Specialist service (Bundeswehr)
Specialist services in the Bundeswehr are:
The decision to set up a specialist service lies with the Federal Ministry of Defense .
There are technical subordinate relationships within the specialist services . It is not to be confused with the "technical subordination", which is a subordination in a special area of responsibility. The technical service subordination is the relationship between a soldier and a superior who is responsible for the management of a specialist service of the soldier according to his service position based on his corresponding qualification ( § 2 VorgV). Accordingly, this also applies to subordinate and superior departments / facilities, insofar as their main tasks are of a technical nature. It takes place in addition to and independently of the subordination to the troops.
In the grades of the soldiers own careers are established (for professional services conditioning (§ 3) Soldatenlaufbahnverordnung - SLV).
The careers of the specialist NCOs and NCOs of the reserve do not belong to the specialist services.
Officers in a career in a specialist service occasionally become specialist service officers in everyday language called. They are not to be confused with officers in the military technical service .