Defense technology study collection Koblenz

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The military engineering study collection in the former Langemarck barracks
Defense technology study collection (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Defense technology study collection
Defense technology study collection
Localization of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany
The Defense Technical Study Collection in the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Bundeswehr, drawn on a map of Rhineland-Palatinate

The Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung (WTS) (also called Wehrtechnisches Museum Koblenz ) of the Bundeswehr in Koblenz is one of the largest technical exhibitions in Germany . Your focus is on defense technology .

The study collection was founded in 1962 and built up by the military historian Arnold Wirtgen . Since 1995 the management has been with his son Rolf Wirtgen .

It has been located in the Langemarck barracks in Koblenz since 1982 and is assigned to the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Bundeswehr (BAAINBw - formerly Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement). It still serves to train soldiers in the Bundeswehr and to train future engineers in the armaments sector. B. also illustrative material for the preparation of foreign assignments. In addition, the WTS collects devices, equipment and literature that document the development of defense technology. She also collects a selection of test vehicles and prototypes that illustrate the BAAINBw's development work.

The WTS is open to the public. It is not a museum, but offers a seldom-found abundance of illustrative material on the development of armaments, devices, equipment and uniforms from the early 19th century onwards, with a focus on the German Armed Forces.

future

As part of the preparations for the 2011 Federal Garden Show in Koblenz, discussions were held about relocating the collection, as the barracks area should be redesigned. A move to the Military History Museum of the German Armed Forces in Dresden was also considered. The Federal Defense Minister Jung visited the WTS on July 1, 2008 and announced the whereabouts of the collection in Koblenz. On November 14th, 2008, the then Mayor of Koblenz, Eberhard Schulte-Wissermann, in his capacity as chairman of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the WTS, announced the move of the collection to the technical area west of the former Fritsch barracks on the plateau in front of the fortress Ehrenbreitstein known. In July 2008, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate expressed its willingness to take over the conversion costs of a WTS target location within Koblenz. These plans have failed, but the future of the facility is assured.

According to a notification from the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Federal Armed Forces , the WTS will be relocated to the Metternich branch (Wasserplatz) of Defense Technical Service 41 in Koblenz-Metternich . The project is in the planning phase.

Well-known exhibits

No longer available exhibits

See also

literature

  • Dieter Henrich (editor): The exhibitions of the Defense Technology Study Collection of the Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement. Part I: The technical development of small arms. Volume 1: The handguns from their first appearance to the repeating weapons . Ed .: Association of Friends and Supporters of the Defense Technical Study Collection Koblenz e. V. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1985, ISBN 3-7648-1467-5 (photos by Barbara Tiezel).
  • Association of Friends of the Defense History Museum Schloss Rastatt e. V., Association of Friends and Supporters of the Defense Technical Study Collection Koblenz e. V. (Ed.): The armament and equipment of the army of Frederick the Great. A documentation on the occasion of the 200th year of his death . Exhibition catalog March 27–30. June 1986 in the Defense Technical Study Collection Koblenz, August 1st – 2nd November 1986 in the Defense History Museum in Rastatt. o. V., Koblenz / Rastatt 1986.
  • Frank Köhler (editor): exhibits from the military engineering study collection . Presented at the open house at the Wehrtechnischen Dienststelle (WTD 51) in Koblenz on July 16 and 17, 2005 and at the 5th Koblenz Museum Night on September 3, 2005. Ed .: Rolf Wirtgen on behalf of the Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement. 2., corr. Edition. Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement, Koblenz 2009 (with contributions by Siegfried Müller and others).
  • Heinrich Müller, Rolf Wirtgen on behalf of the Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement (Hrsg.): Geharnischte Zeiten. 2000 years of body protection for soldiers from ancient muscle armor to bulletproof vest . An exhibition of the military technical study collection of the BWB on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Bundeswehr. Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement, Koblenz 1995.
  • Rolf Wirtgen (editor-in-chief), Frank Köhler, Lothar Simon, Hubert Zimmer (editor): Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung Koblenz. An overview. 50 years of WTS - 30 years in Koblenz . Ed .: Association of Friends and Supporters of the Defense Technical Study Collection Koblenz e. V. Hermes Medien, Hunzel 2012.

Web links

Commons : Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung Koblenz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jung: Defense technology study collection remains in Koblenz. Defense technology study collection remains in Koblenz. Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement, July 1, 2008, archived from the original ; Retrieved December 11, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Rhein-Zeitung No. 267, November 15, 2008, p. 19: WTS moves to the Fritsch barracks .
  3. ↑ Beck and Bruch welcome the receipt of the defense technology study collection at the Koblenz location( Memento from May 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate, current issues, July 1, 2008

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 7.7 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 7.9 ″  E