Home sleeper

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As home sleepers are soldiers of the Bundeswehr called that from the obligation to live in shared accommodation ( barracks were freed) and must stay at home. In the Bundeswehr, unmarried soldiers up to the age of 25 as well as those taking part in business courses are generally required to be barracks, i.e. they are obliged to live in the shared accommodation.

The exemption must be applied for by the soldier who is obliged to use barracks and must be substantiated. Mere convenience is not sufficient as a reason; rather, special family, domestic or economic hardships must justify the exemption. Reasons for justification include caring for relatives or one's own farm in the vicinity of the barracks. Furthermore, the lack of accommodation in the military property can allow the application to be approved even without the reasons given.

The official performance must not be endangered by the exemption and therefore the approval of the "application for exemption from the obligation to live in the communal accommodation" is usually associated with conditions. A disciplinary superior with the disciplinary powers of level 2, i.e. usually in the position of battalion commander, can grant the exemption from the obligation to live in the communal accommodation . The applicant's next disciplinary superior (usually the unit leader ) comments on the soldier's application in advance. In addition to being allowed to sleep at home, the exemption also means the elimination of the tattoo and the payment of the food allowance for breakfast and evening meals to the soldiers.

Colloquially, however, a soldier is also referred to as a "home sleeper" who, although he has a room with a bed, does not use it because he lives so close to the barracks that he sleeps at home. From a legal point of view, however, these soldiers only use the "exit until wake-up" (or start of duty), which practically every Bundeswehr soldier has, unless he is subject to the tattoo (only for recruits or before special duties such as exercises) or an exit restriction as a special educational measure .