SS-Junkerschule Bad Tlz

system.[3][4] The school was opened in 1936 by Adolf

Hitler and would use the regular army training methods and used former army ocers as instructors to train
their potential ocers to be combat eective.[5] Because
of their backgrounds, some of the cadets required basic
training in non military matters. The cadets were issued
books on etiquette that contained instructions on table
manners Cutlery is held only in the ngers and not with
the whole hand and even the correct way to close a letter Heil Hitler! yours sincerely XXXX.[2] Instruction
was also given on Nazi ideology during lectures, with a
mixture of athletics and military eld exercises.[2]

SS-Junkerschule Bad Tlz was a Junker school, an ocers training school for the Waen-SS. The school was
established in 1937 and constructed by Alois Degano, in
the town of Bad Tlz which is about 30 miles south of
Munich and the location was seemingly chosen because
it had both good transport links and was in an inspiring location. The design and construction of the school was intended to impress the sta, students, visitors and passersby. A sub camp of the Dachau concentration camp was
located in the town of Bad Tlz which provided labour
for the SS-Junkerschule and the Zentralbauleitung (Central Administration Building). The School operated until
the end of World War II in 1945 and after the war the
former SS-Junkerschule was the base of the U.S. Armys
1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group until 1991.[1]

The SS spared no expense in building the school, the facilities included a football stadium surrounded by an athletics rack; building dedicated to boxing, gymnastics, indoor
ball games, a heated swimming pool and a sauna.[6] The
instructors matched the facilities and at one time eight of
the twelve coaches were the German National champions
in their elds.[6]

Early history

Main article: Junker Schools

In 1934, the armed branch of the Schutzstael (SS) then

2 Selection
The ocer candidates had to meet stringent requirements
before being allowed into the ocer schools; All SS ofcers had to be a minimum height of 5 foot 10 inches
(5 ft 11 for the Leibstandarte) and had to serve for at
least six months to a year in the ranks prior to being considered for a place at the SS-Junkerschule. Typically,
a Waen-SS member reaching the rank of Rottenfhrer
could choose either to embark on the career path of
an SS-non-commissioned ocer or could apply to join
the ocer corps of the Waen-SS. If choosing the latter, he was required to obtain a written recommendation
from their commander and undergo a racial and political
screening process to determine eligibility for commission
as an SS ocer. If accepted into the SS ocer program,
an SS member would be assigned to the SS-Junkerschule
and would be appointed to the rank of SS-Junker upon
arrival. Situations did exist, however, where SS members would hold their previous enlisted rank while at the
SS-Junkerschule and only be appointed to the rank of SSJunker after a probationary period had passed. This ocer candidate system was to ensure that future SS ocers
had prior enlisted experience and that there were no direct appointments in the Waen-SS ocer corps as was
often the case in other SS branches such as the Gestapo
and also in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD).[5][7] (About 150
Norwegians were directly appointed to the Waen-SS

The main gate SS-Junkerschule Bad Tlz 1942.

known as the SS-Verfgungstruppe (SS-VT), started to recruit ocers into its ranks. The German Army and its
Prussian heritage looked for ocers of good breeding,
who had at least graduated from secondary school. By
contrast the SS-VT oered men the chance to become
an ocer no matter what education they had received or
their social standing.[2]
In 1936 Himmler selected former Lieutenant General
Paul Hausser to be appointed Inspector of the SS-VT
with the rank of Brigadefhrer, he set about transforming
the SS-VT into a creditable military force that equaled
the regular army and transformed the ocer selection
1

6 NOTES

ocer corps on account of their training in Norways military. The underperformance by many of them eventually
contributed to front line Waen-SS ocers mandatory
training at the Junkerschule, and 141 other Norwegians
graduated from that training.[8] )

Curriculum

the name Nibelungenlied made famous by Richard Wagner in his opera Ring des Nibelungen.
The division rst saw action in the Landshut area of
Upper Bavaria. The engagement was against American
troops with the 38th actually overrunning a few American positions. The 38th then saw brief action in the Alps
and Danube areas before surrendering to the Americans
on 8 May 1945, in the area of the Bavarian Alps near
Oberwssen, close to the Austrian border.[10]

5 German/US Commanders

Cadets taking part in a classroom exercise in 1942/43.

