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In the previous parts of this series [Part I, cf. ibid. 29, No. 2, 155-182 (1999; Zbl 0962.53032), Part II, ibid. 30, No. 1, 17-47 (2000; Zbl 0974.53039)] the authors studied curves and surfaces in Heisenberg 3-spaces. In the present part they study curvatures and geodesics of the special linear group \(SL_2\mathbb{R}\) provided with a standard left-invariant metric. (A 1-parameter family \(\{g_\lambda\}\) of ``standard metrics'' is defined explicitly). Also the holonomy group of the fibering \(SL_2\mathbb{R}\to H^2\) is studied and its application to control theory is given. One remark to section 3.5: it is correct that not all 1-parameter subgroups of \((SL_2\mathbb{R}, g_\lambda)\) are geodesics and vice versa. Yet, because every such manifold is naturally reductive, all its geodesics are orbits of 1-parameter groups of isometries.