{"id":47991,"date":"2025-08-29T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=47991"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:46:27","slug":"chancellor-friedrich-merz-with-the-german-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/bundeskanzler-friedrich-merz-bei-der-deutschen-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the German Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, 28 August 2025, Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited the German Navy for the first time. As part of a varied programme, the Chancellor was given a demonstration of some of the Navy's capabilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the Inspector of the Navy Jan C. Kaack, Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a confidential round of talks at the Naval Command with the Inspector of the Navy, Vice Admiral Jan Christian Kaack, the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany visited the Commander Task Force Baltic area. The Chancellor was then flown to the frigate \"Bayern\" in the NH-90 helicopter. There he was given a tour on board and then a demonstration of capabilities at sea with the corvette \"Magdeburg\", the minesweeper \"Rottweil\", the task force provider \"Frankfurt am Main\", the tender \"Donau\", a submarine, the naval battalion, the on-board helicopter Sea Lynx and the maritime reconnaissance aircraft P-3C \"Orion\". Sea supply, air and anti-submarine defence and a missile attack were carried out during the exercises. There was also plenty of opportunity to talk to the navy soldiers. Finally, the Federal Chancellor made a press statement on board the frigate \"Bayern\".<\/p>\n

The entire statement by the Federal Chancellor in the \"Welt TV\" video<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chancellor Merz in conversation with the crew. Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Federal<\/a>
Federal Chancellor Merz at a press event in See. Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Federal<\/a>
Federal Chancellor and Inspector of the Navy - welcome aboard! Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Take
... and take-off! Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am Donnerstag, den 28. August 2025, hatte Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz das erste Mal die Deutsche Marine besucht. In einem vielf\u00e4ltigen Programm wurde dem Kanzler ein Teil des F\u00e4higkeitsspektrums der Marine vorgef\u00fchrt.\u00a0 Nach einer vertraulichen Gespr\u00e4chsrunde im Marinekommando mit dem Inspekteur der Marine, Vizeadmiral Jan Christian Kaack, hat der Bundeskanzler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland den Bereich des […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48153,"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":[10408,3346,182,977,8906,4777,722,198],"class_list":["post-47991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-streitkraefte-news","tag-besuch-bundeskanzler","tag-bundeskanzler","tag-deutsche-marine","tag-fregatte-bayern","tag-korvette-magdeburg","tag-nh-90","tag-sea-lynx","tag-seebataillon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47991","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=47991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48942,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47991\/revisions\/48942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}