The Stegskopf was well known for Daaden Training Area (Lager Stegskopf), a military training area first mentioned in 1914 and taken over by the Bundeswehr in 1958, which formed a military area south of Derschen and Emmerzhausen; the mountain being on its northern edge. In the first quarter of 2015, Lager Stegskopf was closed by the Bundeswehr in the wake of their ‘new orientation'. The radar units, Prinz Eugen - Tegetthoff (1943-1945), called themselves the Stegskopfer, because they went to Lager Stegskopf for special training in Radio-frequency engineering. To these units belonged several well known telecommunications engineers and physicists, for example, Alfred Fettweis, Wolf Häfele, Herbert Daniel and Walter Mayer.