Lager Heuberg

Lager Heuberg (Camp Heuberg) (48°9′N 9°1′E) 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 kilometres from Lager Heuberg, the first vertical take-off manned rocket flight took place on 1 March 1945 and crashed, killing its pilot, Lothar Sieber, in the Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" rocket.

History

• 1910 XIV Armeekorps of the German Imperial Army establishes 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
• 1940-41 Mobilisation camp for the 4th Mountain Division
• 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, piloted by Luftwaffe lieutenant, Lothar Sieber, who was killed in the Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" rocket
• 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.

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

Notes

This article incorporates information from the revision as of August 2, 2007 of the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

Literature

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