Contingent (military)

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The military contingent is the call to all members of a country capable of military service or to a certain (defined) part of them to defend their country.

In the High and Late Middle Ages, it was composed of members of the armed citizens of towns and villages. For guilds in particular, there were detailed regulations for armed service. Entries were usually called in the event of a defense, but also to a limited extent for offensive actions. The Battle of Rudau in 1370 is an outstanding example of the decisive battlefield deployment. Here the fighters of the Königsberg guilds withstood the massive attacks of the Lithuanian and Tatar cavalry and were the decisive factor for victory.

The military writer Johann Friedrich von Flemming in his work Der Vollkommene Teutsche Soldat 1726 also uses the term for normal advertising for soldiers (Chapter 8, § 1).

The term has been used until recently, partly in the sense of mobilization . In Prussia in 1814 the Landwehr was divided into a 1st contingent (conscripts from 26 to 32 years of age) and a 2nd contingent (conscripts from 33 to 39 years of age). The Imperial Law of February 11, 1888 (RGBl. P. 11) changed Article 59 of the Imperial Constitution and reorganized membership of the Landwehr and made it more precise with the law of April 15, 1905 (RGBl. P. 249). According to this, the age groups from the beginning of the twenty-eighth year of life for the "following five years of life belonged to the Landwehr first contingent and then until March 31 of the calendar year in which the thirty-ninth year of life is completed, to the Landwehr second contingent."

In Switzerland , the command is the command to deploy to fulfill the general service obligation.

See also

literature

  • Wolfgang Sonthofen: The German Order . Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-713-2 , p. 118 ff.
  • Dieter Zimmerling: The German order of knights . ECON Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3430-19959-X , p. 221 ff.
  • Franz W. Seidler, German Volkssturm. The last compilation 1944/1945 , publisher: Bechtermünz (1999), ISBN 3-8289-0329-0

Web links

Wikisource: Law on changes to military service. 11 February 1888.  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: Law on changing military service. April 15, 1905  - Sources and full texts

Individual proof

  1. ^ Supplement to the Imperial Constitution of 1871. Retrieved January 15, 2013 .