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.

[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.

[4] 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] 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 military foot drill, sports, riding and shooting training, completed by courses in strategies, military and generically history, geography, philosophy, mathematics and physics.