The Bundeswehr
| The Bundeswehr | |
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| description | Members magazine |
| Area of Expertise | armed forces |
| language | German |
| publishing company | German Federal Armed Forces Association V. ( Germany ) |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | 1st December 1956 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 155,534 copies |
| Widespread edition | 200,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Frank Jungbluth |
| editor | German Federal Armed Forces Association V. |
| Web link | Association magazine website |
| ISSN (print) | 0007-5949 |
The Bundeswehr is the association magazine of the German Federal Armed Forces Association (DBwV). It appears monthly and is the largest German soldiers' magazine with a circulation of around 155,000.
The readership includes active and former soldiers , reservists , civil employees of the Bundeswehr , relatives and partners of the soldiers as well as those responsible from politics, the Bundeswehr and the Federal Ministry of Defense . Members of the DBwV receive the magazine free of charge by post. As a focus of its editorial work, the magazine publishes social and socio-political contributions as well as the association's political demands. In addition, there are military and security policy topics as well as contributions to civilian vocational training and further education for the Bundeswehr . Members of the DBwV receive the magazine free of charge by post.
Rubrics
The magazine regularly includes the following sections:
- Association currently
- politics
- From the troop
- For our members
- Magazine (e.g. letters to the editor , imprint )
readership
The magazine's readers are predominantly male and between 26 and 52 years old. Almost half belong to the career group of NCOs , just under a quarter are officers . A good 60 percent of the readers are active soldiers, a good third are soldiers in the reserve or out of service.
history
The first issue of the magazine appeared on December 1, 1956. In the mid-1960s, the membership magazine had a circulation of 125,000. At the beginning of the 1990s it was distributed for the first time in all federal states.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mediadaten 2018. (PDF) In: https://www.dbwv.de/ . German Armed Forces Association, January 1, 2018, accessed on January 15, 2019 .