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The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereignty ( Wehrhoheit) of Bavaria into that of the German State in 1919. The Bavarian Army was never comparable to the armies of the Great Powers of ...
History of BMW. The official founding date of the German motor vehicle manufacturer BMW is 7 March 1916, when an aircraft producer called Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (formerly Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik) was established. [ 1][ 2] This company was renamed to Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) in 1922. However, the BMW name dates back to 1917, when Rapp ...
The Bayerisches Armeemuseum is the Military History Museum of Bavaria. It was founded in 1879 in Munich and is located in Ingolstadt since 1972. The main collection is housed in the New Castle, the permanent exhibition about the First World War in Reduit Tilly opened in 1994 and the Armeemuseum incorporated the Bayerisches Polizeimuseum ...
The I Royal Bavarian Army Corps / I Bavarian AK ( German: I. Königlich Bayerisches Armee-Korps) was a corps level command of the Royal Bavarian Army, part of the Imperial German Army, before and during World War I. [ a] As part of the 1868 army reform, the I Royal Bavarian Army Corps of the Bavarian Army was set up in 1869 in Munich as the ...
21st Royal Bavarian Infantry "Grand Duke Frederick Francis IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin". 1 April 1897. Fürth, Sulzbach, Eichstätt. III Royal Bavarian Corps. 22nd Royal Bavarian Infantry "Prince William of Hohenzollern". 1 April 1897. Zweibrücken. II Royal Bavarian Corps. 23rd Royal Bavarian Infantry.
BMW G 650 GS Germany: Motorcycle — [139] BMW F 850 GS Germany: Motorcycle — [140] BMW R 1150 RT (illustration image) Germany: Motorcycle — Used by the military police for escorts. [141] BMW R 1200 RT Germany: Motorcycle — [140] KTM 400 LS-E Military Austria: Motorcycle — ATV Polaris MV 850 — — Quad bike with rubber tracks —
As of December 2012, the number of active military personnel in the Bundeswehr was down to 191,818, corresponding to a ratio of 2.3 active soldiers per 1,000 inhabitants. [85] Military expenditure in Germany was at €31.55 billion in 2011, corresponding to 1.2% of GDP. [86]
U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria Installations in Bavaria, Germany. The United States Army Garrison Bavaria is a Army garrison of the United States Army headquartered in Grafenwöhr, Germany, with four locations, which include Grafenwöhr (Tower Barracks), Vilseck (Rose Barracks), Hohenfels (Hohenfels Training Area) and Garmisch (George C. Marshall Center and NATO School), along with Grafenwöhr ...