Militär-Historisches Museum Berlin-Gatow
The Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr – Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow traces its story back to 1957, when Helmut Jaeckel began acquiring Wehrmacht soldiers’ personal collections and showing them at Uetersen Airfield. By 1963, a board of trustees had formed to run the new museum, but financial pressure led to operations being handed to the Bundeswehr in 1987. Between 1995 and 1996, the museum relocated to the former airbase at RAF Gatow—an Air Force base that helps explain the museum’s distinctive emphasis on aviation rather than general land warfare. Today, the collection holds more than 200,000 items: 155 aircraft, 5,000 uniforms, and 30,000 books. It includes aircraft stories from multiple eras, with examples ranging from World War I types—such as the Fokker E.III reproduced in the collection—to World War II aircraft like the Bf 109. …
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