The Joint Support Service

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German Armed Forces Staff
The
Joint Support Service
Issue 07/07
As of: 11 July 2007
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Message from the Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr and Chief of Staff,
Joint Support Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Joint Support Service – A Partner of the Single Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Joint Support Command (JSC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Military District Commands/Land Commands (MDC/LC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bundeswehr Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bundeswehr Logistics Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bundeswehr Logistics Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bundeswehr Military Intelligence Centre (BMIC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Strategic Reconnaissance Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CIMIC Centre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
German Element, CIMIC Centre of Excellence (German Element, CCOE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bundeswehr Military Police. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Family Support Organisation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Major Training Areas (MTAs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Bundeswehr Operations Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Joint Command Special Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Response Forces Operations Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Armed Forces Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Bundeswehr Command and Staff College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Bundeswehr Transformation Centre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Leadership Development and Civic Education Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Bundeswehr Verification Centre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Military History Research Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Bundeswehr Command Support School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Bundeswehr Logistics School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Bundeswehr Military Police and Headquarters Service School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Bundeswehr Sports School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Bundeswehr School of Dog Handling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Bundeswehr Infrastructure Staffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
German National Military Representative to SHAPE (NMR[GE]SHAPE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
NATO School Oberammergau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Senior National Representative / German Element, Allied Land Component Command,
Headquarters Heidelberg (SNR/GE CC-Land HQ Heidelberg). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
German Armed Forces Command, United States and Canada (GEFORCOM US/CA). . . . . . . . . 84
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German Headquarters Section, France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Military Attaché Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bundeswehr Sports Promotion Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Military Music in the Joint Support Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Military Motor Vehicle Affairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Voluntary Reservist Work Independent of Assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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erman Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee, European Union
and Western European Union (GEMILREP MC/NATO, EU and WEU). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Federal College for Security Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Military Counterintelligence Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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undeswehr Personnel Office and its Recruiting Centres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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undeswehr University, Munich and
Helmut Schmidt University/Bundeswehr University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Commissioner for the Buildup of the Joint Support Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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otes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Editorial Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
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essage from the Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr and
Chief of Staff, Joint Support Service
The Joint Support Service (JSS) provides support to the single services - Army,
Air Force and Navy - as well as to the Bundeswehr Joint Medical Service by
performing tasks that can be carried out more effectively and efficiently on a
joint basis.
Since being established, the JSS has demonstrated its effectiveness in an
impressive manner.
It has been possible to reduce duplication and exploit synergies.
The central support approach has proven successful and capable of meeting future challenges.
As part of the process of transformation, we are optimising the Joint Support Service as a strong
partner of the Army, Air Force, Navy and the Joint Medical Service across the entire operational
spectrum of modern, future-oriented and task-tailored German armed forces.
The purpose of this folder is to provide you with information on the Joint Support Service and its
manifold tasks and diverse agencies. Inside the folder, you will find information on our modules and
productive areas covering the broad spectrum of training and education all the way to the command and control and support of operations presented in just a few pages.
I invite you to learn more about the Joint Support Service and to stay in touch with us.
You
Wolfram Kühn
Vice admiral
Further information not included in this information folder can be found on the Internet under
http://www.Streitkraeftebasis.de and on the Bundeswehr’s Intranet pages.
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The Joint Support Service –
A Partner of the Single Services
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The decision in the year 2000 to consolidate The tasks of the Joint Support Service include:
common tasks in the Joint Support Service pro-.
provision of the command and control organivided a major impetus to the Bundeswehr’s orientation on operations abroad. Capability gaps
sation for operations abroad and for Bundeswehr assistance operations in support of civil-.
had to be closed and operational forces significantly increased.
ian disaster relief in Germany
command and control support in Germany, in Today, the Joint Support Service is the central mil-. the deployment areas and from Germany to itary organisational area for the provision of sup- the deployment areas
port to the Bundeswehr on operations and dur-. logistic support
NBC defence and protection tasks including
ing routine duty. It performs common and joint
explosive ordnance disposal
support tasks for the entire Bundeswehr. As a re military intelligence including strategic reconsult of this concentration of tasks, the burden on
naissance and Bundeswehr Geoinformation
the single services is reduced, synergy effects are
Affairs
exploited and the overall effectiveness of the.
psychological operations
armed forces will be enhanced.
Bundeswehr Military Police
civil-military cooperation at home and abroad
joint training as well as academic research and
studies.
Command and control
Military Intelligence and Bundeswehr
Geoinformation Affairs
Training / education /
science / research
Command and control support
Bundeswehr civil-military
cooperation (at home and abroad)
Mission spectrum
Binational / multinational cooperation
Bundeswehr Military Music
Psychological operations
Personnel support
Other support
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Bundeswehr NBC defence and
protective tasks
Logistics
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Tasks concerning the areas of personnel management, military music as well as binational and
multinational cooperation are equally part of the
Joint Support Service‘s area of responsibility, as
are family support, voluntary reservist work and
the promotion of top-level sport.
This multifaceted task spectrum determines the
organisation and structure of the Joint Support
Service.
command and control support forces as well as
CIMIC personnel provide support with their specialist capabilities.
own contingents with an operational mission
in the deployment areas or for direct support
in operations
Organisational Development
With an initial strength of 7,000 military and ci-.
vilian personnel from the former central military
agencies, the organisational establishment of the
Joint Support Service, which today numbers
55,000 military and 22,000 civilian personnel, is
largely complete. The Joint Support Service is
functioning well; without it, worldwide Bundeswehr operations would not longer be feasible
today.
support of operational forces from the home
base
A key element of this is the command and con-.
trol of all operations abroad from Germany
through the Bundeswehr Operations Command
The Joint Support Service has grown into an effi- or the Joint Command Special Operations. Morecient command and control organisation due to over, for instance, follow-on supplies, the central
the incorporation of the Bundeswehr Operations provision of logistic services or planning of de-.
Command, the Response Forces Operations ployments and transport as well as the linking up
Command, the Joint Support Command, a Joint of agencies and forces abroad with command
Command Special Operations as well as the. and control support assets are important support
Armed Forces Office, the Personnel Office and tasks, as are the Geoinformation service and the
the Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office. These integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconcommands and agencies are complemented by naissance (ISR) system.
central facilities such as the Bundeswehr univer performance of routine tasks at home
sities, the Federal College for Security Studies
and the Bundeswehr Counterintelligence Office.
The main activities are here the concentration of
forces and assets in the core areas of logistics,
Operations – The Determining Factor
Over the past few years, the Bundeswehr has command and control support, military intelliparticipated in a steadily increasing number of gence, Bundeswehr Geoinformation Affairs, terworldwide operations. The spectrum of opera- ritorial military police tasks, training and educations for which the armed forces must be pre- tion as well as civil-military cooperation in the
pared ranges from humanitarian assistance op-. form of support to civil authorities in Germany.
erations to crisis management operations and
stabilisation operations all the way to high-. In addition to ongoing operations there are.
intensity combat operations, including the fight quasi-operational commitments which require
against international terrorism.
that forces are prepared and kept available for
the following areas: rescue and evacuation op-.
The changed operational spectrum is also the de- erations for national security provisions, NATO
termining factor for the Joint Support Service. Response Force (NRF), EU Battle Groups (EUBG)
The Joint Support Service fulfils its mission and the United Nations Standby Arrangements
through:
System (UNSAS).
With its multifaceted forces and capabilities, the
Joint Support Service, as an integral component,
provides approx. 20 to 30 percent of the forces
for all operations abroad. The Bundeswehr Military Police, electronic warfare elements, psychological operations personnel, logistic forces and
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Every Joint Support Service agency has military
personnel from the Army, Air Force and the Navy
assigned to it. The target structure, in accordance
with the 2010 Personnel Structure Model, provides for 56,300 posts in the Joint Support Serv-.
ice, of which 71% are to be manned by Army,
22% by Air Force and 7% by Navy personnel. Of
the 56,300 posts, 28,100 are planned as posts
for stationary support forces for routine tasks at
home and 28,200 for operational forces. Of.
these, 3,500 posts will be assigned to the response forces, 13,000 to the stabilisation forces
and 11,700 will also be available as mobile support forces for operations within and outside
Germany.
changed operational scenarios, technological
challenges and operational requirements by centralising joint tasks. The command and control
support assets operate an information and communications system in Germany around the.
clock, every day of the year. In parallel, the Joint
Support Service links all deployed contingents
with Germany. For command and control support activities, which the Joint Support Service
has conducted since October 2001, the Joint
Support Service is to gain a new partner in the
form of the IT company.
As regards command and control support, the
Joint Support Service also takes account of the
The entire expertise in the field of geoinforma-.
tion required by the Bundeswehr has been con-
In the area of intelligence collection and reconnaissance, the Bundeswehr Military Intelligence
Centre is currently the central agency of the BunDevelopments in the Task Areas
deswehr Military Intelligence Organisation for
The Bundeswehr Operations Command in Pots- analysing the “military situation”. The Bundesdam, which has also been designated as an EU wehr Military Intelligence Centre makes a deciOperation Headquarters for European-led opera- sive contribution to the early recognition of crises,
tions, has established itself as an effective instru- crisis management as well as to the provision of
ment for the command and control of Bundes- information on a continuous basis to the FMOD
wehr operations abroad.
executive group and the highest commanders of
the Bundeswehr. Lessons learned from operaAll German armed forces on operations abroad tions demonstrate that situation appraisal on an
are nationally always under the command of the interministerial basis is constantly increasing in
Commander, Bundeswehr Operations Command importance. Thus, there are plans to intensify coor, in the case of special forces operations, that operation in this area. For this purpose, the tasks
of the Commander, Joint Command Special Op-. and personnel of the Bundeswehr Military Intellierations. With the combination of these com- gence Centre will be integrated into the Federal
mands, the Joint Support Service therefore pro- Intelligence Service or the Strategic Reconnaisvides a tight command and control organisation sance Command, with the subsequent disbandoriented towards operations across the entire ment of the Bundeswehr Military Intelligence
spectrum. In addition, responsibility for the Re- Centre. The Strategic Reconnaissance Command
sponse Forces Operations Command was trans- combines the stationary and mobile signal intelliferred to the Joint Support Service on 1 July 2006. gence and electronic warfare elements, and, as
Its headquarters is deployable and thus especially another main area, satellite reconnaissance (including the Strategic Reconnaissance School),
suited as a command post in theatre.
under one roof. In this way, it is possible to cover
As a result of all Joint Support Service forces of the whole spectrum of signal intelligence on a
direct operational relevance being placed under joint basis with fewer personnel in the deploythe command and control of the Joint Support ment areas and thus significantly improve situa-.
Command, the “single command” principle has tional awareness, despite less personnel effort. In
also been ensured within the Joint Support Serv-. the future, the Strategic Reconnaissance Comice – for instance in the case of major incidents mand will be the central agency of the Bundeswehr Military Intelligence Organisation.
and natural disasters in Germany.
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solidated under the umbrella of the newly established Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service.
The Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office provides
all requesting agencies with mission-tailored and
user-friendly geoinformation products and services. Thanks to the interdisciplinary approach and
the increasing provision of online services, this
specialist service’s efficiency in providing both direct and also indirect geoscience support for
operations and routine duty has increased
considerably.
The logistic support of the Armed Forces is provided in a Bundeswehr-unified system comprising
Joint Support Service basic logistics
single service operational logistics
the Territorial Defence Administration
the Armaments Organisation
and by using services provided by trade and industry as well as national and multinational
agencies. As a result of this radically new concept and the centralisation of common logistic
tasks in the armed forces, rationalisation effects
have been achieved throughout the armed
forces.
The Bundeswehr Logistics Centre in Wilhelmshaven is the core of this system. Together with
the logistic control centres in Germany, it forms
a nationwide network. It thus ensures the central provision of the entire logistic requirements
across the boundaries of the services and organisational areas.
The central inventory management of the fixed
logistic facilities provides stringent, optimised
measures for the reduction of the total stockpile, the optimisation of storage space and the
reduction of personnel strengths while improving the overall flows of materiel.
The mobile logistic units of the Joint Support
Service are oriented on the support of Bundeswehr operations abroad and are largely relieved
of routine duty tasks. This is a logical step towards operations-oriented and joint logistics.
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The task area of the Bundeswehr‘s Military Police has undergone fundamental changes. Today,
military police assets with their special capabilities are a key component of any operation. Due
to the close cooperation between national and
multinational civilian and military police forces,
the Bundeswehr Military Police also makes a significant contribution to the overall mission accomplishment of the armed forces at civil-military
“interfaces”. At the same time, the Bundeswehr
Military Police continues to carry out its tasks in
Germany in the same way as before.
All assets for operations, training, scientific support and the further development of psychological operations are consolidated in the Psychological Operations Centre. This way of concentrating
competence and responsibilities sets a trend. Because of the cooperation between mobile operational forces and stationary support from the
home base (reach back), it has been possible to
greatly increase sustainability.
Civil-military cooperation at home (support of
civil authorities) and abroad (CIMIC) has become
considerably more important. The Joint Support
Service has taken account of this fact in the planning of its structures. Both areas were reorganised and massively strengthened.
The Bundeswehr will continue to rely on qualified, capable and, above all, available reservists in
the future. On the basis of their voluntary commitment, they will strengthen the units’ sustainability by performing special functions or serving
in the active forces.
In this way, reservists, appointed as Bundeswehr
representatives for civil-military cooperation, or
working as part of government regional and district liaison groups, will make an important contribution to the provision of advice at local level
to civil disaster control authorities.
Joint schools, universities, academies and offices
are assigned to the Joint Support Service. The
armed forces require a comprehensive and
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Structure of the Joint Support Service in 2010
FMOD
Vice Chief of Staff,
Bundeswehr and Chief of Staff,
Bundeswehr
Operations
Command
Schwielowsee
Joint
Support
Command
Response
Forces Operations
Command
Joint Command
Special Operations
Schwielowsee
Cologne
HQ and
signal battalion
Bundeswehr
universities1
Hamburg/München
Bundeswehr
Personnel Office
Ulm
Cologne
Military District
Command I
Land Command
Schleswig-Holstein
Military District
Command II
Land Command
Rhineland-Palatinate
Military District
Command III
Land Command
Thuringia
Military District
Command IV
Land Command
Bavaria
Land Command
Hamburg
Land Command
Saarland
Land Command
Saxony
Land Command
Baden-Württemberg
Bremen
Hesse
Saxony-Anhalt
Lower Saxony
North
Rhine-Westphalia
Brandenburg
Garrison Command
Berlin
Bundeswehr
Academy
for Information and
Communication
Strausberg
Bundeswehr
Institute of
Social Sciences
Bundeswehr
Enlisted
Personnel Office
Strausberg
Cologne
Bundeswehr
Command and
Staff College
Leadership
Development and
Civic Education
Centre
German
National Military
Representative to
MC/NATO/
EU/WEU
Hamburg
Command
support
troops
Command
support
troops
Logistics
troops
Major
training areas
Major
training areas
Major
training areas
Major
training areas
Military
History Research
Institute
Bundeswehr
Sports School
Central Office
for Military Motor
Vehicle Affairs
Warendorf
Bundeswehr
School of
Dog Handling
Ulmen
Bundeswehr
Military Police
Military band
Bundeswehr
Military Police
Bundeswehr
Military Police
Military band
CIMIC Centre
Koblenz
Bundeswehr
Military Police
and Headquarters
Service School
Hannover
Logistics
troops
Bundeswehr
Military Police
Bonn
Signal battalion2
Schwielowsee
MecklenburgWestern Pomerania
Armed Forces Office
Ulm
Potsdam
Mönchengladbach
Bundeswehr
Transformation
Centre
Strausberg
Military band
Bundeswehr
Command
Support School
Bundeswehr
Verification
Centre
Explosive
Ordnance
Disposal Centre
Bundeswehr
Logistics School
German
missions /
NATO elements
Pöcking
OsterholzScharmbeck
Strategic
Reconnaissance
Command
Bundeswehr
School of
Military Music
Rheinbach
Hilden
Federal
College for
Security Studies
Berlin
Bundeswehr
Counterintelligence
Office
Cologne
Office for
Military Studies
Geilenkirchen
Big Band
of the
Bundeswehr
Euskirchen
Signal
Sectors
Psychological
Operations
Centre
Mayen
Psychological
Operations
Battalion 950
Koblenz
Strategic
Reconnaissance
School
Bundeswehr SIGINT
Technical
Analysis Centre
Flensburg
Military
attaché offices
Hof
German element
within the CIMIC
Centre of Excellence
Weert/NL
Euskirchen
Siegburg
German Armed
Forces Command,
US / CA
Bundeswehr
Logistics Office
St. Augustin
Bundeswehr
Geoinformation Office
Joint Band of
the Bundeswehr
Bundeswehr
Logistics Centre
Reston/US
Military
elements in civil
agencies of
the Bundeswehr
Wilhelmshaven
Bundeswehr Military
Intelligence Centre3
Grafschaft
Infrastructure
staffs
In organisational terms, the Bundeswehr
universities are part of the military organisational
area Joint Support Service; their
Presidents coming under the general administrative
authority of the Federal Minister of Defence.
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New designation still to be determined.
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No longer part of the target structure.
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well-balanced training system that caters for
young superiors all the way to General/Admiral
Staff Officers to produce the leaders of the Bundeswehr of tomorrow.
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Force and Navy to concentrate on their core capabilities. The Principles of the Joint Support.
Service, that is to say
a joint approach
In the central areas of responsibility of the Joint
focus on operations abroad
Support Service, joint schools are being estab-. the performance of command and control ac- lished. As a result of this joint approach, military tivities and specialist tasks from a single
personnel can be employed in all the areas of ac- source
tivity of their specialty. A prerequisite for the success of the joint approach is the consistency of have proven successful. The Joint Support Service
personnel management terms, occupational pro- is already today a reliable and indispensable partfiles and processes.
ner of the single services and the Bundeswehr
Joint Medical Service on operations abroad and
Modern training that is transferable to civilian during routine duty.
occupations also contributes to the attractiveness
of the military profession.
In the framework of Structure 2010, the Joint
Support Service will see a further increase in
The Joint Support Service provides professional tasks, particularly in the areas of logistics, comand nationwide family support for the depend-. mand and control support and explosive ordents of all deployed military personnel. The fami- nance disposal. Specifically, the implementation
ly support centres / points are within easy reach of a number of structural changes is also on the
of the dependents’ respective places of residence. agenda, ranging from the establishment / extenAll 31 centres have been up and running since sion of joint schools all the way to the optimisa-.
tion of the territorial commands for the perforthe beginning of 2006.
mance of civil-military cooperation tasks and the
With the Bundeswehr Transformation Centre, command and control of relief operations at
the Joint Support Service supports the transfor- home.
mation process and further development of the
single services in the context of the Bundeswehr’s
capabilities as a whole.
Conclusion and Outlook
The overriding objective of the Joint Support.
Service is to improve the operational capability of
the armed forces at home and abroad. For this
purpose, important prerequisites have been, and
are being, established to allow the Army, Air
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Milestones on the Road to Structure 2010:
establishment of the full operational readiness
of the Joint Command Special Operations and
the Response Forces Operations Command.
reorganisation of the Military District Commands into Military District Commands /Land
Commands and the establishment of Land
Commands
establishment of non-active regional and district liaison groups headed by the Bundeswehr
Representatives for Civil-Military Cooperation.
establishment / expansion and consolidation
of the Bundeswehr Logistics School and the
Bundeswehr Command Support School in the
Joint Support Service.
start of harmonised and centralised headquarters service training at the Bundeswehr Mili-.
tary Police and Headquarters Service School
from the beginning of 2007 and relocation of
the school to Hanover.
establishment / extension and consolidation of
the Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office.
completion of the establishment of the Bundeswehr Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre.
disbandment of the Bundeswehr Military Intelligence Centre, transfer of the sub-tasks to the
Strategic Reconnaissance Command as the
central agency of the Bundeswehr Military Intelligence Organisation, intensification of the
cooperation with the Federal Intelligence.
Service.
detailed information on all commands, offices,
agencies and further task areas of the Joint
Support Service can be found in the following
chapters.
Joint Support Command (JSC)
The mission and operational spectrum of the
Bundeswehr have fundamentally changed since the 1990s. The focus has changed from na-.
tional defence on German territory, with Army,
Air Force and Navy being largely self-sufficient,
to joint missions abroad. For that purpose, contingents consisting of forces from the Bundeswehr military organisational areas, i.e. Army, Air
Force, Navy, Joint Support Service and Central
Medical Service, are tailored to the given opera-.
tional needs. Operations conducted by one single service alone are an exception; they are mainly
centred around the establishment and maintenance of personnel and materiel readiness.
The challenges of the future can only be met by
a holistic approach consistently oriented to the
mission. There is a need for creative solutions
that meet operational requirements and at the
same time provide for the best possible use of
limited resources. Experience has shown that we can accomplish
our missions more effectively if general support
tasks are centralised and performed by uniform,
multiservice procedures. This enables us to pool
resources and utilise synergies. Joint tasks include,
for example, civil-military cooperation, logistics,
command and control support, military police,
design safety of ammunition, occupational safety and health services and/or handling hazardous
cargo as well as countering NBC threats.
barracks in Köln-Wahn, in the immediate vicinity of Cologne/Bonn airport. Within the next few
years, the staff currently based at seven different
locations across Germany will be concentrated at
Cologne.
Beyond the fields of activity mentioned above,
additional tasks such as “Intelligence Collection
and Reconnaissance” performed by subordinate
agencies of the Joint Support Command have,
for the first time in the history of the Bundeswehr, been defined and integrated under one
roof.
Strong leadership and services in all situations
In the “new” Bundeswehr structure, the Joint
Support Command has three core functions:
Command Headquarters of the Joint Support Service
Its forces are major contributors to intervention
and stabilisation operations of the Bundeswehr,
acting both in theatre and from Germany. Personnel of the Joint Support Command are significantly involved in all Bundeswehr operations
abroad. The command exercises command and
control over Joint Support Service forces during
daily service routine.
Supreme National Territorial Command
Cooperation with trade and industry is another The Joint Support Command coordinates military
expedient approach to improve the forces’ mate- manpower and exercises command and control
riel situation: Tasks delegated to civilian partners of operations in the context of the Bundeswehr’s
in, say, a cooperative approach, will make addi-. territorial tasks. These may include flood control
tional military personnel available for operational operations, disaster relief in case of major accidents in Germany, or support provided as admin-.
contingents. istrative assistance as during the World Youth
This is the very “business concept” that led Day in 2005 or the 2006 Football World Cup.
to the establishment of the Joint Support
Command as the central command head Functional Command for armed forcesquarters of the Joint Support Service.
wide / Bundeswehr-wide specialist tasks
The command’s functional competence provides
Activated on 10 April 2001, the Joint Support the driving force for the further development of
Command has its main base at the Air Force the Bundeswehr in key capability areas. These in-
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clude logistics, command support, NBC defence
and protection, Bundeswehr military police support and civil-military cooperation.
The demands and diversity of this task spectrum
are outstanding.
and during routine duties. Open dialogue with all
users is the essential basis of success – primarily
in order to continuously balance and harmonise
aims and services.
Broad spectrum of tasks performed in the
Command‘s area of responsibility
Optimised structures and a new way of
thinking
Geoinformation
Service
Command and Control
Support
PSYOPS
Command
Headquarters
of the Joint Support
Service
Military
Intelligence
Logistics
Bundeswehr Military
Police
NBC Defence and
Protection Tasks
Strategic
Reconnaissance
Central service provider
performing all common
logistic tasks in Germany and
in the area of operations
(Basic Logistic Organisation)
Functional command
for armed forces-wide
/ Bundeswehr-wide
specialist tasks
Supreme
National
Territorial
Command
Support of Bundeswehr
operations abroad
Ensuring the
strategic mobility
of the armed forces
NBC Defence and
Protection Tasks
Civil-Military
Cooperation
Territorial
Tasks
The headquarters of the Joint Support Command
comprises approximately 1,100 military and civil-.
ian personnel.
National
Territorial
Tasks
Global
Reconnaissance
CivilMilitary
Cooperation
Although it has been organised in a classical hierarchical structure, its workflows are functional
and process-oriented. Besides the preparation of deployments abroad
(25–30% of a contingent consist of Joint Support Command units) and the conduct of operations in Germany, the mission of the Command
extends to exercising its authority to issue guidelines in the functional areas mentioned above:
The overall responsibility for the support of the
armed forces clearly rests with the Joint Support
Command. Jointness in thinking and acting is
the No. 1 priority! The needs of the “customers”
must be known and appreciated; therefore military personnel from the Army (70%), Air Force
(22%) and Navy (8%) are assigned to the headquarters and command area.
