Staff officer with qualification for judicial office

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Staff officer qualified to hold the office of judge ( StOffz / R ), also known as "lawyer in the career of officers" or " staff officer in law", is the name given to an officer who is qualified to hold the office of judge . As a rule, he acquired this through a law degree outside the Bundeswehr and was hired as a lateral entrant with a higher rank without having completed the classic officer training as an officer candidate .

His tasks include providing legal advice to departments, deciding on personnel law matters and assessing career law issues. He acts as a mediator between military and legal perspectives. The "catalog service items" for StOffz / R are mainly to be found in some units of the Federal Ministry of Defense , which deal with questions of personnel law in the broadest sense, and in the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr . Staff officers with the qualification for judicial office are members of the career of military service officers. They are used both in the troops and in offices of the Bundeswehr, mostly in the area of personnel management .

The Bundeswehr meets its need for officers with legal qualifications through civilian university graduates who are qualified to serve as judges. Military pre-use is not required. At the beginning, applicants have to successfully complete a four-month aptitude exercise . Here they have the rank with which they will later be hired as a temporary soldier : Major or Corvette Captain . The minimum commitment period is three years. There are setting options in all areas of uniform wear ( army , air force , navy ). The period of employment for a post is three to five years. As an entry-level assignment, a staff assignment at the Federal Office for the Military Counter-Intelligence Service in Cologne is possible. Employment as a company commander in the initial phase offers the opportunity to gain leadership experience and learn how to deal with disciplinary law . General raceway perspective Colonel (or commander ) A 14/15 , but it is quite possible to Col. A 16 / B 3 (or Captain ) or after a general staff training in the rank group of generals (from B 6) transported to become.

They do not exercise the function of legal advisor (also on deployment abroad ) or defense disciplinary attorney . These posts are reserved for civil servants .

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  1. ↑ It would also be conceivable that, despite the possibility of being hired with a higher rank, a person has completed officer training starting with the lowest rank or has acquired the qualification for judicial office through an extra-occupational degree, whereby he or she is given leave of absence from military service for the performance of legal preparatory service or the like . should have been.