Barracks hour

As barracks hours (often shortened "Kaser hour") was 1871-1945 a form of religious instruction for soldiers of the German military, so an element of military chaplain called. For the soldiers, participation in the measures that took place outside of working hours was voluntary. The barracks hour was carried out by Catholic or Protestant military pastors .

When military chaplaincy was required to be redesigned in the 1950s with rearmament , the Bundeswehr and the churches took up the concept of barracks hours and modified it into " life science lessons ".

literature

• Angelika Dörfler-Dierken: On the emergence of military chaplaincy and the task of the military chaplains in the Bundeswehr. Research report 83 of the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr, March 2008 PDF