Advanced business administration procedures,
cooperation with trade and industry, controlling
as well as cost and performance accounting enhance efficiency and thus extend the scope of
action for all. As a central service provider, the
Joint Support Command is fully geared to the
forces’ overall requirements, both on operations
Common command and
control support in
Germany and
in theatre
PSYOPS
Military Police
Tasks
GeoInformation
Affairs
Support of the armed forces and
the defence administration by
rendering services and performing
coordination tasks
Military
Intelligence
Basic driver training in the context
of joint armed forces training
Ensuring national
C2 capability
The four military district commands as the divi-.
sion level of the Joint Support Service are the
backbone of the command organisation.
Besides those, the Joint Support Command’s area
of responsibility encompasses further agencies
directly subordinate to the Deputy Commander
of the Joint Support Command, and which each
have defined functional areas allocated. These
are:
the Bundeswehr Logistics Centre
the Bundeswehr Logistics Office
the Bundeswehr Intelligence Centre
the Strategic Reconnaissance Command
the Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office
the Psychological Operations Centre
and the German Element – CIMIC Group North
These agencies will be explained in more detail
later on.
Mission Statement and Identification
The mission statement of the Joint Support Command is an instrument of identification with the
command and its tasks and underlines the ambition to achieve the defined objectives.
We are:
• The Joint Support Service’s command headquarters
• The supreme national territorial command
• A command with specialist tasks
Our main tasks:
• Our forces substantially contribute to intervention and
stabilisation operations – both in theatre and from Germany.
• We exercise command and control of operations in the context
of the Bundeswehr’s territorial tasks.
• Our functional competence provides the driving force for the
further development of the Bundeswehr in key capability areas.
Our ambition:
• Our command is characterised by jointness and diversity. We
think and act with joint responsibility and extend the scopes for
action for all involved by applying advanced business administration procedures.
• As a central service provider, we are fully geared to the forces’
overall requirements, both on operations and during routine
duties. To support them is our first and foremost objective.
• We rely on internal and external dialogue to balance and
harmonise our aims and services.
– Joint Support Command –
Strong leadership and top service in all situations
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Organisational structure of the Joint Support Command
LEGAD
Controlling
Commander
Military District
Commands I-IV
Deputy
Commander
Strategic
Reconnaissance
Command
Psychological
Operations
Centre
Chief of Staff
G1 / G2 / G3
Surgeon General
of the Joint
Support Service /
Command
Surgeon, Joint
Support Command
Military Police
Affairs in
the Bundeswehr
Logistics
Division / G4
Bundeswehr
Geoinformation
Office
Administrative
Division
Civil-Military
Cooperation,
Division / G5
Bundeswehr
Military
Intelligence
Centre
Headquarters
Section
Command
and Control
Support
Division G6
Bundeswehr
Logistics Office
Press and
Information
Centre of the
Joint Support
Service
NBC Defence
and Protection
Tasks Division
Bundeswehr
Logistics Centre
German
Element, CIMIC
Group North
Integrated Intelligence Collection
and Reconnaissance System
Specialist tasks of the Joint
Support Command
National territorial tasks
Military District Commands/
Land Commands (MDC/LC)
The Military District Commands/ Land Commands
act as the Joint Support Service‘s ´division headquarters‘, exercising command and con-.
trol over the subordinate units and agencies;
conduct Bundeswehr operations at home in
interaction with the Joint Support Command;
perform territorial tasks in their military district,
each of which comprises several Länder; or fed-.
eral states,
render extensive support to operations abroad
and routine duty at home, particularly in terms
of logistics and command and control support;
provide capabilities, ready units and individual
personnel for Bundeswehr operations abroad.
Subordinate to the MDC/LC there are, among
others, military police battalions, Land Commands, major training area headquarters and
military bands.
Two MDC/LC specialise in logistics while the
other two MDC/LC focus on command and control support tasks:
MDC I/Land Command Schleswig-Holstein.
(LC SH) and MDC IV/Land Command Bavaria
(LC BY) command the logistic forces;
M DC II/Land Command Rhineland-.
Palatinate (LC RP) and MDC III/Land
Command Thuringia (LC TH) control the
command and control support forces.
For territorial operations in an MDC/LC‘s area of
responsibility, additional Army, Air Force, Navy
and Bundeswehr Central Medical Service battal-.
ion- and company-size units may be subordi-.
nated to the MDC/LC. They will provide assistance, for instance in case of natural disasters,
and sometimes also for or in cooperation with
allied nations.
In each German Land, the Land Commands act
as liaison elements between the Bundeswehr and
the Land governments.
In those four Länder where there are MDC/LCs,
the MDC will also fulfil the tasks of a Land Command. In addition to the four combined MDCs/
LCs and the Berlin Garrison Command there are
another eleven Land Commands.
The LCs have their own independent command-.
ers. Their staffs are specifically task-tailored for
civil-military cooperation on Länder level.
Regionally, the following elements are, among
others, assigned to the Land Commands:
the motor vehicle training centres,
the family support centres and the
sports promotion sections.
Reservists, who are organised in non-active gov-.
ernment region and government district liaison
groups and who are preferably local residents,
will maintain liaison with the approximately 470
government regions, government districts and
urban districts.
Active agencies, reservists and the respective civil-.
ian authorities form a dense network reflecting
all levels of civil-military cooperation.
This new territorial command structure optimises civil-military cooperation and enhances the
Bundeswehr‘s command and control capability
with regard to supporting operations at home.
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Military District Commands/
Land Commands (MDC/LC)
Territorial Organisation (Structure 2010)
• Joint Support Command (JSC)
Kiel
JSC
• 4 Military District Commands / Land Commands
SchleswigHolstein
(Joint Support Command)
Cologne
Mecklenburg-
Hamburg
Western Pomerania
Schwerin
Bremen
Lower Saxony
MDC I/LC SH
Potsdam
Kiel
Hanover
Düsseldorf
Mainz
MDC III/LC TH
Erfurt
RhinelandPalatinate
Hesse
Munich
Saxony
Thuringia
Wiesbaden
Mainz
Saarland
Saarlouis
MDC IV/LC BY
Brandenburg
Dresden
Erfurt
Cologne
Berlin
SaxonyAnhalt
North RhineWestphalia
MDC II/LC RP
Magdeburg
Bavaria
Stuttgart
BadenWürttemberg
Munich
MDC I and LC Schleswig-Holstein
MDC II and LC Rhineland-Palatinate
MDC III and LC Thuringia
MDC IV and LC Bavaria
• 11 Land Commands
LC Baden-Württemberg
LC Brandenburg
LC Bremen
LC Hamburg
LC Hesse
LC Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
LC Lower Saxony
LC North Rhine-Westphalia
LC Saarland
LC Saxony
LC Saxony-Anhalt
• Berlin Garrison Command
• 29 non-active government region liaison groups
• 439 non-active government district liaison groups
Military District Command I/
Land Command Schleswig-Holstein (MDC I/LC SH)
Military District Command I/ Land Command
Schleswig-Holstein is headquartered in Kiel. Upon
integration of the Land Command the official des-.
ignation will be: MDC I / LC Schleswig-Holstein.
The headquarters will exercise command and
control over units and agencies in the five north-.
ern Federal States of Germany, i.e.
Schleswig-Holstein,
Hamburg,
Lower Saxony,
Bremen und
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
It will also be responsible for the Land Commands
in the respective Länder capitals.
Approx. half of the Bundeswehr‘s fixed logistic
installations to include materiel, ammunition and
fuel depots as well as maintenance and repair
centres are subordinate to MDC I/LC SH. Besides,
MDC I/LC SH exercises command and control
over the Bundeswehr‘s only logistic brigade that
is part of the response forces and, to mention
another peculiarity, over one logistic regiment
which is stationed in Brandenburg, i.e. outside
Military District I.
The agency‘s area of responsibility also includes
two military police battalions and seven major
training areas, among them Bergen and Munster,
two important training areas in Lower Saxony.
An important task is to perform a bridging function for linking up with the neighbouring NATO With its CIMIC Centre in Nienburg (Lower Saxoand EU members Poland, Denmark and the Neth-. ny) Military District I provides one of the key op-.
erlands as well as with all other Baltic states.
erational capabilities.
Military District Command I/ Land Command Schleswig-Holstein (Structure 2010)
XX
Military District Command I
LC Schleswig Holstein
Kiel
X
LC Hamburg
Hamburg
X
LC Bremen
Bremen
X
LC Lower Saxony
Hanover
X
LC MecklenburgWestern Pomerania
Schwerin
X
II
Log Bde 1
Delmenhorst
CIMIC Centre
Nienburg
II
MP Bn 152
Hannover
III
II
MP Bn 151
Neubrandenburg
MTA HQ
Bergen
MTA
Münster
Log Regt 17
Burg
I
MD Band I
Neubrandenburg
MTA
Lübtheen
MTA
Ehra-Lessin
MTA HQ
Jägerbrück
MTA HQ
Putlos
MTA
Todendorf
Air Weapons Range Comd
Nordhorn
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Military District Command II/
Land Command Rhineland-Palatinate (MDC II/LC RP)
Military District Command II/ Land Command
Rhineland-Palatinate is headquartered in Mainz
and exercises command and control over subordinate units and agencies to accomplish territorial tasks in
Hesse,
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Rhineland-Palatinate and
Saarland. Upon integration of a Land Command the official designation will be: MDC II / LC RhinelandPalatinate.
Land Commands will also be activated in Wiesbaden, Düsseldorf and Saarlouis and placed under command and control of MDC II.
The coordination of official support and assistance
services for the American, British and French
units in the military district‘s area of responsibility
rendered within the scope of Host Nation Support (HNS) is a special responsibility of MDC II/LC
RP. There will be cross-border cooperation with
the neighbouring countries France, Belgium and
Luxembourg, for instance in the case of disaster
relief operations.
A core task is to operate the Bundeswehr information and communication system to en-.
sure telephone, fax and data transmission and to
provide Internet access in the West and South of
Germany. The stationary command and control
support personnel required for this task will in
future be assigned to the IT Company.
Military District Command II/ Land Command Rhineland-Palatinate (Structure 2010)
XX
Military District Command II
LC Rhineland-Palatinate
Mainz
X
LC North RhineWestphalia
Düsseldorf
X
X
LC Hesse
Wiesbaden
Lc Saarland
Saarlouis
III
III
II
II
Comd Spt Regt 28
Mechernich
Comd Spt Regt 29
Dillingen
MP Bn 251
Mainz
MP Bn 252
Hilden
MTA HQ
Baumholder
MTA
Daaden
GMR MTA HQ
Senne
Military District Command III/
Land Command Thuringia (MDC III/LC TH)
MDC III/ Land Command Thuringia was activated
in Erfurt in 2001 and will exercise command and
control over the Land Commands of
Thuringia,
Saxony,
Saxony-Anhalt,
Brandenburg and
Berlin
all of them located in the respective Land capitals.
Like MDC II/LC RP, MDC III specialises in command and control support.
Its stationary personnel operate a state-of-the-art
digital information and communication system to
include all Bundeswehr facilities in northern and
eastern Germany, as does its counterpart MDC II/
LC RP. The stationary command and control support assets required for this task will in future be
assigned to the IT Company.
The Berlin Garrison Command is a peculiarity in
this military district.
As a territorial command authority - similar to
the future Land Commands - it is already acting
as liaison element between the Bundeswehr and
the Berlin Senate. In addition, it provides protocol, administrative and general support to the
Federal President, the Federal Government and
the Federal Ministry of Defence in Berlin. Subordinate units such as the FMOD‘s Guard Battalion, the Joint Band of the Bundeswehr and a
military police battalion ensure the organisation
and conduct of and provide security for representative events taking place in Julius Leber Barracks, the second official seat of the Minister of
Defence, or at other Berlin venues. The agency
called Berlin Garrison Headquarters/ Military Region Command 100 was activated on 3 October
1990; in 1997 the name was changed into Berlin
Garrison Command. It is responsible for approx. 50 units and agencies, one local training area
and the Bundeswehr‘s only indoor firing range. The Commander, Berlin Garrison Command also
acts as Garrison Senior Officer of the German.
capital.
Military District Command III/ Land Command Thuringia (Structure 2010)
XX
Military District Command III
LC Thuringia
Erfurt
X
X
X
X
Garrison Comd
Berlin
LC Saxony
Dresden
LC SaxonyAnhalt
Magdeburg
LC Brandenburg
Potsdam
II
III
MP Bn 350
Berlin
Comd Spt Regt 38
Strokow
II
FMOD Guard Bn
Berlin
I
Joint Bw Band
Berlin
II
I
MP Bn 351
Leipzig
MD III Band
Erfurt
MTA HQ
Wittstock
MTA HQ
Oberlausitz
MTA HQ
Klietz
MTA
Altengrabow
MTA
Lehnin
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Military District Command IV/
Land Command Bavaria (MDC IV/LC BY)
Military District Command IV/ Land Command Bavaria is headquartered in Munich. This
command‘s area of responsibility comprises the
two large Länder in the South of Germany, i.e.,
Baden-Württemberg and
Bavaria.
A second Land Command will be established in
Stuttgart to ensure liaison with the government
of Baden-Württemberg.
a wide range of service and logistics tasks. Most
of these arise from support rendered to operations abroad, and from quasi-operational commitments such as the NATO Response Force.
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of the
Bundeswehr is subordinate to MDC IV/LC BY and
will in future pool all expertise in this crucial area,
which is literally important for survival, particularly in extended task spectrum operations.
Like MDC I/LC SH, MDC IV/LC BY has mainly logistics assets (two regiments). In addition to the
territorial tasks that need to be taken care of in
the two Länder, MDC IV/LC BY has to accomplish
Military District Command IV/ Land Command Bavaria (Structure 2010)
XX
Military District Command IV
LC Bavaria
Munich
X
LC BadenWürttemberg
Stuttgart
III
III
Log Regt 46
Diez
Log Regt 47
Dornstadt
MTA HQ
Wildflecken
II
II
MP Bn 451
Munich
MP Bn 452
Stetten a.k.M.
MTA
Hammelburg
MTA
Schwarzenborn
I
II
Bw EOD Centre
Stetten a.k.M.
Mtn Div Band
Garmisch-P..
MTA
Ordruf
MTA HQ
Heuberg
GMR MTA HQ
Grafenwöhr /
Hohenfels
Bundeswehr Explosive
Ordnance Disposal Centre
With the Bundeswehr’s transformation towards
an army on operations, the requirements to
be met by the EOD force have substantially in-.
creased. In the countries of deployment the.
threats from unexploded ordnance (UXO) and
improvised explosive devices (IED) used by terrorists call for EOD capabilities to be concentrated
and optimised.
These new requirements are met by the establishment of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Centre of the Bundeswehr at Stetten am kalten
Markt, and by a change in the organisation focusing on consolidation and close interlocking of
command and control, standard and proficiency
training, operations and further development. The joint EOD capabilities are combined at the
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of the Bundeswehr. For this purpose, EOD companies of the
Joint Support Service and the Army have been
or will be disbanded, with their assets becoming
integral parts of the new structure.
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of the
Bundeswehr allows highly efficient utilisation of
personnel and material resources and, by using
local training facilities and installations, intensive
preparation of the forces for operations directly
geared to the requirements of the mission. The
garrison at Stetten a.k.M. with Alb Barracks, the
depot and Heuberg military training area with
several demolition areas for practising EOD technologies provides an ideal environment for op-.
erating the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre. A large former ammunition storage site and the
former target factory offer ideal conditions for
exercises in realistic operational scenarios. Among others, new major elements include continuous psychological support for EOD operators
and their families, concurrent language training
in technical English, and permanent training in
the documentation of tactical data during EOD
operations. In addition to that, initial steps have
been taken to establish a network for training,
exercises and operations of the forces involved in
an EOD operation. The availability of military police, fire brigade and medical personnel based at
the garrison make for the best possible working
conditions. The EOD personnel are also joined by
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Bundeswehr Logistics Centre
As the central provider of logistic services for the
armed forces, Bundeswehr Logistics Centre is
responsible for the central disposition of all lo-.
gistic supplies and services in the armed forces. This applies to both missions and routine duty;
irrespective of the service provider - no matter
whether it is a military or a commercial provider
or a host nation.
The Centre manages the stocks of all military organisational areas. They control the maintenance
capacities of the Joint Support Service and the
Army and process and control all requirements.
within the scope of movement and transport man-.
agement in Germany and abroad.
In order to optimise the use of resources, military
and civilian commercial service providers coop-.
erate at Bundeswehr Logistics
Centre under military con-.
trol. The Logistics Centre thus
is the military institution that
is responsible for models of.
civil-military cooperation in
the area of the Joint Support Service. It is the central point of contact for
all users regarding the performance of logistic
tasks.
The Logistics Centre has modern means, procedures and methods at its disposal – especially when the new SASPF information technology
and the pertinent communication network will
have been introduced. This will finally combine
the variety of logistic procedures that have been
used so far. Consequences: Orientation towards the operational mission, quality control,
cost transparency and cost effectiveness of the.
services will be provided or improved, respectively. The entrepreneurial element is a distinguishing
feature of Bundeswehr Logistics Centre.
Since January 2006, Bundeswehr Logistics Cen-.
tre has adopted an interim structure. Command
element, staff element, and the divisions responsible for ”Supply Chain Management (SCM)“,
”Maintenance and Production“, ”Navy Disposi-.
tion“ as well as ”Movement and Transport“ have
already been stationed at Wilhelmshaven. The
”Army Disposition“ and ”Air Force Disposition“
divisions are still located at Bad Neuenahr and
Cologne.
In the years to come, both divisions will comp-.
letely move to Wilhelmshaven where they will be
united in a division called ”Bundeswehr Disposition“.
The Logistics Centre is to assume its target structure at Wilhelmshaven with the area-wide introduction of SASPF and the general replacement
of legacy procedures at the latest. Eight logistic
control points shall ensure widespread representation.
Increasingly, Bundeswehr Logistics Centre has become an efficient control platform for the logistic processes of the Bundeswehr. The commercial
services are closely integrated in this. The Supply
Chain Management (SCM) task can only be implemented gradually following the introduction
of SASPF and other technological developments. The reason why SCM is particularly important is
that it features a holistic approach to the chain
of logistic processes with all its flows of materiel,
services and information.
Bundeswehr Logistics Centre
Commander
Controlling
Deputy Commander,
Chief of Staff
and Chief, Logistics
Staff Element
Disposition Department,
Single Manager
Responsibility,
COS Army/JSS
Disposition Department,
Single Manager
Responsibility,
COS Air Force
Supply Chain
Management
Division
Management Branch,
Products,
Single Manager
Responsibility, COS Navy
Bundeswehr
Disposition
Division
Management Branch,
Products,
Single Manager
Responsibility, Surgeon
General, Bundeswehr
Products,
Single Manager
Responsibility, IT Director
Maintenance
and Production
Division
Movement
and Transport
Division
Central Control of
Maintenance
and Production
Branch 1
Movement/
Transport
Management
Logistic
Control Points
Branch 2
Transport Disposition
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Bundeswehr Logistics Office
Until October 1997, Bundeswehr Logistics Office
had been the Bundeswehr Materiel Office. Dur-.
ing that time, the Office was mainly occupied
with the production and publication of materiel
data and the control of uniform logistic Bundeswehr data processing procedures. Since Summer
2002, in the course of the reformation process,
Bundeswehr Logistics Office has taken on the
task of supporting the Chief of Staff, Joint Support Service, in exercising his single manager responsibility.
• Armaments = Establishment of Initial
Operational Capability
= Herstellen
der Einsatzreife
Service Use
= Maintenance
of
••Rüstung
Operational
Capability
Nutzung = Erhalten
der Einsatzreife
Single Manager Responsibility
• Materialverantwortung
• Entwurf
desofPlanungsvorschlages
Preparation
JSS Planning Proposal SKB
for Bundeswehr
Plan
zum Bundeswehrplan
Responsibility
• Planning
Planungsverantwortung
• Radfahrzeuge,
Quartiermeistermaterial,
Wheeled Vehicles,
Quartermaster Materiel,
Ammunition,
Ordnance Materiel,
POL
Munition, Feldzeugmaterial,
Betriebsstoff
Kunden
inOrganisational
allen
Organisationsbereichen
der Streitkräfte
FürAll
alle
Organisationsbereiche
derArmed
Streitkräfte
For
Areas of the
Forces
Joint
Support Service
Streitkräftebasis
Army
Heer
Heer
During the planning and introduction phase of
new materiel, the ”Armaments“ Branch represents the users‘ – e.g. the field units‘ – interests. Meanwhile, this branch has been acting as the
custodian activity on the side of the user for almost half of the new initiatives and current armaments projects of the Bundeswehr.
•
CPM
Management
• Funds
Titelbetreuung
Use Division also acts as the Joint Support Service
Commissioner for Armaments. He ensures initial
operational capability of the materiel designated
for field use.
Air
Force
Luftwaffe
Lw
Navy
Marine
Marine
Zentraler
Sanitätsdienst
Bundeswehr
derMedical
Bundeswehr
Joint
Service
ZSan
The ”in-service support managers“ are responsible for maintaining the operational capability of
the materiel within the scope of their responsibil-.
ity, which makes a good third of all Bundeswehr
materiel. The ”Depot Maintenance Planning“
Section establishes logistic requirements plans.
The ”Bundeswehr Planning“ Section takes the
lead in contributing to the Joint Support Service‘s
planning proposal for the Bundeswehr Plan.
The ”Budget Item Management“ Section supports the division‘s armaments and service use
tasks by participating in drawing up and execut-.
ing the project-related budget. In addition, the
procurement of quartermaster and ordnance
materiel, wheeled vehicles, ammunition, and
POL is accomplished as an interservice function
on behalf of the entire Bundeswehr.
Today, Bundeswehr Logistics Office acts as the armaments/service use office of the Joint Support
Service, the IT support facility of Bundeswehr logistics and the Federal codification bureau. Being
a competent service provider, it is firmly estab-.
Division II – Codification
lished in the logistic system of the Bundeswehr.
Division II ”Codification“ adds materiel data to
At its three locations at Sankt Augustin, Siegburg databases. Codification contributes to mini-.
and Wilhelmshaven, military and civilian person- mising the number of different items of supply on
nel work as competent service providers for the the national and international level. It simplifies
Bundeswehr – but also as partners for trade and data maintenance in materiel management and
industry.
enables adequate procurement. In addition, the
affiliation of an item of supply to a system component, device, component group or set is recorDivision I – Armaments/ Service Use
ded. This work contributes to simplifying logistic
Division I ”Armaments/Service Use“ performs support within the Bundeswehr and interop-.
the single manager tasks for the Vice Chief of erability among NATO forces.
Staff, Bundeswehr and Chief of Staff, Joint Support Service. This responsibility comprises both
commonly used items of the armed forces and
those products exclusively used by the Joint Support Service. The Chief of the Armaments/Service
Bundeswehr Logistics Office
Branch V – ”Special Materiel Data“
In addition to the codification of special materiel,
the primary tasks of the ”Special Materiel Data“
Branch encompass the preparation of more indepth information in the fields of ”ammuni-.
tion management“ and ”handling of hazardous
substances“. This information is, inter alia, published in item of supply catalogs on ”chemicals“,
”pharmaceutical products“, ”ammunition“, in
the hazardous goods database, in the ammunition instructions for all organisational areas as well
as in the ammunition data sheets.
Division III – DP Support Fundamentals and
Division IV – Logistics DP Support
Divisions III and IV are responsible for DP support
in the field of logistic processes. This concerns
the fields of fundamentals, technical logistics
management, logistics management, movement
and transport, materiel management, operations
management and maintenance/production. A
central service centre has been established for
user support. With the pooling of logistic DP support we intend to achieve synergetic effects and
provide effective support to SASPF introduction.
The SASPF Program Organisation Branch
Rather than an isolated software project, the introduction of SASPF in the Bundeswehr means
the implementation of an entire organisation
philosophy. This branch of Bundeswehr Logistics
Office provides support to the areas of logistics,
armaments, infrastructure and environmental
protection as well as to some elements of the
central area.
