Voluntary military service - objection to data transfer
The 2011 Military Service Amendment Act came into force on 1 July 2011. Women and men who are German within the meaning of the Basic Law can now sign up for 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. Pursuant to Section 18 (7) of the Registration Act, data transmission is only permitted if the persons concerned have not objected.
The women and men born in 1999 who are affected have until 29 February 2016 to exercise their right to object.
The application to object to the data transfer is available at the Chemnitz registration office, at the city's citizen service centres and at the following link
available. Objections to the transfer of a data subject's data must be addressed to the City of Chemnitz, Citizens' Office, Registration Office, 09106 Chemnitz (Düsseldorfer Platz 1) or submitted to any citizen service centre of the City of Chemnitz.
Office hours of the registration office (Düsseldorfer Platz 1): Monday and Friday 8.30 a.m. to 12 noon, Tuesday and Thursday 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The office hours of the citizen service centres can be enquired about by calling the standardised public authority telephone number 115 or can be found under the following link: