German Bundestag Information

German Bundestag Information

German Bundestag Printed Paper 19/700 19th electoral term 20 February 2018 Information from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces Annual Report 2017 (59th Report) Submitted with the letter of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces of 20 February 2018 pur- suant to Section 2(1) of the Act on the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces. German Bundestag – 19th electoral term – 3 – Printed Paper 19/700 C o n t e n t s Page Foreword ...................................................................................................................... 6 The year under review in brief ................................................................................... 8 1. Innere Führung under scrutiny 11 Special cases and their investigation ................................................................................11 Communicating the principles of Innere Führung ...........................................................12 Tradition ...........................................................................................................................13 Leadership behaviour .......................................................................................................15 Command supervision ......................................................................................................15 Violation of the free democratic basic order ....................................................................18 2. The Bundeswehr’s financial resourcing 20 3. Reversal of personnel trends 20 Concepts and strategies ....................................................................................................20 Personnel shortages ..........................................................................................................21 Recruitment ......................................................................................................................24 Higher education in the Bundeswehr ...............................................................................30 Promotions .......................................................................................................................31 Appraisals .........................................................................................................................32 Security clearance checks .................................................................................................33 Prohibition on promotion during criminal and disciplinary proceedings .........................34 Retirement ........................................................................................................................35 Civilian initial and follow-on occupational training .........................................................36 Deficiencies in the processing of personnel matters ........................................................36 Basic training ....................................................................................................................37 Military service volunteers ...............................................................................................37 Reservists .........................................................................................................................38 4. Reversal of materiel trends 40 Full resourcing ..................................................................................................................40 Operational status of major weapon systems ...................................................................40 Equipment for training, exercises and deployments .........................................................42 Clothing and personal equipment .....................................................................................44 5. Reversal of infrastructure trends 45 Structural condition ..........................................................................................................45 Length of procedures ........................................................................................................46 Accommodation ...............................................................................................................47 6. Daily military life 48 Military Personnel Working Hours Ordinance .................................................................48 Waiting times when courses are planned .........................................................................49 Morale, welfare and recreation activities .........................................................................49 Financial issues ................................................................................................................51 Daily duties of company sergeants major ........................................................................52 Printed Paper 19/700 – 4 – German Bundestag – 19th electoral term Communicative behaviour ...............................................................................................53 Shooting accidents ............................................................................................................53 New legal instrument management system ......................................................................53 SASPF ..............................................................................................................................54 Leave, special leave ..........................................................................................................54 Military chaplaincies ........................................................................................................55 Diversity ...........................................................................................................................55 7. Women in the Bundeswehr 56 Increasing the proportion of women in the Bundeswehr ..................................................56 Pregnancy, maternity leave and parental leave ................................................................58 Predeployment training ....................................................................................................59 Clothing ............................................................................................................................59 8. Deployments and alliance commitments 60 General issues ...................................................................................................................61 Resolute Support, Afghanistan .........................................................................................61 KFOR, Kosovo .................................................................................................................62 Counter Daesh, Turkey, Jordan and the Mediterranean ...................................................62 EUNAVFOR Atalanta ......................................................................................................63 Training Support Iraq .......................................................................................................64 Sea Guardian and Sophia in the Mediterranean ...............................................................64 UNIFIL in the Mediterranean ...........................................................................................65 EUTM and MINUSMA, Mali and Niger .........................................................................65 NATO in the Aegean ........................................................................................................69 NATO in the Baltic ..........................................................................................................69 Preparations for deployments ...........................................................................................70 Foreign assignment allowance .........................................................................................71 Award of service medals ..................................................................................................73 MWR telecommunications ...............................................................................................74 More Europe .....................................................................................................................75 9. Law violations and the administration of justice 76 Bullying and sexual harassment .......................................................................................76 Social media .....................................................................................................................78 Legal knowledge of disciplinary superiors .......................................................................78 Disciplinary attorney’s offices, and disciplinary and complaints courts ..........................79 Crimes against the Bundeswehr .......................................................................................80 Efforts to reform military disciplinary law .......................................................................80 Requests for case reviews and information made by the Parliamentary Commissioner...........................................................................................................80 10. Work-life balance 81 Information and communication ......................................................................................81 Problems of a commuter army .........................................................................................81 Caring for relatives ...........................................................................................................84

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