“Massive interference with freedom”: FDP opposes Pistorius’ call for conscription. Compulsory military service could be embedded in a social year based on the Swedish model, according to the military commissioner Eva Högl (SPD) The Bundestag's military commissioner is now calling for the establishment of a citizens' assembly to discuss the introduction of general service in the Bundeswehr and civil organizations.
The suspension of compulsory military service in July 2011 by the then Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) was viewed as a practical abolition of military and community service.