Joint Support Service (Germany)

Joint Support Service
Streitkräftebasis
Logo of the Joint Support Service
Logo of the Streitkräftebasis
Active 1 October 2000
Country Germany
Size 41,092 personnel (16 December 2016)[1]
March "Marsch der Streikräftebasis"[2]
Website http://www.streitkraeftebasis.de/
Commanders
Inspector Generalleutnant Martin Schelleis (German Air Force)
Deputy Inspector Generalleutnant Peter Bohrer (German Air Force)
Chief of Staff Generalmajor Jürgen Setzer (German Army)
Notable
commanders		 Manfred Nielson, Wolfram Kühn
Feldjäger MP patrol vehicle

The Joint Support Service (German: Streitkräftebasis, SKB, literally Armed Forces Foundation) is a branch of the German Bundeswehr established in October 2000 as a result of major reforms of the Bundeswehr. It handles various logistic and organisational tasks of the Bundeswehr. The SKB is the fifth component of the Bundeswehr, the other four being the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Joint Medical Service. As of December 2016, the force is composed of around 41,100 personnel.

Organization

Unlike the similar British Defence Logistics Organisation and the Australian Department of Defence's Support Command Australia, Germany's current military environment has led to a number of combat-associated commands being allotted to it, principally the small German territorial defence structure embodied in the four Wehrbereichskommandos (Military District Commands), and the national supervision of active German military operations beyond the NATO area, performed by the Einsatzführungskommando (Bundeswehr Operations Command), which is headquartered in Potsdam.

The WBK headquarters are in:

Each Military District Command controls several Landeskommandos (State Commands) due to the federal structure of Germany. Previously this function was carried out by the Verteidigungsbezirkskommandos (VBKs) or Military Region Commands (Defence District Commands). These command authorities are in charge of all military facilities in their area of responsibility and of several supporting regiments. The SKB was formed on the basis of the former IV (GE) Korps. Most of its remaining elements have been reassigned from the Central Military Agencies of the Bundeswehr, encompassing a wide range of logistics agencies, schools, and other support units.

The top command authorities are the Kommando Streitkräftebasis (Joint Support Service Command) which is in charge of numerous of command and control roles. The Streitkräfteamt (Armed Forces Office) directs all schools, training and research centres, the Military Counterintelligence Service (Militärischer Abschirmdienst), and the Bundeswehr's higher academies and universities.

Structure


Bundeswehr
Branches
(Teilstreitkräfte)
Heer
Luftwaffe
Marine
Organisational areas
(Organisationsbereiche)
Joint Medical Service
Joint Support Service
Cyber and Information Space

Logistic Command

Military Police Command

CBRN-defense Command

  • Bundeswehr CBRN-defense Command, in Bruchsal
    • CBRN-defense and Legal Protection Tasks School, in Sonthofen
    • 7th CBRN-defense Battalion, in Höxter
    • 750th CBRN-defense Battalion, in Bruchsal

Territorial Tasks Command

Armed Forces Office

References

Notes
  1. ↑ "Stärke: Militärisches Personal der Bundeswehr". Bundeswehr (in German). 16 December 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Kirschner, Claus-Dieter (1 October 2010). "Der große Erfolg von Gerhard Fetzer". Heidenheimer Zeitung (in German).
  3. ↑ "Organisation Streitkräftebasis". Bundeswehr. Retrieved 19 July 2018.

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