NCO school

An NCO School is a military training facility for non-commissioned officers .

Prussia

The Prussian Army trained its NCOs at seven locations. The first school was opened in Potsdam in 1825 . It was followed by Jülich (1860), Biebrich , and later in Wetzlar (1867), Weißenfels (1869), Ettlingen (1871), Marienwerder (1879) and Treptow (1901). After the end of the First World War , all facilities were closed.

Kingdom of Bavaria

A non-commissioned officer school existed in Fürstenfeldbruck in the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1894 to 1919.

Kingdom of Saxony

Kgl. Marienberg NCO School

The Kingdom of Saxony maintained a non-commissioned officer school in Marienberg for its armed forces from 1873 to 1920 . Later it was a non-commissioned officer school , which Horst Hennig and Günter Kießling attended in 1940 .

Germany

In Germany , there are three non-commissioned officer schools of the armed services : the NCO School of the Air Force , the NCO School of the Army and the Marine NCO School . The German NCOs are trained on them in various courses.

The GDR's National People's Army also ran NCO schools from 1956 to 1990, see NCO School (NVA) .

Austria

The Army NCOs' Academy has existed in Austria since 1959 , where NCOs of the Federal Army (army and air forces) are trained.

Switzerland

The NCO schools in Switzerland are generally considered to be cadre schools for the Swiss Army . It trains soldiers in leadership roles as troop leaders / group leaders , who independently train and lead a corresponding military sub-unit with the rank of sergeant . Each military branch has its own NCO school. The training can be of different duration according to the specific training programs.

Until the Army XXI reform in 2003, the group leader course at a Swiss non-commissioned officer school lasted four weeks and ended with the appointment as corporal after successful completion . Afterwards, the training at the general recruiting school was continued for another 17 weeks and ended with a so-called deserving of the grade at the respective recruiting school of the own military branch.