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Presscouncil City of Chemnitz
Pressrelease: 591

Information from the registration office

Voluntary military service - objection to the transmission of data to the Federal Office of Defence Administration for the purpose of sending information material by the Bundeswehr

The 2011 Military Service Amendment Act came into force on 1 July 2011. This allows men and women who are German within the meaning of the Basic Law to undertake voluntary military service.

Pursuant to Section 58c of the Soldiers Act, the registration authorities must annually transmit the surname, first names and current address of persons with German citizenship who will come of age in the coming year to the Federal Office of Defence Administration. From there, information material on activities in the armed forces is sent to the persons concerned. In accordance with Section 36 (2) of the Federal Registration Act, data transfer is only permitted if the data subjects have not objected.

The affected men and women born in 2001 have until 28 February 2018 to exercise their right to object.

The application to object to the transfer of data is available at the Chemnitz registration office, at the city's citizen service centres and HERE. Objections to the transfer of a data subject's data must be submitted to the City of Chemnitz, Citizens' Office, Registration Office, 09106 Chemnitz (Düsseldorfer Platz 1) or to any citizen service centre of the City of Chemnitz.

The current office hours of the registration office (Düsseldorfer Platz 1) are

Monday and Friday8.30 a.m. to 12 noon
Tuesday and Thursday8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The office hours of the citizens' service centres can be enquired about by calling the single public authority number 115 or viewed HERE.