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The Bundeswehr is a unique large-scale organisation. It has more than 260,000 personnel, including women and men in uniform as well as civilian staff. More
About Bundeswehr
The Bundeswehr has more than 260,000 personnel, including women and men in uniform as well as civilian staff. Together, they often carry out dangerous duties at home and abroad. Operations are always based on political mandates.
Defence and the Bundeswehr
Defence is the Bundeswehr’s most important mission. While national defence focusses on protecting the population in Germany, the Bundeswehr also engages in collective defence in close cooperation with other countries’ armed forces – which may sometimes involve combat on these countries’ territory.
How the Bundeswehr is organised
The Bundeswehr will have adopted its new structure by April 2025. The intention to turn the Cyber and Information Domain Service –previously a major organisational element – into a fourth service alongside the Army, the Navy and the Air Force has already been implemented.
Mission and Tasks of the Bundeswehr
The Bundeswehr is a parliamentary army. Fundamental decisions are made by the members of the German Bundestag. The budgetary sovereignty of the Parliament is enshrined in the Basic Law: The members of parliament decide how much money the Bundeswehr will receive and how it …
Facts and Figures - Bundeswehr
Since 1992, the Bundeswehr’s military athletes have won a total of 3,876 medals in European championships, world championships and the Olympic Games. They are distributed as follows:
Army - Bundeswehr
Bundeswehr Medical Service; Cyber and Information Domain Service; Joint Support and Enabling Service; Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support; Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services; Further FMOD-departments; Back to: …
The Bundeswehr as an Army on Operations
Until German reunification in 1990, the Bundeswehr’s mission was national and collective defence. The Bundeswehr only participated in operations outside of NATO territory in the event of natural disasters.
The Bundeswehr becomes an “army of unity”
International disarmament and German reunification presented the Federal Republic of Germany with three tasks at once: downsizing the Bundeswehr, disbanding the National People’s Army (NVA Nationale Volksarmee) of the former East Germany, and building up a new kind of Bundeswehr in reunified Germany.
Voluntary Military Service: An Opportunity, Not an Obligation
Military service volunteers are nonrated personnel. Like all military careers in the Bundeswehr, voluntary military service starts with three months of basic training in a recruit company. The training objective is “basic general military capability” for all recruits.