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
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 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.
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.
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 …
The Bundeswehr has successfully monitored maritime areas, participated in training missions, provided logistic and medical support, and conducted combat operations. The Bundeswehr has now completed almost 50 operations abroad.
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:
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: …
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.