Civil service (Germany)

The civil service , in Germany, is a alternative service possible with the Military service for the people considered to be ready to carry out this last.

Since October 1st, 2004, the civil service is one duration equal to that of the military service, that is to say nine months.

Legal framework

The military service ( Wehrpflicht ) is obligatory in Germany for all the citizens of male sex. Called must be useful in the army or carry out a Civil service ( Zivildienst ).

A law on the civil service of the conscientious objectors ( Zivildienstgesetz ZDG) of September 28th, 1994 modified on several occasions poses the applicable rules.

The article 12a, paragraph 2, of the fundamental Loi stipulates that Whoever refuses, for reasons for conscience, to achieve the combatant service can be obliged to achieve a substitution service. The duration of the substitution service should not exceed the duration of the military service. The methods are regulated by a law which should not attack the Liberté to decide according to its Conscience and which must also envisage a possibility of substitution service not having any relationship with the units of the armed forces and the federal body of protection of the borders

General information

Although the conscription is of nature military, there are twice more conscripts carrying out a civil service than conscripts carrying out a military service.

The civil service is carried out near institutions and of organizations of public interest, in the following fields:

the social sector (mainly)
the hospital services
the environment
health

Political organization

The political official of civil service is the federal delegate at the German Civil service (: Bundesbeauftragter für den Zivildienst ) which is rataché at the Federal minister of the Family.

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