Lager Heuberg

Lager Heuberg (Camp Heuberg) (coord|48|9|N|9|1|E|type:landmark_region:DE-BW|display=inline,title) 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".

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. [ [http://www.usarmygermany.com/Units/Ordnance/USAREUR_5th%20USAAG.htm www.usarmygermany.com web page on U.S. special artillery units.] ]

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

Literature

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

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