Ministry of Defense
Ex-Scholz consultant Jens Plötner will be the new state secretary
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius brings Jens Plötner to his ministry. He replaces Benedikt Zimmer. In addition, there should be a new, third state secretary in the department.
The foreign policy chief advisor of the former Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Jens Plötner, is to advance the Bundeswehr’s armament in the Ministry of Defense in the future. Department chief Boris Pistorius (SPD) called the top officials and diplomats on Wednesday as State Secretary for armaments and innovation, as his ministry announced. Plötner is supposed to start the post in summer. In addition, a third state secretary post in the Department of Defense will be set up to strengthen the management level, which the previous head of the legal department, Jan Stöß, is to take over.
Government wants to strengthen Bundeswehr
The Federal Ministry of Definitely From his time as a foreign policy consultant of the Federal Chancellor, Plötner has great experience and a “global network in politics and industry”.
Strengthening the Bundeswehr is one of the most important security policy projects in the current federal government. There are already “records for number and order volume,” said the ministry. Due to the change in the Basic Law, which makes part of the defendants from the rules of the debt brake, the ministry will have a lot of money available for upgrading.
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Germany should become “war -related”. The four partial forces form the military core of the Bundeswehr. By far the largest is the army where around 65,000 people work (as of January 2025). The German army sees itself as the backbone of the Bundeswehr land forces. “It is ready for state and alliance defense, international operations and support in humanitarian crises,” the Bundeswehr informs online. The home protection forces in particular must grow significantly. They should ensure that the German territory can be defended in the event of war and protect important infrastructure such as bridges, ports and power plants.
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Jens Plötner replaces Benedikt Zimmer
Plötner will have a key role as the responsible state secretary. He replaces the previous state secretary Benedikt Zimmer, who has been in office since 2017.
According to the Ministry of State, the Stöß, who was the third state secretary, is a fully judge and has previously worked as head of the law and organization in the ministry. The ministry justified the creation of the new post by “changing the security policy situation and the associated time pressure to implement the project”. From 2012 to 2016, Stöß was the state chairman of the Berlin SPD.
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