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Hooray, Structural Change Has Been Saved: Saxony-Anhalt Becomes the Workshop and Hub of Military ReadinessSaxony-Anhalt has economic problems. But salvation is on the way. Where traditional industry is struggling, the arms industry is growing. And because weapons, equipment and troops also have to be moved, supplied and accommodated in an emergency, Germany is simultaneously becoming a military hub. Saxony-Anhalt is not a bystander in this process. 
You have to give politicians credit. They can find a solution to almost every problem, even if those solutions are sometimes rather absurd. Since the economy is weakening, new growth sectors are needed. If industrial jobs are lost, new ones have to be created elsewhere. If the chemical industry, automotive suppliers and small and medium-sized businesses are no longer really pulling their weight, fortunately there is an industry with a rather secure order book. The Arms IndustrySaxony-Anhalt can count itself lucky. In Silberhütte in the Harz Mountains, Rheinmetall is investing 30 to 40 million euros. The capacity of the pyrotechnics facility there is to be at least doubled, and possibly even tripled. According to the company, at least 100 new jobs are to be created; other reports put the figure at up to 150.Dietersdorf has also become part of the growing Rheinmetall network. There, the company has acquired Muni Berka GmbH, which specializes in the storage and demilitarization of ammunition. Rheinmetall explicitly justifies the acquisition by pointing to the strong growth of its own ammunition production and the resulting need for additional storage capacity. In Schönebeck, around 15 million euros have just been invested in a new production hall for Nammo. Sporting ammunition is manufactured there. The parent company, Nammo, however, is not exactly a manufacturer of badminton rackets, but an international aerospace and defense corporation. 
New Jobs as Good News?Of course, new jobs are good news. Understandably, anyone who is unemployed does not first ask about the geopolitical philosophy of their future employer. But we should all nevertheless ask ourselves what kind of economic structure is actually being created here.Because arms production has one small peculiarity. It grows particularly well when states spend more money on weapons, military tensions increase, and governments conclude that even more ammunition is needed. Other sectors of the economy hope for peace and stable international relations. The arms industry's business model is different. This is being sold as structural change. That naturally sounds friendlier. War Needs More Than WeaponsIt is not enough, however, to manufacture and store ammunition. Modern national and collective defense requires roads, railways, bridges, accommodation, food supplies, fuel, workshops, logistics companies, government agencies and functioning lines of communication.The Bundeswehr therefore now officially describes Germany as a “hub” for NATO. The so-called Host Nation Support includes, among other things, traffic planning for troops passing through, accommodation, food supplies, refueling and technical support. The so-called Germany Operations Plan explicitly links military defense planning with civilian support services. The Bundeswehr describes this as a task for society as a whole and openly states that the federal states, authorities and the business community are needed in this effort. The military therefore increasingly needs civil society. Of course, this does not mean that the baker in Magdeburg will have to drive tanks tomorrow. He will probably still be allowed to bake bread rolls. In an emergency, however, it could become interesting to see who gets those bread rolls: the mother with her three children or the passing military convoy. Saxony-Anhalt has also long since been integrated into the system organizationally. According to the state Ministry of the Interior, the Saxony-Anhalt State Command is the Bundeswehr's central point of contact for the state government on matters of civil-military cooperation and works with the state's civilian offices and authorities. It is simply astonishing how little is reported about this. Resilience – Such a Lovely WordThe word “resilience” sounds particularly pleasant in this context. Who could possibly be against resilience? Resilient people are strong. Resilient companies survive crises. Resilient infrastructure continues to function even when something goes wrong. So, everything is wonderful. Except that the new concept of state resilience increasingly also encompasses the ability, in the event of a military crisis or alliance scenario, to supply armed forces, enable troop movements and integrate civilian infrastructure into overall defense.The extent to which military and civilian structures are now being coordinated with one another became apparent in the Altmark region in July 2026. In Schnöggersburg, the Bundeswehr's training city at the Altmark military training area, Saxony-Anhalt held its largest civil protection exercise to date, involving around 650 emergency personnel. Fire brigades, medical services, police, civil protection agencies and other organizations trained together there. The scenario was explicitly a civilian disaster situation, including a serious aviation accident, fires and a hazardous-substance leak. We all want civil protection services, fire brigades and emergency services to be there when they are needed. No one would seriously demand that they only try it out during the next major fire. But we can see that civilian crisis preparedness, military infrastructure and overall military defense planning are increasingly overlapping and becoming integrated. How many military functions is our civilian infrastructure actually supposed to take on in the future? First a Workshop, Then a Hub?On the one hand, Saxony-Anhalt is becoming increasingly attractive as a location for arms production, ammunition storage and military-related investment. On the other hand, the Bundeswehr describes Germany as a logistical hub whose functionality explicitly depends on the federal states, authorities, businesses and civilian partners.And in the end, Saxony-Anhalt is simultaneously a production site, an ammunition depot, a transit region for military transports, a training area for the military and the emergency-services sector, and a civilian supporter of military logistics. The process is gradually becoming more and more firmly entrenched. This is precisely what dieBasis Saxony-Anhalt warns about in two articles. It raises the question of whether the state is increasingly becoming the “workshop of rearmament” and, at the same time, the “silent leg of the journey toward military readiness”. Because if Saxony-Anhalt becomes increasingly closely connected to military structures economically and in terms of infrastructure, this is not some technical detail that concerns only companies, military planners and ministries. It is a political decision about the direction the state is taking. Perhaps it would not be unreasonable to ask the people who actually live there — namely, the citizens — before someone eventually realizes: Structural change has succeeded. The old industry is gone. In return, we are now ready for war. Author: AI-Translation - Peter Scheller | |
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