Arms and Ammunition Procurement Office

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The Weapons and Ammunition Procurement Office (WuMBA) was an office of the War Resource Department in the Prussian War Ministry or War Office created in the course of the Hindenburg program on September 30, 1916 . The first head of the WuMBA was Carl Friedrich Coupette (1855–1929), his seat was in the Berlin Hotel Cumberland on Kurfürstendamm .

The task of the weapons and ammunition procurement office was to coordinate the production of weapons and ammunition in the German war economy during the First World War. In addition, it played a part in the general management of raw materials that were important to the war effort, including the “substitute materials policy”. The establishment of the WuMBA meant a fundamental reorganization of the military procurement system in Germany, the organization of which had been recognized as inadequate. The WuMBA brought together, among other things, the previous Feldzeugmeisterei as well as the General War Department, nominally the highest procurement authority, and the engineering committee. The "technical institutes", state army workshops, were subordinate to the Feldzeugmeisterei.

Until then, all of these authorities had independently procured from the private sector. The corresponding agencies of the states of Bavaria, Württemberg and Saxony with nominally their own armies and their own war ministries were also included. The war raw materials department had already recorded all raw materials in Germany since spring 1915 and monitored their processing. This was now also one of the tasks of the WuMBA, which used tabulating machines for this purpose . After the end of the war, the WuMBA was handled by the machine delivery point of the Reichsverwertungsamt.

The chief of the arms and ammunition procurement office was Major General Karl Coupette, previously inspector of the Technical Institute of Artillery. His technical assistant, the former director of the war chemicals company and Reich commissioner for calcium cyanamide Wichard von Moellendorff , also had a great influence .

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