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? This includes all male citizens aged 18 - 45.
by itsyonas 6mo ago
? This includes all male citizens aged 18 - 45.
- nubg 6mo agoIt doesn't, only German citizens
- a3w 6mo agodoes citizen and German not mean the same thing? Are EU citizens living permanently in germany even considered to have a duty to either militarily or in civil service serve in war times?
- est31 6mo agoNot a lawyer but the German constitution, Article 12a, speaks of men above 18, not of citizens, or even residents of Germany. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.html#p0069 https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h... So that article can in theory be used to conscript any man, citizen or not, living in Germany or not. The Wehrpflichtgesetz, which is a simple law and requires just the 50% Bundestag majority to have it changed, refines this very wide constitutional power in article 1, to require men who hold German citizenship above 18. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/BJNR006510956.html#BJNR006510956BJNG000108310 https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/BJNR006510956.ht... Article 3 refines it even further to folks below 45 or 60, depending on the severity of the situation. But yes, in theory it can be changed to include any non-German citizen man, people aged 80, living inside of Germany since a while or never having been to Germany ever, or just random men who happen to change flights at FRA.
- itsyonas 6mo agoImmigrants can be German citizens.