Lüneburg Academy

*Advanced School of Special Sciences of a Special Type [De Jure only]* (1909 to 1914)

Ordnance Office of Security Police *(1933 to 1935)*
*Artillerieschule Lüneburg* (1935 to 1945)

*AußPäHoch Niedersachsen Lüneburg* (1971 to 1985)

*Japanese Influenced Germania Academy* (1985 to 2003)

***Hanseatic Lüneburg Academy*** (April 1, 2003 to Present Time)

### Class

School-Carrier

The **Lüneburg Academy** is one of the schools from Ace Und Panzer. It is one of the many institutions that was accepted to participate to the second bracket of the 63rd National High School Sensha-Dō Tournament. Its theme, inventory, students, and origin all came from Germany.

## Overview

The **Hanseatic Lüneburg Academy** is a German-themed school located in Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture. Before its transition to the Japanese authority, Lüneburg Academy is once known as the *Japanese Influenced Germania Academy* or JIGA for short, it was located in its current eponymous location, Lüneburg, Germany.

Currently, the Schulführer of the school is Johannes Wittmann, a Nobility Ace and a Panzer Ace who attained the moniker of "Rommel". And so, by definition of his authority in the school, both the Wittmann family and the Leopold are its primary sponsors, with the latter becoming the main catalyst for transcending the status of the school from regional to national, and soon international.

## Background

Based in Naruto City in the Tokushima Prefecture. The Lüneburg Academy is one of the newest schools established in Japan, and one of the few that was granted the permission to allow its teams to participate Japan's many traditionalistic sports, this includes the newly desegregated Sensha-dou between the males and females. As a school originally based from Germany, it was land-locked at first before it was integrated onto a School-Ship, and thus the Hanseatic Lüneburg Academy was established.

### History

Lüneburg's history came into existence when the Kingdom of Prussia annexed the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866. When Prussia reorganized their captured land, they also reorganized their Army, and thus when the District of Hanover was formed, they were also included to this reorganization. Created from the mind of Helmuth von Moltke, the *Kriegsspiel-Abteilungen* (Wargames Departments) were instituted across Prussia, and one of them is the *Stabsakademie-Hinterlandbranchen* (Hinterland Branches Staff Academy), under this consortium of branches school is Lüneburg's predecessor: the Linger Artillery Department School.

#### The Branches of Hinterland

The Hinterland Branches Staff Academy was a specialized War Academy designed by Moltke the Elder to properly train his personal staff consisting of 12 talented officers. Considered as an earliest form of a "Think Tank" due to its nature that publishes articles and studies, and even draft legislations concerning the military structure of Prussia and soon the Imperial Germany. This one-of-a-kind institution produced efficiency within the General Staff, and to an extent, the entire Army as well. The Staff Academy was located in Hamburg adjacent to the Prussian Military Academy before it was relocated to Hanover.

The Staff Academy tackles multiple subjects: such as theoretical studies, surveying, mathematics, science, geography, language, military literature and general history. Though as it works like an ordinary Staff Academy like the Prussian Staff College, the way that this Academy works is that all chosen 12 Officers are divided evenly by 4 and are stationed across the Lunenburg Heath and guide their own schools called Branch Departments, while majority of the officers in this Academy would continue their task as students of this prestigious academy alongside the aforementioned Staff College.

The School itself was one big institution that practiced and utilized all forms of warfare. But thanks to its design and purpose, the School had 3 Branch Departments in different locations across the region that was designed to tackle specific types of units in the battlefield. And these are:

* Linger Artillery Department School in Lüneburg
* Seydlitz Cavalry Department School in Munster
* Wunsch Infantry Department School in Soltau

##### Linger Artillery Department

The Linger Artillery Department School is a branch school of Hinterland that solely dedicated itself in experimenting and executing plans related to Artillery. Artillery Officers in this school honed their skills in countering the *Unsicherheit im Krieg* (Uncertainty in War), developing ways to counter the realm of uncertainty, in which they regard the state of foes and allies alike, and the strength and position it lies. Even though they're specialized in Artillery warfare, they are still allowed to teach and review the same courses as Hinterland, albeit the basics of the basics. Out of the 12 chosen officers, 4 of them will be stationed in this department and will undergo a 1-year field study before they transfer to the other two Departments of Hinterland.

This Artillery Department would result the formation of Lüneburg Academy through transformation.