Director
JSS Commissioner
for Armaments
Controlling
Deputy Director and
Chief of Staff
Division I
Armaments/
Service Use
Division II
Codification
Division III
DP Support
Fundamentals
Division IV
Logistics
DP Support
Staff
Element
Branch V
Special
Materiel
Data
Headquarters
SASPF
Program
Organisation
Branch
Streitkräftebasis
29
Bundeswehr Military Intelligence Centre (BMIC)
The Bundeswehr Military Intelligence Centre is
the Bundeswehr‘s central agency for assessing,
analysing and estimating the situation in other
countries throughout the world. The BMIC is
also responsible for assessing the military security situation of the Bundeswehr forces at home
and abroad. It is therefore the key instrument of
the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
when it comes to the production of intelligence
information for the Bundeswehr. The Centre thus
plays the most important part in the information
management of the Bundeswehr‘s Military Intelligence Organisation.
and constantly providing intelligence updates on
the current situation in these areas. For exercises
and operations, the BMIC also detaches mili-.
tary intelligence support elements to the national
force contingents.
The BMIC provides input for national interministerial crisis management and international early
crisis detection. It supports the Federal Ministry
of Defence in dealing with policy matters, the
concept and the further development of the.
military intelligence organisation as well as
with issues of arms control. It also operates the.
JASMIN data processing system and centrally
conducts the course-based training for military
intelligence personnel.
The Bundeswehr Military Intelligence Centre is administratively subordinate to the Joint
Support Command and, as regards joint tasks, is under the
The Bundeswehr Military Intelligence Centre technical control of the Federal
directs the intelligence collection and recon- Ministry of Defence. As a renaissance assets of the armed forces - especial- sult of intensified cooperation with the Federal
ly those of the Strategic Reconnaissance Com- Intelligence Service the tasks of the BMIC will be
mand - by establishing intelligence requirements. divided up. The Strategic Reconnaissance ComIt renders substantial support for the planning, mand will take over a great share of the Centre‘s
preparation and execution of Bundeswehr oper-. current task areas.
ations abroad by producing appropriate basic
information materials on the deployment areas
Controlling
Director
Headquarters
Deputy Director
& Chief of Staff
Coordination
Section
Coordination
Section
Intelligence
Production
Division
Operations
Support
Division
ADP Support
Centre
Military
Intelligence
School
Plans, Policy,
Doctrine &
Concept Branch
Ground Forces
Intelligence
Group
Situation Centre
System
Management
Branch
Training Section
Information
Management
Branch
Air Forces
Intelligence
Group
Security Analysis
Branch
Maritime Forces
Intelligence
Group
German
(National)
Intelligence
Database
Regional
Analysis Group
Special Operations
Branch
Imagery
Intelligence Branch
Liaison Offices
German
Element,
JAC
System
Organisation
Branch
1st Training Wing
2nd Training Wing
Data
Management
Branch
ADP
Support Centre
Operations
Branch
Streitkräftebasis
31
Strategic Reconnaissance Command
The Strategic Reconnaissance Command is an
integral part of the Bundeswehr‘s Military Intelligence Organisation. It has comprehensive reconnaissance capabilities at its disposal, which can
be employed globally, at long range and directly in a given deployment area. space-based imaging reconnaissance component
for worldwide reconnaissance at its disposal. The
system is to reach its initial operational capability
in late 2007. To accomplish its tasks, the Strategic Reconnaissance Command controls three subordinate
Thereby, the Strategic Reconnaissance Command SIGINT commands, each of which has one stacontributes significantly to the assessment of the tionary COMINT battalion and one mobile EW
situation and to the planning, preparation and battalion under its command. SIGINT Command
conduct of operations by German armed forces. 92, which is currently stationed in Trier, will be
It thus supports the capacity of the national po- headquartered in Daun in the 2010 structure.
litical leaders to make judgments and decisions Furthermore, the Bundeswehr SIGINT Technical
and to take action. Administrative control of the Analysis Centre, providing technical and scientific
Strategic Reconnaissance Command lies with the support, and the Bundeswehr Strategic ReconJoint Support Command whereas technical con- naissance School, where training is conducted
trol is exercised by the Federal Ministry of De- for military and civilian staff from the command‘s
fence. area of responsibility, are subordinate to the Strategic Reconnaissance Command. With this conBundeswehr Strategic Reconnaissance School
Flensburg
centration of forces and means, the requirement
SIGINT command 91
for information as up-to-date, consolidated and
Bramstedtlund
COMINT battalion 911
detailed as possible to prepare political and military decisions – especially regarding armed forces
operations – was met. At the same time, missionEW battalion 912
essential close interlocking of all satellite-based
Berlin
Nienburg
reconnaissance components as well as of sta-.
EW battalion 932
tionary and mobile signal intelligence forces and
Strategic
Frankenberg
assets was ensured. Command and control of all
Rheinbach
Reconnaissance
Command
Gelsdorf
forces and assets is exercised by one command in
Space-Based
Daun
a uniform and process-oriented manner.
Hof
Reconnaissance
Bundeswehr SIGINT
Division
Trier
Technical Analysis Centre
As of 2007, the Strategic Reconnaissance ComSIGINT command 93
mand will also perform the task of ”Coordi-.
Donauwörth
nating
measures being effective in the informa-.
SIGINT command 92
tion space (Info Ops)“ and will have the capabiliEW battalion 922
ty of ”Computer Network Operations“ (CNO).
In addition to the classical command and con-.
trol tasks, the headquarters of the Strategic Reconnaissance Command also performs specialist
tasks that are organisationally reflected in the four
specialist divisions ”Ops/G3 Division“, ”Concepts
and Development Division“, ”Analysis and Ops
Support Division“ and ”Space-based Reconnaissance Division“ as well as in the ”Cryptanalysis“
and ”Systems Control“ elements
With the high-resolution radar satellite programme SAR Lupe (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
the Bundeswehr will for the very first time have a
Strategic Reconnaissance Command
In its current structure, the area of responsibility
(AOR) of the Strategic Reconnaissance Command
comprises a total of about 6300 military and 700
civilian posts. All agencies are staffed with personnel from all three single services. In the future, the Strategic Reconnaissance Command
will take over extensive tasks of the Bundeswehr
Intelligence Centre and will serve as the central
agency of the Bundeswehr‘s Military Intelligence
Organisation.
Commander
Controlling
Deputy Commander
and Chief of Staff
S1
S2
Analysis and
Ops Support
Ops / G3
Concepts and
Development
Space-Based
Reconnaissance
Cryptanalysis
Systems Control
S4
S6
Pay and
Accounting Section
Streitkräftebasis
33
Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service
Geospatial and environmental information (geo-.
information) is time-dependent information on
objects and facts with spatial reference. This
mainly includes data and products from the following areas of earth sciences (in alphabetical order): Biology, ethnology, remote sensing, geodesy,
geography, geoinformatics, geology, geophysics,
geopolitics, hydro-acoustics, hydrography, hydrology, cartography, climatology, meteorology,
ecology, oceanography, photogrammetry.
during the planning and execution of operations.
abroad. This makes the Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service, which pursues an interdisciplinary approach, a modern service provider of the
armed forces. Under the slogan ”geoinformation
from one source“ the Service, with earth science
expertise from a total of 17 scientific disciplines,
contributes to the optimisation of Bundeswehr
operations within the framework of the modified
task spectrum. To possess worldwide, highly accurate geo-.
information constitutes an indispensable basis
for important Bundeswehr capabilities such as
network-enabled operations or targeting. Today,
satellite and unmanned aerial reconnaissance
systems, such as SAR-Lupe, are the focus of inter-.
est among the more than 200 military systems
to which the Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service provides technical support. In addition to the
capability to create our own products, this chal-.
lenge to be able to provide baseline earth science
data worldwide requires broad international cooperation as well as the participation in multinational production programmes.
The Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service has a
workforce of well over 1,800 personnel. 800 of
them are military personnel paying their service
at about 80 locations in Germany and abroad. Due to the high degree of specialisation, there is
a very high percentage of officers or comparable
civil servants and employees.
Organisation and Tasks
The Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office is the
heart of the Service. Its assets, including seven
map depots, are stationed at 13 locations. Its
main locations are Euskirchen, Traben-Trarbach
and Fürstenfeldbruck.
Stationing of the
Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office
Kiel
Hamburg
Neubrandenburg
Bergen
Hannover
Geoinformation has a considerable impact on
political and economic decisions. Modern data
processing assists in pooling, processing and eval-.
uating information derived from different areas
of earth sciences on an interdisciplinary basis. In
March 2003, the Bundeswehr made allowance
for this situation by establishing the Bundeswehr
Geoinformation Service.
Since then, this necessary earth science support has been highly beneficial for the Bundeswehr, both in routine duty and, in particular,
Leipzig
Fritzlar
Euskirchen
Traben-Trarbach
Erfurt
Mainz
Offenbach
Kümmersbruck
Legend
Germersheim
Sigmaringen
München
Fürstenfeldbruck
Surveying/Geology Branch Offices,
Map Depots
Sounding Branches
Training and Education Centre
Main Locations
Liaison Element with the Federal Office
of Maritime Navigation and Hydrography
Organisational Element with the
German Meteorological Service
Streitkräftebasis
35
Within the scope of indirect geoinfo support,
the Office provides the central, mission-oriented
capabilities to produce, update and supply all
required geoinfo products to support the Bundeswehr. Key element of the support services is
the consistent extension of the interdisciplinary
geoinfo database. It serves as the basis for the
production of all geoinfo products.
Sciences. It cooperates with the German Meteorological Service to provide technical college
education for the senior meteorological service
and training for a career with the Federal nontechnical weather service.
The Office has deployment forces to provide
direct support for topographic surveys, topo-.
graphic, geological, and area reconnaissance,
collection of aerological data, as well as map and
data support. These forces will be tailored to a
given mission.
Furthermore, Bundeswehr Geoinformation Serv-.
ice personnel are assigned to military headquarters, units and agencies to provide geoinfo advice and collect meteorological data.
With the establishment of the Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service earth science support of the
forces has been strictly oriented towards the new
task spectrum. The interdisciplinary approach ensures that the Service will be able to continuously
offer geoinformation products and services in accordance with the requirements of the user and
the mission.
In order to ensure that the transfer of information
is tailored to user needs, the Office is increasingly
using online resources. In this way, for instance,
on-scene weather forecasts are constantly supported with weather model and satellite data.
With the Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service
Training and Education Centre (BGISTEC) at Fürstenfeldbruck, the Office provides for training
and follow-on training in the geoinfo specialties. This Centre is also used as a training facility of
the Federal University of Applied Administrative
Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office
Director, Bundeswehr Geoinformation
Office (BGIO) and Director,
Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service (BGIS)
Controlling
Deputy Director,
BDIO and Deputy Director, BGIS
Central Services
Directorate
Geoscientific Research.
Application and
Database Directorate
GeoInfo Support Directorate
BGIS Training
and Education Centre
BGIS External
Relations Division
Applied
Geosciences Division
Operations Division
Training and
Education Division
GeoInfo Requirements
Division
Global Issues Division
Operations
Support Division
Transformation and
Development Division
Regions Division
GeoInfo Technology
Systems Centre
BGIS Meteorological
Division with the German
Meteorological Service
Staff Element/Headquarters
Streitkräftebasis
37
Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Centre
Psychological operations have gained in importance due to the deployment of German.
armed forces to all parts of the world. PSYOPS
is an integral part of the conduct of operations. .
PSYOPS forces work with communicative methods. They use print products, loudspeakers, radio broadcasts, TV and video as well as the Internet to exert an impact on target audiences in the
deployment area and influence their attitudes and
behaviour. Another aim is to gain trust and support for the Bundeswehr mission and thus contribute to force protection. The PSYOPS forces boost
forces‘ morale outside Germany by means of the
soldiers‘ radio. Combat camera teams document
Bundeswehr deployments on film and in pictures.
The PSYOPS forces are jointly
organised at the Psychological
Operations Centre (PSYOPS
Centre). Response forces, stabilisation forces and support
forces as well as teaching,
training and development
are strictly orientated on existing operational requirements
and are all in one hand at the.
Centre.
PSYOPS Centre assets are sta-.
tioned at two locations in
the Eifel area and on the.
Rhine river. The General Delius
Barracks in Mayen house the
headquarters as well as the
divisions and sections of the
stationary forces, including the
Teaching Division and the Development Section.
The subordinate PSYOPS Battalion 950 is sta-.
tioned at the Falckenstein Barracks in Koblenz. It
has ten modules at its disposal providing PSYOPS
capabilities in all types of media. These support
stabilisation operations as well as response forces
operations, including operations involving special
forces.
Depending on the operational requirement and
impact request of the force commander and the
prevailing communication situation in the target
audiences, the mobile forces are task-organised
as a PSYOPS Task Force for a given operation. The
forces on the ground are always supported from
the home base in Mayen using the reach-back
concept.
The reach-back concept comprises planning,
academic advice, editorial work, production of
technically complex PSYOPS products and repair
of PSYOPS-specific technology. This may also in-.
clude the New Media capability, which is employed exclusively out of the home base.
Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Centre
PSYOPS measures may only exert influence on
approved target audiences. Possible target audiences are armed forces and security services of
adversary or foreign states, parties to a conflict,
or the civilian population. On principle, public
media, the own civilian population, allied nations and international organisations as well as
own forces are not to be targeted by PSYOPS.
activities.
PSYOPS forces are the mouthpiece of the force
commander. Psychological operations provide
him with the possibility to directly or indirectly publicise his will or intents in an undistorted
manner with means of communication under
his control (radio, TV and video, print products,
loudspeakers, new media). In addition to mili-.
tary skills, intercultural competence, basic editorial knowledge and media technology competence
are indispensable.
Boosting troop morale with radio broadcasts is
another supporting task of the PSYOPS Centre. Assets for this task are available in the Soldiers‘
Radio Section. ”Radio Andernach“ is the soldiers‘
radio, providing German soldiers in the deployment areas with information and entertainment. A 24-hour live programme is produced at the
home base in Mayen and supplemented with
contributions from the respective editorial team
on the ground. It is broadcast in the deployment
areas including greetings and music requests. Sound carriers are also used to provide soldiers
deployed abroad with radio contributions.
Combat camera teams were established at the
PSYOPS Centre in 2001. Seven combat camera
teams produce image-based information covering the deployment areas of the German armed
forces to provide the political and military lead-.
ers of the Federal Ministry of Defence and the
Bundeswehr Operations Command with current,
comprehensive, reliable and timely information. The teams have different levels of readiness and
are capable of deploying to all parts of the world
at short notice in order to transmit videos and
images with their own mobile satellite stations to
Germany.
Commander
Deputy Commander
Controlling
PSYOPS Bn 950
Headquarters
Section
Headquarters
S1
Operations
Division
Ops/Plans
Section
S2
S3
Target
Audience
Analysis Section
Development
Section
Combat
Camera Section
Soldiers'
Radio Section
Teaching
Division
Training
Department
1st and 2nd
Training Wings
S4
S6
Pay and
Accounting Section
PSYOPS
Studies Section
Programme/
Editorial Staff
Section
Media Production
Section
Streitkräftebasis
39
CIMIC Centre
Hardly any other area of the Bundeswehr has
gained as rapidly in importance as civilian-.
military cooperation (CIMIC) abroad. The buildup
of German CIMIC forces has largely been a consequence of the lessons learned during the first
Bundeswehr deployments to the Balkans, where,
in addition to traditional military tasks, new im-
CIMIC capabilities at its disposal. In the meantime,.
CIMIC – as an integral element of every operation – has virtually reached a new dimension of
importance. An operation without command and
control support, without accommodation for the
deployment forces and follow-on supply would
be impossible. The same is true for an opera-.
tion conducted without CIMIC assets. Without.
CIMIC, our forces would neither be aware of
the picture of the civilian situation for their planning and conduct of operations nor would they
be able to liaise with the civilian actors in the.
deployment area.
This new importance has inevitably called for an
optimisation of the available capabilities and a
significantly larger number of personnel. Hence,
the CIMIC task area also needed to be adapted
in the course of the transformation process. The
portant tasks in the CIMIC spectrum had to be core elements of the adaptation process have
carried out. A badly damaged infrastructure, war been the orientation to deployment and the nec-.
refugees, internally displaced persons and those essary continuous orientation to a more and
returning from abroad posed numerous chal-. more rapidly changing security, social and techlenges that went way beyond the establish- nological environment.
ment of a stable security situation. Against this
backdrop, CIMIC Battalion 100 was built up in.
Nienburg on 1 April 2003 as a central element of.
CIMIC operations.
With the increase in commitments of the Bundeswehr in deployments abroad, the demand for
CIMIC personnel and capabilities in the deployed contingents has increased significantly as to
their quantity and quality. Since CIMIC Battalion
100 had been designed as a pure force provider for initial operations, it neither had the necessary sustainability nor the entire spectrum of.
This resulted in CIMIC Battalion 100 being re-.
structured into the CIMIC Centre, which was inaugurated on 4 May 2006. Personnel strength
was boosted from 118 to 287 posts. As a result
of close interlocking of personnel assets partic-.
ularly with those of the territorial commands,
approx. 500 active soldiers will be available for
CIMIC operations upon completion of the re-.
structuring process. In addition, 650 reservists are
planned to work as ”technical specialists“ at the
future Land commands. This will make it possible
from case to case to take advantage of qualifica-
CIMIC Centre
tions that are not or not sufficiently available in
the Bundeswehr. The CIMIC Centre is administratively subordinate to Military District Command
I and technically subordinate to the G5 of the
Joint Support Command.
When deployed, the CIMIC Centre‘s personnel
maintain important connections to the civilian
environment, coordinate activities with it, record
and take into account the civilian situation, as-
sist in supplying the civilian population, and thus
contribute to the stability in the deployment area. Hence, CIMIC forces are directly instrumental in
force protection. Within the framework of na-.
tion building, their tasks also include contributions to the establishment of state structures
for long-term stabilisation by means of an inter-.
ministry approach. Training and instruction of
personnel is another domain of the CIMIC Centre. CIMIC basic training as well as technical and
function-related instruction for all CIMIC personnel are conducted centrally as part of predeployment training. The decisive advantage is that
training takes place where there are people who
have gained experience on operations and where
lessons learned are evaluated.
Upon completion of the restructuring process,
the Bundeswehr will have in the CIMIC Cen-.
tre a highly professional and sufficiently staffed.
battalion-size unit tailored to support the response and stabilisation forces across the entire
CIMIC task spectrum.
CIMIC Centre
Commander
Controlling
Support
Headquarters
Operations
Response forces
Operations
Stabilisation forces
1X
5X
Training/
Exercises/
Documentation
Streitkräftebasis
41
German Element, CIMIC Centre of
Excellence (German Element, CCOE)
In 2000, the NATO Military Committee asked the
member states to establish international units for
Civilian-Military Cooperation (CIMIC). Against
this backdrop, six nations (Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic and
Norway) set up the CIMIC Group North (CGN)
which was to serve NATO as operational CIMIC
headquarters to exercise command and control
over CIMIC Support Units assigned during de-.
ployments. Based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the North Atlantic Council grant-.
ed the CGN the status of a NATO International
Military Headquarters early in 2003. It was inaugurated in Budel, the Netherlands, in
April 2003. Subsequently, the CGN supported a
number of NATO exercises and NATO operations,
e.g. ISAF in Afghanistan, by providing CIMIC experts. In addition to supporting the military mission, the Centre has also been used as an international CIMIC training facility.
Since the CGN took up its duties, the underlying
CIMIC policy has been further developed: At the
NATO headquarters, organic CIMIC capacities
had meanwhile been established, as a result of
which the use of CGN as an independent CIMIC
HQ to exercise command and control over as-.
signed CIMIC Support Units has become unlikely. On the other hand it became clear that following
the restructuring of the NATO command structure
the new strategic NATO headquarters, Supreme
Allied Command Transformation (SACT), would
urgently need the support of a CIMIC Centre of
Excellence (CCOE).
Hence, it was decided in November 2004 to
transform the CGN into a CCOE on a trial basis. After a trial phase of almost a year during which
the CGN proved its basic capability as a CCOE,
the six founding nations decided in agreement
with SACT and SHAPE on the formal transformation of the CGN into a CCOE. The CGN is expected to be accredited as a CCOE for SACT in
accordance with NATO criteria and granted the
status of an International Military Organisation
under the provisions of Article 14 of the Paris
Protocol by the end of 2006.
In the future, the CCOE‘s main tasks will be to
support SACT in the development/further development of CIMIC at strategic level and to
serve SACT, in addition to the NATO School in
Oberammergau, as the central agency for CIMIC
training. The CCOE will also continue to support
SHAPE by providing CIMIC experts for missions
abroad.
German Element, CIMIC Centre of
Excellence (German Element, CCOE)
The soldiers of the German element of the CCOE
are employed as branch chiefs, CIMIC experts,
CIMIC instructors and support personnel of the
CCOE. Administratively, they report to the Sen-.
ior German Officer, who in turn is subordinate
to the Deputy Commander of the Joint Support
Command. Every two years, the Senior German
Officer also takes turns with the representative
of the Netherlands in occupying the post of commander or deputy commander of the CCOE, respectively.
CIMIC Centre of Excellence
Command Group
Planning &
Control Group
Concepts,
Interoperability &
Capability Branch
Secretariat
Training &
Education Branch
Support
Branch
Streitkräftebasis
43
The Bundeswehr Military Police supports the.
armed forces, the Federal Defence Administra-.
tion, the Bundeswehr Military Legal System as
well as the Chaplain Service. Within the Bundeswehr the force is referred to as the ”Feldjäger.“
In operations abroad, the Bundeswehr Military
Police mainly cooperates with national and multinational civilian and military police forces in
accordance with the
provisions of the respective mandate and
in compliance with
national legislation.
Employed in all operational theatres of the
Bundeswehr as well as
in NRF and EUBG contingents with German
involvement, Bundeswehr Military Police forces deployed abroad have
a task spectrum that ranges from purely national
tasks to multinational MP tasks to police support
tasks if and while regular police forces are unable
to perform them.
As part of its national MP tasks, Bundeswehr Mil-.
itary Police support the respective German contingent in various situations. Besides military traffic control, military law enforcement and general
support, specific security-related tasks place high
demands on the MP members’ ability to act independently, reliably and aware of prevailing risks. They are, among other things, responsible for
close protection of high-risk military personnel in
the operational theatres but also escort civilian
and military visitors of the respective contingent. Supporting investigations as requested by disciplinary superiors, scenes of crime officers and investigators of the Bundeswehr Military Police help
to solve criminal offences and violations of mil-.
itary order and discipline committed by military
personnel. Trained drug and explosives detection
dog teams of the Bundeswehr Military Police
render valuable support where special capabilities as well as security-related and military law
enforcement are required.
While performing their wide-ranging tasks,
Bundeswehr Military Policemen and women co-.
operate closely with foreign MP forces as well as
national and international civilian police. With activities such as passenger and baggage screening
operations, they work towards the observance
of international flight safety regulations and in
specific situations they help provide safety and
security aboard Bundeswehr aircraft. Given the appropriate mandate, the Bundeswehr
Military Police can also perform or support police
tasks in operational theatres if and while regular
local police are not available in sufficient numbers. These tasks include, for example, establishing and maintaining public law and order, mon-.
itoring and/or enforcing curfews, conducting
searches, arrests, and investigations of particular
offences, supporting the investigations of international agencies such as the ICTY (International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), preventing acts of looting or protecting particularly
threatened individuals.
With its particular capabilities, the Bundeswehr
Military Police also has a major part in crowd and
riot control tasks of the armed forces.
In addition, the Bundeswehr Military Police provides training support and shares experience with
local military and civilian police for the development of new structures and operational procedures.
Under the current Bundeswehr structure, the
overall mission of the Military Police at home and
abroad is performed by eight MP battalions with
a total of thirty-one companies. Bundeswehr.
