Military candidate
Military candidate was a term for former soldiers in the German Empire who were eligible for high civil service (mostly civil service ).
definition
Military candidates were non-commissioned officers who had served a certain period or were no longer fit for military service.
These were then used primarily as civil servants, e.g. B. at the post office and railroad etc. continued.
The term was still used in the Weimar Republic .
Most of the military candidates were organized in the Association of German Military Candidates founded in 1904 ; in Bavaria there was the Association of Bavarian Military Candidates .
Literature (selection)
- Gustav Adolf Erdmann: The Military Candidate - A Guide to Choosing the Civil Service Occupation and Regulations on Application , Berlin 1918.
- Editing of the magazine "Der Militär-Anwärter" (Hrsg.): The career of the military candidate in the Hamburg State Service , Berlin 1913.
- Wilhelm Deist : Military, State and Society: Studies on Prussian-German Military History , Volume 34 of Contributions to Military and War History , Oldenbourg Verlag, 1991, p. 33, ISBN 3486559206 ; (Digital scan)