Lager Heuberg

Lager Heuberg (Camp Heuberg) (48°9′N 9°1′E / 48.150°N 9.017°E / 48.150; 9.017) is a Bundeswehr quarters located in the southern corner of the Truppenübungsplatz Heuberg (Heuberg military training area) in (Baden-Württemberg), near the city of Stetten am kalten Markt.

From March to December 1933 it was one of the first Nazi concentration camps. Among the inmates were Kurt Schumacher and Fritz Bauer.

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^[1]
1943–1945 Indische Legion, Division Italia, 2nd Division of Russian Army of Liberation and Militia of Vichy, the Franc-Garde^[2]
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.^[3]

German units recently quartered at Lager Heuberg

Panzerpionierkompanie 550
Artilleriebataillon 295
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.
Bundeswehrdienstleistungszentrum Stetten am kalten Markt

References

^ "4th Gebirgsjager Division". 4 August 2020.
^ See entry of one fallen or deceased soldier of the "Marsch-Btl. Franc Garde, Lager Heuberg" in two lists of the Tuebingen Friedhofsamt (i.e. roughly the municipal Office of Sepulchre). First list: Kriegsgraeber Ehrenfriedhof A, B, C, E Nr. B 58. Second list: Oeffentliche Kriegsgraeberliste vom 11. Januar 1954.
^ www.usarmygermany.com web page on U.S. special artillery units.

Literature

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

[1] "4th Gebirgsjager Division". 4 August 2020.

[2] See entry of one fallen or deceased soldier of the "Marsch-Btl. Franc Garde, Lager Heuberg" in two lists of the Tuebingen Friedhofsamt (i.e. roughly the municipal Office of Sepulchre). First list: Kriegsgraeber Ehrenfriedhof A, B, C, E Nr. B 58. Second list: Oeffentliche Kriegsgraeberliste vom 11. Januar 1954.

[3] www.usarmygermany.com web page on U.S. special artillery units.

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