Locations of MP
stations in 2010
MP 151
5
Eckernförde
4 MP
4 MP
152
3
Bremen
2
MP
5
2 MP
252
3 MP
151
152
2
MP
152
4
5 MP
4 MP
3 MP
3 MP
351
Storkow
Leipzig
351
2
MP
351
251
252
Erfurt
Rotenburg a. d. Fulda
2
MP
251
5
Mainz
251
Zweibrücken
MP
452
Veitshochheim
3 MP
452
4 MP
3
MP 451
Roding
4 MP
2 MP
451
Amberg
Bruchsal
452
452
Ulm
München
Sigmaringen
2
Murnau
5
MP
451
350
350
Berlin
Postdam
Burg
252
MP
351
MP
251
Koblenz
5 MP
MP
Neubrandenburg
Munster
4 MP
Bonn
3 MP
MP
Augustdorf
Hilden
2
Hagenow
Hannover
Münster
252
MP 151
Hamburg
5 MP
Wilhelmshaven
151
3
152
MP 451
As part of their traffic control duty, the Bundeswehr Military Police is responsible for supervising
and controlling military road traffic. For accident
prevention, Bundeswehr Military Police personnel warn civilian motorists of military convoys or
oversize loads, check Bundeswehr vehicles - especially those used for transports of hazardous
goods - and attend the scene of traffic accidents
involving Bundeswehr personnel or vehicles.
4 MP
350
The Bundeswehr Military Police also performs
crime prevention functions for the good and ben-.
efit of the Bundeswehr or allied forces. In close
cooperation with military organisers and region-.
ally responsible police authorities, for instance,
they provide security at major events, exhibitions, displays and other public activities of the
Bundeswehr. Moreover, they provide ceremonial escorts for special events and security escorts
to protect transports
of cash and/or ammunition. As a contribution to area and point
defence, Bundeswehr
Military Police personnel conduct checks in the
vicinity of Bundeswehr premises and take part
in the protection of installations and premises of
allied armed forces.
Military Police duties inside and outside Germany’s
borders are discharged 24 hours a day from national or multinational MP stations specifically
assigned to the respective area of operations. If required, reservists can support active Military Thanks to its manifold operational experience,
Police personnel in performing their tasks.
conceptual and structural adaptations as well as
strict orientation of training towards operational
As part of military law enforcement, Bundeswehr needs, the Bundeswehr Military Police - under
Military Police forces are mainly employed as pa- the umbrella of the Joint Support Service - has
trols. Outside military premises they support all developed an increasingly broad spectrum of
disciplinary superiors in monitoring, maintaining military police capabilities to meet national and
and restoring military discipline and order, and multinational requirements; it is well prepared to
act as points of contact to soldiers and civilian cope with future tasks.
agencies alike to render assistance as necessary. Their helpline for civilian authorities and soldiers
is available 24h a day under 01803-90-99.
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Family Support Organisation
To support the families and dependants of de-.
ployed soldiers, the Bundeswehr has established
a country-wide professional Family Support Organisation. Prior to their deployment, the soldiers
indicate in writing by which Family Support Cen-.
tre (FSC) they wish their dependants to be cared
for. The Family Support Centre approaches the
dependants even in the run up to the operation.
The Family Support Organisation helps soldiers
on operations to concentrate on their military
tasks. They know that the problems and worries
of their dependants at home are taken care of. For this purpose, the Bundeswehr entertains a
Central Family Support Agency (CFSA) in Potsdam as well as thirty-one Family Support Centres
FSC
Kiel
Neubrandenburg
FSC
FSC
FSC
Schwerin
Wilhelmshaven
Faßberg
FSC
FSC
FSC
Delmenhorst
Rheine
Postdam
FSC
Hannover
FSC
Magdeburg
FSC
Augustdorf
Unna
FSC
Storkow
FSC
FSC
Euskirchen
Berlin
CFSA
FSC
FSC
The Centres serve as a 24-hour-a-day point of
contact for the dependants in all social and welfare matters and establish links to other support-.
ing agencies. Moreover, they organise events for
the families to get to know each other and be
informed on the situation in the area of operations. As part of the ”Bundeswehr Support Network“, the Family Support Organisation closely
cooperates with the Bundeswehr Social Service,
the Bundeswehr Chaplain Service as well as various volunteer organisations.
Warnemünde
FSC
FSC
FSC
Leipzig
FSC
Erfurt
Frankenberg/E.
Frankenberg/S
FSC
Lahnstein
Veitshöchheim
FSC
Wiesbaden
FSC
Kümmersbruck
Saarlouis
FSC
FSC
FSC
Donauwörth
Speyer
FSC
FSC
Bogen
Sigmaringen
FSC
FSC
München
FSC
Bad Reichenhall
FSC
Kempten
staffed with specially trained full-time personnel. These are supported by about fifty Family Support
Points which are set up by the units contributing
personnel for operations abroad and staffed with
part-time personnel as required.
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Major Training Areas (MTAs)
Major training areas in Germany are intended
to contribute to meeting the training requirements of the German armed forces in a mission-.
oriented manner. Besides the Bundeswehr, the
allied armed forces stationed in Germany and
other allied partners, too, are welcome to utilise
the MTAs. Suitable firing and exercise facilities are
provided within the framework of a network for
training assets in a way that is oriented towards
requirements, results, and costs. In this context,
military goals, laws and regulations, proceeding
in accordance with environmental requirements,
and making sustainable use of available re-.
sources deserve special consideration.
qualified training is provided across the entire
spectrum of general operational tasks, and
readiness is established as a part of operational
training.
The Wildflecken-based joint Combat Simula-.
tion Centre, the Combat Training Centre on the
Altmark Training Area but also the Bundeswehr
UN Training Centre in Hammelburg are the most
efficient training areas because of their realistic
training facilities. In the coming years, the exercise capacities are to
be realigned. The utilisation of MTAs Altengrabow, Ohrdruf, Lübtheen, Schwarzenborn, EhraToday’s training parameters and increased ex-. Lessien and Daaden will be restricted, and exerercise activities call for spacious firing and exer-. cise activities on these MTAs will predominantly
cise areas and state-of-the-art ranges that permit take place without live ammunition.
composite land force operations to be conducted
but also exercises in the extended spectrum of
tasks with and without live or practice ammunition.
In parallel with these changes, some MTA headquarters will be reorganised under one roof. Train-.
ing area headquarters (plus the respective.
branches) will be established:
The MTAs differ with respect to their sizes and
qualities. However, they all fulfil the training requirements of the units by ensuring that
different arms can interact in exercises up to
the brigade-level,
units, especially of the Response and Stabilisation Forces, are prepared for their operational
tasks in the extended and more likely spectrum
of tasks,
in Bergen for the training areas Bergen,
Munster, Ehra-Lessien, and Lübtheen,
in Klietz for the training areas Klietz, Alten- grabow, and Lehnin,
in Wildflecken for the training areas Wild- flecken, Hammelburg, Schwarzenborn, and Ohrdruf, and
in Baumholder for the training areas Baumholder and Daaden.
Major Training Areas (MTAs)
Major training areas
in the 2010 Structure
Putlos
Todendorf
Lübtheen
Munster
Bergen
Ehra-Lessien
Jägerbrück
MD I
Wittstock
Klietz
Lehnin
Altengrabow
Nordhorn
Haltern (GBR)
Senne (GBR)
Schwarzenborn
MD III
MD II
Daaden
Heuberg
Grafenwöhr (USA)
CMTC Hohenfels (USA)
Legend
Training Area where Live Ammunition is Used
Training Area where No Live Ammunition is Used
Oberlausitz
Ohrdruf
Wildflecken
Hammelburg
Baumholder
Air-To-Ground Firing Range
Altmark
Army Combat
Training Centre
MD IV
Siegenburg (USA)
Military District (MD)
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Bundeswehr Operations Command
Since the end of 2002, the Bundeswehr Operations
Command has planned and conducted all Bundeswehr operations in a joint and combined mode.
When German armed forces are deployed in
a multinational environment, the Bundeswehr
Operations Command – from its headquarters at.
Schwielowsee-Geltow near Potsdam – performs all
tasks that remain a national responsibility. These typ-.
ically national tasks include the deployment, supply
and support of the operational contingents.
Each contingent commander will receive his tactical missions from the respective multinational commander. The Bundeswehr Operations Command
then has to check whether such orders to German
troops are lawful and in compliance with the mandate of the German Bundestag. The Bundeswehr
Operations Command is the national operational
level of command, which day by day translates the
guidelines of the Federal Ministry of Defence into
concrete military action. It is thus the Bundeswehr
authority that issues directives to the commanders
of deployed contingents and ensures unity of command. The command and control of Special Forces
is an exception because – at the operational level
– it is the responsibility of Joint Command Special
Operations.
In December 2001, only a short time after it had
been set up, the Bundeswehr Operations Com-
Chain of Command
for Operations
Strategic
Level
Operational
Level
Tactical
Level
mand carried out national command tasks as part
of “Operation Enduring Freedom” (OEF, for instance at the Horn of Africa) as well as within the
framework of the “International Security Assistance
Force” (ISAF) in Afghanistan. In 2002, the Bundeswehr Operations Command was entrusted with
the missions in the Balkans, which had already become established by that time, and with UNOMIG,
the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia.
The conceivable spectrum of missions and tasks
Federal Minister
of Defence
State Secretary
Chief of Staff,
Bundeswehr
National Command
Authorities,
Agencies and Offices
Commander,
Bundeswehr
Operations Command
Multinational
Headquarters
Contingents
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the Bundeswehr Operations Command may have
to perform is richly diversified, ranging from peacemaking and peacekeeping measures to humani-.
tarian assistance abroad, the most recent example
of this being the assistance provided in the wake of
the 2004/2005 tsunami in Southeast Asia. The current international involvement of the Bundeswehr
focuses on peace stability operations in the Balkans
and in Afghanistan.
In addition, the Bundeswehr Operations Command commands and controls the German troops
employed within the framework of UN operations. Apart from the United Nations Observer Mission
in Georgia (UNOMIG) already mentioned above,.
these missions include the United Nations Mission
in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), the United Nations
Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and
the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS).
In addition, the Bundeswehr Operations Command
makes a significant contribution to the conceptual
development and implementation of guidelines for
Response Forces available at short notice such as
the NATO Response Force (NRF) and the EU Bat-.
tle Groups (EU BGs). The Bundeswehr Operations
Command has at its disposal a nucleus staff for a
Potsdam-based EU Operation Headquarters (OHQ),
which is to command and control EU operations at
the military-strategic level. In the event of an activation of the OHQ, this nucleus staff – already during
the multinational build-up – will ensure a swiftly
available initial planning and command capability
by drawing on reinforcements from partner nations
and additional German personnel.
The structure of the Bundeswehr Operations Command reflects the two guiding principles of operational command and control: joint and combined. When Germany acted as lead nation for ISAF III,
for example, a Potsdam-based ISAF Operations and
Coordination Centre (IOCC) commanded and controlled the entire mission in a combined manner. Liaison officers from different nations are part of
the Bundeswehr Operations Command.
For operational purposes, the Commander, Bundeswehr Operations Command, reports to the Chief of
Staff, Bundeswehr. In terms of administrative con-.
trol, the Bundeswehr Operations Command, which
is part of the Joint Support Service, is subordinate
to the Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr, and Chief
of Staff, Joint Support Service.
In Germany, the Bundeswehr Operations Command
Commander
Deputy
Commander
Chief of Staff
J1
J2
J3
J4
J5
J6
Legal Advisor
(LEGAD)
Public
Information
Office (PIO)
Controlling /
Cost &
Performance
Responsibility
Senior
Medical
Officer
Operational
Management Section
J7
J8
J9
J Med
OHQ
Nucleus Staff
does not command and control any troops other
than its own HQ and Signal Battalion. Therefore,
with respect to the preparation and execution of
missions as well as post-mission activities, it close-.
ly cooperates with the command headquarters
of the Joint Support Service, the Army, Air Force,
Navy, and the Bundeswehr Joint Medical Service. In
their capacity as force providers, these commands
are responsible for the preparation, equipment and
provision of qualified contingents in accordance
with the guidelines of the Bundeswehr Operations
Command. At a certain point in time, usually when
the troops deploy to the theatre, the Commander
of the Bundeswehr Operations Command will assume command authority. After the mission, this
responsibility will be handed back to the force providers.
It is important that the soldiers earmarked for deployment prepare conscientiously for their tasks
and receive a thorough training. The Bundeswehr
Operations Command contributes its lessons learn-.
ed to the training. Another task of the Operations
Command is to provide adequate morale, welfare
and recreation (MWR) support both to the deployed troops and to their families at home. The family
support function is an integral part of the activities
of the Bundeswehr Operations Command because
it is from here that the family support centres across
Germany are provided with the most important.
pieces of information.
Unified command has proved to be the right approach because it is in this way that all assets are
combined for success in one place, i.e. at the Bundeswehr Operations Command. The Command
Meanwhile, some 700 soldiers and civil employees constantly maintains close cooperation with allies
are working at Henning-von-Tresckow-Barracks and partners. Multinationality is a value in itself,
near Potsdam. They come from all services and. and, on all operations, such cooperation alone alareas of the Bundeswehr because the Command ready suffices to send out signals of stability and
uses a joint approach in all functional areas, thus hope.
capitalising on the broad expertise of personnel
from all of the armed forces. So far, more than 152.000 Bundeswehr soldiers
have served on operations abroad. The formidable
demands made on them in international missions
and the strain of such deployments call for suitable
structures to be implemented and state-of-the-art
equipment to be provided. In this area, the Bundeswehr Operations Command has to assist the troops
through exercises, evaluation and development activities.
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Joint Command Special Operations
administrative control over the forces attached
to it for operations. The Command, in addition,
performs those operational tasks that continue to
be a national responsibility even after the above
troops have been placed under operational con-.
trol of a multinational commander.
The Command makes an important contribution
(nucleus staff) in the event that Germany as a
nation should assume primary responsibility for a
Combined Joint Forces Special Operations Component Command Headquarters (CJFSOCC HQ). In addition, the Command plans and carries out
joint exercises for the Special Operations Network and contributes to the development of the
Special Forces and their operational network.
On 15 April 2005, a separate operational-level
command for the command and control of Special Forces operations was activated: Joint Command Special Operations. Joint Command Special
Operations is headquartered in Henning-von-.
Tresckow Barracks at Schwielowsee near Potsdam in the immediate vicinity of the Bundeswehr
Operations Command.
Worldwide, continuous and joint: These are the
criteria that determine the way in which the
Command will in the future command and control all operations of Bundeswehr Special Forces,
using an optimised command organisation. In
this command organisation, the Army‘s KSK
Special Forces and Navy combat divers will interact with other forces from the so-called “Special
Operations Network”. The Joint Command Special Operations per-.
forms a number of tasks. It plans and conducts
all operations of the Special Operations Network
outside the German territory. It also exercises.
In the case of our allied partners, too, an independent command organisation has often proved
successful. This type of command organisation
takes account of the fact that – in terms of time
and space - Special Forces operations are usually conducted independently of the operations of
other forces. Furthermore, the conditions under
which Special Forces operate are often notice-.
ably different from those of other operations. What is more, strict secrecy requirements must
be met so as not to jeopardise the success of.
these operations, which are sensitive and risky
for the most part and whose success often depends to a high degree on the element of sur-.
prise. The military has put these facts in a nutshell: “Command and control of Special Forces
only by Special Forces command and control fa-
Joint Command Special Operations
cilities.”
Already in its basic organisation, the Joint
Command Special Operations has joint NATO-.
standardised staff divisions at its disposal. The
HQ of the Command, for example, is structured
in a way that is compatible with the structure of
similar national command headquarters as well
as multinational NATO and EU headquarters.
achieving its transformation goals.
The new organisation has implemented the.
forward-looking and consistently joint approach
to the command and control of Special Forces
operations and – for the first time – places the
Bundeswehr in a position to assume the command and control of special operations using
multinational command structures.
The adoption of this new structure, takes the
Bundeswehr another significant step towards
Germany has notified NATO and the EU that it is
prepared to shoulder the main responsibility for
Commander
Chief of Staff
J1
J2
J3
J4
J5
J6
J7
JMed
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Response Forces Operations Command
On 7 October 2005, the Ulm-based Response
Forces Operations Command emerged from HQ
II (GE/US) Korps.
prevention and crisis management operations
across the entire spectrum of Petersberg tasks.
Among other things, the Response Forces Op-.
erations Command is expected to deploy to the
theatre at short notice and perform command
tasks there as Force Headquarters (FHQ) of the
European Union (EU), even with little prepara-.
tion. If the Council of the European Union adopts
a resolution, the FHQ must then be able to as-.
sume command and control of an EU Battlegroup
(EUBG) in theatre within 10 days.
It is true that the demand for readiness is less
Since 1 July 2006, the Response Forces Opera- stringent in the case of larger-scale EU-led op-.
tions Command has been part of the Joint Sup- erations conducted in accordance with the Euro-.
port Service. In terms of administrative control, pean Headline Goal 2010 and involving formathe Response Forces Operations Command is tions up to division or even corps size. However,
subordinate to the Vice Chief of Staff, Bundes- as a result of having to command and control dif-.
wehr, and Chief of Staff, Joint Support Service. ferent component commands at the tactical.
During operations, the deployable HQs set up by level, the complexity of requirements to be met
the Response Forces Operations Command re- at the operational level increases.
port to the Bundeswehr Operations Command.
If instructed correspondingly, the Responses
Regarding the special tasks of concepts and de- Forces Operations Command will also carry out
velopment and the responsibility for joint exercises, the Response Forces Operations Command
is directly attached to the Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr.
The core capability of the Response Forces Op-.
erations Command is the operational command
and control of joint combined operations using
the capability to conduct network-enabled.
tasks of the Headquarters of the German Contingent Commander in Theatre. Furthermore, it
will provide individual augmentees to the Bundeswehr Operations Command, if necessary.
operations. In its capacity as an operational-level
headquarters, the Response Forces Operations
Command - within the framework of NATO, the
EU and/or other multinational organisations and
after a corresponding assignment has been effected - plans and conducts international conflict
The Response Forces Operations Command coordinates the entire exercise planning of the armed
forces. The planning, execution and evaluation
of joint exercises take place in accordance with
the guidelines laid down by the Armed Forces
Staff and in coordination with the command
headquarters of the services. In cooperation with
the Bundeswehr Operations Command, the Response Forces Operations Command provides
national elements for joint targeting of NATO
and the EU.
Response Forces Operations Command
The Response Forces Operations Command con- Operations Command is particularly suited to
tributes to the further development of Response shaping transformation in a tangible manner.
Force capabilities and initially also to stabilising
joint network-enabled operations. In pursu-.
ance of this task, it coordinates its activities with
the Bundeswehr Operations Command and the
competent offices/ command headquarters of
the services/military organisational areas.
In addition, as part of its functions, the Response
Forces Operations Command is to contribute
to Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E). Because of its direct involvement in
exercises and operations, the Response Forces.
Deputy
Commander
Commander
Political Adviser
(POLAD)
Controlling
Deputy Commander
and Chief of Staff
Senior Medical
Officer
Press and Information
Centre (PIC)
Legal Adviser
(LEGAD)
Coordination
Deputy Chief
of Staff - Operations
Military
Intelligence/
Geoinformation
Affairs
J3
Operations
J5
Operational
Planning
J7
Training/
Exercises
Deputy Chief
of Staff - Support
J9
CIMIC
J ENG
Engineers
J1
Personnel
J4
Logistics
J6
Command
Support
J8
Administration
J Med
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Armed Forces Office
The Armed Forces Office is a major command au-.
thority and as such is part of the command organisation of the Joint Support Service (JSS).
In 1959, the Armed Forces Office was set up as Bundeswehr Office (Bundeswehramt) from different
military agencies of the Bundeswehr and elements
of the Ministry of Defence. In the years from 1975 to 1979, the Armed Forces Office acquired the status of a major command in what was then called
the Central Military Agencies of the Bundeswehr. In
2001, a turning point occurred as a result of reor-.
ganisation measures in the context of the further
development of the armed forces. Since then, the
Armed Forces Office has been a mainstay of the
Joint Support Service, where – as a central installation − it is in charge of joint training in the Joint
Support Service and the further development of
the JSS. With the 2001 restructuring, additional offices, schools, and academies were attached to the.
Armed Forces Office.
JSS
(Joint Support Service)
Bundeswehr
Operations
Command
- Planning and
Conduct of
Operations
(Abroad)
Armed Forces
Office
- Command and
control of Offices,
Centres, Schools,
NATO Agencies,
Military Attaché
Offices
- JSS Development
- Organisation of
the JSS
- Joint Training in
the JSS
Joint Support
Command
- Command and
control of Troops
in the Task Areas
- Planning and
Conduct of
Operations
(at Home)
- Specialist Tasks
+ Logistics
+ Command and
Control Support
+ Bundeswehr
Military Police
Affairs
+ NBC Defence/
Protection Tasks
+ Civil-Military
Cooperation of
the Bundeswehr
In terms of administrative control, the Armed Forces
Office is in charge of numerous subordinate agencies and performs official tasks for the Joint Support Service as well as specialist tasks for the entire
Bundeswehr. Besides the classically structured HQ,
which is responsible for general matters pertaining
to administrative control, the specialist divisions and
independent sections of the Armed Forces Office
that perform specific functions are of particular im-
portance. Furthermore, the Armed Forces Office
includes some elements set up temporarily to fulfil
special and mostly comprehensive individual tasks.
The Armed Forces Office, which is directly subordinate to the Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr, and
Chief of Staff, Joint Support Service, carries out the
key tasks listed below:
personnel, leadership development and civic education (Innere Führung), and public relations,
security, organisation, training,
crisis response and preparedness planning,
controlling to include cost/performance responsibility, and
planning and introduction of user-oriented stand-.
ard software for the entire Joint Support Service
(standard application software product families
– SASPF).
The Armed Forces Office‘s area of responsibility
includes about 160 agencies and similar organisa-.
tional elements worldwide that carry out their own
tasks in the areas of personnel, training, science,
research, military representation abroad, and joint
specialist tasks.
In terms of administrative control, the agencies subordinate to the Armed Forces Office include:
the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College,
the Student Affairs Sections at Bundeswehr
Universities,
the Leadership Development and Civic Education
Centre,
the Bundeswehr Transformation Centre,
the Bundeswehr Academy for Information and
Communication,
the Bundeswehr Sports School,
the Bundeswehr Military Police and Headquarters
Service School,
the Bundeswehr Command Support School,
the Bundeswehr Logistics School,
the Bundeswehr Central Office for Military Motor
Vehicle Affairs,
the Joint Band of the Bundeswehr, the Bundeswehr School of Military Music, and the Bundeswehr Big Band.
Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western.
Infrastructure Staffs (the latter to be set up as of
1 April 2007),
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Armed Forces Office
Commander,
Armed Forces Office
Military History
Research
Institute
Directors of
Military Affairs at
the Bundeswehr
Universities
Bundeswehr
Command and
Staff College
Central Office
for Military
Motor Vehicle
Affairs
Commissioner
for Special
Bundeswehr
Tasks in the New
Länder
Joint Band of
the Bundeswehr
Big Band of the
Bundeswehr
German Armed
Forces Command
United States /
Canada
Southern
Infrastructure
Staff
Eastern
Infrastructure
Staff
Western
Infrastructure
Staff1
German
National Military
Representative
to SHAPE
Senior Officer /
Military Element,
Bundeswehr IT
Office
17
Senior German
Officers/
German
Elements
61 Military
Attaché Offices/
2 Military
Attaché Offices
Reinforcements
Small
Agencies
Delegations and
Elements of the
Federal Ministry
of Defence
the Bundeswehr School of Dog Handling, and
other minor agencies.
Besides, there is the administrative control of
Agencies of the Armed Forces Office,
Europe
Senior German Officer / German Element
JFC HQ Brunssum, NLD
Senior German Officer / German
Element JWC, Stavanger, NOR
Senior Officer with the Permanent
Mission of the Federal Republic of
Germany to the European Union
Brussels, BEL
FMOD Element with the Permanent Mission of the
Federal Republic of Germany to the Secretariat of the
Franco-German Defence and Security Council
Paris, FRA
CC-Land HQ Heidelberg, DEU
NMR (GE) SHAPE
Mons, BEL
JFTC Bydgoszcz, POL
Element CC-Mar, HQ Northwood, GBR
NS SHAPE Oberammergau, DEU
FMOD Element with the Permanent Mission of
the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD
Wien, AUT
German HQ Section, France
Paris, FRA
German Military Element, Geneva
Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
Geneva, CHE
JALLC Lisbon, POR
JHQ Lisbon, Oeiras, POR
CC-Air HQ IZMIR
Izmir, TUR
CC-Land HQ Madrid, ESP
Element NADEFCOL, Rome, ITA
Senior German Officer/German Element CC-Mar Naples, ITA
Senior German Officer/German Element JFC Naples, ITA
NCISS, Latina, ITA
USA and Military Attaché Offices
Senior Officer with the Permanent
Mission of the Federal Republic of
Germany to the United Nations
New York, USA
German Armed Forces
Command US / CA
Reston, USA
Senior German
Officer
HQ SACT
and USJFCOM
Norfolk, USA
Accreditation
(in Progress)
Secondary Accreditation
(in Progress)
Military Attaché Offices,
Currently Vacant
No Accreditation
61 Military Attaché Office
2
Military Attaché Office Reinforcement
180 Military personnel in the Military Attaché Service
under administrative control of the Armed Forces
Office
Bundeswehr
Institute of
Social Sciences
Bundeswehr
Transformation
Centre
Bundeswehr
Verification
Centre
Northern
Infrastructure
Staff
1 from 1 April 2007
approximately 60 military attaché offices worldwide,
German elements of multinational headquarters,
and
the German Armed Forces Command, USA and
Canada (GEFORCOM US/CA).