##### Seydlitz Cavalry Department

The Seydlitz Cavalry Department School is a branch school that capitalizes the importance of Cavalry placement during both pre-planning and wartime operations. Officers in this small School in Munster are trained to hone their skills, particularly their *Fingerspitzengefühl* (Finger Tips Feeling) in which it is the ability of having great situational awareness, and the ability to respond most appropriately and tactfully. Like its other two subordinate branch schools, they also offer both courses seen in Hinterland HQ and additional lessons such as Riding.

Seydlitz would later transform into the Panzertruppenschule in the mid 20th century.

##### Wunsch Infantry Department

The Wunsch Infantry Department School is tasked to analyze the past and current conflicts and published accounts of them and lessons learned involving Infantry, and thus they leaned more towards documenting these pieces rather than planning their actually Infantry unit compared to its two other subordinate schools through wargames and such. Though since they prioritized in learning about the lessons of war, Officers in this branch has more tendency to perfect their ability to *Coup d'œil* ("Stroke of [the] Eye"), the ability to discern at one glance the tactical advantages and disadvantages of the terrain.

Wunsch would later develop into the Jägerschule in the following decades.

#### From Staff to War

The Hinterland Staff Academy would soon developed into a War Academy, specialized in training both Staff Members and promising Officers. Though the principles remained on that courses they would teach, but slowly as the years continued under the control of the *Oberste Heeresleitung* (Supreme Army Command), they became obsessed in perfecting the methods which had gained victory in the late nineteenth century. And thus, military maneuvers are often hosted and the hierarchy begun to form, creating this regimented environment that unlike its predecessor, though this created brilliant officers, staff members, and even generals.

The Hinterland's branch schools would still continue to work independently same as its inauguration few decades prior, but with the increase demand of preparation towards the inevitable conflict, these schools started to become more specialized in their respective courses, and as a result, some of their general courses relating other subjects were removed and replaced them with the necessary. Alongside this, two additional branch schools were introduced into the system of the Hinterland Branches, these are: The Adalbert Naval School in Amt Neuhaus and the Field Flier's School in Uelzen. With the latter having an amicable relationship with the Linger Artillery Department, while in the case of the Adalbert Naval School, this school would form a partnership with the Mürwik Naval School in 1910.

Hinterland and its branches would soon developed into different schools in the next Reich.

##### Affiliation in the Kiautschou Bay

Officers of the Hinterland were sent on the Kiautschou Bay as a military exercise and document the land. All 5 branch schools also sent their representative to this staff ride in the Far East. They were stationed in the city of Tsingtau and continued their duties there, additionally, they were also permitted to help the development of the leased Territory with their suggestions and ideas helping *Chinese Committee* in 1902 as temporary members of the Committee.

After the initial military exercise resulted the success to the Officers of the Hinterland, additional missions where sent there to aid the ever-growing development of Kiautschou. Though their initial goal there is to survey the land, the governor of territory, Oskar von Truppel, would encourage these officers to try and manage the many departments of the territory as per his request to the Hinterland's School President (Schulpräsident), which it was granted without hiccups. Now, these officers were sent under a new mission for management; learning skills necessity in governance in contrast to their staff ride there.

Truppel's idea would spark the interest of a certain Sinologist there, Otto Franke. Franke wanted a University to be enacted in the port city of Tsingtau, albeit receiving constant rejection from Truppel himself, the *Advanced School of Special Sciences of a Special Type* was established in 1909 after Franke received firm backing from both Tirpitz and German Envoys in Beijing. And so with the University developed, this too come with the officers showcasing their talent to the first batch of students there, teaching them German, Geography, and Sports. Their actions were voluntary, though their adept knowledge across subjects made them invaluable to the school itself, impressing even Sun Yat-sen. But that was short-lived when these officers were recalled for the upcoming war, changing their post from management to defense with Governor Alfred Meyer-Waldeck as their superior for the defense of Tsingtao in 1914.

##### First Contact with the Japanese

When word was received that the Great War has finally started and Germany rejected the ultimatum sent from Japan to them, this caused the officers in Tsingtau to start their preparation in defending their positions against the Allies. When the Siege of Tsingtao occurred, the Officers held their ground for almost 2 months, even if they were bombarded by Naval Artillery and was blockade by the much superior Anglo-Japanese forces. Though the troops defended the place with valiantly, using their developed tactics from the Hinterland and its branches schools' courses, they weren't able to secure a victory against the Allies and they surrender to them by 7th of November.

