Overview

• Berlin’s Senate and the Bundeswehr presented a two-year “Zivile Verteidigung Krankenhäuser” framework to the leadership of twelve hospitals on July 17.
• The full document remains classified, with officials releasing only its main objectives to protect medical facilities under wartime pressures.
• Identified priorities cover preventing service and supply chain failures, securing backup power and medical stocks, and coordinating emergency patient transfers.
• The initiative follows intensified civil defense efforts since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and aims to bolster resilience against hybrid threats.
• The Verein demokratischer Ärztinnen und Ärzte cautions that integrating military planning into healthcare may compromise civilian medical autonomy.