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Bundeswehr
The Bundeswehr consists of the unified armed forces of Germany and their civil administration and procurement authorities...
established in October 2000 as a result of major reforms of the German Bundeswehr. It handles various logistics and organisational tasks of the German Armed Forces. It adds a fifth service-like organization to the four other major branches of the Bundeswehr, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Medical Service.
Unlike the roughly comparable British Defence Logistics Organisation and the Australian DOD's Support Command Australia, however, Germany's current military environment has led to a number of combat-associated commands being allotted to it.
Principally these are the residual German territorial defence structure embodied in the four Wehrbereichskommandos, or Military District Commands, and the national supervision of German military operations 'out of area', performed by the Einsatzführungskommando, usually translated as Bundeswehr Operations Command, which is headquartered at Potsdam. It was formed on the basis of the former IV (GE) Korps. Most of the remaining elements of the SKB have been reassigned from the Central Military Agencies of the Bundeswehr, encompassing a wide range of logistics agencies, schools, and other support units.
Germany is divided into four Wehrbereichskommandos (Military District Command). Each Military District Command controls several Landeskommandos (State
States of Germany
Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...
Command) due to the federal structure of Germany. Previously this function was carried out by the Verteidigungsbezirkskommandos (VBKs) or Military Region commands (literally 'Defence District Commands'. These command authorities are in charge of all military facilities in their area of responsibility, and additionally of several supporting regiments.
The top command authorities are the Streitkräfteunterstützungskommando (Joint Support Command) which is in charge of numerous of command and control roles. The Streitkräfteamt (Armed Forces Office) directs all schools, training and research centres, the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD
Militärischer Abschirmdienst
The Militärischer Abschirmdienst or more officially Amt für den Militärischen Abschirmdienst , is one of the three federal intelligence agencies in Germany, responsible for military counterintelligence...
), and the Armed Forces higher academies and universities.
Structure
- Vice Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr and Chief of Staff of the Joint Support Service (Currently: Vice AdmiralVice AdmiralVice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...
Wolfram KühnWolfram KühnWolfram Kühn is a German Navy Vice Admiral and the Vice Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr as well as Chief of Staff of the Streitkräftebasis....
)
- Bundeswehr Operations Command
- Joint Support Command
- Bundeswehr Logistics Centre
- Bundeswehr Logistics Office
- Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office
- Bundeswehr Military Intelligence Centre
- German element, CIMIC Centre of Excellence
- Psychological Operations Centre (Zentrum Operative Information - ZOpInfo)
- Psychological Operations Battalion 950
- Strategic Reconnaissance Command
- Bundeswehr SIGINT Technical Analysis Centre
- Signal Sectors
- Strategic Reconnaissance School
- Electronic Warfare Battalions
- 1st Military District Command (Coast) and State Command Schleswig-HolsteinSchleswig-HolsteinSchleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...
- State Command Hamburg
- State Command Bremen
- State Command Lower SaxonyLower SaxonyLower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
- State Command Mecklenburg-Western PomeraniaMecklenburg-Western PomeraniaMecklenburg-Vorpommern is a federal state in northern Germany. The capital city is Schwerin...
- Major training areas
- Bundeswehr Military Police
- Military District Band
- CIMIC Centre
- Military Police Battalion 151
- Military Police Battalion 152
- Logistics Regiment 17
- Logistics Brigade 1
- 2nd Military District Command and State Command Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
- State Command HesseHesseHesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
- State Command North-Rhine Westphalia
- State Command SaarlandSaarlandSaarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...
- Major training areas
- Military Police Battalion 251
- Military Police Battalion 252
- Command Support Regiment 28
- Command Support Regiment 29
- State Command Hesse
- 3rd Military District Command and State Command ThuringiaThuringiaThe Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
- State Command BrandenburgBrandenburgBrandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
- State Command Saxony-AnhaltSaxony-AnhaltSaxony-Anhalt is a landlocked state of Germany. Its capital is Magdeburg and it is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.Saxony-Anhalt covers an area of...
- State Command SaxonySaxonyThe Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
- Garrison Command, Berlin
- 3rd Military District Band
- Military Police Battalion 351
- Military Police Battalion 352
- FMOD Guard Battalion
- Command Support Regiment 38
- State Command Brandenburg
- 4th Military District Command and State Command of BavariaBavariaBavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
- State Command Baden-WürttembergBaden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
- Major training areas
- Mountain Infantry Band
- Military Police Battalion 451
- Military Police Battalion 452
- Bundeswehr Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre
- 38th Command Support Regiment
- Logistics Regiment 46
- Logistics Regiment 47
- State Command Baden-Württemberg
- Joint Command, Special Operations
- Response Forces Operations Command
- Armed Forces Office
- Bundeswehr Transformation Centre
- Leadership Development and Civic Education Centre
- Bundeswehr Verification Centre
- Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication
- Bundeswehr Command Support School
- Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences
- Bundeswehr Logistics School
- German Armed Forces Military History Research OfficeGerman Armed Forces Military History Research OfficeThe German Armed Forces Military History Research Office is located at Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg, Germany.-Mission:...
/ Military History Research Institute - Bundeswehr Military Police and Headquarters Service School
- German Armed Forces Command, United States and Canada
- Bundeswehr Sports School
- German elements in multinational headquarters/agencies
- Joint Band of the Bundeswehr
- Big Band of the Bundeswehr
- Military Attaché Offices
- Bundeswehr School of Dog Handling
- Infrastructure Staffs
- Military elements in the Bundeswehr Universities (Hamburg / Munich)
- Bundeswehr Personnel Office
- Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office
- Federal College for Security Studies
- Office for Military Studies