The remaining Officers that survived the siege were sent to the Bandō Prisoner-of-War camp in Naruto City, Japan. These officers would soon developed a friendship with Lieutenant Colonel Matsue Toyohisa, the Camp Commander at that time. Through Toyohisa's guidance, Prisoners had the option of renting land for sports or agriculture, wooden stalls were set up as a market where prisoners could sell handicrafts, food and beverages, and other products. And with the Officers knowing how to govern the people through their experience in Tsingtao, they soon started to create an environment where the camp slowly transformed itself a small village where a lively exchange exists among the inmates there.

In December 1919 and January 1920, the majority of the prisoners were released. The majority went back to Germany, but some people made Japan their permanent home, including some of the Officers there.

This interaction with the Japanese is also the first time they met the Nishizumis, and its school, Kuromorimine Girls' Academy.

#### Hinterland's Dissolution

Hinterland and its fellow Branch Schools were shut down as the result of the Treaty of Versailles. Hinterland's existence is a violation to the treaty alongside all the Military Academies across the weakened state of Germany, and thus when the Treaty stated that "The Great German General Staff and all similar organizations shall be dissolved and may not be reconstituted in any form." They decided to shut down Hinterland and its 5 branches. Hinterland Branches Staff Academy was shut down in January 21, 1920.

It wasn't until few years later that the Hinterland would reestablished itself again, but it is under the guise of an Educational Office as it has many roles to play in the upcoming rearmament of Germany.

#### Heath's National Archives

Being a Staff Academy before it got shut down. Hans von Seeckt decided to rethink and rewrite the German doctrine as well as reorganize the Army to comply with the Versailles rules. And so, when he decided to create the *Truppenamt* (Troop Office), he set up the Hinterland Branch Staff Academy under the disguise of Heath's National Archives in Hanover, though this Office is secretly helping up the many sections of General Staff through training officers and rewriting their tactics and strategies.

The original 3 branch schools were also reinstated by Seeckt as well, and they were disguised as Weapons Office, Transportation Department, and Branch Inspectorate respectively. Meanwhile both the Adelbert and Field Flier were reestablished when Hitler begun to aggressively set up the pieces of Nazi Germany's rearmament in 1933. The following below are the original branch schools and their cover names:

* Ordnance Office of Security Police (Ordnungsamt der Sicherheitspolizei) - Formerly known as Linger Artillery Department School. This office is meant for storing weaponry for "Security Police", though secretly it begins to store weapons created by multiple industries such as Krupp, Mauser, Mercedes-Benz, Rheinmetall, and many more.
* Association for the Preparation of the Motors (Verein für die Aufbereitung von Motoren) - Formerly known as Seydlitz Cavalry Department. This "Association" is a cover name for the preparation of transportations provided by the Industries who supported the slow rearmament of Germany. Companies such as Volkswagen, Opel, BMW Motorrad, and many more.
* Defense Oversight Office (Aufsichtsamt der Verteidigung) - Formerly called the Wunsch Infantry Department. The Inspectorate Office is tasked to oversee the actions of the Ministry of the Reichswehr, though it is a front and a bluff to fool the Allies and the Treaty as it uses its honorable duty to cover the tracks of the Truppenamt and its associates through faking reports they sent to the Allied Disarmament Committee.

#### Formation of the Dritte Staff Academy

When the Third Reich succeeded the Weimar Republic by 1933, they begun to focus the expansion of their rearmament heavily, along with this expansion was the recruit of Officers to the new Government. With Germany's policies getting aggressive, by 1935 when they revealed and showed defiance to the Treaty that restrained them, the Dritte Staff Academy emerged as the successor of Heath's National Archives. Thousands of NCOs enlisted to this new Staff Academy and many more were trained or in reserved before, this alongside the many plans now being unearthed from the covers of its former shell, Militarization finally started to ink the new institution.

Alongside this new Staff Academy, the previous branch disguised schools showed their true colors. Changing their names overnight and showed the world their purpose within the elaborate scheme made by the Germans in this web of rearmament, turning them into full-fledged schools; becoming independent even from Dritte's affiliation. These remerged schools are called...

