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Center of Leadership Culture

Center of Leadership Culture of the German Armed Forces

Zentrum Innere Führung
Location	Koblenz, Germany
Coordinates	50°20′17″N 7°37′8.5″E
Type	Military cross career training facility

The Center of Leadership Culture of the German Armed Forces, in English officially referred to as the Center of leadership development and civic education or unofficially and occasionally as Training Centre for Morale & Welfare is a military installation of the Bundeswehr for cross-career training of Civilian and Military personnel as well as for research dealing with any matters concerning "leadership development and civic education" (official translation), namely leadership culture and self image of the German Bundeswehr. The German term is Zentrum Innere Führung (ZInFü).

Tasks

The Center of Leadership Culture defines itself as a training facility for Organizational culture, leadership philosophy and military self-understanding. This leadership culture implies norms and values of the German Basic Law to be embedded in the new German armed forces following World War II.

As a nationally recognized training facility with an international network, it has a leading responsibility for development, shaping and teaching German military leadership culture. At the same time, the Center of Leadership Culture is the focal training facility for developing individual leadership competence.

Under direct command of the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr (GenInspBw), it facilitates the continuous development of the Concept of Leadership and Leadership Culture of the Bundeswehr and serves as the according representative. In its location in Koblenz, military and to a lesser extent civil leaders receive a mission based training within the fields of Leadership, Political Education, Law and Military Discipline. This is supplemented by outbound coaching activities on a voluntary basis.

Moreover, the Center of Leadership Culture is the Central training Installation for the legal branch of the Bundeswehr, providing legal training for legal advisiors and military personnnel alike. Also, it covers social or otherwise internal Issues of the German Armed Forces and issues dealing with security politics.

The aforementioned activities are communicated in a variety of media.

Organisation

It is led by a commander with the rank of a Major General, whereas the Inspector General's Commissioner for education and training has a double headed role as Deputy commander.

The Bundeswehr Military History Museum and the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr are separate offices under the command of the 'Center of Leadership Culture. Apart from that, it also has a branch office in Strausberg.

History

The Center of Leadership Culture was founded in 1956 as the School of the Bundeswehr for Leadership Culture (InFüSBw) in Köln, initially using hotel facilities and subsequently transferred to Koblenz in 1957, taking over a former French Armed Forces Hotel. Since 1981, the installation bears the name Zentrum Innere Führung. The Center of Leadership Culture is unter direct command of the Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany) (BMVg) since 1 August 2017.

Awards

• 1992: Fahnenband of the state of Rheinland-Pfalz
• 2006: Wolf-Graf-von-Baudissin-Medal

External links

• Literature by and about Antisyntagmatarchos/sandbox in the German National Library catalogue
• Search for Antisyntagmatarchos/sandbox in the German Digital Library
• Website of the Center of Leadership Culture in German

Category:1956 establishments Category:Military research of Germany Category:Bundeswehr Category:1956 establishments in Germany Category:Military education and training in Germany