The Armed Forces Office is responsible for the
further development of the Joint Support Service
in the context of the Bundeswehr‘s transformation
process. This responsibility comprises the development of conceptual foundations for joint tasks including joint training.
The Headquarters
The functions of the HQ arise from the many different agencies and organisational elements mentioned above that are subordinate to the Armed
Forces Office in terms of administrative control.
The special challenges of administrative control
ensue from the pronounced heterogeneity of the
agencies subordinate to the Office. These agen-.
cies range from prominent training installations
such as the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College and the Leadership Development and Civic Education Centre to minor agencies with just a few.
employees.
However, technical control and administrative con-.
trol are often performed by different agencies. Armed Forces Office
So, for instance, the military attaché offices are
subordinate to the Ministry of Defence in terms of
technical control, while the Armed Forces Offices
exercises administrative control.
Furthermore, in the principal staff functional areas
Logistics and Command and Control Support but
also in the Administrative Division, some responsibilities are fulfilled in a way that encompasses the
entire Joint Support Service. This fact applies to IT
security throughout the Joint Support Service, for
instance.
In addition, the Armed Forces Office renders support services to agencies directly subordinate to the
Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr, and Chief of Staff,
Joint Support Service. These agencies include the
Bundeswehr Universities, the Bundeswehr Personnel Office, and the Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel
Office.
Another special feature of the HQ worth pointing
out is the fact that the Senior Medical Officer provides medical care for all German troops of the
Armed Forces Office‘s area of responsibility serving
abroad anywhere in the world and also assists them
in settling the costs of medical treatment received
outside Bundeswehr facilities.
The Specialist Divisions
The specialist divisions of the Armed Forces Office,
which are to be regarded as the “functional nucleus
of the Armed Forces Office”, have the specialist orientation called for by their task area.
In order to satisfy the need of the public for information, the “dissemination of information” is of
central importance. In pursuance of this task, all
technical devices available today are being used.
In accordance with a functional directive issued by
the Press and Information Office, Division I of the
Armed Forces Office, the Bundeswehr Information
and Media Centre, performs central technical coordination, control and implementation functions in
the fields of PR, media, and central troop information and assists with information activities aimed at
meeting personnel requirements.
From a multitude of different flows of information, modern armed forces must be able to sift out
and process - in a way that is both timely and in
accordance with the requirements of the situation
- pieces of information that are relevant to the decision maker in terms of command and control. The
aspect of economic efficiency of thoughts and actions is of critical importance in this context.
Division II, Controlling/Central Cost Accounting,
among other things performs the basic work for the
Executive Group Controlling Staff and assists the organisational area of the Joint Support Service with
the introduction and application of Controlling by
laying the groundwork and rendering other kinds
of support.
By availing itself of standard cost accounting, profitability calculations and off-budget activities, Division II works out responses to a great variety of business management issues for the entire Bundeswehr
and/or creates important data bases with the aid of
the cost guideline, which is continuously updated.
Next to media in a general sense, Division III - in its
capacity as the Bundeswehr Scientific and Technical Information Centre - serves as the Bundeswehr
point of contact for extensive technical information
and the provision of technical literature, studies and
current service regulations as well as regulation-type
pamphlets on the Bundeswehr Intranet. Furthermore, this Division assists the Ministry of Defence with
the further development of Bundeswehr service regulations and performs archiving tasks.
Concomitant with the changes in the Bundeswehr,
Division IV has gained special importance. It is responsible for policy matters pertaining to the training in the Joint Support Service and the other services as far as the armed forces are concerned (e.g.
training courses, force commanders, distance learning, computer-aided training (CAT), training of military driving instructors). In addition, this Division is
in charge of sports in the Bundeswehr and the promotion of top-level sports by the Bundeswehr.
Division V serves as the point of contact for all matters of military infrastructure in the Bundeswehr
below MoD level and exercises the technical con-
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trol of Infrastructure Staffs North, East and South.
The branch focuses on the timely and requirementoriented provision of buildings, installations and facilities for the armed forces at home and abroad and
on devising fundamental principles of infrastructure
in all organisational areas. When the Bundeswehr
conducts operations abroad, Division V coordinates
the deployment of specialist personnel and advises
on the development of a deployment infrastructure.
Division VI is the highest non-ministerial authority
for the Further Development of the Joint Support
Service (WE SKB). To the extent required, this Branch
– as a central element – controls and coordinates
the Further Development of the Joint Support Service in all task areas and capability categories by
laying down guidelines for Levels 2 and 3 of
WE SKB. These levels are established at the subordinate commands/centres and some schools of the
Joint Support Service with a mission orientation and
a training orientation, respectively. The Division is in
charge of devising the joint conceptual foundations
for the organisational area of the Joint Support Service and, in pursuance of this task, sets targets for
the capabilities to be attained by the Joint Support
Service, analyses current military capabilities and, by
identifying capability gaps, makes a major contribution to an optimised ascertainment of requirements.
Another key task of the Branch – albeit a temporary
one – concerns the task of “effectively operating in
the information space” (information operations) in
the Bundeswehr.
Division VII, Organisation of the Joint Support Service, and responsible for all organisational matters of
the Joint Support Service, represents another central
support element of the Armed Forces Staff. The principal tasks of the branch include planning detailed
structures for units and agencies of the Joint Support Service, devising and/or dealing with realisation
plans and organisational foundations for the adoption of new structures, participating in stationing
analyses, and managing the introduction of SASPF
(standard application software product families) in
the Joint Support Service. In addition, the Branch is
tasked with developing and/or dealing with personnel structures in the fields of Military Police, signal
intelligence (SIGINT), psychological operations, Bun-
deswehr Geoinformation Affairs, and the coordination of personnel requirements with other requesting authorities of the Joint Support Service.
The independent Military Psychology Group is in
charge of providing technical quality assurance in
the Bundeswehr Psychological Service, laying the
groundwork with respect to personnel psychology,
advising organisations from the point of view of
military psychology, and performing applied military psychology. The term mentioned last specifically
comprises the control of technical preparations for
deployment as well as psychological support of and
post-deployment activities for German force contingents abroad. Organisational psychology provides
military leaders with contributions towards an analysis of the “internal situation” of the armed forces.
The independent Reservist Work section, develops
guidelines as regards contents and organisation
for voluntary reservist work that is independent of
assignment and controls the implementation of
this work. The Inspector General of AssignmentIndependent Voluntary Reservist Work in the Bundeswehr supervises these activities on behalf of the
Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr, and Commissioner
for Reservist Matters.
The Security Officer at the Armed Forces Office
identifies risks in connection with the personnel
security investigations for military personnel, reservists and applicants for military careers with regard
to sensitive duties. It is up to him to take decisions
on suggestions put forward by the Military Counterintelligence Service that involve a rejection of candidates for sensitive jobs in the armed forces.
The Director of the Military Music Service performs
technical control of his area, advises the Ministry of
Defence on military music matters, and deals with
policy issues of the Military Music Service. Furthermore, he is in charge of planning the training in his
field and managing major military music events.
Altogether, the HQ and specialist divisions of the
Armed Forces Office represent a highly diverse organism that carries out many different tasks and
responsibilities. Therefore, if this complex organism
is to function smoothly, coordinated teamwork and
Armed Forces Office
groundwork performed by technically qualified staff
are imperative.
Armed Forces Office – Central Responsibilities
Within the Joint Support Service, the Armed Forces
Office is responsible for decisively controlling training processes as the agency in charge of the joint
further development, organisation and training of
the Joint Support Service.
In its capacity as a mainstay of the Joint Support Service, the Armed Forces Office – as the technically responsible lead agency − performs the tasks listed
below:
Laying down the outline directives for a standardised deployment-oriented training in the different
services/military organisational areas in coordination with the Bundeswehr Operations Command
and the Joint Support Command in line with the
Bundeswehr Concept,
monitoring pre-deployment training plus any
follow-up that may be required,
supporting post-deployment activities, and
developing operational concepts in the Joint Support Service in such a way as to integrate lessons
learned on deployment.
Controlling
Legal Adviser
(LEGAD)
Bundeswehr
Logistics School
Bundeswehr
Command Support
School
Bundeswehr Military
Police and
Headquarters Service
School
Bundeswehr
School of Dog
Handling
Bundeswehr
Sports School
Leadership
Development and
Civic Education
Centre
Bundeswehr
Academy for
Information and
Communication
Senior Officer /
Military Element of
the Federal Office of
Languages
German Element,
George C. Marshall
Center
German Element,
NATO School
The Way Ahead
In future, the Armed Forces Office will increasingly have an important say in the shaping of the
“New Bundeswehr” and, in particular, bring its
influence to bear on the further development of
the Joint Support Service. To enable the Armed
Forces Office to take up the challenges that can
already be anticipated and to successfully deal
with them as a “service provider” in the Bundeswehr, the new organisation of the Armed Forces
Office and its area of responsibility outlined below will have to be fleshed out.
Commander, Armed
Forces Office
Deputy Commander, Commander Bundeswehr
Schools & Director of Joint Training
Division IV,
Training
In keeping with the requirement that the armed
forces should be capable of network-enabled
operations, the sub-concept “Bundeswehr Information Operations (InfoOpBw)” assumes particular significance because information operations are part of every military operation and therefore play an important part in the entire mission
spectrum. Information operations contribute to
achieving information superiority as a prerequisite for command and control superiority.
Chief of Staff
Public
Information
Officer
Director of Joint Support Service
Development and Chief of Specialist
Divisions
G1
G2/G3
Division I,
Bundeswehr
Information and
Media Centre
Division II,
Controlling / Central
Cost Accounting
Division III,
Bundeswehr Scientific
and Technical
Information Centre
Senior Officer /
Military Element of
the Federal Academy
of Defence
Administration and
Technology
G4
G6
Division V,
Infrastructure
Division VI,
Development
Division VII,
Organisation
Bundeswehr
School of Military
Music
Administrative
Division
Pay and Accounting
Section
Military
Psychology Branch
Inspector General of
Voluntary Reservist
Work in the
Bundeswehr
Director of the
Military Music Service
Senior Medical
Officer, Armed Forces
Office
Headquarters
Armed Forces Office
Security Officer
Cooperation with the
East/ International
Cooperation Section
Central Affairs
Section
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Bundeswehr Command and Staff College
grammes, and the provision of academic training
support. More than 600 participants attend the
Hamburg-Blankenese-based institution day by
day, and over 2,000 officers a year take part in
more than 60 different courses and seminars.
Approximately 100 of these officers are foreigners from 50 nations who are actively involved in
life at the College. So far, more than 2,000 foreign officers from over 105 nations have attended courses at the Command and Staff College.
The Hamburg institute offers a wide range of
training programmes.
The field-grade officer qualification course is earmarked for all regular field-grade and medical
officers of the Bundeswehr. Promotion to fieldgrade officer is contingent on passing this course.
The two-year national general staff/admiral staff
course with officers from NATO member states
and selected EU countries and the ten-month
international general staff/admiral staff course
take place at the College, too.
The Bundeswehr Command and Staff College is
the highest-level military training facility of the
Bundeswehr. In terms of administrative control,
the College is subordinate to the Armed Forces
Office. The Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr, and
Chief of Staff, Joint Support Service, is responsible for education and teaching contents.
The mission of the Command and Staff College
focuses on the following: Training and advanced
training of professionally experienced officers to
prepare them for assignments as field-grade officers. The guiding principle is to train modern
field-grade officers who – on the basis of a sound
knowledge of their subject and a value-oriented
attitude – perform their jobs efficiently while, at
the same time, self-confidently representing the
Bundeswehr in society. For the most part, officers
from all services/organisational areas receive joint
instruction.
The Command and Staff College maintains close
links to comparable armed forces schools all over
the world through mutual visits, exchange pro-
Furthermore, in keeping with the concept of
“lifelong learning”, a number of three-day to
three-week courses and seminars are provided in
a modular system.
Instruction is intended for participants from Captain/Navy Lieutenant up to and including General/Admiral and − in order to realise an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary approach – for
Bundeswehr Command and Staff College
civil participants in some parts.
The Command and Staff College has organised
its teaching contents in five subject areas:
States, Societies, Military Affairs
Capabilities and Structures of Armed Forces
Bundeswehr Routine Duty
Command and Operations of Armed Forces
Individual Leadership Competence.
Eight departments are responsible for teaching
at the Command and Staff College. The Army,
Air Force and Navy teach the leadership theory of
their respective Service. The Medical and Health
Service Department provides instruction in the
doctrine of the Medical Corps and in aspects of
preventative health care with reference to the
deployment of armed forces. The department
Command and Operations of Armed Forces
teaches joint and combined operations and, on
behalf of the Ministry of Defence, devises foundations for Bundeswehr operational planning
and operations in the entire spectrum of tasks.
The Security Policy and Strategy Department
deals with principles and topical considerations
on security policy and military strategy. The department Command and Management provides
instruction in general leadership theory in order
to improve the social and methodical competence of the students.
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The Social Sciences Department focuses on the
way the officer sees himself within the network
of relations and activities that exists among the
armed forces, the state, and society.
In addition, the departments plan and conduct
further education seminars in their principal
fields. In addition, since March 2000, the Exercise and Training Centre has permitted computerassisted exercises to be carried out on some
200 interconnected computers available for this
purpose.
The Command and Staff College has a faculty
of more than 110 military and 15 civil lecturers.
Some 350 visiting lecturers each year complement
the curriculum. With its 230 military and civilian
personnel, the College HQ ensures the smooth
operation of the Command and Staff College in
terms of organisation and administration.
Commandant
Course
Division
Faculty
Division
HQ Staff
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Bundeswehr Academy for
Information and Communication
The Academy is the central installation of the
Bundeswehr for the training and advanced training of command and specialist staff in the fields
of press/PR and recruitment.
In 1994, the Academy, which initially had been
set up in Waldbröl in 1990, moved to Strausberg
in the Land of Brandenburg just outside the German capital. Besides conducting training and advanced training, the Academy develops scientific
foundations for information activities while, at
the same time, serving as a forum of dialogue
on issues of security policy and the Bundeswehr
with the national and international public. In pursuance of these tasks, the Academy also makes
a contribution to military cooperation with Alliance partners and partner states. The close
proximity to the world
of politics and the media in Berlin gives an
important impetus to
science and teaching at
the Academy and to its
dialogue with people
from all walks of life.
The advanced training department of the Academy is subject to the technical supervision of the
Press and Information Office of the Ministry of
Defence. Recruitment is conducted under the
specific technical responsibility of the Personnel,
Social Services and Central Affairs Directorate of
the Ministry of Defence. In terms of administrative control, the Academy is subordinate to the
Armed Forces Office. In terms of function, it is
divided into the two key areas Teaching/Training
and Research/Development. In addition, there is
the service sector with the library, pay and accounting section, and the HQ.
The qualification and training programme provided in the field of Teaching/Training is tailored
to the requirements of command personnel, fulltime and part-time PR officers, youth officers and
youth NCOs, officers and senior NCOs advising
on military service, and media-engineering staff.
The press specialists covering Bundeswehr mis-
sions abroad are also trained here. Top executives
from the higher commands, authorities, administrative agencies and ministries attend three-day
media and communication training programmes
at the Academy to obtain an individual competence profiling. Participants in the General Staff
and Admiral Staff officer courses at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, too, regularly
avail themselves of the Academy’s programmes.
The Research/Development section lays the academic groundwork for the information activities
of the Bundeswehr, assisting with contributions
to all fields of information work, in particular
with reference to communication in security and
defence policy.
Another task area of this section is the intense
promotion of the exchange of views with multipliers in society. In several forums of dialogue,
up to 2,000 participants attend seminars, conferences and symposiums each year.
The soldiers and civilian staff of the Strausberg
HQ /support section perform the tasks of personnel management, security, organisation, logistics,
and signal communications/IT support for the
Academy and to some extent for all agencies of
the Strausberg Campus. In addition, they assist
with the running of courses, seminars and conferences by providing accommodation, lecture
rooms, conference rooms, and study aids or by
rendering logistics, audio-visual or IT support
Director
Headquarters
Support Section
Deputy Director
and Chief of Staff
Teaching /
Training
Research /
Development
Technical Information
Centre (Library)
Pay and Accounting
Section
The Technical Information Centre (library) is the
largest military-scientific library of the German
armed forces. Its stock comprises approximately
one million books and documents by now, some
of which date back to the sixteenth century.
Bundeswehr Transformation Centre
As part of his responsibility for the development
and realisation of the overall concept of military
defence, the Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr, controls the transformation of the Bundeswehr. This
continuous forward-looking process of adapting
to the changing framework conditions aims to
enhance the operational readiness of the Bundeswehr. It is in particular this task area that determines the mission of the Bundeswehr Transformation Centre, which is headquartered in
Strausberg. The Centre does the groundwork for
the Ministry of Defence and – across the boundaries of organisational areas – coordinates the
activities of all authorities and commands in a
complementary approach in order to combine
central and decentralised contributions to the
transformation process.
The mission of the Centre essentially comprises
three interrelated components: Assisting with
the transformation process and the Bundeswehr
planning and, in addition, evaluating the lessons
learned from operations and exercises. In addition, the Centre performs tasks in the area of
managing studies that are not subject-restricted.
The Bundeswehr Transformation Centre analyses
and assesses changes within and outside the
Bundeswehr and gives impetus to its transformation. The Centre lays the scientific groundwork
by devising interministerial strategic future development analyses in order to develop conceptual guidelines and objectives. Its tasks also include
continuously analysing the security environment
and developing prognoses.
In this context, Concept Development and Experimentation (CD & E) is an important iterative
method of supporting transformation, which is
directed at obtaining innovative solutions and reviewing and implementing them in a joint manner. In this field, the Bundeswehr closely cooperates with other nations and NATO. In addition,
“Operations Research” and “Modelling and Simulation” are being used as additional analyticscientific aids for further developing the required
knowledge of methodology. The Bundeswehr
Transformation Centre also relies on services and
institutes of study made available by the aca-
demic sector and trade
and industry. In order
to assist with the Bundeswehr planning and
capability analysis, the
Bundeswehr Transformation Centre advises
the Ministry of Defence
on drawing up and further developing conceptual foundations and assumes responsibility for the
set-up and updating of the IT-based capability
posture of the Bundeswehr.
It assists with the analysis of armed forces resources and cooperates on the development of
the Bundeswehr plan by primarily applying the
methods of Operations Research and Modelling
& Simulation.
The Centre contributes to the analysis of experiences in the field of jointness the Bundeswehr
and international allies and partners have gained
from operations and exercises. It suggests options for action that are to be fed into the transformation process of the Bundeswehr and contributes to proposals for the improvement of joint
foundations of operations. In terms of technical
control, the Centre is subordinate to the Ministry
of Defence, while the Armed Forces Office exercises administrative control.
Director
Deputy Commander /
Chief of Staff
Division I
Transformation
of the
Bundeswehr
Division II
Concept Development
and Experimentation
Division III
Operations
Research & Modelling
and Simulation
Headquarters
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Leadership Development and
Civic Education Centre
Since 1956, the Leadership Development and
Civic Education Centre in Koblenz has developed
into an important establishment of central professional development for Bundeswehr executive
personnel of different levels of command. It does
important groundwork while, at the same time,
serving as a didactic institute and a venue of military, social, economic and political meetings,
communication and conferences.
This is where battalion and company commanders, first sergeants and public figures take
an open-minded look at the Bundeswehr leadership philosophy and exchange their experience
during training courses and seminars. Commissioned and non-commissioned officers of allied
armed forces, but also members of armies from
all over the world receive information on the
practical application of Innere Führung, i.e. on
leadership, civic education and the integration
of the Bundeswehr into the concept of justice
maintains good relations with academies and
schools of other government organisations at
home and abroad.
The mission of the armed forces – contributing to
international conflict prevention and crisis management within the framework of operations
abroad and peace missions – makes new demands on leadership development and civic
education. The leadership training provided at
the Centre, which teaches military superiors to
meet the special requirements of a given deployment area, is extremely important.
By conducting more than 350 different continuation training programmes in Koblenz, at the
Strausberg branch and in the units, the Leadership Development and Civic Education Centre
imparts expertise to more than 14,000 Bundeswehr members as well as to many other groups
in society.
Director
Controlling
Deputy Director
and Chief of Staff
Pay and
Accounting
Section
Chief,
Headquarters
Section
and law. Multipliers of various important social
groups such as theologians, educationalists, employers and members of trade unions receive basic information on security and defence policy as
well as insights into the fields of application of
Innere Führung. All this contributes to immediately understanding and analysing current developments in society and within the Bundeswehr
and to implementing the knowledge gained for
the internal organisation, leadership, education
and training within the armed forces.
The Leadership Development and Civic Education Centre continues to play the leading role in
a network for research and tasks concerning all
issues of Innere Führung. Moreover, the Centre
Division 1
Concepts, Basic Research
Leadership Development
and Civic Education Network
Project Coordination
S1
S4
Technical
InformationCentre
Mail Room and
Military Manuals
Centre
S3/ S2
Situation Centre and
Conference Support Desk
DP / Classroom
Monitoring System
Graphics and
Reproduction Centre
Advanced Training
Technology / CAT
Division 2
Leadership
Morale, Welfare and
Recreation (MWR)
Division 3
Civic Education
Division 4
Constitutional, Military
and International Law
Military Discipline
Division 5
(Strausberg)
Bundeswehr Verification Centre
In April 1991, the Bundeswehr Verification Centre entered into service at the Geilenkirchenbased Selfkant Barracks north of Aachen. In
terms of administrative control, the Verification
Centre is subordinate to the Armed Forces Office, while the Ministry of Defence exercises technical control.
Verification is the control of armed forces, arms
and military activities as agreed among states by
carrying out random on-site inspections or using
other means of surveillance. Owing to such active inspection activities, members of the Bundeswehr Verification Centre travel as far as Central
Asia and Vladivostok by land and air, respectively.
Also, the Centre accompanies all foreign inspections in Germany within the framework of passive implementation.
Generally, the Centre ensures that the rights and
duties arising for the Federal Republic of Germany from international agreements on arms con-
trol, security and confidence building, disarmament, and non-proliferation are exercised and/or
fulfilled.
About two thirds of the missions the Bundeswehr Verification Centre has conducted so far
were carried out abroad. Such missions call for
a high level of expertise, strength of character,
and diplomatic skills on the part of the Centre‘s
staff.
By evaluating its verification missions, the Centre
regularly contributes to the Federal government‘s
picture of the security situation. In
addition, the Centre does the conceptual groundwork regarding the
further development of arms control
measures and assesses changes suggested by other states.
Further tasks of the Verification Centre include
the central documentation of arms control aspects within the Federal Ministry of Defence area
of responsibility and the provision of expert advice on all implementation matters. Cooperating
with verification organisations of other states
and providing training and follow-on training for
arms control personnel constitute important activities of the Centre, too. The Centre‘s spectrum
of tasks also includes media operations, information activities, PR, the preparation and conduct of national and international exercises, and
practical training projects.
Director
Controlling
Deputy Director
Chief of Staff
S1
S 3/2
S4
S6
Pay and
Accounting
Section
Division 1
Central Arms
Control Tasks
Division 2
Regional Conventional
Arms Control
Division 3
Confidence-Building
Division 4
Cooperative Aerial
Observation
Division 5
Global Arms and
Proliferation Control
Section 1
Central Policy
Planning
Section 1
Evaluation
Planning
Section1
Evaluation
Planning
Section 1
Evaluation
Planning
Section 1
Arms Transfers
Ammunition
Section 2
Country Assessment
International
Cooperation
Section 2
Mission
Conduct
Section 2
Mission
Conduct
Section 2
Mission
Conduct
Section 2
Nuclear Arms Control
Delivery Means
Section 3
Sensor
Operation
Section 3
Biological / Chemical
Weapons
Section 3
Information
Management
Documentation
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Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences
In 1974, the Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences emerged from the Academy for Education
in the Armed Forces (Wissenschaftliches Institut
für Erziehung und Bildung in den Streitkräften).
