defence Minister von der Leyen was obviously not informed sufficiently about the status of the renovations at the “Gorch Fock”. Warnings did not reach the Minister.
in January of 2018, officials of the defense Ministry previously warned, the repair of the Gorch Fock to continue. According to a report by the Ministry of defense to the Chairmen of the defence Committee.
Accordingly, the staff wrote in a first draft for a submission to the Minister about the Work on the sailing school ship: “The contractor is overwhelmed with the Dimension already now”. Was a shipyard meant the Elsflether.
by the end of 2015 had been instructed by the company to repair the sail training ship. New Work had to be commissioned, the cost rose to at least 135 million euros.
warning did not reach the Minister
From the Letter to the members of the defense Committee, the ARD capital city Studio, it is not clear that the warning reached the Minister.
head of Department – responsible for equipment – had not followed the decision proposal, is in the direction of the deputies. In March 2018, Ursula von der Leyen was a template that classified the continuation of the Work as a “low risk”. The CDU politician decided on this basis for the continuation of the Work.
The Federal court of auditors had, among other things, this line template in his report of 22. March 2019 criticized, and criticized that decision opportunities – demolition Work, new construction, not a sail training ship for the Marine shown is not sufficient.
However, as the template had been created, had left the report of the auditors was open. Under the direction of the Deputy now makes transparent how it is that the template for the office of the Minister.
The cost for the rehabilitation of the “Gorch Fock” were most recently increased to 135 million euros.
FDP: conditions in the Ministry of defence “chaotic,”
“The conditions in the Ministry of defence are obviously messy”, says Alexander Müller, Chairman of the FDP in the parliamentary defence Committee. The Minister had taken decisions on the Basis of doctored Figures.
Tobias Lindner, who sits for the Greens in both the household as well as in the defence Committee, calls the events on the Gorch Fock a “scandal”. The report makes it clear that “the Ministry is anything other than a victim of a shipyard with strange business practices”. From the report, it is apparent that in the preparation of key decision documents for the Minister made a mistake.
the Ministry of acknowledges violation of a
The Ministry acknowledges in the report that the Federal budget code and the rules of procedure in the Ministry of defence has been violated. It has accepted the criticism of the Federal court of auditors already announced several measures to implement.
A Department for economic law studies has been strengthened and the rules of procedure of the Ministry of defense revised. The new regulation gives more detailed guidelines for the cooperation of different Bodies and for the development of templates.
Also announced the Ministry is to regulate the cooperation between the procurement office and the naval Arsenal and combine is the responsibility of the procurement office in Koblenz.
Yet it is still not clear whether the sail training ship is built. The yard’s management was replaced. The company had to file for bankruptcy. The upper limit of 135 million Euro is to be kept.
defence Ministry has sent warnings to Gorch-Fock-yard ignored
Christoph Prössl, ARD Berlin
08.04.2019 16:40 PM
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