##### Waffen-Ordensburg

Waffen-Ordensburgen (Weapon Order Castles, singular *Ordensburg*) were schools meant to train recruits into soldiers or/and officers in contribution to the rearmament and eventually the war that it followed. These schools were built from the ground up and had the modern structures with extensive facilities. For instance, the Artillerieschule Lüneburg has one of the largest field for a training school, while the Panzerschule has its own sports league which evoked a lot of recruits from the Hitler Youth.

The 5 following Waffen-Ordensburg are:

* **Artillerieschule Lüneburg** (Artillery School Lüneburg) - An artillery training school and artillery range. This school is used as a warehouse hub for the Kummersdorf due to school's accessibility to the heathland near to it, proving a great site for testing artillery and sometimes captured vehicles from both the Allies and Soviets.
* **Panzerschule** (Armored School) - Often regarded as the successor of the Panzerschule Kama that was disbanded in 1933. This school was set up by the Panzerwaffe, being one of the three major schools alongside Panzertruppenschule I and II. Located in adjacent to the Panzertruppenschule I in Munster, the Panzerschule is more or less towards the recruits who wanted to join the Panzertruppenschulen, enduring 6 weeks of training before transferring themselves for a 12-14 weeks training in a Panzertruppenschule.
* **Soltau Jägerschule** (Soltau Infantry School) - A branch school of the Heer. This school primarily trains soldiers and officers/instructors that were sent elsewhere and teach pockets of recruits in different location across the country and its captured territory. Using the documents it gathered from its previous user, the Jägerschule was also used as an experimentation ground for Infantry tactics given by the German General Staff.
* **Uelzen Fliegerflotteschule** (Uelzen Air Fleet School) - Set up by the Luftwaffe, it is one of the 14 Luftwaffe Pilot Schools that trained pilots for the Air branch of the Wehrmacht. The school also has its own air transport department, called the Abteilung Luftverkehr (Air Transport Department) where it's often used by its fellow subordinate schools to transport both materials and personnel across the country, specifically the Artillerieschule Lüneburg.
* **Elbe Marine Zweigschule** (Elbe Naval Branch School) - A small subordinate school of the Naval Academy Mürwik in Flensburg. This school was meant to give its sailors the insights of being in the navy through using the river of Elbe as a route from Amt Neuhaus to the North Sea. Though what sets this apart from other naval academies was that this school stood on top of a long elongated learning raft.

#### Elimination of the Dritte and the Waffen-Ordensburgen

When Germany was defeated in 1945 and the victors held the remains of the country. The first thing they did to disarm the nation was the elimination of the many military institutions there, this includes the Waffen-Ordensburgen and the Dritte, with the latter especially as the institute was a redundant when there was already another War College that existed much earlier than it. It wouldn't take long before the schools were introduced again but with a different means of reasoning and ending.

#### Creation of the Lüneburg Academy

When the Leuphana University of Lüneburg was founded in 1946, some people were considering to open the former schools around Lüneburg Heath in order to reuse the old facilities that once flourished in the area. Though with their budgets tight and their matter elsewhere across the country, it wasn't until the start of the Brandt Administration in 1969 that revitalized these schools again. With many reforms happening across the country while their economy starts to stabilized thanks through the economic miracle they experienced decades before, with money on their hand, the Lüneburg Academy (*not to be confused with the other Lunenburg)* was established in 1971 as a secondary school and a subordinate to Leuphana University. And while the School isn't a Military School anymore, the former range there was used as a sporting field for both athletics and Combatants of Lüneburg's Recrelympic Clubs.

The School's name before it was renamed as Lüneburg Academy was the *Außenstelle der Pädagogischen Hochschule Niedersachsen, Gymnasium Lüneburg* (Branch of the Lower Saxony University of Education, Gymnasium Lüneburg) or commonly referred as the Gymnasium Lüneburg, but officially, the school is called as the AußPäHoch Niedersachsen Lüneburg.

The other fellow schools of Lüneburg were also reinstated and their facilities were used once again, but for educational purposes now. One of them is the Niedersachsen University.

##### Affiliation with Japan

When Gymnasium Lüneburg was created, the first batch of employees there were the *Gastarbeite*r or Guest Workers. Coming from many nations that made bilateral agreements with the current Federal Republic of Germany, these nations sent their people to help the problem of FRG's Labor shortage, and many of them were the Japanese, especially those who came from the Bandō Prisoner-of-War camp. And due to the high concentrated amount of Japanese in Lunenburg, Teachers from Kuromorimine Girls' Academy also contributed to the steady development of the School. This led to the introduction of subjects such as Japanese Literature and Japanese language.

