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Former Gendarmerie Barracks Bad Ems

Former Gendarmerie Barracks Bad Ems

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Former Gendarmerie Barracks Bad Ems

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Location: Bad Ems, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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2. Bad Ems Spa Bridge – View of Bad Ems loop from Bad Ems

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3. Emser Thermal Spa – Kurwaldbahn Bad Ems loop from Bad Ems

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Hunsbuckel 🇺🇦

March 1, 2021

From 1958 to 2002 the Bundeswehr intelligence school was housed in the former Gendarmerie barracks in Bad Ems.

The school carried out the training of officers and non-commissioned officers with portepee of military intelligence. Courses and briefings for the German military attachés also took place there. The Military Shield Service (MAD) trained its staff at the school before it was relocated to today's Academy for Protection of the Constitution (AfV) in Swisttal-Heimerzheim.

The huge building complex is now orphaned and exposed to vandalism. The establishment of a business park does not seem to have been successful. Only a parakeet living in a canister seems to be guarding the area today.

The dedication to refugee accommodation discussed in 2015 does not seem to have been implemented.

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Arek

March 7, 2021

Building:

The school (barracks) was built around 1925 and was used by the French occupation army until they withdrew in 1929. In 1933 the Reich Labor Service moved in and in 1935 the barracks became an SA school.

In 1936 the facility was handed over to its intended use as a gender school.

After the war it was used again by the French army, handed over to the Federal Property Office in 1956 and used by the Federal Armed Forces since 1957 (the first command academy of the Federal Armed Forces until it was moved to Hamburg).

Staff:

The first commander of the gender school was Colonel d. Gend. Wilhelm Roettig, born July 25th, 1888, who was a member of the Gend.-Schule Trier from 1934 - 1936. Obviously the Trier gender school was closed and the staff relocated to Bad Ems.
Roettig was promoted to Major General of the Pole on July 6, 1938. promoted. During an inspection trip to Poland at the beginning of the war, he was shot on September 10, 1939. He was thus the first fallen general of the Second World War.

His successor as Kdr. Of the school was from October 1st, 1936 - October 31st, 1938 Major the Elder. Gend. Herbert Jilski. Promoted to Colonel. d. Gend. on April 1st, 1937.
Later Kdr. Of the Gend.-Schule Freiburg, the Pol.Offz.Schule Köpenick and since September 21, 1943 until the end of the war BdO in Croatia. He was promoted to major general on April 20, 1944. Pole. promoted.

The following are known to be teaching officers:

Captain d. Gend. Oswald Espey, later chief of the company in the police battalion. 121 and 1943 Kdr. Of the gendarmerie in Latvia

Captain d. Gend. Gerhard Axt, later Kdr. Der Gend. in Latvia (predecessor of Espey) and head of the WE department at BdO Bohemia and Moravia in Prague

Captain d. Gend. Kreie, 1943 transferred to the main office of the Ordnungspolizei

Captain d. Gend. Nice

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1. Baedecker’s Rock Trail – Bad Ems Spa Bridge loop from Bad Ems

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