Lager Heuberg

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Lager Heuberg (Camp Heuberg) (9' N, 9° 1' O_E_ <span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for Expression error: Unexpected < operator°Expression error: Unexpected < operator′Expression error: Unexpected < operator″Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "_" Expression error: Unexpected < operator°Expression error: Unexpected < operator′Expression error: Unexpected < operator″Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "�"">Expression error: Unexpected < operator°Expression error: Unexpected < operator′Expression error: Unexpected < operator″Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "_" Expression error: Unexpected < operator°Expression error: Unexpected < operator′Expression error: Unexpected < operator″Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "�" / 48_9_N_9_1_E_type:city_region:DE-BW, 48° 9' N, 9° 1' O) is a Bundeswehr barracks to the south of training camp (Truppenübungsplatz) Heuberg (Baden-Württemberg) near Stetten am kalten Markt.

From March to December 1933 it was one of the first concentration camps. Among the inmates was Kurt Schumacher.

At Truppenübungsplatz Heuberg, about 3 kilometers from Lager Heuberg, the first vertical take-off manned rocket flight took place on 1 March 1945 and crashed, killing Pilot Lothar Sieber in the Bachem Ba 349 "Natter".

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[edit] History

  • 1910 XIV. Armeekorps of the German Imperial Army creates the Lager Heuberg and the training camp
  • 1914 POW camp
  • 1917 5,000 soldiers and 15,000 POW's
  • 1920–1933 Treaty of Versailles limits German Army to 100,000. Camp is converted into a children's home and hospital
  • 1933 Converted into the first concentration camp in Württemberg/Baden, in use for 9 months
  • 1934 Taken over by Reichswehr/Wehrmacht
  • 1940 Camp for Reichsarbeitsdienst with 400 barracks
  • 1943–1945 „Indische Legion“, Division „Italia“, 2nd Division of Russian Army of Liberation and Militia of Vichy
  • 1945 1 March first vertical take-off manned rocket flight with Luftwaffenleutnant Lothar Sieber killed in the Bachem Ba 349 "Natter"
  • 1945 22 April French troops arrive and free 20,000 Red Army POW's
  • 1957 Newly founded Bundeswehr arrives
  • 1976 Former hospital demolished
  • 1997 French 3rd Regiment of Dragoons leaves after 51 years

During 1962-1963, U.S. troops (357th Artillery Detachment) are reputed to have kept nuclear warheads at Lager Heuberg that would have been issued for the use of French Nike-Hercules Missile units had a war with the Soviet Union occurred.[1]

[edit] German units recently quartered at Lager Heuberg

  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 294
  • Feldjägerbataillon 452
  • Zentrum für Kampfmittelbeseitigung der Bundeswehr
  • Truppenübungsplatzkommandantur Heuberg
  • 5. Kompanie (schwer) / Jägerbataillon 292
  • V. und VI. Inspektion ABC/Se Schule Sonthofen
  • Sanitätszentrum Stetten a.k.M.
  • III. Inspektion der Schule für Feldjäger und Stabsdienst Sonthofen
  • Bundeswehrdienstleistungszentrum Stetten am kalten Markt

[edit] Literature

  • Markus Kienle: Das Konzentrationslager Heuberg bei Stetten am kalten Markt. Klemm & Oelschläger, 1998, ISBN 3-932577-10-8

[edit] References

  1. ^ www.usarmygermany.com web page on U.S. special artillery units.

[edit] Notes

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