#### From Branch to Nihonjin Gakkō

With the school being successful developed into a school on its own thanks to the guest workers who previously helped its development, the Japanese in particular were keenly interested in helping out the establishment flourished, expanding their support by providing permanent employment to the school. And thanks to this, members of the cabinet of the both secondary department and the University approached the Federal Ministry of Education and Science and the Federal of Foreign Affairs to reevaluate the Secondary School as it wanted to become a hub for *Cultural Exchange with the Japanese*.

Though many attempts were tried and rejected, the persevered committee finally received the support and affirmation of these Federal Agencies and let the school become independent, private, and a Nihonjin Gakkō. And thus, from the AußPäHoch Niedersachsen Lüneburg, it became the *Japanese Influenced Germania Academy* or JIGA for short was formed in 1985. As an independent private school, the prisoners from the Bandō camp became its sponsors with their influence reaching far and wide, making the Nihonjin Gakkō stand out that would soon begun to rival other growing schools in the region and soon across the country.

#### JIGA's Rise and Maritime Expansion

JIGA not only became a cultural hub between the Germans and the Japanese, but also a competitive school at best, initiating itself with friendly matches with neighboring schools through Recrelympics; the language that the school speaks well highly of. Though JIGA is mediocre when it comes to sports and education, with the latter's only advantage is that they offer specialized courses such as Japanese Literature, the thing that made them stand out is that the school is managed by a famous Nobility Ace Family from Bavaria. Ever since she graduated from the Niedersachsen University, her position, heritage, and abilities made her an exemplar member of both JIGA and Germany, easily granting herself up with the position of *Attaché Chancellor* for the school's exchange programs with Japan.

Though their rise at first was slow and almost stagnant, that soon slowly changed with the son of the said Nobility Ace became the member of the School's Panzerkraft team. Aggressive and unpredictable, his popularity started to reach around the region and soon reach across the country, his career would ultimately reached him the spot as a member of the PS9, a consortium of the best of the best Aces and their schools across Germany, though only for the secondary division and not the post-secondary/university level.

These events led to JIGA finally had a contract with the shipbuilding company, the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft. Through the help of their new sponsor, Otto Leopold himself, the School-Ship of *Peter Strasser* was designed and built only for 4 years, a one-of-a-kind achievement that practically the German shipbuilders mastered during their long centuries of honing their shipbuilding gigantic artificial islands. The Ship was commissioned in April 1, 2003. And with the school being able to enjoy its Maritime Expansion, with a new environment and a much larger courses to offer, the name of JIGA was now replaced with a more adequate name of the Hanseatic Lüneburg Academy, headed by none other but by Miamoto "Rommel" Wittmann, the daughter of the famous Mikaela Wittmann.

#### Present Time

Ever since Hanseatic Lüneburg Academy was constructed on top of Peter Strasser, the school continued to raise its fame through Recrelympics, especially during the Vollsky Tournament where another Wittmann made his debut as a ruthless Panzer Ace like his brother, albeit experiencing backlash and criticism and even discriminations from its fellow subordinates, the masked Ace prevailed itself, marking its name as the mysterious "Black Baron" before disappearing from the sights of the media and the school through unexplained explanation.

Meanwhile, the School President, Rommel, continued his efforts to form partnerships with many more schools in and outside Germany. And thanks to his efforts, the School was selected to participate to the upcoming 63rd National High School Sensha-Dō Tournament set in Japan, and since the school is technically a Nihonjin Gakkō, this was enough to allow the school to participate the recently revitalized tournament, or the school got itself a shady deal with Japan's MEXT as what the Media concluded at, though none of them were confirmed by the Leopold and the high members of the School.

Though it remains to be unseen if whether or not that the Academy would be the victors of this upcoming tournament.

### Location

The School was formerly located in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony. Lüneburg is a town located on the same district that shares its name. Currently, the school is now situated on Naruto City, with its port acting as their official place for embarkation and disembarkation.

Though by sheer coincidence, Naruto City's twin-sister is Lüneburg, Germany, though this wasn't the reason why JIGA picked the City as its home port, but rather they picked it by its history with Germany, specially this City was the location of the Bandō Prisoner-of-War Camp, where members of the Hinterland were sent there, including many founding members of the School.

