Magdeburg (dpa/sa) – Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) thanked the soldiers for their service on the occasion of the founding day of the Bundeswehr. In particular, he praised the civil-military cooperation. “Whenever the Bundeswehr was needed, they were always there immediately and helped throughout the country,” he said at a ceremony in Magdeburg on Friday.
The Bundeswehr was formed on November 12, 1955. According to the State Chancellery in the Ermekeil barracks in Bonn, the first 101 volunteer soldiers received their certificates of appointment on this day.
