Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany)

Approximately 2,000 total

The Federal Ministry of Defence ( FMOD ), shortly Federal Ministry of Defense, is a supreme federal authority and the responsibility for the Ministry of Defence of the Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.

• 9.1 Budget Law
• 9.2 Former ministries

History

Already In 1950, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Theodor Blank directing the planning for a defense contribution of the Federal Republic of Germany. In December 1950, some 20 people began intensive preparations in blanks department called " The Commissioner of the Federal Chancellor of issues related to the proliferation of the Allied troops Questions." Until June 1955, this so-called Blank Office had grown to over 1300 employees. It was renamed on June 7, 1955 in Ministry " for" defense and so adopted the name shortly thereafter changed in the Basic Law. On December 30, 1961, the name was (but not in the Basic Law ) - as one of the "classical ministries " such as foreign affairs, finance, justice and home affairs - in Ministry "of the" amended defense.

The headquarters of the Ministry was at its inception in the Bonn Ermekeilkaserne. From 1960, the parade began in the new building on the Hardthöhe. Since 1993, the Minister has a second official residence in Bendlerblock in Berlin.

Service seats

The main office of the Ministry with 1270 posts * found on the Hardthöhe in Bonn, a second official residence with about 940 posts in Bendlerblock in Berlin.

Second official residence in Berlin Bendlerblock

Organization

The Defence Ministry is also the supreme federal authority and command the highest authority of the armed forces. Following the realignment of the Bundeswehr, the defense ministry has taken on April 1, 2012, a new, streamlined structure. It comprises nine departments:

• Policy Department (headed by Secretary of Géza Andreas Geyr )
• Budget Department / Controlling (led by Secretary Paul Jansen )
• Legal Department (headed by Secretary Dieter Weingartner )
• Planning Department (headed by Vice Admiral Joachim Rühle )
• Department leadership forces (led by Vice Admiral Heinrich Lange)
• Departmental strategy and use (led by Lieutenant General Markus Kneip )
• Department staff (led by Lieutenant General Wolfgang Born)
• Department equipment, information technology and use ( line: not occupied, Representation: Rear Admiral Wolfgang Bremer)
• Department of Infrastructure, Environment and Services (headed by Assistant Secretary Alice Greyer - Wieninger )

The management level of the Ministry includes the Federal Minister, the two parliamentary secretaries as well as the two permanent secretaries and the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr. The Federal Ministers are directly subordinated to the Press and Information Office and the Executive Staff. The Inspector General is assigned to a staff group, a civil servant of the Secretary of State staff organization and revision.

In the division of the Federal Ministry of Defence has the following organizational areas:

• Army
• Air force
• Marine
• Streitkräftebasis
• Central Medical Services
• Staff
• Equipment, use and information technology
• Infrastructure, environmental protection and services
• Administration of justice
• Military Chaplaincy

Budget

The budget of the Federal Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces as a downstream area resulting from the Section 14 of the federal Act. According to Article 87a, Section 1 of the Basic Law, the need to " numerical strength [ the armed forces ] and the general organizational structure [ ...] from the budget result ."

2012

The draft defense budget for 2012 provides for expenditure of 31.68 billion euros. These are divided into:

• Personnel expenses ( 14.92 billion euros )
• Neuter administrative expenditure (4.99 billion euros )
• Military procurement, equipment, etc. ( 10.59 billion euros )
• Grants and subsidies ( 1.02 billion euros )
• Investment expenditure (0.16 billion euros )

Compared to the previous year expenditures increased by 0.42 percent ( which corresponds to a real decline due to inflation ). With a share of 10.35 per cent of the defense budget is the third largest item of expenditure after the matters of employment and social affairs, and the federal debt.

( Evidence or sources see below )

2011

From the federal budget for 2011, which was adopted on 26 November 2010, the Federal Ministry of Defence receives 31.55 billion euros, representing approximately 10.3% of the total budget of the Federal Republic of Germany corresponds ( 305.8 billion euros ). In addition, the Federal Ministry of Defense takes in 2011 an estimated 223.7 million euros through their own daycare, fines, medical treatment of noncombatants, selling or renting of materials and real estate. However, this income is mostly not freely available, but Earmarked. The fixed expenses are divided into six columns:

• Personnel expenses ( 16.53 billion euros, about 52% )
• Neuter administrative expenditure ( 4.2 billion euros, about 13%)
• Military procurement, equipment, etc. ( 10.43 billion euros, about 33 %)
• Grants and subsidies (0.99 billion euros, about 0.31 %)
• Investment expenditure (0.18 billion euros, about 0.05%)
• Special financing expenses ( -0.78 billion euros, about -0.25 %)

( Evidence or sources see below )

2010

The defense budget in 2010 amounted to 31.11 billion euros.

Federal Minister since 1955

According to Article 65a para 1 of the Basic Law, the Federal Minister of Defence in peacetime command and command of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. He stands at the head of the Ministry leads and according to departmental principle ( Article 65 sentence 2 ) his department independently and on their own responsibility, and thus has authority over all members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees.

If the federal territory under attack by armed violence or is such an event is imminent, the Bundestag and the Bundesrat can the defense case acc. Article 115b GG determine what causes the command and command authority is transferred to the Chancellor.

With Ursula von der Leyen since December 17, 2013 directs the first woman to the ministry.

Secretaries

Ralf Brauksiepe (CDU since 2013) and Mark Gruebel (CDU since 2013) are the current parliamentary secretaries. The Secretaries of State civil servants is Gerd Hoofe (since 2013). The post of second secretary of state civil servants is unoccupied.

Private military service, the Defence Minister and State Secretaries

Of the seventeen federal ministers of defense twelve military service ** (or military service ) have done. Of these, six clad a reserve officer and four reserve a Sergeant rank. Of the nineteen Parliamentary Secretaries have served nine; five as reserve officers and one as a reserve commissioned officer. Rudolf Sharping was the first defense minister, who took up his military service in the Bundeswehr.