In 1995, the Institute, which had initially been
stationed in Munich, moved to Strausberg in
the Land of Brandenburg where it makes up the
Strausberg Campus with other agencies from
the Leadership Development and Civic Education
Network.
The Institute of Social Sciences is a ministerial
research institution of the Federal government,
which pursues social science research for the
Bundeswehr on behalf of the Federal Ministry of
Defence. It is the central facility for social science
research with reference to the military.
The Institute is responsible for military-related
empirical research, for developing pertinent fundamentals and decision-making tools, and for
making them available for the fulfilment of ministerial tasks. The work done by the Institute is
geared towards the knowledge and support requirements of the Federal Ministry of Defence
and the armed forces and is integrated into national and international science structures and
networks.
The principal tasks of the Institute include applied military-related social science research and
the required basic research in military sociology.
The internal organisation of the armed forces
and macro-sociological questions pertaining to
“The Bundeswehr and Society” and “The Purpose and Function of Armed Forces” are the
fields of research the Institute is involved in.
The Institute’s research activities include the following levels of analysis: “International System”,
“National System and Society”, “Military Organisation”, and “The Soldier as an Individual”.
The subject areas, which are significant now and
will continue to be significant in future, centre
in particular upon the foreign missions of the
Bundeswehr, the introduction of control tools of
business management into the Bundeswehr, the
prevailing conditions of multinational force struc-
tures and military integration, and “Women in the
Armed Forces”. For this reason, various shorterterm projects are correspondingly grouped to
meet current knowledge requirements.
The research results are usually published in different leaflets and books of the Institute. These
results do not merely fulfil the function of the
Institute as an advisor to the political and military
leadership but also contribute to scientific discussion in the scientific community and the development of the social sciences and arts.
In terms of administrative control, the Institute
is subordinate to the
Armed Forces Office,
while the Federal Ministry of Defence exercises technical control. A director and professor are at the helm of the Institute. Two project directors assist the director
of the Institute with all policy matters and the
performance of research activities.
The nucleus staff of the Institute is made up of
fifteen scientists from different fields of social
science. For research projects, project groups are
set up according to the task force principle and
temporarily assigned to the two Project Areas. In
terms of project-specific and general activities,
these research groups are assisted by elements of
the Project Areas and Planning & Organisation,
respectively.
Director
Controlling
Planning and
Organisation
Project Area I
Project Area II
Plans Officer
(field-grade)
Project Director
Project Director
Organisation
Officer
(field-grade)
S3 Sergeant /
Org Sergeant /
DP Org Sergeant
Editor
Translator
Clerk
Project
Support
Project
Support
Research Assistants
for Project Directors
I and II
7 Scientists
(Civil Servants)
8 Scientists
(Civilian Employees)
Military History Research Institute
The Potsdam-based Military History Research
Institute is a competent point of contact for all
questions pertaining to military history. As a central agency of the Bundeswehr, it does research
into German military history as an integral part of
general history. In pursuance of this task, the Institute takes into account the interrelation among
the military, the state, politics, society, law, culture, the economy, science and technology in an
international context. Promoting the teaching of
history in the armed forces constitutes the second important mission of the Military History Research Institute.
Basic research on military history, which currently focuses on German military history of the
twentieth century, is among the central tasks of
the Institute. The history of the two world wars,
the Bundeswehr as part of NATO, and the East
German National People’s Army as part of the
Warsaw Pact are the principal subjects of this research.
The Institute promotes the teaching of history in
the armed forces by providing state-of-the-art
teaching media and touring exhibitions. In this
way, the Military History Research Institute makes
a contribution to the way the Bundeswehr sees
itself and is instrumental in shaping the awareness of history in the armed forces.
Within the framework of operational support,
the Institute provides historical orientation on
theatres abroad. Furthermore, it exercises technical control of the museums of military history in
Dresden and Berlin-Gatow. The Dresden-based
Museum of Military History of the Bundeswehr
presents German military history in an overall
context of history from the beginnings to the
present time. Appropriate mention is made of
the foreign armed forces on German ground after 1945 and the military history of the former
East German states, in particular Saxony, which
are now part of Germany.
The Air Force Museum of the Bundeswehr in BerlinGatow presents the history of military aviation
and air warfare in Germany from its beginnings
to the present time and integrates it into an overall context of history. This includes the presentation of air campaigns against Germany conducted
by opposing armed forces in the World Wars and
the presence of foreign armed forces on German
ground after 1945. Both museums are receptive
to future military and political developments.
The Military History Research Institute provides
expert opinions and
reports on military
history for the armed
forces and civil authorities, assists and
advises lecturers and
instructors on military
history at the Bundeswehr officer schools
and academies and,
in addition, closely
cooperates with the
Potsdam-based Chair of Military History, the only
one of its kind in Germany. In terms of administrative control, the Military History Research Institute is subordinate
to the Armed Forces
Office, while it reports to the Federal
Ministry of Defence
with respect to joint
specialist tasks.
The Military History
Research Institute is
made up of two academic divisions. A total of about 35 historians work at the Research
Division and the Training, Information, Specialised
Studies Division, which are headed by a civilian
scientist and a military officer, respectively. With its editorial department, the
Institute has its own
publishing
house,
and its inventory of
about 240,000 books
makes it the largest
library that specialises
in military history in
the German-speaking
countries.
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Bundeswehr Command Support School
port personnel. Furthermore, in addition to instructing members of the C3I services (Principal Staff Functional Area 6) in their functions,
the School trains all users of commonly introduced technical C2 means. In the training of
the latter, special emphasis is also being placed
on operations-oriented additional training.
The Bundeswehr Command Support School was
set up on 1 October 2006. It emerged from the
Signals College and Army Specialist School for
Electronics Technology .
The Command Support School is not just an organisational amalgamation of training capacities
that were already available in the services but
as a harmonised new cross-service approach.
This approach, which takes account of the new
prevailing conditions (e.g. the Ordinance of the
Federal Government on Further Vocational Training in the Field of Information and Telecommunication Technology (Verordnung über die berufliche Fortbildung im Bereich der Informationsund Telekommunikationstechnik)), involves a
fundamental modernisation of training courses
and contents. The idea behind all this is to put
the communications and electronics services staff
of the armed forces in a position to cope with the
challenges of the Information Age, in particular on
operations and under the conditions of networkenabled operations.
The Bundeswehr Command Support School fulfils common and cross-service training functions
in the entire field of command support.
The School essentially performs the three tasks
listed below:
It is the central training installation for the joint
training of the Bundeswehr’s command sup-
In the Bundeswehr Technical School for IT, Officer Candidates of the Officer Specialist Service
of the Army, the Joint Support Service, and the
Air Force as well as in some establishments of
the Navy and the Bundeswehr Joint Medical
Service, the Command Support School trains
military personnel for professions in the fields
of electrical engineering and computer science
that are recognised in civilian life.
T hrough its Development Division, the School
is responsible for development in the fields of
command support and all-arms signal communications. With respect to the further development of the C3I services, the School provides
input to the single service offices.
Bundeswehr Command Support School
The Bundeswehr Command Support School is
one of the forward-looking joint projects carried
out as part of the transformation of the Bundes-
wehr. In future (i.e. in the target structure), the
School will be garrisoned at the Pöcking-based
General Fellgiebel Barracks on Lake Starnberg.
Commandant
Staff Council
Controlling
Chief of Staff
School Headquarters
Section S1
Technology /
Protection
Section S2
Teaching /
Training Division
Support Division
Training Department A
Training Department B
Training Department C
Pay and Accounting
Section
1 Training Wing
IT Officer Bundeswehr
/ C3I Services / S6
4 Training Wing
7 Training Wing
Section S3
Cash Office
Section S4
Accountant
2nd Training Wing
IT Officer JSS /
Comms Officer
Section S6
th
st
3rd Training Wing
C3I Services /
IT Security / Crypto
Special Branch
Instructor Group
Central Training Affairs /
Course Planning / Control
Training Objectives Development and Evaluation
th
Technical Media
Centre
Command, Control and
Information Systems (C2IS)
5th Training Wing
SATCOM
8th Training Wing
Command and Control Means
Maintenance
Log Control Section
6th Training Wing
9th Training Wing
Motor Pool
Management
Information
Processing/Programming
11th Training Wing
10 Training Wing
Information Transmission
11 Training Wing is slated
for disbandment as of 30
September 2009.
Headquarters Section
Stock Control
Network Administrator,
Radio WAN
Senior NCO Training Course/
Specialist Training / Radio
Development Division
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
th
Information
Processing/VAN
Section 4
th
Bundeswehr IT School [Until 1
October 2006 called Signals College
and Army Specialist School for
Electronics Technology]
Section 5
Computer-Assisted
Training (CAT)
ITU [International
Telecommunication Union]
Provision of Training
Equipment
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Bundeswehr Logistics School
The Garlstedt-based School, which is subordinate to the Armed Forces Office, has been part
of the Joint Support Service since July 2005. On
1 October 2006, it was reorganised to become
the Bundeswehr Logistics School. It is the central
joint logistics school of the Bundeswehr and a
multinational single point of contact for the development of logistics doctrine.
The Bundeswehr Logistics School provides teaching on logistic procedures and skills in the form of
courses that were harmonised among the Army,
Air Force and Navy. This means that the effectiveness and efficiency of logistics performance
are noticeably enhanced through the application
of the same logistic terms, contents and proce-
dures. In this way, then, the Bundeswehr Logistics
School – in a forward-looking way – does special
justice to the new joint and combined profile of
logistics, both in routine duty and on operations.
The branch-specific training contents and procedures of operational logistics remain under the
responsibility of the Army, Air Force and Navy.
The Logistics School of the Bundeswehr is a central training installation for logistics command
and administrative personnel as well as the central training installation of the Bundeswehr for instruction in logistic support for operations abroad.
The same applies to the nation-wide training of
Hazardous Goods Officers and the training and
advanced training of the entire command and
administrative staff in the field of military motor
vehicle affairs.
The School is essentially made up of the Development Division, the Teaching/Training Division, and the Support Division.
The Development Division:
analyses the current challenges in the task area
of logistics,
d
evises branch and task-specific training directives, also for unit-level training, in close coordination with the agencies of the services,
is involved in the service-specific development
and implementation of joint procedures,
d
evelops service regulations and conducts field
trials,
lays the groundwork for the further develop-
ment of doctrine and the foundations of
organisation, and
c ontributes to the development and design of
SASPF (Standard Application Software Product
Families) and its introduction in the Bundeswehr.
In the instruction groups, the officers, reserve officers, officer candidates, and NCO/senior NCO
candidates pass through different assignment
qualification and follow-on training courses. It is
here that the soldiers of the Army, Air Force and
Navy jointly receive their logistics training and
formation.
The support section ensures that the cycle of
operations at the School runs smoothly and assists with Teaching & Training, including the administrative control of the soldiers.
Bundeswehr Logistics School
Commandant
Staff Council
Controlling
Teaching / Training
Support
Special Branch
Instructor Group
Training Objectives
Development and
Evaluation
Leadership Training in Logistics
Training of Officers / NCOs
Supply / Transportation
Joint Log Unit Stock Control /
Maintenance
2nd Training Wing
6th Training Wing
10th Training Wing
Computer-Assisted
Training (CAT)
Logistics
Data Processing (DP)
Operation Support
1st Training Wing
Training of Command / Specialist
Personnel
Hazardous Goods/ Bulk Supplies
3 Training Wing
rd
5th Training Wing
Training Department C
9th Training Wing
Operational Training / Flight
Operations
Stock Control I
Army / JSS / Navy / Med Service
7th Training Wing
11th Training Wing
Flight Operations
Military Driving Instructors
Officer Training in Logistics
Food Supply Training
Course(s) for Senior NCO/NCO
Candidates at the Competent
Agency
Log Units
Chief of Staff
School Headquarters
Section S1
Technology /
Protection
Section S2
Pay and Accounting
Section
Section S3
Cash Office
Section S4
Accountant
Stock Control
13th Training Wing
Movement / Transportation /
Officially Recognised Automotive
Safety Experts/Examiners
Provision
of Materiel
14th Training Wing
Maintenance
Log Control Section
15th Training Wing
8 Training Wing
th
4th Training Wing
Training Department D
16 Training Wing
Headquarters
Section
th
16th Training Wing
Technical Media
Centre
Logistic Exercise Centre
Development
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 6
Section 4
Section 5
Section 7
Section S6
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Bundeswehr Military Police and
Headquarters Service School
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This training installation, which has been the
Bundeswehr Military Police and Headquarters
Service School since 1 October 2003, was set up
as early as in June 1956 at the Sonthofen-based
officers, officer candidates, NCOs, and students
from many different civil authorities and organisations. The length of courses varies between a
week and a year.
The school complements its central mission of
providing “Course-Based Career and AssignmentRelated Training” in the fields mentioned above by fulfilling the additional functions listed below:
Generaloberst-Beck-Barracks. Today, the School
is the central establishment for the coursebased military police training and the headquarters service training of the Bundeswehr. The harmonised, centralised and joint staff duty training
of the Bundeswehr started here as of 1 January
2007. In the future, the School, which has been
subordinate to the Armed Forces Office in terms
of administrative control since October 2002, will
perform its training mission in Hannover.
Special
training programmes:
Training of the Bundeswehr‘s representatives
for civil-military cooperation.
Training of the Bundeswehr‘s tele-tutors.
Conduct of leadership training for Crowd and
Riot Control (CRC) and the training of CRC
support platoons as a pilot function for all military services .
Career training of top athletes of the Bundeswehr.
Cooperation in the development of modern
training technologies including the development of CAT tutorial programmes.
The School has more than 1,300 places on its
courses. With its more than 70 different types
of courses, the School provides a richly diversified training programme for field-grade officers,
Following its reorganisation and transfer to Hannover, the Bundeswehr Military Police and Headquarters Service School will be excellently placed
for optimising the training offered in terms of
consistent deployment orientation and joint
alignment, also with reference to future challenges.
CU
LE
SU
M
A
Bundeswehr Military Police and
Headquarters Service School
Commandant
Staff Council
Chief of Staff
School Headquarters
Controlling
Support Division
Teaching / Training
Division
Section S1
Technology /
Protection
Special Branch Instructor Group
Section S2
Pay and Accounting
Section
Computer-Assisted
Training (CAT)
1st Training Wing
7th Training Wing
Provision of
Materiel
Section S3
Cash Office
Training Objectives
Development and
Preparation
8th Training Wing
Maintenance
Log Control Section
Section S4
Accountant
9th Training Wing
Stock Control
10th Training Wing
Motor Pool
Management
Officer Training
2nd Training Wing
Special Training for Officers /
Senior NCOs partly conducted at
STETTEN a. k. M. training facilities
3rd Training Wing
Senior NCO Training
Section S6
4th Training Wing
Senior NCO Training
5th Training Wing
Complementary Training / CRC
Officer Training /
Personnel Affairs
First Sergeant / Senior Personnel
NCO Training
Personnel Affairs
CIMIC / Headquarters Service / S3
Sergeant/Manuals/Classified/
Accountant/ Personnel NCO
Navy Officer / NCO /
Accountant / Pers NCO
Training
Technical Media
Centre
6th Training Wing
Advanced Individual Training
(AIT)
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Bundeswehr Sports School
The Warendorf-based Bundeswehr Sports School
is the centre of competence for sports and the
central sports training installation of the Bundeswehr. The School primarily trains soldiers to become sports coaches and aims to enhance the
capability, resilience, and health of Bundeswehr
personnel.
Officers and NCOs are trained
comprehensively in accordance
with the latest research in sports
education. On the basis of findings from the science of sports
and exercise, they are trained as
sports instructors or special field instructors in individual and team sports. The training provided
takes account of comprehensive scientific findings from the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and medicine.
All this supports the conduct of technically sound
sports training in the units. Thus, the course has
been set towards enhancing physical capability
and advancing the soldiers’ operational readiness. The German Sports Federation (DSB) recognises these courses.
In addition, in close cooperation with the Bundeswehr Institute of Sports Medicine, the Sports
School offers preventative, regenerative and reCommandant
Controlling
Headquarters
Section
Bundeswehr Sports
Promotion Section
SONTHOFEN / WARENDORF
Teaching /
Training Division
Teaching /
1st Training Wing
Training Group
3 Classes
2 classes,
Sonthofen branch
Bundeswehr
GruppeSports
Promotion Section
Weiterentwicklung
SONTHOFEN / WARENDORF
2nd Training Wing
4 Classes
habilitative programmes and measures for specific groups of persons, top athletes, and special
forces. As a result, the most up-to-date findings
from sports medicine are being integrated into
the School’s training in a goal-directed manner.
On account of the ideal infrastructure conditions
available at the School, the most up-to-date scientific findings, and the expertise of both the
military and civilian training staff, the School is in
a position to offer 26 types of courses and implement them on site.
The Sonthofen branch provides ideal conditions
for special fields instructor courses in the winter
sports of Alpine Skiing, Nordic Skiing, and Ski
Touring. Furthermore, national and international
training programmes and competitions as well as
sports events within and outside the Bundeswehr
are conducted at home and abroad. The School
also cooperates with civilian sports institutions.
A number of military sports competitions take
place in Warendorf each year as a result of the
Bundeswehr’s membership in CISM (Conseil International du Sport Militaire). The Sports School
itself organises one CISM world championship
each year.
Moreover, the School accommodates and looks
after more than 4,000 athletes each year who
take part in selection courses and training camps
or preparatory courses for national and international championships. Local sports clubs and
schools are permitted to use the first-class infrastructure of the Bundeswehr as far as free capacities are available.
Bundeswehr School of Dog Handling
The Bundeswehr School of Dog Handling
emerged from the service dog team, which has
been stationed in Koblenz since 1958. The School
itself has been garrisoned in Ulmen (Eifel) since its
relocation in July 2005.
The School of Dog Handling is the central military training installation for Bundeswehr members handling service dogs. The School provides
courses for this group of personnel and, by conducting an integrated training of service dog
handlers and service dogs, meets the demand of
the individual services and/or the organisational
areas for suitably qualified service dog teams. In
particular, the School trains sniffer and tracker dog
teams that search for and locate explosives, illegal
drugs, ordnance, people and mines as well as patrol dogs for Germany and foreign countries.
The Bundeswehr School of Dog Handling conducts quality assurance measures at all levels of
service dog training and use. It determines the
performance level of all service dog teams of the
Bundeswehr and the commercial security services
under contract. Also, the School is the central
supply and procurement agency for dogs, dog
equipment, training devices, and medical supplies
for service dogs. It is in charge of both outpatient
and in-patient veterinary treatment of Bundeswehr service dogs, especially surgical and dental measures, internist checkups and treatments
including laboratory and imaging diagnostics.
Since 2002, the Bundeswehr School of Dog Handling has been successfully involved in service dog
breeding.
Controlling
Headquarters
Section
Teaching /
Training Division
The Bundeswehr School of Dog Handling develops policies for the training and tactical employment of service dog teams with special
consideration being paid to operational requirements at home and abroad. Furthermore, the
School does some important groundwork in connection with the development of instructions,
regulations and decrees of the Federal Ministry
of Defence, taking special account of scientific
findings. As part of its mission, the School cooperates with dog handling agencies of foreign
armed forces, civil authorities, national and international aid organisations, and working dog associations.
In terms of administrative control, the School
is subordinate to the
Armed Forces Office,
while the Bundeswehr
Medical Office exercises
technical control.
The Bundeswehr School of Dog Handling is made
up of the HQ Section, the Teaching/Training Division, the Service Dog Hospital, and the Development Division.
Commandant
Service
Dog Hospital
Development
Division
Teaching /
Experiment Section
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Bundeswehr Infrastructure Staffs
The Northern, Eastern and Southern Infrastructure Staffs are responsible for processing and
controlling all infrastructure matters of the
Bundeswehr‘s armed forces. Thus, they are responsible for all construction projects in/at barracks, airfields, air defence facilities, training areas, firing ranges, depots and port facilities in their
respective areas of responsibility. The staffs closely cooperate with the users and the respective
Military District Administrative Offices to achieve
an effective realisation of those projects.
The Infrastructure Staffs prepare military infrastructure requirements for construction
measures of the armed forces and accompany those measures with
military and engineering expertise during the
planning and realisation phases. Furthermore,
they represent military infrastructure interests visà-vis national and foreign
building authorities, the
Defence Administration,
NATO agencies and the
public sector.
In January 1994, the Northern Infrastructure Staff
was inaugurated at the Garrison of Münster/
Westphalia. It is responsible for the national and
NATO infrastructure of the armed forces in North
Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen as
well as for the infrastructure projects of all services in the United States, Canada, Italy, Greece,
France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Poland.
Since spring 1996, the Eastern Infrastructure
Staff has been based at Julius Leber Barracks in
Berlin. It looks after the infrastructure interests of
the armed forces of the Länder in Military District
North (Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) and in Military District East (Berlin, Brandenburg, Thuringia, Saxony
and Saxony-Anhalt).
Since the third quarter of 1994, the Southern
Infrastructure Staff has been based at Wilhelmsburg Barracks in Ulm. It processes the infrastructure requirements of the armed forces in Military
District South (Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg)
and in the three southern Länder of Military District West (Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Saarland).
The Staffs cooperate with the building authorities during the preparation and review of concepts for the use and the expansion of military
facilities, during dispensability checks, during
regional planning procedures, and in the scope
of civil-military cooperation. In addition, they advise the commanders and heads of agencies in
infrastructure matters.
In addition, the Northern, Eastern and Southern
Infrastructure Staffs assign qualified specialists to
all Bundeswehr operations abroad to provide accommodation and morale and welfare infrastructure for German contingents in the deployment
facilities as well as the deployment-relevant special infrastructure and engineer support for the
reconnaissance of new deployment sites. They
are subordinate to the Armed Forces Office.
The infrastructure organisation will be reorganised in the scope of adopting Structure 2010.
The Staffs will deploy as follows: Northern Infrastructure Staff from Münster to Hannover,
Eastern Infrastructure Staff from Berlin to Strausberg, and Southern Infrastructure Staff from Ulm
to Munich. A new Western Infrastructure Staff
will be established in Düsseldorf.
German National Military
Representative to SHAPE (NMR[GE]SHAPE)
The German National Military Representative to
NATO’s Allied Command Operations in Mons/
Belgium has represented the German position at
the military strategic command level since 1956.
He is the central liaison element between the
German Federal Ministry of Defence and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
(SHAPE).
The essential task of the German National Military Representative to SHAPE is, on the one hand,
expressing national interests of the Ministry of
Commander, Armed Forces Office, while the Federal Ministry of Defence exercises technical control.
After the United States, Germany provides the
largest number of soldiers to the Garrison of
Mons – comparable to the similarly high personnel strength of Great Britain. Apart from the
German elements in the headquarters, in which
the vast majority of German soldiers are employed, and the Staff of the German Representative, the following German agencies are also located in Mons:
the German Headquarters and Service
Company, SHAPE,
the Federal Republic of Germany Of- fice of Defence Administration,
Belgium,
the German Element of the International SHAPE School, and
the Protestant and Catholic
Chaplaincy.
Defence to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). On the other hand, he informs
the Ministry of Defence about all important facts
resulting from the planning, execution and followup activities of NATO-led operations, and about
all other matters of national interest.
The German National Military Representative to
SHAPE is under the administrative control of the
A Bundeswehr military intelligence liaison
and support element, which performs its
tasks for the most part independently,
and the medical detachment with a unit
surgeon and a unit dental officer are likewise located at Mons.
As an increasing number of soldiers from NATO
headquarters are deployed on the various NATO
operations, family support forms a new and challenging element in the task spectrum of the German National Military Representative.
