German Federal Ministry of Defense

The German Federal Ministry of Defense (German: Bundesministerium der Verteidigung, BMVg) is one of the German ministries responsible for the German Army.

Bundeswehr: Armed Forces

Main article: Bundeswehr (Bundeswehr)

Department of Arms and IT

• Federal Office for Arms, Information Technology and the Use of the Bundeswehr

Military budget

2024: Plan to increase defence spending to €81bn

As of June 2024

In 2024, against the background of the conflict in Ukraine, Germany takes a tougher approach to ensuring national security, but it is not clear how exactly the country will support the necessary costs.

2023: Defence spending - 1.5% of GDP

Germany's defense spending 1.5% of GDP

Estimating some countries' defense costs as a share of their GDP in 2023

2018: Military budget 1.2% of GDP

Military budget in% of GDP, 2018:

• 8.8% Saudi Arabia
• 4.3% Israel
• 3.9% Russia
• 3.2% USA
• 2.5% Turkey
• 2.4% India
• 2.3% France
• 1.9% Australia
• 1.9% China
• 1.8% United Kingdom
• 1.3% Canada
• 1.2% Germany

(SIPRI)

History

2023: Lower Saxony Interior Minister Boris Pistorius appointed defense minister

In January 2023, the new Minister of Defense of Germany appointed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lower Saxony Boris Pistorius.

1955: The head of the secret armed "Schneetz Group" receives an appointment in the German Ministry of Defense

From 1950 to 1955, a secret armed "Schneetz Group" was operating on the territory of Germany, consisting of 2,000 former Wehrmacht and SS officers - after the founding of the Bundeswehr in 1955, the founder of the group, Colonel-General Albert Schnets, was appointed to the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of Germany.