Enjoying history in an unfamiliar format, that is what “THEN and now. The podcast on history ”. Now the fourth episode is available: It was a 19-year-old who opened the armed forces to women through the courts.
The electronics technician Tanja Kreil applied to the Bundeswehr in 1996. Her request was rejected with reference to Paragraph 12a of the Basic Law – after that only men were allowed to serve in the troops. Kreil complained. At the beginning of 2000, the European Court of Justice ruled that it violated the principle of equality between women and men if women were excluded from working with weapons in the Federal Republic of Germany. On October 27, 2000, the German Bundestag reacted by amending paragraph 4 of the relevant paragraph. Around 22,000 women are currently serving in the Bundeswehr.
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