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Annual Report 2019 61St Report-Data.Pdf German Bundestag Printed paper 19/16500 19th electoral term 28 January 2020 Information from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces Annual Report 2019 (61st Report) Submitted with the letter of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces of 28 January 2020 pursu- ant to Section 2(1) of the Act on the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces. German Bundestag - 19th electoral tern 3 – Printed paper 19/16500 C o n t e n t s Page Foreword ...................................................................................................................... 5 The year under review in brief ................................................................................... 7 1. 60 years of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces 11 2. Necessary internal reforms and the “Innere Führung – Today” programme 12 3. Administrative management and digitalisation 14 4. The Bundeswehr’s financial resourcing 19 5. Reversal of the personnel trend 20 Training and education landscape at the Bundeswehr ..................................................... 22 Personnel shortages .......................................................................................................... 23 Recruitment ...................................................................................................................... 26 Modernisation of military careers .................................................................................... 32 The Bundeswehr’s internal labour market ....................................................................... 33 Appraisals ........................................................................................................................ 34 Promotion situation .......................................................................................................... 34 Security clearance checks ................................................................................................ 35 Retirement ........................................................................................................................ 37 Civilian initial and follow-on occupational training ........................................................ 37 Deficiencies in the processing of personnel matters ........................................................ 38 Basic training ................................................................................................................... 39 Military service volunteers............................................................................................... 39 Reservists ......................................................................................................................... 40 6. Reversal of the materiel trend 42 Full resourcing and operational status of the major weapon systems .............................. 42 Equipment for training, exercises and deployment .......................................................... 45 Clothing and personal equipment .................................................................................... 47 7. Reversal of the infrastructure trend 50 8. Innere Führung 53 Leadership behaviour ....................................................................................................... 53 Violation of the free democratic basic order .................................................................... 54 Excessive harshness in training........................................................................................ 56 Tradition ........................................................................................................................... 56 9. Daily military life 56 Military Personnel Working Hours Ordinance ................................................................ 56 Welfare ............................................................................................................................. 57 Catering ............................................................................................................................ 58 Financial matters .............................................................................................................. 59 Physical training............................................................................................................... 61 Chaplaincies ..................................................................................................................... 62 Diversity ........................................................................................................................... 63 Recognition of military achievements ............................................................................. 64 10. Women in the Bundeswehr 64 Printed paper 19/16500 4 – German Bundestag - 19th electoral term 11. Deployments and Alliance issues 66 Deployments, quasi-operational commitments and standing operational tasks ............... 66 Missions without a mandate ............................................................................................. 67 MINUSMA and EUTM, Mali and Niger ......................................................................... 68 RESOLUTE SUPPORT, Afghanistan ............................................................................. 69 COUNTER DAESH and Training Support Iraq .............................................................. 70 SEA GUARDIAN and SOPHIA in the Mediterranean ................................................... 72 UNIFIL in the Mediterranean .......................................................................................... 72 EUNAVFOR ATALANTA in the Indian Ocean ............................................................. 72 KFOR, Kosovo ................................................................................................................ 73 UNMISS, South Sudan .................................................................................................... 73 UNAMID, Sudan ............................................................................................................. 73 NATO in the Aegean ....................................................................................................... 73 NATO in the Baltic .......................................................................................................... 74 Very High Readiness Joint Task Force ............................................................................ 75 MWR telecommunications .............................................................................................. 76 Transport to and from deployments ................................................................................. 76 More Europe .................................................................................................................... 77 12. Law violations and the administration of justice 78 Sexual harassment ............................................................................................................ 78 Bullying ........................................................................................................................... 79 Social media ..................................................................................................................... 79 Legal knowledge of disciplinary superiors ...................................................................... 80 Disciplinary attorney’s offices and disciplinary and complaints courts ........................... 80 Crimes against the Bundeswehr ....................................................................................... 81 Requests for case review and information made by the Parliamentary Commissioner .......................................................................................................... 81 13. Work-life balance 81 Problems of a commuter army ......................................................................................... 81 Family-specific problems during foreign assignments .................................................... 83 Childcare .......................................................................................................................... 84 14. Health care 85 Medical Service ............................................................................................................... 85 Deployment-related mental illnesses ............................................................................... 87 Suicides and attempted suicides ....................................................................................... 88 15. Cases and petitions: Statistical overviews 89 16. Visits, meetings, discussions of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces and his staff 96 17. Statutory foundations of the office and tasks of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces and of service personnel’s right of petition 98 18. Organisational chart of the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces 109 19. Index 110 German Bundestag - 19th electoral tern 5 – Printed paper 19/16500 Foreword The strain on the Bundeswehr continues to grow. At the end of 2019, 17,500 service- women and men were simultaneously engaged in deployments, quasi-operational com- mitments, standing operational tasks and other commitments. Add to this an additional 7,200 at the start of 2020, registered as NATO Readiness Forces, albeit initially more as a symbolic German contribution. At the same time, national and international discus- sions are underway about new theatres of
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