Military service damage

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As military service Damaged (WDB) members of are armed forces referred to the adverse health effects of physical or mental suffered sort through their military service performing , an accident at military service exercise or as a result of military service peculiar circumstances.

Legal regulations

According to the Soldiers' Welfare Act (SVG), which came into force in 1956, military service disabled people receive the same benefits as war victims. The scope of the benefits results from the Federal Pension Act . Soldiers and other people who have suffered damage to their health during missions abroad by the Bundeswehr receive an additional one-off payment in accordance with the Emergency Supply Act passed in 2004 . Entitlement to a damaged pension exists from a recognized degree of damage consequences of at least 25 over a period of 6 months.

The law regulating re-use after operational accidents from 2007 also grants soldiers who have been damaged in military service and whose military service damage has occurred while on deployment abroad the right to continued employment in their service or in the public service .

Even military service can Damaged one under the same conditions as severely disabled free transport in public transport apply.

Number of recognized military service victims

In 1999, military service damage was recognized in 4,719 cases. In the years 1995 to 2010, damage to military service due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was found for 267 Bundeswehr soldiers .

Until 2015, disabled people were cared for by the head office for the disabled and surviving dependents. In 2015, it was responsible for 26,000 people who, as members of the armed forces , had suffered health problems since the army was founded .

Since 2015, the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr has been responsible for the provision of military service injuries .

Organizations

The interests of those disabled in the military service are represented by the Jenny Böken Foundation and the Bund Deutscher EinsatzVeteranen eV

In May 2012, the Federal Ministry of Defense and the Bundeswehr Soldiers Relief Organization established the Trust Foundation to support cases of particular hardship in the Bundeswehr and the former National People's Army .

The German Hardship Foundation has continued its work since July 2015 . The foundation provides financial support for soldiers who have suffered health problems due to work or work or who are sick.

Throughout Germany, the Düsseldorf-based branch of the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr (BAPersBw) is responsible for processing informal applications for military service damage (WDB).

See also

literature

  • Andreas Timmermann-Levanas, Andrea Richter: They talk - we die. How our soldiers become victims of German politics. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39342-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ § 81 SVG , accessed on January 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ See § 80 Soldiers Supply Act (SVG) , accessed on January 14, 2020.
  3. ↑ The regulations have already been incorporated into the Soldiers Supply Act (SVG).
  4. ↑ See Sections 29–34 of the Federal Supply Act (BVG) , accessed on January 14, 2020.
  5. ↑ See Ninth Book of the Social Security Code .
  6. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from the MPs Günther Friedrich Nolting, Hildebrecht Braun (Augsburg), Rainer Brüderle, another MP and the FDP parliamentary group , accessed on January 14, 2020 (PDF; 100 kB)
  7. ↑ Markus Decker: The soldiers' trauma turns into a drama . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of January 10, 2011.
  8. ↑ Transfer of the tasks of the Soldiers Supply Act to the Federal Armed Forces Administration , accessed on January 14, 2020.
  9. ↑ German Hardship Foundation , accessed on January 14, 2020.