The draft law on a new compulsory military service: Pistorus defines the criteria for mandatory orders

Berlin AFP | The Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) has established the criteria for mandatory drawing up in his draft legislation on new military service. The federal office should “be able to organize the mandatory use of conscripts” with the consent of the German Bundestag, said Mirror On Monday from the draft law. This can be done “if the situation with the defense policy requires this,” and not enough volunteers performed military service.

The call should be possible if the situation with the defense policy “requires the short -term growth of the armed forces, which is not available on a voluntary basis,” is quoted Mirror Further from more than a 50-page draft law. According to the report, the obligatory collection will no longer depend on the fact that the case of tension or conflict will be proclaimed.

First of all, military service is still based on voluntarily. It contains “with a reserve declaration that is mandatory for men and again from the very beginning, as well as mandatory elements.” According to the report, the bill should now be in the office of ministers at the end of August, so that the new military service could begin after the 2026 parliamentary parliamentary party.

Voluntarily for women

Pistorius plans for new military service provide that the questionnaire is originally sent to all young men and women. Men should fill it, this is voluntarily for women. Interest in servicing in the Bundeswehr must be requested. Suitable candidates are then invited to the sample.

In the event of a conflict, against the backdrop of the new requirements of NATO, Bundeswehr will need a total force of 460,000 soldiers. Currently, there are only 182,000 active soldiers and 49,000 active reservists. Pistorius is currently aimed at at least 60,000 additional active soldiers and a total of 200,000 reservists.

Pistorius military service plans also encountered reservations in their own party. At the conference of the SPD party at the end of June, the minister then agreed with the wording, according to which, increasing the attractiveness of military service, ”we achieve the necessary growth of the reserve and the Bundeswehr as a whole.”

All military service providers should be loud Mirror Will be appointed temporary soldiers in the future. This is accompanied by payments in accordance with the Federal Law on Salary, which is much better than previous links to suppliers of voluntarily military services called SO, the magazine said. We are talking about an 80 percent increase. The soldier in the new military service will be then more than 2000 euros.

Throughout the main military service, the draft law says that this is “uniformly defined”, “reported”.Mirror“Continue. According to reports, it should initially be six months.