The Federal Government wants to modernize military service and is therefore proposing a draft law. Bundeswehr leaves 5,000 soldiers in Lithuania. More soldiers and more equipment is needed. Dozens of billions of euros are available, Deutsche Welle transmits.
Bundeswehr should become “capable of war”
Germany, once said the Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius, must become “capable of war”. It has many aspects and many worries many. Civil society institutions such as a technical assistance service (THW) or hospital are prepared. Cities and municipalities check stock. Statics of bridges are controlled. There is a “operating plan Germany,” which records what everything must change if things in Germany become serious.
Also in the military spiritual service. Three supreme cocovers in Bundeswehru, Evangelical Bishop Bernhard Felmberg, his Catholic Pandan Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck (61) and Rabbi Zsolt Balla (46), take care of many aspects of military life. Their visits to units are also focused on worries and on the needs of soldiers.
Thus, Felmberg this summer, after visiting a military hospital in Berlin, pointed out the challenge of post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), with whom soldiers, and thus Bundeswehr, must carry. There are the pastoral guy as well as psychologists, said Evangelical bishop and added: “They are always interlocutors outside the hierarchy,” Deutsche Welle reports.
Be prepared for a serious case
Felmberg has already pointed out that Bundeswehr in the event of the war would have to count with 500 to 600 dead or wounded per day, as well as numerous wounded. It acts as if a ghelist wants to shake their and other churches.
This Evangelical Bishop is currently highly sought after. How much, proved to be at an event in the middle of July in Berlin. Then Felmberg, who I was never soldier, celebrated in Kaiser-Wilhelm’s memorial church in Berlin, during the worship, his 60. Birthday. On that occasion, the speech held the highest German officer, the main inspector General Carsten Breuer.
He praised him as a “man of the action” and the “real insider” Bundeswehr, as a “lighthouse”. Felmberg, whom Breuer called several times “to our bishop,” he had a great desire to “prepare his church as the possibility of defending the country and the Alliance.” He approaches things “practically and tangible” and finally the political “Operational Plan Germany” expanded to the “spiritual operational plan Germany,” the main inspector said.
“Defend freedom”
“The war situation as such has become so close to us, as we never thought it would be,” says Catholic Military Bishop of Overbeck in the DW interview. He talks about the “system war”. “It is most important to do everything to strengthen and defend our system, which represents freedom, democracy and the rule of law,” Overbeck pointed out.
The fact is that Bundeswehr soldiers must prepare on the “war situation,” said Catholic Bishop. “No one hopes that it will happen. But we have to prepare them.”
Overbeck is convinced that many people in Germany have the seriousness of the current situation in front of their eyes. This is experiencing in meetings with members of the Bundeswehr as well as in “many very serious evening talks” in its diocese Essen: “It all occupies people.”
International cooperation is important
The Jewish military spiritual service in Germany is still under construction – and now it is also wanted. It was established by the State Contract of the Federal Authorities and the Central Council of the Jews in Germany in December 2019. It has been on the forefront of more than four years the Military Chief Rabbi Zsolt Ball. He helps him ten rabbi.
He says that these ten rabbies are in the service, which allows for “flexible and quick response to new challenges.” The Jewish prankers cooperate with their Christian colleagues and in “treatment with the most serious crisis situations.”
Balla took up early for the Military Pastors and Military Pastors and military rabbis from several NATO members can participate in the training organized by the US Air Force. Exchanging with international partners is an important step. It is about cooperation, networking, better use of resources. At the end of November, the Military Rabinat organizes the “first international conference of military rabbies” in Berlin, where a pre-charter from several NATO members and partnership countries are expected.
(Vijesti.ba)
