Von Düring barracks
 Von Düring barracks
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The main entrance of the Von Düring barracks |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Rotenburg (Wümme) | ||
| Coordinates : | 53 ° 8 ' N , 9 ° 21' E | ||
| Opened | 1936 | ||
| Stationed troops | |||
| 3rd / Supply Battalion 141 Jägerbataillon 91 |
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| Old barracks names | |||
| 1937-1945 1964-2020 |
Air base barracks Lent barracks |
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| Nachtjagdgeschwader 3 31st Armored Workshop Telecommunications Battalion 120 Anti-aircraft Missile Battalion 31 Telecommunications Regiment 1 Logistics Battalion 3 |
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Location of the Von Düring barracks in Lower Saxony |
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The Von-Duering barracks is a north-west of Rotenburg (Wümme) located barracks of the Armed Forces . The Jäger Battalion 91 (since July 2015), the 3rd Company of the Supply Battalion 141 and the Rotenburg medical center are stationed here. The Signal Regiment 1 was stationed there from 1994 until its dissolution in mid-2015; Logistics Battalion 3 was also disbanded in 2015.
history
The barracks were built in 1936 as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht as an air aircraft office with an airfield. The topping-out ceremony for the first buildings was held in December 1936. And the first soldiers moved into the barracks on January 30 of the following year. The property to house an air Zeugamt, one was connected to it airbase built. "Seebad" was chosen as the code name for the airfield. The southern part of the area has been converted into an airfield. The flight operations were carried out on the sward. To the north of the airfield, the hall area was built with five hangars and a shipyard hall. The apron area was concreted. Behind the halls, the work area was built with various buildings that housed workshops. This was followed by the administration and living areas in the eastern half. Staff buildings, accommodation blocks, heating plant, telecommunications bunker and an outdoor swimming pool have all been built here. On the western edge, the Air Force built a depot area with warehouses for the needs of the Air Force Office. Additional warehouses were also built in the northern corner of the property. To protect against enemy air attacks, a flak position has been set up in the wider vicinity of the facility. It was located on the Bullerberg near Westerholz , about 4 km northeast of the airfield.
The Luftzeugamt moved to Liegnitz in Silesia as early as 1939 . After that, the only logistical facilities left were the aircraft yard and an anti-aircraft park in Rotenburg. But now for the first time the occupation with flying associations followed. From November 1939 to January 1940 the III. Group of Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 "Immelmann" , equipped with Junkers Ju 87 . From December 15, 1939 to February 15, 1940, Kampfgruppe 100 with Heinkel He 111H bombers was also in Rotenburg.
No further occupancies are recorded for the time thereafter. In the last half of the Second World War , however, hunting associations were almost constantly on the eyrie. The constantly increasing threat from allied bomber fleets flying in was the reason for this. The occupancy of longer stationed groups in detail:
- December 25, 1943 - February 26, 1944 II./JG 3 "Udet" with Messerschmitt Bf 109G hunters,
- February 29, 1944 - June 6, 1944 I./JG 11 with Focke-Wulf Fw 190A ,
- July 12, 1944 - August 11, 1944 III./ JG 4 with Bf 109G .
With this collection of hunting machines, the airfield itself naturally came under the Allies' sights. One day after Whitsun 1944, a heavy air raid was carried out on the airfield. In addition to major property damage, more than 100 people died.
The Second World War ended for Rotenburg with the invasion of British troops. The airfield was occupied on April 22, 1945.
From 1945 to 1958, the British armed forces used the barracks as a workshop barracks for the 31st tank workshop group and later for the 17th infantry workshop group. The Bundeswehr then took over the location as an army airfield for a maintenance squadron and a training squadron. From the mid-1960s, the telecommunications battalion 120 "electronic warfare" moved into the barracks. The 2nd anti-aircraft missile battalion 31 had also moved there beforehand. The barracks were given the name Lent barracks on July 18, 1964. After German reunification , army aviators and anti-aircraft groups left the barracks in the early 1990s and the airfield was spun off for private purposes. Until 2015, the barracks housed telecommunications battalion 1 (since 2006 telecommunications regiment 1 ) and the headquarters, as well as the first, third and fourth companies of logistics battalion 3 (previously headquarters and the first and fourth companies of maintenance battalion 3). As part of the realignment of the army, these units were disbanded in 2015. Jäger Battalion 91, 3rd Company Supply Battalion 141 and the Rotenburg medical supply center have been stationed here since June 1, 2015. The Bundeswehr Service Center Rotenburg (Wümme) is also located here .
Since June 8, 2020 the barracks has been called von Düring barracks .
Naming
The barracks was named for a long time after Colonel Helmut Lent , a fighter pilot and night fighter in the Luftwaffe in World War II . The name was given at the instigation of the former supervisor Lents Josef Kammhuber in 1964. In October 2019, a change of name to Von-Düring barracks after Johann Christian von Düring was proposed. The renaming came into effect on June 8, 2020
Web links
- History of the barracks
- British use of the former air base
- Barracks lose name (May 23, 2014)
- Look for the new name
- Search for meaning
Footnotes
- ↑ www.deutschesheer.de: "Time to say Goodbye" (July 14, 2015)
- ↑ Rotenburg Air Base. In: relict.com. Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ relict.com
- ↑ New name for Rotenburger Kaserne , bundeswehr.de , June 10, 2020
- ↑ Peter Bierl: Nazi names out . In: The time . March 23, 2006, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 2, 2016]).
- ↑ Barracks are renamed: Nazi hero has had its day , taz.de , October 15, 2019
- ↑ New traditional decree : Lent becomes von Düring: Rotenburger Kaserne proposes a new name , Kreiszeitung.de , October 9, 2019
- ↑ Renaming