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Armoured Corps Training Centre (Germany)
The Armoured Corps Training Centre (german: Ausbildungszentrum Panzertruppen) in Munster is one of the German Army's training centres ('' Zentren des Heeres'') with particular responsibility for the basic and continuation training of armoured troops, including the armoured and the mechanized infantry corps of the German Army. By tradition, the centre is nicknamed the Armoured Corps School (''Panzertruppenschule'') whose tasks it partly subsumed on 1 October 2007. Literature * External links Armoured Corps Training Centre German Army (1956–present) Bundeswehr [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundeswehr
The ''Bundeswehr'' (, meaning literally: ''Federal Defence'') is the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. The ''Bundeswehr'' is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part consisting of the German Army, the German Navy, the German Air Force, the Joint Support Service, the Joint Medical Service, and the Cyber and Information Domain Service. , the ''Bundeswehr'' had a strength of 183,638 active-duty military personnel and 81,318 civilians, placing it among the 30 largest military forces in the world, and making it the second largest in the European Union behind France. In addition, the ''Bundeswehr'' has approximately 30,050 reserve personnel (2020). With German military expenditures at $56.0 billion, the ''Bundeswehr'' is the seventh highest-funded military in the world, though military expenditures remain relatively average at 1.3% of national GDP, well below the (non-binding) NATO target of 2%. German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Der Panzertruppen
General der Panzertruppe () was a General of the branch OF8 rank of the German Army, introduced in 1935. A ''General der Panzertruppe'' was a Lieutenant General, above Major General (Generalleutnant), commanding a Panzer corps. Rank and rank insignia The rank was equivalent to the long established ''General der Kavallerie'', ''General der Artillerie'' and '' General der Infanterie''. The Wehrmacht also introduced ''General der Gebirgstruppe'' (mountain troops), ''General der Pioniere'' (engineers), '' General der Fallschirmtruppe'' (parachute troops), '' General der Flieger'' (aviators), ''General der Nachrichtentruppe'' (communications troops) and ''General der Luftnachrichtentruppe'' (air communications troops). Position In the present-day German Army, there is a ''General der Panzertruppen'', which is not a ''rank'' but a ''position'', who is usually a brigadier general ('' Brigadegeneral''). The General der Panzertruppen commands the Armoured Corps Training Centre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
