Capt. Eldon Haskell
- the new "mayor" of Heidelberg Is Capt. Eldon Haskell of Santa Barbara, Cal., military government officer for an American unit, and his first action was the ousting of the oberburgomeister and other known Hitler adherents in the local administration. All the university professors and employes will be "screened" to get rid of those who have been nazis, Haskell said Heidelberg's normal population of 85,000 is now swelled to 110,000, as refugees from nearby bombed and shelled towns have come in.
- September 1945 bis März 1946: General Geoffrey Keyes ist Befehlshaber der 7. US-Armee in Heidelberg
- Für US-Zuständigkeiten siehe dort
Bücher
1. USAREUR - The United States Army in Europe, by Michael Skinner, ISBN: 0-89141-311-1
2. The American Military Occupation of Germany, 1945-1953, by Oliver J. Frederiksen, Headquarters U.S. Army, Europe, 1953
3. The United States Army in Europe, 1953-1963, by D. J. Hickman, Headquarters U.S. Army, Europe, 1964
4. US-Army, 1945-1995, Band I & II, by Peter Blume (German only), ISBN 3-927132-34-9 and ISBN 3-927132-35-7
19. Building for Peace: U.S. Army Engineers in Europe, 1945-1991, by Robert Grathwol and Donita M. Moorhus (GPO S/N: 008-029-00409-7 - hard cover), traces the U.S. Army's engineering construction activities in Europe, beginning immediately after World War II in 1945 and ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
United States military installations at MA[]
A number of U.S. Army Europe installations were located in and near to Mannheim during the Cold War. The following locations provided services to and housed the "U.S. Army Garrison Mannheim" and other units of the U.S. Army. The U.S. Army Garrison Mannheim was formally deactivated on 31 May 2011.[1]
- Coleman Barracks* and Coleman Army Airfield (Mannheim-Sandhofen): the headquarters of the American Forces Network-Europe, and the location of the United States Army Corrections Facility-Europe.
- Funari Barracks (Mannheim-Käfertal), vacated in 2014.
- Spinelli Barracks (Mannheim-Feudenheim), vacated in 2015, the home of the Army's 28th Transportation Battalion.
- Sullivan Barracks (Mannheim-Käfertal): formerly the headquarters of the U.S. Army's 7th Signal Brigade and the 529th Military Police Honor Guard Company's 2nd Platoon; vacated in 2014.
- Taylor Barracks (Mannheim-Vogelstang): formerly the headquarters of the U.S. Army's 2nd Signal Brigade; vacated in 2011.
- Turley Barracks (Mannheim-Käfertal): in the early 1990s was home to the 181st Transportation Bn, with companies of 40th, 41st, 51st, 590th, TTP, and HHC transportation companies and also the headquarters of the NATO ACE Mobile Force (Land) (AMFL).
- The Benjamin Franklin Village (Mannheim-Käfertal), housing. Also home to the Mannheim American High School and the Middle School,[2] which closed on 9 June 2011 before the last soldier and his family moved out in 2012.
The following locations were part of the "U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg" but were within the area of the city of Mannheim until they were vacated in 2010 and 2011:
- Friedrichsfeld Service Center (Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld)
- Hammonds Barracks (formerly Loretto Kaserne) (Mannheim-Seckenheim)
- Stem Kaserne (Mannheim-Seckenheim)
All personnel of the U.S. Army military community left Mannheim by 2015, some of them moving to Wiesbaden. With the exception of four barracks, all other barracks formerly occupied by the U.S. military had been returned to the German state for conversion to civilian use in 2011.
weblinks []
- Zeittafel zur Heidelberger Geschichte ab 1945 (HGV)
- rw: 30._März_1945
- dort die dt. Literatur dazu