{"id":46715,"date":"2025-06-12T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=46715"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:52:52","slug":"national-veterans-day-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/nationaler-veteranentag-in-deutschland\/","title":{"rendered":"National Veterans Day in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The time has finally come. On 15 June 2025, Bundestag President Julia Kl\u00f6ckner will open the central ceremony for the 1st Veterans' Day at the Reichstag building in Berlin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the late afternoon, Bryan Adams will give a tour of his photo exhibition in the Reichstag building before Defence Minister Boris Pistorius presents veterans' badges in the early evening. It is diversity, humanity and solidarity that make veterans in Germany so special and for which the 1st National Veterans Day sets an example.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veteranentag.gov.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">Veterans' Day<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 25 April 2024, the Bundestag decided by a large majority to make Remembrance Day an annual date in order to express comprehensive appreciation for veterans. If Veterans' Day falls on a working day, it should take place on a weekend before or after.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46719\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46719\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/B2_Veteranenabzeichen-der-Bundeswehr_Bild_Bundeswehr-Torsten-Kraatz-e1749718181460.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/B2_Veteranenabzeichen-der-Bundeswehr_Bild_Bundeswehr-Torsten-Kraatz-e1749718181460.jpg 927w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/B2_Veteranenabzeichen-der-Bundeswehr_Bild_Bundeswehr-Torsten-Kraatz-e1749718181460-300x227.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/B2_Veteranenabzeichen-der-Bundeswehr_Bild_Bundeswehr-Torsten-Kraatz-e1749718181460-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veterans' badge of the Bundeswehr. Photo: Bundeswehr\/Torsten Kraatz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A veteran of the Bundeswehr is a person who is in active service as a soldier in the Bundeswehr or who has retired from this service with honour<\/strong>. According to the study, there are around ten million veterans in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The sometimes conflicting, almost irreconcilable positions between supporters and opponents of a Veterans' Day show that an objective discussion was and is difficult to conduct. It is not about the militarisation of society, but about respect for all active and former soldiers. Especially towards the fallen and wounded, because it is the elected members of parliament and the government who deploy soldiers. And that is why Bundestag President Julia Kl\u00f6ckner is right when she says that our veterans deserve the support, recognition and respect of us all.<\/p>\n<p>If you would also like to take part in Veterans' Day, you can see all the events in your region under the link.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veteranentag.gov.de\/veranstaltungen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">events<\/button><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nun ist es endlich so weit. Am 15. Juni 2025 wird Bundestagspr\u00e4sidentin Julia Kl\u00f6ckner als Schirmherrin die zentrale Festveranstaltung zum 1. Veteranentag am Berliner Reichstagsgeb\u00e4ude er\u00f6ffnen. Am sp\u00e4ten Nachmittag f\u00fchrt Bryan Adams durch seine Fotoausstellung im Reichstagsgeb\u00e4ude, bevor Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius am fr\u00fchen Abend Veteranenabzeichen \u00fcbergibt. Es sind Vielfalt, Menschlichkeit und der Zusammenhalt, der die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":46736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"3high","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,486,42,51],"tags":[9751,9752,82,5386,9753,9754,193,9755,9756,9757,9758,9759,9760,9761,9762,5126,9764,9766,9768,7416,9769,9770],"class_list":["post-46715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-streitkraefte-news","tag-1-nationaler-veteranentag","tag-15-juni","tag-berlin","tag-boris-pistorius","tag-bryan-adams","tag-bundestagspraesidentin","tag-bundeswehr","tag-gedenktag","tag-gefallen","tag-julia-kloeckner","tag-militarisierung-der-gesellschaft","tag-parlament-und-regierung","tag-parlamentsarmee","tag-reichstag","tag-soldatinnen-und-soldaten","tag-verteidigungsminister","tag-verwundet","tag-veteran","tag-veteranenbuero","tag-veteranenkultur-e-v","tag-veteranin","tag-vielfalt-menschlichkeit-zusammenhalt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49094,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions\/49094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}