ABOUT US | RK Kassel

About the RK Kassel

The RK Kassel has over 180 members. That’s why it's the biggest chapter in Kassel and one of the biggest regional and state chapters within the VdRBw.

Reserves of every branch of the Bundeswehr (Army, Navy, Air Force, Medical Service, Joint Support) and of each rank are associated with our chapter.

Among our members are Reserves of the German Armed Forces (regular members), active duty soldiers (associate members) and civilians (without a single day in regular military service – associated member).

As member of foreign armed forces you can become an associate member of the RK Kassel. You are allowed to participate in all activities of the VdRBw, even those closed for civilian/associated members.

We are dedicated to our Armed Forces and Security Policy in our spare time and we live and we esteem team spirit and comradery.

Our offer includes

presentations on/about defense and Security Policy,
military training and exercises (medical care, study of weapons, tactics and strategy),
military shooting exercises, military marches, bivouacs, Field Training Exercises,
different departments of our RK,
Kameradschaft - comradery, sociability.

The annual membership fee is 30.- € / 25.39 £/ 33.01 $.

We meet every first Tuesday of the month in Kassel on the site of the former Bundeswehr Lüttich-barracks. We start at 7.30 pm.

Guests are welcome! Have a look on our event schedule. If you have any questions feel free to contact us. You will find your person of contact here! Experience the comradery!! This is what we do:

(Military) training and further education

With experienced instructors and troop- and combat-related training, we keep ourselves in practice, including TCCC/ medical training, NBC defense, signal, tactics, weapons expertise, military fitness and orienteering.

Security Policy

Together with the GSP's Kassel section, at independent, factual and objective security policy events, we address the questions of what (inter)national challenges we are facing and how crises, conflicts and wars progress, arise and can be overcome

Military shooting training

Acquiring and maintaining shooting skills are core elements of every soldier's training and practice. We therefore also offer reserve soldiers opportunities to practice, maintain and develop their own skills in military shooting.

Civilian shooting sports and other Reservist Working Groups (RAG)

We offer departments with special focuses (RAG), e.g. for military training, orientation, competitive marches and shooting sports. While military shooting is reserved for former or active duty soldiers, the RAG offers shooting sports for all (including non-serving) members.

Field trips and tactic trainings

We maintain very good international relationships through our field trips, domestic or abroad. We educate ourselves historically and tactically (as our tour to Flanders Fields or to the former SAS Röhrshain) or in general (troop and company visits).

Competition

There are many competitive events across Germany and internationally, of varying sizes, where reservists measure their skills and knowledge among themselves. Our RK regularly and successfully takes part in such competitions - we even organize some of them ourselves! Are you interested? Then join in!

Commemoration

Commemorating the fallen and victims of war and violence on Remembrance Day is part of the tradition of our RK. We also carry out other commemorative events (e.g. for the Good Friday Battle) or support them at home and abroad (e.g. as honor guards in Tyne Cot Cemetery or in the Menin Gate in Belgium).

Kameradschaft

The most important, the unifying element and what sets our community apart from all others is camaraderie. Anyone who didn't have the privilege of seeing them on duty as a soldier (or similar in emergency services) can get to know them with us, because: we live Kameradschaft/camaraderie!