Instruction at the school ranged from the playing of war

games to studying Hitlers Mein Kampf.[9] Many Cadets
had already served in the Hitler Youth and brought up under the Nazi propaganda machine.[9] Nazi ideology was
an important part of the curriculum and one Cadet in
three was eliminated from the ve-month course during
examinations.[9] One of the goals of the school was to
produce ghting ocers, and classes were given in assault tactics, which built on the mobile tactics introduced
to the German Army at the end of World War I.[6]
The School adjutant Felix Steiner is reported to have
said: We require a supple adaptable type of soldier, athletic of bearing and capable of more than the average
endurance.[6]
The timetable of the School was as follows: tactics,
terrain and map reading, combat training and weapons
training, General practical service (weapons technology,
shooting training, war exercises), religious education,
military, SS and police, administration, physical training, weapons doctrine, pioneer teaching, current events,
tank tactics, vehicle maintenance, sanitary engineering,
air force doctrine.

12.06.1934 - 16.07.1935 Paul Lettow

16.07.1935 - 01.11.1938 Bernhard Voss
22.11.1937 - 31.01.1938 Arnold Altvater-Mackensen
(was an acting deputy commander during Voss absence)
01.11.1938 - 23.04.1940 Werner Freiherr von Schele
23.04.1940 - 11.07.1940 Julian Scherner
25.07.1940 - 08.11.1940 Cassius Freiherr von Montigny
12.11.1940 - 10.08.1942 Werner Drer-Schuband
10.08.1942 - 15.02.1943 Lothar Debes
26.01.1943 - 01.08.1943 Gottfried Klingemann
01.08.1943 - 15.03.1944 Werner Drer-Schuband
15.03.1944 - 12.01.1945 Fritz Klingenberg
12.01.1945 - 03.1945 Richard Schulze-Kossens
03.1945 - 04.1945 Karl-Heinz Anlauft
04.1945 - 08.05.1945 Bernhard Dietsche
03.1945 - 06.1991 Occupied by US Army commanders
from General Patton in 1945 to Colonel Aaron Banks in
1953

6 Notes
[1] Edward Victor. Alphabetical List of Camps, Subcamps
and Other Camps.
[2] Flaherty, p 132
[3] Flaherty, p 146
[4] Windrow, pp 7-8
[5] Flaherty, p 145
[6] Flaherty, p 36

38th SS Division

[7] The SS: Hitlers Instrument of Terror (Gordon

Williamson)

In March 1945, sta and students from the school were

used to form the 38th SS Division Nibelungen The Divi- [8]
sion never achieved anything near full division status, but
did actually see some combat. The 38th SS Division was
at rst named Junkerschule because of its formation from [9]
the members of the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tolz. It was
then renamed to Nibelungen from the medieval poem of [10]

Asbjrn Svarsta (2012-09-02). 141 nordmenn i WaenSS eliten. Dagbladet. pp. 3033.
Flaherty, p 134
waen ss. Retrieved 2009-03-21.

References
Flaherty, T. H. (2004) [1988]. The Third Reich: The
SS. Time-Life Books, Inc. ISBN 1-84447-073-3.
Hatheway, Jay (2004). In Perfect Formation: SS Ideology and the SS-Junkerschule-tolz. Schier Military History. ISBN 0-7643-0753-3.
Windrow, Martin & Burn, Cristopher (1992). The
Waen-SS, Edition 2. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 085045-425-5.

Coordinates:
474532.57N
47.7590472N 11.5830917E

113459.13E

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