### School-Ship

Lüneburg Academy's School-Ship was based on the designs of the German Aircraft Carrier, the Flugzeugträger Peter Strasser. The commission for it was awarded to the *Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft* to build the vessel at the port of Kiel. It took them a staggering 4 years to build the ship, normally the size of that vessel normally requires an average of 10-13 years to construct. This was thanks to German ingenuity and advanced shipbuilding capabilities, rivaling that from companies from countries such as France, Great Britain, and the United States.

Through the classification from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, they categorized this School-Ship as a **School-Carrier**. For the dimensions of the ship, it is approximately the same size as Kuromoromine's *Graf Zeppelin*.

## Culture

Lüneburg's culture is both based from its history and theme. Ever since the school has its root in the early mid 19th century, the culture of it throughout its history slowly gets mixed with the current institution. And thanks to its influence with the Japanese, it even made them stand out as the environment is a mixed between the East and West, a feat commonly found on School-Ships which its main focus is cultural exchange; a staple of the world's current policy in regards of foreign affairs and education.

### Architecture

Lüneburg's Surface Deck is teeming with heterogenous architecture. Being a school that predates during the years of Prussia, it is a necessity for the school to show its history through its buildings and establishments. Their layout follows their eponymous' location, which is: *"Mons, Pons, Fons"* meaning "Hill, bridge, spring", meaning that the school is littered with hills, a couple of bridges, and a myriad of springs, reminiscent to that in their origin location.

Like any schools which meant to appeal its potential students, the school's architecture style is an amalgamation of Jugendstil, Rundbogenstil, Biedermeier, and eclecticism. All four of them are derived from historicism, a style that draws inspiration from the past.

The examples below are the buildings seen on Lüneburg, alongside their reference and purpose of these establishment.

The Commercial Buildings across the Surface Deck were also built with the emphasis of Baroque Architecture, Renaissance style, and Classical style. An example of these buildings is the Wedekindhaus-esque building inside the town's square, the main appeal of this building other than its extravagant features is its purpose, acting as both a residence house and a konbini store in the area.

The Industrial Buildings meanwhile were developed through Industrial-styled Architecture, though some buildings were given special exceptions such as the Automobile Sector as they followed a more modern approach towards its development, and this is best seen near the location of the Automobile Park (German: *Autopark*), a famous tourist attraction for car and tank enthusiasts.

#### Dormitory

Alongside their recreated buildings from the past. Even their dormitory complex offers a hindsight of what might one expect in Lower Saxony, they masterfully blended the style of old with modern integration, and choice they made is called the New Houses (or Neue Häuser). This style used the basis of a Low Saxon House, a type farmhouse found in northern Germany and the easternmost Netherlands, which combines living quarters, byre and barn under one roof. Though thanks to their new application to Lüneburg, some features were removed and replaced with the necessity for students, but the core of the layout still remained, such as the open kitchen for students to use and the open dinner area that it accompanied.

Rooms are divided evenly, with one floor consists of 6 dormitory rooms. Each room has one bed and sometimes have bunk-bed depending on the size of the New House. It offers a bathroom but without a bathtub, since bathtubs are replaced with onsens provided by the New House. Rooms are segregated by Gender but the facilitator can overturn this depending on his/her judgement, though the option is detest by the Schülerstag.

(For additional reference of the Dormitory, check this modern replica of the **House**)

### Uniform

The students' uniform of Lüneburg mostly uses of the four colors: Black, Light Blue, Dark Gray, and Light Gray. The boys are required to wear light gray Blazer, a light blue button-down shirt, dark gray trousers, and black matching shoes and necktie. The girls meanwhile also wore the same uniform, albeit the trousers is replaced with a skirt.

To every students' uniform, there's the emblem of JIGA emblazoned on their breast pocket on their left side of the Blazer.

### Lüneburg's Student Airlines

Lüneburg Academy offers a myriad of courses and a multitude opportunities to join the many extracurricular activities and clubs it has, including the Air Transport Company Club (or the Club der Lufttransportunternehmens German), commonly abbreviated to the Lufttransnehmens. The said club is the main student airlines for the school, doing duties such as transporting goods and passengers, both students from other vessels and tourist from mainland. And if their time is free, club members do maintenance work and facilitate the school's Air Traffic Control.

Their origin came by the 1970s where remnants of the Uelzen Air Fleet School amalgamated with the newly established Lüneburg Academy and Luphana University through a contract in which it offers service to both of them, but later departed with Lüneburg Academy due to its amicable relationship ever since in the 1940s.

