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

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

References

  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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