Joint Support Service (Germany)


Image:German military police car.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A Feldjäger MP patrol vehicle
The Joint Support and Enabling Service 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 one of six components of the Bundeswehr, the other five being the Army, Navy, Air Force, the Joint Medical Service, and the Cyber and Information Domain Service. As of April 2020, the force is composed of 27,840 personnel. In May 2021 the minister of defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer together with inspector general Eberhard Zorn published a plan to dissolve the Joint Support and Enabling Service and to reintegrate its units into the army, navy, airforce and cyber command.
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Structure

Unlike the similar British Defence Logistics Organisation and the Australian Department of Defence's Support Command Australia, a number of combat-associated commands were allotted to the SKB, principally the small German territorial defence structure embodied in the four Wehrbereichskommandos, and the national supervision of active German military operations beyond the NATO area, performed by the Armed Forces Operations Command, which is headquartered in Potsdam.
The WBK headquarters were in Kiel ; Mainz ; Erfurt ; and Munich. Each Military District Command controlled several Landeskommandos due to the federal structure of Germany. Previously this function was carried out by the Verteidigungsbezirkskommandos or Military Region Commands. These commands were in charge of all military facilities in their area of responsibility and of several supporting regiments. The SKB headquarters was formed on the basis of the former IV (German) Corps headquarters. 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 which is in charge of numerous of command and control roles. The Streitkräfteamt directs all schools, training and research centres, the Militärischer Abschirmdienst, and the Bundeswehr's higher academies and universities.
In April 2012 as part of the major reorganisation that ended conscription, the Armed Forces Operations Command was resubordinated directly to the Inspector of the Bundeswehr.
In September 2022 another reorganisation created the Territorial Operations Command from parts of the JJoint Support and Enabling Service, which also was subordinated directly to the Inspector of the Bundeswehr.Joint Support and Enabling Service Headquarters, in Bonn

Logistic Command

Bundeswehr Logistic Command, in Erfurt

Military Police Command

Bundeswehr Military Police Command, in Hanover

CBRN-defense Command

Bundeswehr CBRN-defense Command, in Bruchsal
  • * CBRN-defense and Legal Protection Tasks School, in Sonthofen
  • * 1st CBRN-defense Regiment, in Strausberg
  • * 7th CBRN-defense Battalion, in Höxter
  • * 750th CBRN-defense Battalion "Baden", in Bruchsal

Armed Forces Office

Armed Forces Office, in Bonn