Army Materiel Command ( Denmark ) Army Materiel Command ( ) , short " HMAK " , was the Royal Danish Army ' s institution in all matters of material . That included supply , maintenance and production . Anything from tanks to the sunglasses of troops or which kind of chocolate is in the field ration s . It was a Level . II command authority , directly under the Defence Command . Before the merger with the air force and navy materiel commands into the new unified Defense Materiel Command , FMT . HMAK was until its end , the oldest institution of the military of Denmark and could trace its history back to 1602 . It was run like a modern company , with depots and workshops located all over the country . It employed roughly 1100 people , with 700 of them located in Hjørring . The central authority was located in Hjørring , it has now been taken over by the Defense Materiel Command , as its headquarter . History . In 1596 it was thought that it would be a good idea to get an overview over all the war - material in the Kings inventory . So in 1597 the counting and collection in armouries began , primarily to locations in or around Copenhagen and the Kings castle . In 1598 the construction of the main armoury was begun , called " Tøjhuskomplekset " ( today this is known as " Tøjhusmuseet " ) . Tøjhuskomplekset was to be the main armoury for storage , maintenance and production of the Kings war - material , for both the Army and Navy . Hans Kost was its first chief and he got his commission on August 18 , 1602 . This day is therefore counted as the origin of HMAK , which celebrated its 400 anniversary in August 2002 . Tøjhuskomplekset was fully finished in 1604 . From 1615 the Artillery - corps handled the administration of the armies material needs . From 1675 the engineers - corps also took some part in this . This worked all the way to 1762 , after which a lot of smaller more specified branches took administration of their respective areas . In 1909 " Army Technical Corps " ( ) , short " HTK " was formed to take organizational command of some of all those administration areas . Still numerous departments , companies , regiments and corps to handle material came and went doing the next 60 years , some under HTK some independent . HMAK was formed November 1 , 1968 , by combining " Army Technical Corps " , " Engineer Technical Service " , " Army Signal Service " , " The Weapon Armoury " , as well as some smaller areas of other troops , into one organization . The organization was a central authority with three " assembling areas " ( Parkområder ) , named " Nordjyske Parkområde " , " Sydjyske Parkområde " and " Sjællandske Parkområde " . November 1 , 1971 the central authority relocated to Hjørring . In 1983 " Nordjyske Parkområde " and " Sydjyske Parkområde " were combined into " Jyske Parkområde " . In January 1991 a new re - organization saw the light of day . HMAK was organized into " Army Supply Service " ( Hærens Forsyningstjeneste ) , " Army Technical Service " ( Hærens Tekniske Tjeneste ) , " Jutland assembling area " ( Jyske Parkområde ) , " Zealand assembling area " ( Sjællandske Parkområde ) and " Munition Arsenal " ( Ammunitionsarsenalet ) . In 1997 " Jutland assembling area " and " Zealand assembling area " was combined into " Army assembling area " ( Hærens Parkområde ) .