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NATO School Oberammergau
A wide range of subjects is taught at NATO
School Oberammergau: from Joint Operations to
Weapons of Mass Destruction to Operations &
Plans. Apart from many other topics, these major subjects are treated in courses, seminars and
conferences lasting one to three weeks. Students
come not only from NATO nations. Especially nations participating in the “Partnership for Peace”
(PfP) cooperation programme, nations participating in “NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue” and
countries such as Argentina, Australia, South Africa and South Korea like to send their officers to
Oberammergau.
training facility. The Bundeswehr uses approximately 700 of these course spaces a year, which
are centrally managed by the Armed Forces Office.
The NATO School is jointly managed by Germans and Americans. The staff consists of 180
soldiers and civilians from 22 nations. The school
emerged from the U.S. Army Special Weapons
School founded in 1953. In 1975, it received its
charter and its name. Currently, even officers from
Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Romania are employed in a new PfP staff
element at the NATO school. The German element
– currently the largest with regard to personnel
strength – consists of 35 soldiers. This element of
the school is under the administrative control of
the Armed Forces Office, while the Federal Ministry of Defence exercises technical control.
High-ranking military and civilian guest speakers
from East and West play an important role in daily
teaching. They have years of experience and thus
contribute to the intellectual highlights of the
school’s academic work. Every year, approximately
8,000 students from 60 nations attend this NATO
Legal
Commandant
Sergeant Major
Deputy
Commandant
Exec
Protocol
Public Affairs
Dean of
Academics
Director International
Affairs
Deputy Chief of
Staff Support
Academic
Chair(s)
Deputy Director
International Affairs
Deputy
DeputyDean
Deanofof
Academics
Academics
STDS, EVAL, TNG
Deputy Director
International Affairs
Pers/ Admin
J1
ED Tech
Linguistic
Services
Research &
Publications
Current Ops
J3
Joint Operations
WMD
Non-Resident
Instruction
Conferences/
Seminars
Operations
& Plans
Comm/ Info
Systems
Plans and Policy
J6
Engineering and
Housing
PfP Staff
Element
J7
Logistics
J4
J5
Policy
Security
J2
Budget and
Finance
J8
Senior National Representative / German Element,
Allied Land Component Command, Headquarters
Heidelberg (SNR/GE CC-Land HQ Heidelberg)
When the Central Army Group (CENTAG) was
established there, NATO forces were for the first
time stationed in Heidelberg in 1952. In 1993,
the forces were restructured and the headquarters renamed Allied Land Forces Central Europe
(LANDCENT). In the year 2000, LANDCENT was
restructured again: The Joint Headquarters (JHQ)
Centre was established. In January 2004, its reorganisation into an Allied Land Component Command Headquarters (CC-Land HQ) began.
The Senior National Representative/German
Element (SNR/GE) at CC-LAND HQ is under the
administrative control of the Armed Forces Office. The soldiers of the German element in the
NATO command support the commander in performing his tasks. At present, approximately 200
German soldiers are attached to the Senior National Representative. Altogether, approximately
500 soldiers from all NATO member states are
serving with the Land Component Command HQ Heidelberg.
The Senior National Representative represents
German interests as directed by the Federal Minister of Defence, assesses important events within
NATO and/or the Land Component Command
and informs the Federal Ministry of Defence
about matters of interest to the ministry.
This applies to all German soldiers serving in Heidelberg. The German Support Element also acts
as administrative unit for several minor agencies
at the Heidelberg location.
A CIS (Communication and Information Systems)
Sector is installed in Heidelberg
as well. It operates NATO communication and information systems and ensures safe operations
at the NATO agency. The medical support of German soldiers
is provided by the Heidelberg
physician team from the Bruchsal
Medical Centre.
In August 2003, NATO assumed command and
control over the International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The then Joint Headquarters Centre was
in command of this
mission until February
2004. Lessons learned
from this deployment
are today reflected in
the training and predeployment preparations of all soldiers at
the Heidelberg Headquarters.
The German Support Element to NATO in Heidelberg supports the Senior National Representative
in performing all national administrative tasks.
Senior German Officer
DEU Spt Elm
CC-Land HQ
Heidelberg
S1
DEU Elms, CC-Land HQ
Heidelberg
DEU Elm, CIS Sector
Heidelberg
Admin Section
S2/S3
S4
S6
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German Armed Forces Command,
United States and Canada (GEFORCOM US/CA)
The German Armed Forces Command, United States and Canada (GEFORCOM US/CA) is
based in Reston, a Washington, D.C. suburb.
The Commander, COMGEFORCOM, exercises
administrative control over all German soldiers
serving in the United States and Canada. Apart
from being in command of the forces deployed
in the United States and Canada, the Command
is also in charge of supporting exercises in these
two countries.
In its capacity as the responsible importer and
exporter of all Bundeswehr materiel, this division
runs a point of transshipment at Washington‘s
Dulles International Airport. In addition, the division services all Bundeswehr aircraft at the airport in Washington.
The German Air Force Command, United States
and Canada (GAFCOM US/CA), concentrates on
training aircrews and surface-to-air missile (SAM)
personnel. The 3rd German Air Force Training
Squadron USA conducts the primary flying training for Air Force and Naval student pilots. The
2nd German Air Force Training Squadron USA
conducts training for Air Force weapon system
officers, Navy helicopter pilots and operations
officers.
Within the scope of ”Euro NATO Joint Jet Pilot
Training“ (ENJJPT), future combat aircraft pilots
Core elements of its mission are:
go through a multinational training programme.
Administrative control of all soldiers deployed At the German Air Force Flying Training Cenin the United States and Canada (with the
tre, primary and advanced flying training for
exception of military attaché offices)
Air Force aircrews is carried out on the Tornado
S upport of training and exercise projects
weapon system.
Logistic support
Liaison with US agencies
The German Air Force Air Defence Centre USA is
O
peration of communications centre as in charge of course-based special military trainan interface between Germany and North ing for the PATRIOT weapon system, to include
America.
the information and coordination central (ICC).
It conducts the Surface-to-Air Missile Operations
The Command is subordinate to the Armed
Forces Office. Units assigned to the German
Armed Forces Command, United States and
Canada, are under the technical control of the
Service Staffs and/or their subordinate agencies.
The Command‘s area of responsibility includes
approximately 1,700 soldiers, who are stationed
in nearly all states of the US and some Canadian
provinces.
Centre (SAMOC) training and is in charge of exA special task of the Movement and Transport tension and continuation training courses in the
Division in the Federal Armed Forces Command field of extended air defence. In addition, it is
consists in planning and controlling all forms responsible for the further development of the
of logistic transports for Bundeswehr units and surface-to-air missile branch”.
formations permanently stationed in the United
States and Canada, as well as for units and for- The German Liaison Officer to the Supreme
mations temporarily conducting exercises there. Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) and
German Armed Forces Command,
United States and Canada (GEFORCOM US/CA)
to the United States Joint Forces Command
(USJFCOM) looks after national German interests
in his capacity as a link between the Supreme
Allied Commander Transformation and the German Federal Ministry of Defence. He conducts
liaison at all levels: at the NATO Headquarters of
SACT, at the U.S. Joint Forces Command, at the
German Federal Ministry of Defence and all other
national German agencies. Topics are related to
security, politico-military, operational-level and
tactical matters.
The German Liaison Team to the United States
Army Signal Center in Fort Gordon looks after
the interests of the Joint Support Service in the
field of command and control support, while the
German Liaison Team to the United States Army
Intelligence Center in Fort Huachuca covers the
fields of signal intelligence and electronic warfare.
The German Army Liaison Organisation in the
United States establishes liaison between the
German Army and selected agencies and facilities
of the United States Army and the United States
Marine Corps. The spectrum of tasks comprises
the fields of conceptual planning, organisation,
doctrine, training, equipment (armaments and
defence technology) and logistics.
Within the scope of their mission, liaison staffs also participate in training projects and field
trials. They prepare individual
reports and respond to requests
for information. In addition, the
German liaison staffs inform
U.S. agencies about German
Army plans and developments.
The German Liaison Officer to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) serves as a liaison element
between the Bundeswehr Military Intelligence
Organisation and the United States Military Intelligence Community.
Staff GEFORCOM
US/CA, Reston, VA
GAFCOM US/CA,
El Paso, TX
German Army Main
LN Staff USA,
Ft. Monroe, VA
GLO SACT
& USJFCOM,
Norfolk, VA
German LN
Detachment HQ
US CENTCOM,
Tampa, FL
GLO DIA,
Reston, VA
Instructors
Training course attendees
LNOs
Exchange Offs / NCOs
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German Headquarters Section, France
Since 1957, the Bundeswehr has been present
in France with an agency in Fontainebleau near
Paris. First, this agency (German Logistic Representative at AFCENT) represented German
interests vis-à-vis NATO. Later on, after France
had withdrawn from NATO’s military structures,
it represented German interests towards the host
nation in its capacity as the German Logistic Representative in France. Following the end of the
East-West conflict, mission, scope and structures
were repeatedly adjusted to the new requirements. In 2003, the agency was renamed German Headquarters Section, France.
The German Headquarters Section, France performs administrative, logistical and medical tasks
as well as movement control and liaison tasks in
France for the German Ministry of Defence and by
direction of the Armed Forces Office. The agency
is under the administrative control of the German Defence and Army Attaché in Paris. Treaties
and agreements concluded with France form the
basis for the accomplishment of its mission.
As a rule, all exchange officers / non-commissioned officers and liaison officers employed in
France as well as Bundeswehr soldiers on temporary duty in France are under the administra-
tive control of the German Headquarters Section,
France, unless they are controlled directly by the
Military Attaché Office in Paris. In addition, the
German Headquarters Section, France takes care
of soldiers serving in supranational organisations
in France. Thus, it is responsible for approximately 80 soldiers. It supports national, binational and
multinational training and exercise programmes
in France and provides logistic and IT support as
well as medical support.
Head
Staff Section
Missile Depot, Brest
DEU Elm, NMPA Atlantic
Training course attendees
Exchange officers
Exchange officers at the
French Ministry of Defence
Liaison officers
Exchange NCOs
Military Attaché Offices
In the scope of the foreign service at German embassies, German military attachés represent the
politico-military, military, technical and defence
industry interests of the Federal Republic of Germany. To this end, German military attachés advise the heads of missions abroad and represent
the Federal Ministry of Defence vis-à-vis the government and the armed forces of the receiving
state. German Military Attaché Offices are an
organisational and integral part of the missions
abroad and thus of the Federal Foreign Office.
In order to have early indicators of emerging
crises, the Federal Government needs comprehensive intelligence and reconnaissance capabilities. The German Military Attaché Service provides an important contribution to this in the
scope of foreign service.
armed forces of their respective receiving states.
By means of their reports, they contribute to the
overall reporting of the embassy, thus supporting
to a considerable extent the assessment and estimate of the situation as a basis for security and
politico-military decisions. This applies especially
in the context of the early detection of crises.
Since July 2001, the Armed Forces Office has
been responsible for processing the personnel
matters of soldiers serving in the German Military Attaché Service and for furnishing military
equipment to the missions abroad. The German
defence attachés are under the administrative
control of the Commander, Armed Forces Office.
The technical responsibility for the German Military Attaché Service remains with the Federal
Ministry of Defence.
To this end, military attachés analyse and
evaluate the military policy, the strategic objectives, the military potential and the status of the
Accreditation
(in progress)
Secondary accreditation
(in progress)
Military Attaché Office,
currently vacant
No accreditation
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R
PP
TF
Bundeswehr Sports Promotion Groups
U
SPO
E
BUNDESWEHR
ÖRDERGR
In 1968, the German Bundestag requested in a
resolution to the Federal Government “to promote top Bundeswehr athletes by establishing
promotion groups, which were to follow the example of training centres of sports federations
as closely as possible.” As a result of this, the
Bundeswehr sports promotion groups came into
being.
this area. For example, it is planned to reduce the
number of sports promotion groups from 25 to
15 in three stages by 2010.
The pending reduction of spaces for top athletes by 2010 will not have a major impact on
Thus, the Bundeswehr supports efforts of the Federal Government to promote high performance
sports in Germany, which aim at ensuring that
Germany is represented in international competitions such as European Championships, World
Championships and Olympic Games. Besides,
German athletes are thus to be granted the same
chances as the athletes from other nations. In
this respect, top priority is given to the Olympic
sports or disciplines. A close cooperation exists
with the German Sports Federation.
The top athletes of the Bundeswehr are members of 25 sports promotion groups at present.
Three groups are reserved for military sports only. As a rule, the groups
are located in the catchment area of
Olympic training centres and training
centres of the leading organisations
of the German Sports Federation.
In the course of restructuring the Bundeswehr, all sports promotion groups
will be integrated into the Joint Support Service.
At present, 23 groups form part of the Joint
Support Service, while two groups – the ones in
Rostock and Eckernförde – belong to the Navy.
The sports promotion groups are under the technical control of the Armed Forces Office Sports
Section. In terms of administrative control, those
sports promotion groups assigned to the Joint
Support Service are subordinate to the Military
Region Commands (with few exceptions).
In the course of the Bundeswehr‘s transformation process, various areas in the promotion of
top-level sports are subject to an unbiased review
with the objective of further optimising this promotion in the Bundeswehr. These reviews form
part of a concept oriented to future challenges in
the training possibilities. The promotion spaces
will continue to be assigned in a manner tailored
to the needs and regionally in accordance with
technical criteria and in close cooperation with
the German Olympic Sports Federation and the
leading organisations.
The two naval groups in Rostock and Eckernförde will be collocated in Eckernförde. In the end,
further groups (those in Potsdam and Stuttgart)
are to be disbanded. Thus, 15 sports promotion
groups will be left: Eckernförde, Appen, Warendorf, Köln-Longerich, Mainz, Berlin, Frankfurt/O.,
Oberhof, Frankenberg, Bruchsal, Todtnau, Neubiberg, Altenstadt, Sonthofen, Bischofswiesen.
The training will continue to take place in training centres in accordance with the guidelines of
the leading organisations.
R
Envisaged Bases of Sports Promotion
Groups in the Joint Support Service as of
2010
It is planned that the groups will be under the
administrative control of the Land Commands
in the future. This does not apply to the sports
promotion groups in Warendorf and Sonthofen,
attached to the Bundeswehr Sports School, and
to the group in Cologne, attached to the Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office.
Eckernförde
PP
TF
U
SPO
Bundeswehr Sports Promotion Groups
E
BUNDESWEHR
ÖRDERGR
The Bundeswehr promotion of top-level sports
assures athletes the best possible conditions for
their competitive sports and professional careers.
In the future, it will continue to be an important
guarantor for the Federal Republic of Germany keeping its leading position in international
sports. Correspondingly, it was declared to be
indispensable, for instance in the “National TopLevel Sports Concept” of the German Sports
Federation.
Rostock
Appen
Frankfurt/Oder
Berlin
Potsdam
Hannover
Warendorf
Köln
Halle
Holzwickede
Oberhof
Wahn
Frankenberg
Bundeswehr Sports
Promotion Group
Mainz
to be disbanded
Bruchsal
Tauberbischofsheim
Stuttgart
Todtnau
Neubiberg
Altenstadt
Bischofswiesen
Sonthofen
Mittenwald
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Military Music in the Joint Support Service
film music and current hits in the big orchestra
sound. Playing in minor ensembles in the fields of
both chamber music and modern pop music are
additional tasks performed by members of the
Military Music Service.
Military music in the Joint Support Service represents the Bundeswehr internally and externally,
just like the military bands of Army, Air Force and
Navy do. As a “sounding expression of the way
our armed forces see themselves”, it is an important integration factor among military personnel,
between military personnel and the civilian population, and at the international level.
In the changed social and security environment,
especially with regard to the progress made in
the transformation process of the Bundeswehr,
the following three tasks are becoming more and
more important:
P romotion of the team spirit among military
personnel
Strengthening of relations between the Bun-
deswehr and the civilian population
B
oosting of the Bundeswehr image both at
home and abroad.
The tasks to be performed
by the musical bands of the
Bundeswehr - with the Big
Brass Band in their centre are characterised by an exceptional versatility. Aside
from performing within
the scope of ceremonial duties for the Federal
President, the Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Defence as well as during traditional military ceremonies, the musical bands accompany Bundeswehr events with great public
appeal, give concerts which result in enthusiastic
reactions from the local population, and demonstrate their great skills during national and international music festivals. Their vast musical repertoire ranges from the traditional march music
via the arrangement of great pieces of classical
music up to contemporary original compositions,
Besides, in its capacity as a public relations instrument, the Big Band of the Bundeswehr contributes considerably to
the recruitment campaign.
Last but not least, the Bundeswehr
musicians gain public notice by working in their spare time and with considerable personal commitment as
music teachers and conductors of amateur brass
bands.
At present, eight (in the future seven) elements
of the Military Music Service are attached to the
organisational area of the Joint Support Service.
These are four elements with special Bundeswehr
priority tasks:
T he Bundeswehr Band, which primarily performs ceremonial duties in Berlin.
The Joint Band of the Bundeswehr as an
orchestra which is primarily responsible for
special representation of the armed forces on
important concert stages at home and abroad
and during protocol ceremonies in Bonn.
The Big Band of the Bundeswehr as a modern musical formation that reaches a wider
public.
The Bundeswehr School of Military Music
as a central training facility of the Bundeswehr
Military Music Service
as well as four (in the future three) Military District Bands which, along with the musical bands
of Army, Air Force and Navy, are responsible for
“striking the right notes” within and outside of
the Bundeswehr.
In wartime, all military musicians will be employed in the medical service. To this end, they
will undergo medical training in addition to their
musical training.
Military Motor Vehicle Affairs
The Military Motor Vehicle Affairs organisation
creates the prerequisites for effective military
vehicle operations in the Bundeswehr. Statutory
provisions and military requirements form the basis of all regulations promulgated.
The training and examination of military drivers
and automotive specialists (e.g. officially recognised experts and examiners, driving instructors
and company motor sergeants) are governed by
regulations and training directives which ensure
a high quality of training. Guidelines for the inspection and registration of official vehicles and
their regular technical control take into consideration their special military utilisation and the
resulting high levels of use.
Regulations for the use of official vehicles
serve to protect human health and life and to use
the vehicles in an economical manner. The Joint
Support Service performs these tasks because of
their common importance across all services.
of the Armed Forces Staff, serves as a recognition
and supervision authority. In addition, it is the central office for automotive experts and examiners
of the Bundeswehr, who are trained, examined
and recognised in accordance with the law on
motor vehicle experts. The Central Office of Motor Vehicle Affairs keeps the statutory registers
on registered official vehicles, driving licences,
Bundeswehr driving licences issued and recognitions. In addition, it registers all traffic accidents
in which official vehicles of the Bundeswehr were
involved and evaluates them statistically.
The Director, Central Office of Military Motor Vehicle Affairs also acts as Director, Military Motor
Vehicle Affairs. In this capacity, he supervises the
compliance with basic traffic law provisions. The
Head, Military Motor Vehicle Affairs issues “Special Directives for Military Motor Vehicle Affairs“
(Besondere Anweisungen für das Militärische
Kraftfahrwesen). He decides whether exceptions
from construction specifications for official vehicles are justified by their intended military use
and whether the safety of other road users is duly
taken into consideration.
The Military Motor Vehicles Affairs sections of
the Military District Commands are subordinate
to him in terms of technical control. In addition,
he has directive authority over all officially recognised automotive safety experts and examiners
of the Bundeswehr. He is in charge of the further
development of military motor vehicle affairs.
The Armed Forces Staff at the Federal Ministry
of Defence is in charge of ministerial tasks in
the field of military motor vehicle affairs. It prepares conceptual documents and regulations
and represents Bundeswehr interests in the field
of motor vehicle affairs vis-à-vis other ministries.
In addition, it provides the Permanent Representative to the Specialised Committees of the Federal Government and the Länder, which deal with
vehicle technology and the application of the law
concerning driving licences.
The Central Office of Military Motor Vehicle Affairs, which is under the direct technical control
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Since 2001, the Central Office of Military Motor
Vehicle Affairs has been based in Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen. It is under the administrative
control of the Armed Forces Office.
over basic driver training organisations and over
the training facility for driving instructors.
Driver training is geared to the requirements of
the Bundeswehr‘s entire spectrum of operations.
It consists of the following successive phases:
Seeth
Eutin
Oldenburg
Delmenhorst
Trollenhagen
Lüneburg
Munster
Diepholz
Potsdam
Celle
Minden
Burg
Rheine
Augustdorf
Ahlen
Unna
Delitzch
Leipzig
Erfurt
Aachen
Mechernich
Lahnstein
Basic driver training
Specialised driver training
Advanced driver training
Operational driver training.
Frankenberg
Hammelburg
Since 2002, the entire basic driver training has
been carried out exclusively by the driving school
organisation of the Joint Support Service. Following the adaptation of the driving school organisation to the decreasing training needs, 37
training facilities will still conduct basic driver
training in the future.
Baumholder
Veitshöchheim
Zweibrücken
Kümmersbruck
Ellwangen
Dornstadt
Bogen
Erding
Fürstenfeldbruck
Kleinaitingen
München
Motor Vehicle Training Company, Tracked Vehicle Driving Simulator
Motor Vehicle Training Centre
Technical control of registered official vehicles is
ensured by the Technical Inspections Organisation of the German Joint Support Command. On
deployment, inspections will always be carried
out by military personnel. At home, civilian inspection organisations will be contracted to perform upcoming inspections, unless own military
assets carry them out for training and practice
purposes.
The Armed Forces Office is in charge of the specialist tasks field of “driver training, training for
automotive specialists and driving schools”. It
develops the driving school organisation, devises
training fundamentals, performs the tasks of a
licensing office, and exercises functional control
25 driver training centres will train drivers for the
acquisition of the required driver licence classes.
In addition, eight driver training centres will concentrate on the practical training for driving instructors.
The training on wheeled vehicles concentrates
on the acquisition of the truck driver licence. At
the four training companies with tracked vehicle
driving simulators, the drivers of tracked vehicles
will be trained on driving simulators.
The goal of specialised driver training is the proficient driver who is properly familiarised with
and tested on the official vehicle assigned to him
for operation during routine duty. This type of
training is conducted at the agencies and parent
units.
Advanced driver training serves the purpose of
improving driving skills and behaviour, and of
acquiring specific military driving skills (crosscountry driving, tactical driving). In the scope of
advanced training, the students are to update
their knowledge on rules and traffic regulations.
This training segment constitutes an important
part of the Bundeswehr road safety programme
and is conducted under the responsibility of the
agencies and parent units.
The goal of operational driver training consists
of conveying the skills required for deployment
tasks. These include, above all, driving on unfamiliar roads and driving an official vehicle under
adverse conditions. This training segment will be
conducted in the context of predeployment or crisis training at the parent units or at special training centres.
On behalf of the Armed Forces Office, the Bundeswehr Logistics School conducts the coursebased training of automotive specialists for the
entire Bundeswehr.
FMOD
Commander, Armed Forces Office
Director, Central Office of Military Vehicle Affairs
Director, Military Motor Vehicles Affairs
Staff Section
Section 1
Policy
Controlling
Section 2
Driver Licences
Section 3
Vehicle Registration
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Voluntary Reservist Work
Independent of Assignments
Voluntary reservist work independent of assignments is directed at all Bundeswehr reservists
willing to support the Bundeswehr in addition to
existing obligations. Reservist work contributes
considerably to maintaining and strengthening
operational motivation. It enhances society’s
awareness of security issues and ties reservists to
the Bundeswehr.
Due to their professional and social integration,
reservists are credible mediators between the
Bundeswehr and the civilian part of society. In
addition, they act as advocates of the Bundeswehr in a civilian environment. They correspond
to the model of the citizen in uniform.
In order to gain and qualify reservists for this
role, they will be trained in varied ways within
the scope of reservist work. Reservist work contributes to conveying knowledge on issues related to security policy and assists reservists in
preserving their military knowledge and skills
even when they are not assigned to Bundeswehr
units to the end of temporarily performing certain tasks in these units.
Deepening mil knowledge and skills
Training/leadership qualifications
Military Region
Commands (Land
Commands as of
2007) locally
responsible for
reservists
Bundeswehr Reserve Association
Events
Support by units
stationed across
Germany
All subdivisions of the
Bundeswehr Reserve Association
Qualification of mediators
Strengthening of motivation and awareness of security policy issues
Security
policy work
Promotion
of military
capabilities
Morale,
welfare and
recreation
Security
policy work
Promotion
of military
capabilities
Morale,
welfare and
recreation
Support services performed for the Bundeswehr
with their sergeants in charge of reservist affairs
that are found nation-wide. Units and agencies
as well as Bundeswehr and NATO schools and
educational facilities support this task as far as
their own tasks leave room for it.
