70-year-old soldiers?
We have been closely tracking the rapid remilitarization of Germany in the context of the war in Ukraine, and now, with the fraying of NATO ties, the process has become almost frantic.
Early in 2025, we noted that The Bundeswehr Didn’t Have a Single Combat-Ready Division, Leaving Germany Totally Dependent of Stationed US Troops for Defense and Deterrence.
Since then, we reported that Germany Was to Purchase a Thousand Tanks To Try To Turn the Bundeswehr Into Western Europe’s Largest Fighting Force.
Early this year, Germany Approves Major Package of Attack Drones for the Bundeswehr, With a Half a Billion Euro Initial Purchase.
Besides all that rearming, it arose that now, fighting-age men need to register with the military when leaving the country for extended periods of time.
Now, as the militarization expands, we learn that the German Reservist Association is calling for a raise of the age limit for service members to 70 years.
The age limit for reservists is to rise because, according to the Association, many ‘remain productive for longer’.
Der Spiegel reported (translated from the German):
“The new president of the reservist association, Bastian Ernst, is calling for a significant increase in the age limit for reservists in order to strengthen Germany’s defense capability. ‘We should raise the age limit for reservists from 65 to 70 years’, he told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland. He pointed out that the retirement age is also rising.
‘People stay fit longer. We should not waste these resources of people with life and professional experience’, says Ernst.”
“The Bundeswehr is to grow to at least 260,000 active soldiers and 200,000 reservists by 2035. This reserve is to be built up mainly from the men and women who are doing the new military service, for which the legal basis has been in place since the beginning of the year.
[…] According to Ernst, it is currently unclear how many reservists there are currently. It is known that eight to nine million people have served in the Bundeswehr and that around 60,000 reservists have been ordered, i.e. firmly scheduled by the Bundeswehr and thus quickly available. The reservist association has about 110,000 members. ‘The task of the new fire brigade registration will now be to record the number exactly’.”
Read more:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/old-guard-war-obsessed-germany-plans-call-reservists/
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