The club is often mistaken to the Lufthansa by some people.

### Lüneburg's Intelligence Service

The Spionage Dienst or the Espionage Service, with the former commonly called the **SD**, is the Intelligence Agency of Lüneburg, and to an extent to its Recrelympics as well. Its front name is simply called the Information Club or **IC** for short to fool its rivals outside the school. Typically the students in this club do clandestine operations, espionage, intelligence analysis, and public monitoring to the students onboard and over-vessel in some cases. The Service's existence is only known by its club members and the Schülerstag, with an addition of few individuals knowing this secret department within the façade of the club.

This school is sometimes seen collaborating with other Information Services, one notable example of this is the Black Forest Girls' Academy Intelligence Agency, the Anzwehr.

### The Beethoven's Orchestra Club

Lüneburg's pride and joy club apart from its competitive Recrelympic clubs is the Beethoven's Orchestra Club. Musicians of this club would often played the pieces composed by Beethoven himself and sometimes other German composers such as Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn and Philipp Telemann. Every September the Musicians would play Beethoven's iconic piece, the Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, they also played this piece around the first weekend of the month of June and the end of the year as honor to its tradition by origin.

Their Orchestra at first consists of 17 members, but later it went to 20, and to 63, and finally it reached its peak at 74 club members. Currently the Club has 74 members and it continued to stay that way.

## Recrelympics

Lüneburg's Recrelympics dates its history back even during the years of Prussia's existence, though small and cannot even be qualified by modern description fitted to be a part of Recrelympics, it still continued to be regimented and competitive in the sporting field. Their unified team, called the Sportsmacht composes four teams. The Soft Iron users of **Boden Heer**, the Armored Pincers of the **Panzerwaffe**, the Aero Circus of the **Fliegende Zircus**, and the Maritime Merchants of the **Schlauchbootmarines***.*

### Infantry-Craft - Boden Heer

Their Infantry-Craft's main team is called the *Boden Hee*r. This team of Infantries participates the Disciplines entailed to the Infantry-Craft, including Combatry, Recrelympics Dueling, Sword and Close Combat, and Hōhei-dō. Outside of their participation with the disciplines of Infantry Craft, their duties consists of guarding the buildings, public monitoring, and patrolling in cooperation with the School's Police Forces.

Members of this team would wear their gray-green uniforms, and in order to distinguish their uniform from its counterpart and its questionable origin, each member are allowed to add feature to their uniforms.

### Panzerkraft - Panzerwaffe

Lüneburg's main Panzerkraft team composes of many tankers from different clubs that affiliated itself with Panzerkraft. Their *Panzerwaffe* mainly operates in Tankery, Panzer-Stil, and a special unit dedicated to Sensha-dō, though the latter is met with limited forces as per guidance to the rules embedded to this traditional sport, and thus a special unit is made just for it. The latter's sport led to the creation of the Vanguard Sensha-dō Squadron or the VSG for short, it is a team with equal amounts of boys and girls that participates in Sensha-dō for now.

Alongside their duties as athletes for the sport of Panzerkraft and its disciplines, some Tankers (especially those who received the title of *Ace*) became the team(s) field instructor, this group of talented student instructors formed the Lehr Panzers, a training group meant to educate the newcomers of this club.

Tankers and the Aces wear their clad-black battle uniforms, accompanied with a side-cap and their blazons on their tunics, with the latter also carrying their badge of recognition as Aces, the Ace of Spade.

### Aerial-Aces - Fligende Zircus

Apart from its Student Airlines, the other main aviation club of the school is oriented towards Aeronautical combat, simply called the *Fligende Zircus* or Flying Circus. Clad in a palate of different colors, this rainbow flyers of Lüneburg would initiate themselves with sportified dogfights and often do aeronautical shows in air shows across the country. If Lufttransnehmens delivers packages, the Fligende Zircus brings entertainment in Aerial-Aces.

As per guidance to the strict rulings of the International Board of Aerial-Aces, their blue-gray uniform is patched with special safety equipment to ensure their safety and longevity.

### Aquatic-Warfare - Schlauchbootmarines

The Schlauchbootmarines or Dinghy Marines are members of the Lüneburg's Aquatic-Warfare Team, primarily their Simulated Naval Battles. These sailors came from the many clubs that formed to function as a homogenous component to Lüneburg's LNS (the naval prefix of Lüneburg, the Lüneburg Navy Ships) battlefleets, some of them are merchants, maritime engineers, and operators from the dinghy ships and the Peter Strasser.

