Coordinates: 48°08′50″N 11°33′04″E

War Academy (Kingdom of Bavaria)

The Bavarian War College, also Bavarian Staff College[1] (Ge:
Bayerische Kriegsakademie) was the highest military facility to
educate, instruct, train, and develop general staff officers.

It was active from 1867 to the beginning of World War I in 1914.[2]

For a better comparison, equivalent institutions of other countries
were those like the older and ten times[3] larger Prussian War College
of the Prussian Army in Berlin or the k.u.k Kriegsschule (also a War
College) of the Austrian Army in Vienna. The building of the Bavarian War
College today
The War College was subordinated to the Inspektion der
Militärbildungs-Anstalten, a department of the Ministry of War, which
was responsible for all training and institutions of the Bavarian Army.[4]

Contents
Location
Education and training
Bibliography
References and notes

Location
Like the Military Academy (Ge: Kriegsschule[5]) and the cadet corps of the Bavarian army, it was located in
Munich, southwesterly of the corner Blutenburgstraße and Pappenheimstraße, nearby to the parade-ground on
the Marsfeld and the later infantry barracks "Marsfeldkaserne", which were completed in 1888.[6]

Education and training

Officers of all branches except these of the railroad troops,[7] who were designated for adjutant services as
well as candidates for the general staff or for military sciences had to attend the Kriegsakademie.[4] The
program of the Kriegsakademie included higher education in tactics, weaponry, fortification theory, army
organization, topography[8] and languages, as well as drill, sports, riding and shooting training, completed by
courses in strategies, military and generically history, geography, philosophy, mathematics and physics.[9]

Bibliography
Othmar Hackl: Die bayerische Kriegsakademie (1867-1914)., in Schriftenreihe zur bayerischen
Landesgeschichte, vol. 89, Munich, 1989

References and notes

 1. Langenscheidt`s Encyclopaedic Dictionary of English and German Language “Der Große
Muret-Sander“, Part II, German-English, First Volume A–K, 9th edition 2002, page 955
2. Kriegsakademie (http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=109846#Kriegsakademie)
(German), Meyers Konversationslexikon.
3. Grundkurs deutsche Militärgeschichte (https://books.google.com/books?id=VD-1aUVpihcC&pg
=PA452&lpg=PA452&dq=Kriegsakademie+M%C3%BCnchen&source=bl&ots=D1G6woBh30
&sig=jsuZ1OdhDINNyYvjcjdjcguwNcA&hl=en&ei=YNq0SaO-Eo6S0AX5wY2HAQ&sa=X&oi=
book_result&resnum=7&ct=result) (German), p. 452.
4. Kriegsakademie (https://books.google.com/books?id=r50vorFCbPMC&pg=PA361&lpg=PR16&
vq=Kriegsakademie&dq=Kriegsakademie+M%C3%BCnchen) (German), in Wilhelm Volkert,
Richard Bauer: Handbuch der bayerischen Ämter, Gemeinden und Gerichte, 1983, p. 361.
ISBN 978-3-406-09669-3.
5. Langenscheidt`s Encyclopaedic Dictionary of English and German Language “Der Große
Muret-Sander“, Part II, German-English, First Volume A–K, 9th edition 2002, page 956
6. Map of 1922 (http://www.moesslang.net/Muenchen/Stadtplan_Muenchen_1922/Muenchen_19
22_2.jpg)
7. see also Eisenbahnkaserne
8. Before 1867 taught in the Topographisches Bureau, Munich, that became part of the General
Staff in 1820.
9. Kultur, Bildung und Wissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert - 3. Technische und
fachgebietsspezifische Hochschulen (https://books.google.com/books?id=hWIWJCjFlGgC&pg
=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=Kriegsakademie+M%C3%BCnchen&source=bl&ots=sCGE-y47Db&sig
=KOg92BL631itkCNF4LpPD6InABw&hl=en&ei=YNq0SaO-Eo6S0AX5wY2HAQ&sa=X&oi=bo
ok_result&resnum=4&ct=result) (German), in Hans-Christof Kraus: Kultur, Bildung und
Wissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, 2008, p. 35. ISBN 978-3-486-55728-2

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