The experience the Infantry School gained from the training of German soldiers for the deployment under UNOSOM II in the spring of 1993 as well as the positive feedback from the theatre of operations indicated the need for a central training establishment that would be able to draw on and develop the expertise attained with a view to future operations. Thus, the Directive issued by the Chief of Staff of the German Army on 25 August 1994 gave the German Infantry School in Hammelburg an additional task. The Infantry School's VIII Training Division received the separate mission to prepare soldiers for operations abroad. This laid the foundations for what was to evolve into the Bundeswehr UN Training Centre.

Faced with increasing numbers of students and ever-larger force contingents that required pre-deployment training, the Infantry School considered it necessary to request a new structure and to reorganise accordingly by late 1999.

With its official activation on 27 October 1999, the Bundeswehr UN Training Centre became an independent element of the Infantry School and soon evolved into a national and international hallmark for the training of military and civilian personnel for conflict prevention and crisis management operations.

An ever increasing number of international commitments of Germany and its armed forces led to a fundamental reorganisation of the training centre and to the decision to considerably increase its personnel strength from October 2009. Along with that, the Training Centre was separated from the Infantry School, became largely autonomous and was assigned additional tasks as part of the training of soldiers, civilian personnel and policemen.