Bayerisches Armeemuseum
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 (Bavarian Police Museum) in the Turm Triva in 2012.
He paid particular attention to the First World War and the Bavarian military paintings, such as those by artists like Anton Hoffmann or Louis Braun.
Even more from unknown artists, who have immortalized the events of Bavarian and European military history through their paintings, were collected by Aichner and represent an important asset of the museum today.
[4] In the same year, they also set up a Starfighter in the museum court yard, to which other military historians noted that a reference of the exhibit on the history of the 1683 established and 1918/19 disbanded Bavarian army was difficult to recognize.
In connection with the Bavarian State Garden Show in Ingolstadt in 1992, Aichner developed ambitious expansion plans for his museum.
Therefore, in addition to the previous, not yet fully used headquarters in the New Castle, all historic military buildings on the southern bank of the Danube in Ingolstadt's old town were to be used for expansion.
[5] In March 1993, a tin soldier with SS attributes was offered for sale at the souvenir stall of the museum treasury, which led to investigations in the Armeemuseum for use of markings of unconstitutional organizations.
Minister of Culture, Hans Zehetmair, said at a parliamentary questioning by the Alliance 90/The Greens Chairman, Manfred Fleischer, that he waits for the outcome of the investigation, but regardless of the decision, he believes that the exhibition of objects that had nothing to do with the history of the Bavarian Army and which were considered as "overzealous", were nothing of the such.
Under the organizational roof of the Armeemuseum, the collection was opened as its own Bayerisches Polizeimuseum (Bavarian Police Museum) only after several years of delay, on 19 December 2011, with a concept developed under the new director, Ansgar Reiß.
The controversial surrounding the group because of its relationship to war crimes of the German Wehrmacht Kameradenkreis (circle of comrades), became the basis for the contribution of all of the mountain troops exhibits and documents to the foundation.
It was followed by exhibitions on topics such as the Die Polizei im NS-Staat (police in the Nazi state),[11] König Ludwig II,[12] Militärischer Widerstand gegen Hitler und das NS-Regime (military resistance against Hitler and the Nazi regime),[13] Fotografien aus dem Afghanistan Einsatz der Bundeswehr (photographs from the Afghanistan mission of the Bundeswehr)[14] or Krankenpflege im Ersten Weltkrieg (nursing in the First World War).
Until 1984/85, they were administered by the Bundeswehr, then the Bayerische Armeebibliothek was re-established as part of the Armeemuseum and moved into rooms in the former army bakery in the city center of Ingolstadt.
In addition to various representatives of Bavarian aristocracy and officer corps, counted in 1967, museum director Ernst Aichner was also a student among the founding members.
[35] After the contact between Dumann and the new museum director had normalized,[36] the special exhibition on the Nazi military justice and its victims caused a low point of the relationship.
Museum director Reiß pointed out on demand by the newspaper that he had already informed Aichner by letter in July on this "obvious maladministration"[38] and asked the association to delete the texts.
Aichner stated that he had instructed the administrator of the association website after the notice by Reiß, that the texts which incidentally had not been approved by him, to be remove from the internet.
