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Staff of the Bundeswehr - Cdu Defense Expert Röwekamp Expects to Return to Compulsory Military Service Before the Next Election

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The chairman of the Defence Committee in the German Federal Day, Röwekamp, expects a return to compulsory military service during this term of office.

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The new military service is hardly decided, since a leading CDU politician already calls him insufficient. He prophesies an early return to compulsory military service. For the selection of recruits he warms up an idea, because there was already a big dispute.

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The chairman of the Defence Committee in the German Federal Day, Röwekamp, expects a return to compulsory military service during this term of office.

·Germany
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"The only realistic path": the head of the Bundestag Defence Committee, Thomas Röwekamp (CDU), explains why he still expects a compulsory military service in this parliamentary term. The AfD accuses him of staging himself as a "conspicuous party of the Bundeswehr" and advocating Russia.

·Dortmund, Germany
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The chairman of the Defence Committee in the Bundestag believes that compulsory military service will be reinstated in this legislative period. Ole Nymoen writes in his book "Why I would never fight for my country." When compulsory military service was suspended in 2011, he was 13: Ole Nymoen would have done civilian service otherwise. In the meantime, the new compulsory military service law, which was adopted at the beginning of December by a m…

The chairman of the Bundestag's Defense Committee, Thomas Röwekamp (CDU), expects a return to conscription before the end of this legislative period. "With the Military Service Modernization Act, we have created an instrument for increasing personnel numbers," Röwekamp told the newspaper "Die Welt." "However, I still have doubts that a more attractive voluntary service option alone will be sufficient." Parliament will review in 2027 whether the …

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Welt broke the news in Dortmund, Germany on Thursday, December 25, 2025.
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