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  2. Conscription in Germany - Wikipedia

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    Some detractors of conscription expected considerable savings in defence spending from abolishing conscription, because it would allow a downsizing of the armed forces, which owe much of their current size to the need to accommodate large numbers of conscripts. It was arguable how such a reduction in size would affect the Bundeswehr's capabilities.

  3. Order of succession - Wikipedia

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    Many titles and offices are not hereditary (such as democratic state offices) and they are subject to different rules of succession. A hereditary line of succession may be limited to heirs of the body, or may also pass to collateral lines, if there are no heirs of the body, depending on the succession rules. These concepts are in use in English ...

  4. Conscientious objection in East Germany - Wikipedia

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    In April 1962 the GDR government introduced military conscription. The period of compulsory service was at least 18 months , and adult males between 18 and 26 were eligible. Service in the National People's Army (in German abbreviated as NVA), the paramilitary forces of the People's Police and the motorised rifles regiment of the Ministry for ...

  5. Monarchy of Germany - Wikipedia

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    By this ceremony, the North German Confederation was transformed into the German Empire. This empire was a federal monarchy ; the emperor was head of state and president of the federated monarchs (the kings of Bavaria , Württemberg , Saxony , the grand dukes of Oldenburg , Baden , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Hesse , as well as other principalities ...

  6. Conscription - Wikipedia

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    Conscription, also known as the draft in American English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. [1] Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under

  7. Prussian Army - Wikipedia

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    Conscription among the peasantry was more firmly enforced, based on the Swedish model. [13] Frederick William I wore his simple blue military uniform at court, a style henceforth imitated by the rest of the Prussian court and his royal successors. In Prussia, pigtails replaced the full-bottomed wigs common at most German courts.

  8. Law of succession - Wikipedia

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    Laws of succession govern the order of succession to various monarchies. Some laws of succession include: Current monarchies. United Kingdom. British succession ...

  9. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    A fideicommissum's succession can also be ordered in a way that determines it long (or eternally) also with regard to persons born long after the original descendant. Royal succession has typically been more or less a fideicommissum, the realm not (easily) to be sold and the rules of succession not to be (easily) altered by a holder (a monarch).