Overview

• Two former soldiers were found guilty of severe sexual coercion and received suspended prison terms of one year and ten months and one year and eight months.
• A third former soldier was convicted of failure to render assistance and dangerous bodily harm and was fined €6,400.
• The attacks occurred in 2021 at the Julius-Leber-Kaserne in Berlin during so‑called rituals, including a “Zäpfchen” incident described in court as humiliation and a show of power.
• The victim, now 24, reported lasting psychological harm and remained in therapy until leaving the Bundeswehr in early 2025.
• The defendants confessed and paid a total of €9,500 via victim‑offender mediation; the verdict is not yet legally binding, and earlier probes into a purported “Wolfsrudel” produced searches later ruled unlawful.