Reservist work essentially comprises the fields of
“Security Policy” and “Development of Military
Capabilities”. The additional task “Taking Care
of Reservists” is meant to inform and motivate
reservists and to appreciate their performances.
The Bundeswehr Reservist Association independently complements reservist work outside the
Bundeswehr and provides the Bundeswehr units
with suitable reservists for certain tasks. Such activities are coordinated with Bundeswehr agencies at all levels.
Bundeswehr
Official events and reserve duty
Reservist work in the Bundeswehr is implemented by the Joint Support Service. Competent
authorities are the Armed Forces Office and the
Territorial Commands, especially the Military Region Commands (the Land Commands as of 2007)
German Military Representative to the NATO Military
Committee, European Union and Western European Union
(GEMILREP MC/NATO, EU and WEU)
The German Military Representative to the NATO
Military Committee, European Union and Western European Union (GEMILREP MC/NATO, EU
and WEU) is based at the NATO Headquarters
in Brussels. He is the permanent representative
of the Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr to the NATO
and EU Military Committee and at the same time
functions as Germany‘s military delegate to the
WEU.
developments in the essential fields of activity
of these three international organisations, he
provides advice to the Federal
Ministry of Defence.
The German Military Representative is under the administrative
control of the Vice Chief of Staff,
Bundeswehr and Chief of Staff, Joint Support
Service. Regarding his task as the permanent representative of the Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr, to
the NATO Military Committee, European Union
and Western European Union, he reports to the
Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr, and regarding joint
specialised tasks, to the Minister of Defence.
The German Military Representative exercises
administrative control of the following German
elements:
The officer in the rank of a Lieutenant General/
Admiral represents the German military interests
of the Bundeswehr and brings to bear the views
of the Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr, in the work
of the respective bodies. In addition, he and his
staff will ensure the representation of the German military interests in all bodies and working
groups subordinate to the NATO Military Committee, the EU and the Permanent Council of
the WEU. Based on his knowledge of current
the NATO International Military Staff,
the NATO C3 (Consultation, Command and
Control) Agency,
the NATO Air Defence Committee,
the SACT (Supreme Allied Commander Transformation) Representative in Europe,
the NATO BICES (Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System) Agency and
the EU Military Staff.
German Military
Representative
Deputy
German Military
Representative
and Chief of Staff
German Elements
IMS NC3A EUMS
BICES
NADC
SACTREPEUR
Section 1
NATO
Section 2
NATO
Section 3
NATO
Section 4
NATO/EU
Section 5
EU/WEU
Section 6
WEU
Military Policy
and Strategy
Operational-level
Fundamentals
Armaments,
Logistics, PfP,
NATO-RUS
Communication,
Information,
Identification,
Navigation,
Systems
All Pertinent
Fields
Support of
Council
Presidency
(temporarily)
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Federal College for Security Studies
In 1990, the Federal Cabinet decided on founding the Federal College for Security Studies
(BAKS) as the central and top-level Federal
agency for advanced training in interministerial
security policy. In terms of its specialist task, the
college is subordinate to a Board of Trustees to
which the most important questions are submitted for consultation and decision-making. The
Board of Trustees is chaired by the Federal Chancellor. The members of the Board of Trustees are
the same as the members of the Federal Security
Council. A scientific advisory board consisting of
representatives from the academia, trade and industry, media, churches and political foundations
normally gives recommendations, particularly on
the contents and structuring of teaching and its
further development, twice a year. The Federal
College for Security Studies is an independent
agency within the area of responsibility of the
Federal Minister of Defence.
The mission of the College is to develop and
promote a comprehensive understanding of security. In doing this, all security levels are to be
considered. Its course offer addresses executive
personnel from Federal and Land ministries and a
wide-ranging group of persons from all areas of
society interested in security policy. Through its
activities, the College furthers the development
of a network of security policy decision-makers
and interested actors.
B A K S
Further activities are seminars such as the ”National Security Provision“, continuing education
modules within the framework of the European
Security and Defence Policy lectures or the media
forum for editors-in-chief. The College organises
both national and international conferences,
presentations and discussions on current security
policy issues and background talks on subjects
relating to the comprehensive security concept.
The new facility located on the Schönhausen castle premises in Berlin-Pankow, which is
equipped with the most modern multimedia and
ADP technology, provides the historical setting
for these demanding schedules of events with
the possibility of accommodating up to 300 participants in the historical room of the castle.
The personnel employed in the studies division is
provided by the ministries of the Federal Security
Council. The studies division develops the conceptual and planning aspects of the educational
and seminar programmes.
The College‘s focus is on the six-month course
on security policy. This most advanced continuing education measure in the field of extended
security policy takes place once a year, involving
25 – 30 top-level German and 6 international
executive personnel from the Federal Ministries
and Cabinet Offices as well as from the areas of
politics, industry and trade, science and society.
Federal Security Council*
Federal Ministry of Defence
Executive Group
President/Vice President
Staff
* Permanent members of the
Federal Security Council:
· Federal Chancellor
· Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
· Federal Minister of Defence
· Federal Minister of the Interior
· Federal Minister of Finance
· Federal Minister of Justice
· Federal Minister of Economics and Labour
· Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation
· Chief of Staff of the Federal Chancellery
Studies Division
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Military Counterintelligence Service
Besides the Federal Office for the Protection of
the Constitution and the Federal Intelligence Service, the Military Counterintelligence Service is the
third German intelligence service at Federal level. It is a defensive intelligence service within the
area of responsibility of the Federal Ministry of
Defence where it accomplishes tasks in the framework of the protection of the constitution.
The mission of the Military Counterintelligence
Service is to contribute to maintaining military security. Its tasks and powers are laid down in the
Military Counterintelligence Service Act.
According to this Act, the major tasks of the
Military Counterintelligence Service are to collect and evaluate information on efforts directed
against the free, democratic constitutional order
or against the existence or the security of the Federation or a Land (counter extremism) as well
as on anti-security or clandestine activities for
a foreign power (counterespionage/counter
sabotage).
The precondition in both cases is that these efforts or activities are directed against persons,
agencies or facilities within the area of responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defence and come
or are said to come from persons belonging to or
working within this area of responsibility.
The Military Counterintelligence Service also collects and evaluates information when members
of the Federal Ministry of Defence and persons
working or are said to be working in it participate
in efforts directed against the idea of the understanding among nations, particularly when they
are directed against the peaceful coexistence of
peoples (counterterrorism).
MCD 11
MCD 82
Kiel
Rostock
MCD 22
MCD 21
Wilhelmshaven
MCD 81
MCD 32
Hannover
Münster
MCD 31
Bundeswehr
Counterintelligence
Office
MCD 42
MCD 41
MCD 52
MCD 51
Potsdam
Leipzig
Hilden
Köln
Koblenz
Mainz
MCD 62
Amberg
Karlsruhe
Stuttgart
München
MCD = Military Counterintelligence Detachment
MCD 71
MCD 61
Military Counterintelligence Service
The tasks of the Military Counterintelligence
Service include evaluating information from the
counter extremism/terrorism and counterespionage/counter sabotage functional areas and
contributing to the assessment of the security
situation of Bundeswehr agencies and facilities,
and under special preconditions also of agencies
and facilities of the Allied forces in Germany. In
addition, the Military Counterintelligence Service
participates in security clearance procedures in
accordance with the Security Clearance Act and
technical security measures (personnel security
and sabotage protection/classified material security).
By order of the Federal Minister of Defence,
during special foreign assignments of the Bundeswehr or humanitarian missions, the Military
Counterintelligence Service collects - at home
and abroad only in facilities where agencies and
installations of the forces are located - information that is necessary to secure the operational
readiness of the forces or protect the members
of the agencies and facilities within the area of
responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defence
and evaluates that information.
The Military Counterintelligence Service also analyses information on persons or groups of persons
not belonging to or working within the area of
responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defence
if their efforts or activities are directed against
the employed persons, agencies or facilities. And
finally, in the facilities of the forces abroad mentioned above, the Military Counterintelligence
Service also participates in security screenings of
persons and in technical security measures.
The Military Counterintelligence Service is under the administrative control of the Vice Chief
of Staff, Bundeswehr, and Chief of Staff, Joint
Support Service, and technically subordinate to
the State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defence responsible for military security. The service
consists of the Bundeswehr Counterintelligence
Office in Cologne, the 14 subordinate Military
Counterintelligence Detachments spread all over
the Federal territory, up to five Military Counterintelligence Detachments with deployed German
contingents, and the military elements at the
School for the Protection of the Constitution.
Director/President
Legal Adviser
Controlling
Internal Security
Revision
Permanent Representative
of the Director/President
Division TA/V
Division I
Division II
Division III
Division IV
Division V
Administrative Tasks/
Administration
Central
Specialist Tasks
Counter
Extremism
Counterespionage
Personnel/
Classified
Material Security
Intelligence
Technology
14 Military
Counterintelligence
Detachments
Senior Officer/Military Element,
School for the Protection
of the Constitution
Military Counterintelligence
Detachments with deployed
German contingents
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Bundeswehr Personnel Office
and its Recruiting Centres
The Bundeswehr Personnel Office, together with
five subordinate Recruiting Centres, accomplishes
central tasks of military personnel management.
It thus makes a significant contribution to cover
the personnel requirements of the Bundeswehr
and to ensure the operational readiness of the
forces.
The Cologne-based agency is under the direct
administrative control of the Vice Chief of Staff,
Bundeswehr, and Chief of Staff, Joint Support
Service. Technically, the Personnel, Social Services
and Central Affairs Division of the Federal Ministry of Defence is responsible for all personnel
management matters.
A major task is the decentralised recruitment and
the control of recruitment for service in the armed
forces. In addition, the Bundeswehr Personnel Office determines whether applicants are qualified
for commissioned service. The Office assigns qualified candidates to the career category of officers
in the line, medical, military music or geoinformation service of the Bundeswehr. Candidates for
the officer specialist career and reserve officers of
the line service are admitted in Cologne as well.
In addition, the Bundeswehr Personnel Office
accomplishes the classical tasks of a central personnel management office for all officer and re-
serve officer candidates, officers of all careers up
to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel/Commander
(pay grade A 15) and for all reserve officers up to
Colonel/Captain of the Navy. The same applies to
the corresponding ranks of the medical service.
These tasks include particularly personnel selection, individual assignment planning and staffing
of posts.
The Bundeswehr Personnel Office shapes the
procedures for the processing of military and
civilian personnel data, provides for quality as-
surance, ensures proper processing of personal
data through revision and functional control and
further develops the personnel management of
the Bundeswehr on the basis of modern information technology and data processing (IT and ADP)
in a process-oriented manner.
Organisation of the Bundeswehr Personnel Office
The Director, Bundeswehr Personnel Office is in charge of the Office, with the organisational elements
of Legal Adviser and/or Disciplinary Attorneys for the Armed Forces, Controlling, Administrative Data
Protection Commissioner and IT Security Officer directly being assigned to him.
Director
Legal Adviser
Controlling
Central Division
Staff Section
Centre for Testing
Applicants for
Commissioned Service
Recruiting
ADP Support
Administrative
Data Protection
Commissioner
Policy Group
Deputy Director
and Chief of Staff
IT Security
Officer
Division I
Army
Division II
Air Force
Division III
Navy
Division IV
Medical Service/
Military Music
Recruiting
Centre
Division V
Reservists
Bundeswehr Personnel Office
and its Recruiting Centres
At the level below, there are seven
divisions:
the Central Division with the Staff Section,
the Recruiting Section, the Centre for Testing
Applicants for Commissioned Service and the
ADP Support Section
the Policy Division as a central subunit for joint
policy and matters of personnel management
the personnel management divisions for officers and officer candidates of the Army, Air
Force, Navy, Medical Service and Military Music Service as well as for reserve officers and
reserve officer candidates in all services.
Four Recruiting Centres are headquartered in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hannover and Munich; the fifth is
located in Wilhelmshaven and works exclusively
for the Navy.
Approximately 320 military service counsellors
belong to these centres. They are distributed all
over Germany, which is an important precondition for successful recruitment work. They closely adapt themselves to the target groups in the
different regions and the conditions prevailing
there.
Tasks of the Recruiting Centres
The Recruiting Centres try to win candidates for
the service in the armed forces. They inform and
advise applicants about careers in the armed
forces, determine the qualification of all applicants for the career of senior NCOs, NCO specialists and temporary-career enlisted personnel,
and assign applicants, with the requirement of
the military organisational areas being the decisive factor.
Organisation of a Recruiting Centre
The Centres are uniformly divided into the following six Sections: Application/Scheduling, Testing, Psychological Service, Medical Service and
two Military Service Counselling Sections, except
for the Centre of the Navy, which has only the
Sections 1 through 4.
The Bundeswehr Personnel Office and the Recruiting Centres decisively contribute to covering
the personnel requirements of the armed forces.
They also maintain close contacts with the personnel management offices and the service staffs
in the Ministry of Defence. Not only the personal
and social interests of the soldiers but also the interests of the organisational areas are taken into
account adequately.
Head
Executive Group
Section 1
Applications/
Assignments
Controlling
Section 2
Testing
Section 3
Psychological
Service
Section 4
Medical
Service
Section 5
Military Service
Counselling *
Section 6
Military Service
Counselling *
* Except for the Recruiting Centre of the Navy
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Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office
The Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office performs personnel management tasks for the soldiers – including the reservists designated for
assignment – in the NCO career groups and in
the enlisted personnel career group, as far as
they have not been assigned to other agencies. In addition, it exercises policy-making power in matters of military personnel management
of the above-mentioned groups on the basis of
guidance issued.
The Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office established on 1 October 2006 is to adopt its target structure by 2008 to ensure the centralised
personnel management of the Bundeswehr‘s enlisted personnel.
The central personnel management of the NCOs
and parts of the other enlisted personnel of the
entire Bundeswehr is to ensure uniform personnel services through harmonised, more efficient
procedures, while, of course, maintaining welltried practices, in the new, integrated personnel
management system.
The Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office headquartered in Cologne is – just as the Bundeswehr
Personnel Office – under the direct administrative control of the Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr and Chief of Staff, Joint Support Service.
Technically, it is subordinate in all personnel management matters to the Personnel, Social
Services and Central Affairs Division of the Federal Ministry of Defence.
However, the new Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office is much more than a simple merger of
enlisted personnel offices of the Army, Air Force
and Navy. It is rather geared to the common and
new framework conditions, as for example, the
requirements of the new careers and the organisational changes as the Joint Support Service
continues to grow; additionally, it is oriented on
the model of the main process ”personnel“.
This process represents the enlistment, development, and discharge of personnel. It is for the
first time that the central specialty and assignment series are jointly managed in one group.
These measures aim to equally ensure transparency and equality of opportunities for all services and organisational areas.
The TOE of the Bundeswehr Personnel Office
provides for a structure containing a headquarters and headquarters section and four divisions,
i.e. Central Affairs, Enlistment, Personnel Development and Discharge. The leadership of the
agency is directly supported by a legal adviser
and a controlling section.
The Central Affairs Division accomplishes all support and control tasks from which the personnel
managers in the remaining three divisions can be
relieved. Thus, among other things, basic documents, assignment, promotion and selection procedures are taken care of and managed
there. This is also where support is provided by the
military medical adviser, the legal section, IT/ADP
management, and the administrative section.
Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office
The procedures using the Standard Application
Software Product Families (SASPF) have been
consistently implemented in the personnel management divisions as well.
Consequently, the candidate and course allocation as well as central scheduling of the Navy
are effected in the Assignment Division, and the
central personnel management of reservists and
soldiers during a Vocational Advancement Service measure in the Discharge Division. Personnel
development, of course, continues to be the key
activity of the central personnel management of
the NCOs of the armed forces. This is where career prospects and assignment opportunities are
developed, identified and implemented in order
to have the right man or woman available and
ready at the right time for a given post.
Organisation of the Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office
Legal Adviser
Director
Controlling
Deputy Director
and Chief of Staff
Headquarters
Headquarters
Section
Central
Affairs
Enlistment
Policies,
Procedures,
Reporting,
Harmonisation
Personnel
Management
Candidates
Legal Affairs
Personnel
Management,
Enlisted
Personnel
Area physician
Administrative
Matters
Central
Personnel
Processing
Personnel
Development
Personnel
Development,
Army
Personnel
Management,
Army
Central
Personnel Decisions
Personnel
Development,
Air Force
Personnel
Development,
Navy
Personnel
Development,
Medical Service
Personnel
Management,
Air Force
Personnel
Management,
Navy
Personnel
Management
Medical Service
Discharges
Personnel
Development,
Central
Specialty and
Assignment Series
Personnel
Management
Central
Specialty and
Assignment Series
Personnel
Management,
Reservists
Personnel
Management
of Vocational
Advancement
Service Measures/
Discharge
Training Course/
Vocational
Training Spaces
Personnel
Planning
Data
Processing
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Bundeswehr University, Munich and
Helmut Schmidt University/Bundeswehr
University, Hamburg
In 1971, the Bundeswehr Universities in MünchenNeubiberg and Hamburg-Wandsbek were founded in the light of the increasingly complex demands on the officer‘s profession and in order to
increase the attractiveness of the career. The Bundeswehr needs academically educated officers.
At the Bundeswehr University Munich, about
3,000 line officers and officer candidates of all
services, including 150 women and 50 foreign
officers from 20 nations, are currently receiving
their academic education in ten university and
technical college courses of study.
At the Helmut Schmidt University/Bundeswehr
University, Hamburg, line officers and officer candidates are undergoing their academic education
in nine university study courses. 2,000 officers
and officer candidates of all services, including
110 women and 40 foreign officers from 10 nations, are currently studying there.
Due to the education sovereignty of the Länder,
the Bundeswehr Universities are state-recognised
institutions of the education system within the
area of responsibility of the Federal Ministry of
Defence according to the German university legislation and are subject to the legal supervision
of their home Länder Bavaria and Hamburg. The
academic degrees awarded by the Bundeswehr
Universities are fully recognised in civilian life.
Courses of study are divided into trimesters. The
standard duration of study is ten trimesters and
lasts three and a quarter years. This is approximately equivalent to ten semesters at a civilian
university with a five-year duration of study. As
is the case at civilian universities the officer and
officer candidate students enjoy all academic
freedoms, i.e. they largely organise their everyday
academic life by themselves, with the shortened
teaching and learning period requiring a high degree of self discipline and concentration.
The great number of successful graduates – more
than two thirds of the students achieve the coveted degrees – is primarily due to the excellent
study conditions the Bundeswehr Universities offer to their students. This includes in particular the
consistently pursued small-group principle, enabling optimal guidance of the students by their
professors.
The appropriate campus infrastructure with its short distances also facilitates daily academic life. Most of the students
have their own apartments and
rooms on the campus.
The universities of the Bundeswehr in Munich and
Hamburg are directly subordinate to the Federal
Ministry of Defence. They are led by civilian Presidents. During their studies, the officer and officer
candidate students are militarily led, trained and
supervised by the military department.
In both universities, the military department is under the administrative control of the Armed Forces
Office. In Munich, it consists of four – in Hamburg
three – military faculties to which the officer and
officer candidate students are assigned for engineering, humanities, and economics studies.
The military faculties in Munich consist of 19, in
Hamburg of 13 military faculty groups organised
according to the individual courses of study. Their
heads are the direct disciplinary superiors of the
officer and officer candidate students. As a general rule, they must have themselves completed
the course of study whose students they are leading since the key elements of the mission of the
military department – in addition to the education
and moulding of the future officers – also include
ensuring successful studies.
Bundeswehr University, Munich and
University, Hamburg
The two Bundeswehr universities will face two
significant challenges in the coming years. First,
the reorganisation of Army officer training will
be due that provides for the beginning of studies
as early as in the 15th month of service (so far
in the 39th month of service) starting 2006 and,
therefore, will increase the number of officer and
officer candidate students up to 4,000 in Munich
and up to 2,800 in Hamburg.
Example:
Structure of the Military
Department of the Bundeswehr
University, Munich
Second, the previous German Diplom degrees
are to be changed to Bachelor‘s and Master‘s
degrees by 2010 with the aim of better international comparability throughout Europe. This
will lead to changes particularly in the academic
areas.
Head
of Military Department
Deputy Head
of Military Department
Staff
Military Faculty A
Military Faculty B
Military Faculty C
Military Faculty D
5 Military
Faculty Groups
5 Military
Faculty Groups
4 Military
Faculty Groups
5 Military
Faculty Groups
Officer/Officer Candidate Students
Engineering Sciences
Aeronautical and Space Engineering
Engineering Sciences
Electrical and Information Technology
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computer Science
Business Data Processing
Humanities
Education
Sports Science
Political and Social Sciences
Business Administration (Technical College)
Economic and Organisational Sciences
Electrical and
Computer Engineering (Technical College)
Mechanical Engineering (Technical College)
Study Courses offered by:
The Bundeswehr University, Munich
· Civil and Environmental Engineering
· Business Administration (Technical College)
· Electrical and Information Technology
· Electrical and Computer Engineering (Technical College)
· Computer Science
· Aeronautical and Space Engineering
· Mechanical Engineering (Technical College)
· Education
· Sports Science
· Political and Social Sciences
· Business Data Processing
· Economic and Organisational Sciences
University, Hamburg
· Business Administration
· Electrical Engineering
· History
· Mechanical Engineering
· Education
· Political Science
· Computer-aided Engineering Sciences
· Economics
· Industrial Engineering
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Commissioner for the Buildup of
the Joint Support Service
As the Bundeswehr‘s transformation progresses,
the Personnel Coordinating Organisation of the
military services implements structure and stationing decisions for the personnel sector. Meeting
the requirement in a professional manner is still
of utmost importance to personnel control. Its
task is, above all, to consider the situation of the
soldiers affected by the organisational changes
without delay and reassign them according to
demand, if possible in their current region, but
also supraregionally.
The Joint Support Service‘s gradual adoption of
the structure 2010 continues. Future tasks and
the resulting organisational changes will, therefore, lead to far-reaching personnel changes
again.
Therefore, the Personnel Coordinating Organisation formed at the beginning of the establishment of the Joint Support Service with the office
of the Commissioner for the Buildup of the Joint
Support Service at the top, will continue to exist
in the following years and contribute to the qualified manning of posts.
Commissioner for the Buildup
of the Joint Support Service
Personnel Coordinating Element
Armed Forces Office
Joint Support Command
Military District Command/
Land Command
Points of Contact:
Points of Contact:
Personnel coordinating elements
of the military organisational areas
Personnel management agencies
Central agencies
Regional coordinators
S-1 personnel, agencies,
Units, personnel
management agencies
The Commissioner is under the administrative
control of the Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr,
and Chief of Staff, Joint Support Service. The
Personnel Coordinating Elements of the Joint
Support Service functionally subordinate to him
have been established for a limited period of
time down to Military District Command level
and accomplish their tasks on a full-time basis.
At the lower levels of command, the coordinating work is done by the respective S-1 personnel
in a secondary function. The Personnel Coordinating Organisation cooperates with comparable
agencies down to the regional level.
Head
Orderly Room
S1 Senior Officer
Army
Senior Officer, Personnel
Air Force
S1 Senior Officer
Navy
The tasks of the Personnel Coordinating Organisation are diverse. It informs the personnel concerned timely and thoroughly. Furthermore, the
Personnel Coordinating Organisation records the
required personnel movements. Within the area
of its responsibility, it prepares proposals on the
staffing of positions in cooperation and coordination with the units and agencies concerned,
the personnel management offices, the personnel coordinating elements as well as the personnel POCs of the other services and commands.
Senior Officer,
Personnel Organisation
Officer, Personnel
Organisation
Army
Officer, Personnel
Organisation
Navy
The Personnel Coordinating Organisation also records serious personal reasons for consideration
in planned personnel changes and monitors the
equality of opportunities when preparing proposal lists for the staffing of posts. It is responsible
for controlling and correcting personnel measures
in view of agreement with organisational changes
and requirements. The personnel representatives
and commissioners for gender equality are involved under their respective rights.
The aim is to quickly achieve the best possible
staffing of posts according to quality and quantity. Those responsible make efforts to consider
the situation of the personnel affected by organisational measures for future assignments on
an equal opportunity basis and also take into
account, as far as possible, the personal interests of the individual in order to carry out these
measures in a way that is socially benign to the
greatest possible extent.
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