diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 9808d71..7c95318 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 [submodule "tmtc/tmtccmd"]
 	path = tmtc/tmtccmd
 	url = https://github.com/spacefisch/tmtccmd.git
+[submodule "tmtc/common_tmtc"]
+	path = tmtc/common_tmtc
+	url = https://egit.irs.uni-stuttgart.de/fsfw/fsfw-example-tmtc-common.git
diff --git a/tmtc/common_tmtc b/tmtc/common_tmtc
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..85abe63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tmtc/common_tmtc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 85abe6371b1e4a4c31650028ba779cdc38bdefb3