Its area of responsibility spans across the German states of Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg and northern Bavaria.

The 56 member band has travelled internationally to concerts in Belgium, France, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, and the United States.

[1][2] Its scope of duties include protocol operations such as state visits and military parades, as well as other events such as charity concerts.

It was renamed to the Heeresmusikkorps in July 1994 and the Military District Band III in October 2001. until the end of March 2015, it appeared as a military band music corps III.

Just under a year earlier, on 30 July 2014, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen announced that the northern Thuringian Garnisonstadt Sondershausen military bands will be preserved in Erfurt and the resolution planned for 2017 will not be pursued.