Dinghy Marines wore their standard blue overalls. Though certain sailors, primarily on the deck would wear a custom blue/white uniform to differentiate themselves with the other mariners in the ship.

## Inventory

According to some analysis by other Intelligent Agency of different schools, Lüneburg is ranked 3rd when it comes to the amount of its Combat Vehicles, only behind the Red Square High Academy and the Yankee Koza High School. The following list are all the equipment that the school uses, both in Recrelympics and non-combat.

### Combat Vehicles

* Panzerkampfwagen 38(t)
* Panzerkampfwagen I
* Panzerkampfwagen II
* Panzerkampfwagen III
* Panzerkampfwagen IV
* Panzerkampfwagen V
* Panzerkampfwagen VI
* Sturmgeschütz III
* Sturmgeschütz IV
* Jagdpanzer 38(t)
* Jagdpanzer IV
* Jagdpanther
* VK 16.02 Leopard
* Heuschrecke 10
* Maus

### Non-Combat Vehicles

* Kleines Kettenkraftrad HK 101 or Kattenkrad
* BMW R75
* Volkswagen Kübelwagen
* Mercedes-Benz W31
* Krupp Protze
* Sd.Kfz. 251 or Hanomags

### Air Fleet

* Messerschmitt Me 323
* Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache
* Junkers Ju 52
* Dornier Do 31
* Ar 232

### Ships

* LNS Gneisenau (based from battleship Gneisenau)
* LNS Deutschland (based from Dreadnaught Deutschland)
* Marinefährprahm
* Pionierlandungsboot 41/43

## **Known Members**

The following list below are the known members of Lüneburg, this list also includes former members as well.

### Schwartz "Arian" Wittmann

Schwartz is the brother of Johannes Wittmann and currently studying in Ōarai Co-Ed Academy as Eirian Haiiro as a spy. And thus it makes him a former school of the Academy. He is a renowned Panzer Ace in the team whose moniker is simply called him the "Black Baron" due to his clad-black uniform and his affiliation with the Wittmann. Nobody knows him that much apart from his (former) teammates and circle of friends within the school.

Schwartz Wittmann is his given name, "Arian" is what he commonly used in his daily life within the School and even outside of it.

### Johannes Wittmann

A third-year student and the Schulführer of Lüneburg and its Schülerstag. Johannes is the brother of Schwartz and heir of the Wittmann Family. Considered as a closet genius though his indolence said otherwise. This Schulführer of Lüneburg is one of the many catalyst that led to the rise in reputation of the school across the region and soon in and outside Germany, through the actions of the Wittmann whose moniker is from a certain German Field Marshal, "Rommel" Wittmann managed to join the PS9 consistently, a feat which was unheard of until now.

### Johann Woll

A second-year student of the Academy. He has close relationship with both the Wittmanns, especially Arian Wittmann. He commanded a Tiger I Tank.

### Kristel Krapp

A second-year student and is affectionally called as the Junior to Arian Wittmann. She commanded a Tiger II Tank.

### Heinz Weber

A second-year student and a former teammate of Arian. His role is the Loader within Team Bauer.

### Nora Wagner

A second-year student and a former teammate of Arian. Her role is the Gunner within Team Bauer.

### Lisa Hirschel

A second-year student and a former teammate of Arian. Her role is the Radio Operation within Team Bauer.

### Thea Reimers

A second-year student and a former teammate of Arian. Her role is the Driver within Team Bauer.

## Theme Music

Through the band of the Beethoven's Orchestra Club, they usually played of the following musical pieces:

* Panzerlied
* Ein Heller und Ein Batzen
* Yorckscher Marsh
* Badonviller Marsch/Banderweiler

## Trivia

* Lüneburg's Intelligence Agency is a pun to the real life Sicherheitsdienst (English: Security Service), the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party.
* The Lufttransnehmen is a nod of Germany's Airliner, the Lufthansa.
* Naruto City, Lüneburg's current location, is associated with city of Lüneburg through a twin-town relationship.
* The S symbol from the Vorhut Sensha-dō Geschwader is a runic alphabet from the elder futhark, an old runic language that was used by the Germanic people.
	+ The S stands for "sowilō", meaning "Sun".
* The number 7 has some significance to Lüneburg Academy.