His office switches off the light in the air base

Created: 01/17/2022 09:17

Government Director Reimund Menner is head of the Bundeswehr Service Center.

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In 2011, then Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière decided to give up the air base as a military base.

Since then, departments have been gradually withdrawing.

Some are still on site - including the former site administration of the German Armed Forces.

Fürstenfeldbruck – The former location administration at the Brucker air base, still known to many under the abbreviation StOV, actually no longer exists by name since 2007. Quietly and quietly and largely unnoticed by the public, the Brucker StOV was renamed and has since operated officially as the Bundeswehr Service Center (BwDLZ) - and is now responsible for a large number of Bundeswehr properties.

After being taken over by the BwDLZ in Landsberg, the BwDLZ in Landsberg took over the area of ​​support for military facilities from Mittenwald via Oberammergau, Murnau, Altenstadt, Pöcking, Feldafing, Lechfeld and Fürstenfeldbruck to Landsberg, where the BwDLZ is also headquartered.

"Our main task is derived from the name," says government director Reimund Menner.

He sees the restructuring that was completed at the time as a success story.

Like an economic company

Menner is head of the BwDLZ Landsberg and has also been responsible for Fursty since July 2021. “From administration to service. The name is more appropriate,” he says. “The BwDLZ is comparable to a large commercial enterprise. The daily service includes, among other things, personnel matters, financial services, facility management, environmental and nature conservation tasks and internal services.”

In this way, the service providers of the BwDLZ ensure that the Bundeswehr can take care of its military mission and free up all logistical tasks.

After the Ministry of Defense made the decision in 2011 to close the Brucker air base, it was clear that the days of the BwDLZ in Fursty would also be numbered, says Menner looking back.

The dissolution of the BwDLZ had previously been postponed twice.

It was finally completed on June 30, 2021, "although this did not really change anything for the 93-strong processing team at the Fürstenfeldbruck location".

informational talks

Most employees, civil servants and employees remain in Fursty until the last unit, the last office has left the air base. In addition to almost 100 of its own employees, the BwDLZ will also take care of 130 civilian employees of the military units working at the location when it comes to offering the personnel alternatives. "We do it in a socially responsible manner," said Menner. "That means no one will end up on the street." Corresponding information talks are already planned for the coming year.

The previous manager of Brucker BwDLZ, Herwig Bahner, put it this way at the New Year's reception of the site elder in January 2019: "I'm the one who switches off the light here." Bahner didn't know then, however, that he would be transferred again some time later .

In principle, however, this task falls to the BwDLZ, confirms Menner – i.e. probably to himself. “In fact, we are the department that will ultimately hand over the property to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) when all units have left.”

The BwDLZ does not currently know when the individual units still on site will leave the air base.

According to the current status, Menner expects a deduction in 2025 or 2026.

The series:

Ten years ago, the Bundeswehr decided to close the air base.

Since then, departments have gradually moved to their new locations.

In recent years, the focus has been on the relocation of the Air Force Officer School.

But there are other units that are still on Fursty.

The daily newspaper asked around to find out what the mood and plans for the move were like there.