Infopost (Bundeswehr)

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Infopost

description Recruiting magazine
Area of ​​Expertise marketing
language German
First edition 1981
Frequency of publication four times a year
Sold edition 150,000 copies
(Renate Kerbst, Gregor Witt: Bundeswehr and School: Militaryization, Youth Officers, Peace Education, 1984, p. 189)
editor Federal ministry of defense
Web link Infopost
ZDB 581701-8

The Infopost is an advertising and recruitment magazine of the German Bundeswehr . It was first published in 1981. This coincides with the easing of the requirements for recognition as a conscientious objector . Originally it contained the title addition “News and reports from the Bundeswehr for schoolchildren and trainees”.

The magazine is free. It is sent unsolicited to male adolescents because they are subject to general conscription (even if their execution is currently suspended) and are therefore automatically reported by the Bundeswehr registration authorities in the form of military records.

The magazine was criticized early on in academia for glossing over military service and seducing children and young people in this way. It was also brought into the vicinity of right-wing extremist tendencies and compared with Landserhefte (in the sense of trivial literature that glorifies war).

Web links

literature

  • Renate Kerbst, Gregor Witt: Bundeswehr and School: Militaryization, Youth Officers, Peace Education, 1984.
  • Matthias Münch, Bundeswehr, Danger to Democracy ?: on the relationship between the military, the state and society in the Federal Republic, 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Kerbst, Gregor Witt: Bundeswehr and School: Militaryization, Youth Officers, Peace Education, 1984, p. 190 mwN
  2. ^ Matthias Münch, Bundeswehr, Danger for Democracy ?: on the relationship between the military, the state and society in the Federal Republic, 1983, p. 255 with further references
  3. ↑ Renate Kerbst, Gregor Witt: Bundeswehr and School: Militaryization, Youth Officers, Peace Education, 1984, p. 183