologne) .
In 1975 the company moved into the building on Wiener Strasse. From 1980 the designation was again Transportdienstelle See of the Bundeswehr, because it reflected the core mission - sea transport - in a generally understandable way. In the meantime, the agency was subordinate to the Armed Forces Office . Thanks to the stabilized order backlog, cooperation with the civil transport and traffic industry intensified.
Rostock
German reunification brought the climax . The National People's Army left enormous stocks of materials. For the most part, they were passed on to friendly nations as military equipment aid. The need for transport was so great that a kind of regular service had to be set up. As the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany withdrew to their support on April 1, 1991 was Rostock , the branch of the transport department of the Bundeswehr lake situated. With a separate unit in Mukran (Sassnitz) , it supported the military of the Commonwealth of Independent States in diverting the material from the Sassnitz ferry port until it was dissolved in December 1994.
Global tasks
In addition to the NATO exercises and humanitarian interventions , missions for the United Nations and foreign missions of the Bundeswehr brought a new dimension and quality of the assignment. At the end of 1996 the General Inspector Hartmut Bagger initiated a reorganization of the traffic and transport system in the Bundeswehr. On September 30, 1997, the separated airfreight control unit in Cologne-Wahn was spun off and handed over to the Air Force . In the course of strategic relocations, ie operations and exercises by the Bundeswehr, the Bundeswehr's lake transport service was involved in planning and decision-making processes; However, she continued to carry out routine, supply and line sports with full independence. With the negotiation of the strength and equipment verification in March 1999, the order of the transport service was retained, namely to plan and carry out sea transports with incoming and outgoing material. In the area of operational planning, the agency worked as a pilot for sea transport to the superior agencies. The department was also responsible for container management in maritime transport - planning, inflow control, tracking, purchase control and repairs - in cooperation with the Bundeswehr logistics office . Your assignment to represent the headquarters of the Supreme National Maritime Authority was given by the agency. Only the expertise had to be brought into this body. That is why the Bundeswehr's lake transport service center remained an independent service center in Bremerhaven in peacetime and in the event of a defense .
Departments
- Staff group: Chief (corvette captain), S1 officer (captain lieutenant), S1 boatswain (staff boat man), S2 sergeant (sergeant), S3 sergeant (sergeant), S4 sergeant (main sergeant) and Schirrmeister (sergeant major)
- Specialist group: Head (frigate captain), sea transport handling (frigate captain), STA / charter (captain lieutenant), STA / liner (captain lieutenant), STA / land operations planning and transhipment control group (lieutenant), STA / ammunition (captain)
- Central administration: Head (government councilor), charter accounting (chief government secretary), liner accounting (chief government secretary), troop administration (government inspector), accounting officer (chief government secretary).
Head of Department
- 1999: Sea captain Hans-Erwin Dietrich (1944–2018)
See also
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literature
- Transport service lake of the Bundeswehr. 40-year service anniversary, 1959–1999 . Bremerhaven 1999.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ The building was not completed during the war. A temporary roof was put on for American use. After the Americans moved out, the site was repaired, new roof, bunker cladding, etc.