The Bavarian War College, also Bavarian Staff College[1] (Ge: Bayerische Kriegsakademie) was the highest military facility to educate, instruct, train, and develop general staff officers.
It was active from 1867 to the beginning of World War I in 1914.[2] For a better comparison, equivalent institutions of other countries were those like the older and ten times[3] larger Prussian War College of the Prussian Army in Berlin or the k.u.k Kriegsschule (also a War College) of the Austrian Army in Vienna.
The War College was subordinated to the Inspektion der Militärbildungs-Anstalten, a department of the Ministry of War, which was responsible for all training and institutions of the Bavarian Army.[4]
Location edit
Like the Military Academy (Ge: Kriegsschule[5]) and the cadet corps of the Bavarian army, it was located in Munich, southwesterly of the corner Blutenburgstraße and Pappenheimstraße, nearby to the parade-ground on the Marsfeld and the later infantry barracks "Marsfeldkaserne", which were completed in 1888.[6]
Education and training edit
Officers of all branches except these of the railroad troops,[7] who were designated for adjutant services as well as candidates for the general staff or for military sciences had to attend the Kriegsakademie.[4] The program of the Kriegsakademie included higher education in tactics, weaponry, fortification theory, army organization, topography[8] and languages, as well as military foot drill, sports, riding and shooting training, completed by courses in strategies, military and generically history, geography, philosophy, mathematics and physics.[9]
Bibliography edit
- Othmar Hackl: Die bayerische Kriegsakademie (1867-1914)., in Schriftenreihe zur bayerischen Landesgeschichte, vol. 89, Munich, 1989
References and notes edit
- ^ Langenscheidt`s Encyclopaedic Dictionary of English and German Language “Der Große Muret-Sander“, Part II, German-English, First Volume A–K, 9th edition 2002, page 955
- ^ Kriegsakademie (German), Meyers Konversationslexikon.
- ^ Grundkurs deutsche Militärgeschichte (German), p. 452.
- ^ a b Kriegsakademie (German), in Wilhelm Volkert, Richard Bauer: Handbuch der bayerischen Ämter, Gemeinden und Gerichte, 1983, p. 361. ISBN 978-3-406-09669-3.
- ^ Langenscheidt`s Encyclopaedic Dictionary of English and German Language “Der Große Muret-Sander“, Part II, German-English, First Volume A–K, 9th edition 2002, page 956
- ^ Map of 1922
- ^ see also Eisenbahnkaserne
- ^ Before 1867 taught in the Topographisches Bureau, Munich, that became part of the General Staff in 1820.
- ^ Kultur, Bildung und Wissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert - 3. Technische und fachgebietsspezifische Hochschulen (German), in Hans-Christof Kraus: Kultur, Bildung und Wissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, 2008, p. 35. ISBN 978-3-486-55728-2
