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USAREUR Rebuild Program
US Army, Europe
Looking for more information from military/civilian personnel assigned to or associated with the U.S. Army in Germany from 1945 to 1989. If you have any stories or thoughts on the subject, please contact me.

Engr Facilities
Backnang Rebuild Plant
Erlangen Rebuild Plant
Fulda Rebuild Plant
Kassel Rebuild Plant
Nuernberg Rebuild Plant
Stuttgart Rebuild Plant


  Ord Facilities
Aalen Rebuild Shop
Bad Cannstatt Vehicle Park
Boeblingen Depot
Butzbach Depot
Esslingen Depot
Karlsfeld Depot
Mainz Depot
Neckarsulm Rebuild Shop
Ober Ramstadt Depot
Pirmasens Depot
Rhine Depot
Schwäbisch-Gmünd Rebuild Shop
Waiblingen Rebuild Shop

QM Facilities
Marburg Reclamation Depot

Facilities in Italy

USAFE Facilities
Ulm Depot
Weinheim Depot


Research Request
 
1. U.S. Army Rebuild Plants
Requester: Webmaster
Subject: If you were assigned to (US personnel) or worked at (local nationals) one of the Ordnance, Engineer, or Quartermaster Rebuild Plants, I would be very interested in hearing from you. Please help me to document the history and accomplishments of these plants. (Sie können auch auf deutsch schreiben.)
Contact: webmaster
 
EUCOM / USAREUR Rebuild Program
 
1950
The Ordnance rebuild shops are located at:
Aalen Ordnance Rebuild Shop (), 7845th Ord Gp -- now known as Maschinenfabrik Alfing Kessler GmbH
Böblingen Ordnance Rebuild Shop (), 7845th Ord Gp
Esslingen Ordnance Rebuild Shop (), 7845th Ord Gp
Karlsfeld Ordnance Depot ()
Kassel Ordnance Shop ()
Neckarsulm Ordnance Rebuild Shop ()
Schwaebisch Gmuend Ordnance Rebuild Shop (), 7845th Ord Gp -- operated by Daimler-Benz A.G.
Waiblingen Ordnance Rebuild Shop ()
 
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, April 21, 1950)
The Kassel Ordnance Shop employs about 1,500 Germans.
 
1953
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, Dec 8, 1953)
The USAREUR Ordnance Division (USAREUR Ord Officer is Brig Gen Earl S. Gruver) has announced that several USAREUR ordnance installations have been renamed to correspond more closely to their mission. Under the new system, these ordnance installations are named as either maintenance or supply depots, with the maintenance depots further broken down by type of maintenance performed.

New designations of 51st Ordnance Group installations:
Esslingen Ord Maint Depot (Auto)
Boeblingen Ord Maint Depot (Auto)
Schwaebisch-Gmuend Ord Maint Depot (Auto)
Karlsfeld Ord Maint Depot (Auto)
Aalen Ord Maint Depot (Auto)
Butzbach Ord Maint Depot (Armament)
Mainz Ord Maint Depot (Armament Fire Control)

New designations of 53rd Ordnance Group installations:
Pirmasens Ord Supply Depot
Rhine Ord Supply Depot
Mannheim Ord Supply Depot

All other USAREUR ordnance installations retain their former designations.
 
Engineer Rebuild Facilities
 
1950
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, Dec 12, 1950)
The EUCOM Engineer Division operates six rebuild plants in Germany with the mission of rehabilitating and returning to stock US Army engineer equipment in Europe. Since 1947, when the program was initiated, over 4,000 lines of equipment with a total value of $37 million have been rebuilt under this program. The plants are run under the supervision of the Maintenance Division, Hanau Engineer Depot.

The rebuild program averages about 200 major items and 150 minor items of equipment a month (averaging a value of over $1.3 million).

The plants are:
Daimler Benz Plant in Stuttgart: opened in the fall of 1947 (by the spring of 1949, the other five plants had been added to the program). This plant mainly rebuilds truck-mounted and crawler cranes.

MAN Plant in Nuernberg (): rebuilds tractors.

Fulda Plant: rebuilds generators.

Backnang Plant: rebuilds road construction machinery.

Frieseka and Hopfner Plant in Erlangen-Bruck: repairs engineer trailers, machine-shop equipment and other items.

Henschel Locomotive Works in Kassel: rebuilds miscellaneous types of engineer equipment from small pumps to large crawler-mounted cranes.
 
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