Altenstadt Air Base

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The Army Airfield Old City is used by the Airborne and Air Transport School of the Bundeswehr.

History

The barracks building was from 1937 to 1940 as " anti-aircraft Artillery School IV" by architect Robert Roskothen, who was also responsible for the building of the airfield Fürstenfeldbruck and the flyer Horst Penzing. First Schongau Wehrmacht soldiers were trained to distance measurement and listening devices as well as on headlights in the barracks, in cooperation with the nearby airbase.

After the Second World War, the barracks was abandoned. Only with the emergence of the Bundeswehr garrison the Old City in 1956 took a small task force for service at to set up from the decaying building complex a school for the new German paratroopers. In February 1958, the Airborne and Air Transport School absorb the training company.

2010, the complex was renovated with extensive construction and expanded.

As part of the announced October 26, 2011 Bundeswehr reform, the Airborne and Air Transport School is resolved. The training of paratroopers is carried out in future in Oldenburg near one of the required support. Instead of retreating LLTS in 2017, the building complex is then to be used by a sergeant and sergeant major contender battalion. The number of posts thus drops from currently about 720 to 190

2012 announced the Bavarian State Conservation Office that parts of the now owned by the Federal Institute for Real Estate Management system to be put under a preservation order. Affected is the inner core of the barracks. In addition to the measured Hall include the guardhouse with the St. Michael Hall, the former headquarters building of the Air Force in the South, the accommodation building to the west and east, in the north of the appeal court final farm buildings as well as the east remote from the guardhouse store in Munich.

Naming

Since 1993, the barracks is named after the late long-time District of Schongau and Prime Minister of Bavaria Franz Josef Strauss. This was after he had been promoted on 1 June 1944 Lieutenant, Chief of the battery stick and officer for defense spiritual leadership (since the end of November 1943 as National Socialist leadership officer ( NSFO ) ) stationed at the anti-aircraft Artillery School IV in the Old City.