{"id":320350,"date":"2025-08-05T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320350\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:22:10","slug":"germanys-katherina-reiche-from-economics-to-armaments-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320350\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Katherina Reiche: From Economics to Armaments Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany is looking to weapons to kick-start its economy. Since the pandemic, Germany\u2019s economy has struggled to regain its footing. Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine has driven Germany\u2019s energy prices up and fueled interest in defense. Germany\u2019s new government views Europe\u2019s military buildup as a potential lifeline for its battered economy. German Economic Minister Katherina Reiche is embracing that opportunity wholeheartedly, as Welt wrote on July 28 in \u201cHow Katherina Reiche Is Now Acting as Armaments Minister<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral measures taken by the minister in recent days clearly illustrate the new focus of her department,\u201d Welt wrote. \u201cReiche has discovered the defense industry for herself.\u201d<\/p>\n

On July 23, the German federal cabinet approved a draft law aimed at accelerating the country\u2019s armament efforts. Concerning the new law, Reiche said: \u201cWe need more weapons, and we need them faster. This can only be achieved by expanding production.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the law passed, Reich went on tour to promote the new legislation to the defense industry. Her first stop: the Diehl weapons manufacturer in R\u00f6thenbach an der Pegnitz, Bavaria. Founded in 1902, Diehl served Germany in two world wars. Now the government wants its help with militarization.<\/p>\n

Welt wrote:<\/p>\n

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Defense is not actually part of Reiche\u2019s portfolio. \u2026 Apart from controlling arms exports, her ministry only has Department IV D 6, which deals with the issue. However, this defense department is set to gain in importance.<\/p>\n


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In addition, Reiche is setting up a new advisory group for the security and defense industry in the Ministry of Economics, as the Politico newsletter \u201cIndustry & Trade\u201d has learned. Members will include Moritz Schularick, president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy; Ren\u00e9 Obermann, chairman of the supervisory board of Airbus; Nico Lange, senior fellow at the Munich Security Conference; and retired Lt. Gen. J\u00fcrgen-Joachim von Sandrart.<\/p>\n


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The experts will advise the ministry on how to achieve a rapid ramp-up of the defense industry. The focus will be on high technology, space travel, artificial intelligence, robotics, satellite communications and other new technologies.<\/p>\n

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Another adviser to Reiche in this new field is likely her partner, former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg\u2014a man the Trumpet watches closely (read \u201cGuttenberg and a Revived German Militarism<\/a>\u201d by Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry).<\/p>\n

Guttenberg is also a close friend of Schularick, an adviser to Reiche. When Guttenberg hosted him on his weekly podcast, Schularick said: \u201cIt is indeed the case that I would not be president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy if we hadn\u2019t talked about it, so you have something to do with it.\u201d Perhaps Guttenberg also encouraged him to be more active in advising the current German government.<\/p>\n

Schularick\u2019s Kiel Institute has calculated that higher defense spending can boost the economy: If European Union countries increase their military spending to 3.5 percent, as planned by Germany, their gross domestic product could rise by 0.9 to 1.5 percent. \u201cTo achieve this, however, governments would have to spend the money on state-of-the-art products,\u201d Welt wrote. \u201cThese would have to be produced in Europe and not just purchased from the United States. Additional spending would have to be financed through debt, not through taxes or cuts. A lot of money would have to go into research and development.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you boost your economy by pumping loaned money into the defense industry, you end up with a lot of debt. And unlike some other investments, military goods don\u2019t pay for themselves unless they are used to conquer land.<\/p>\n

German militarization is a trend the Trumpet watches closely because it aligns with numerous Bible prophecies. Not only does the Bible reveal that Germany will become a formidable military power in this end time, it also shows that a strong leader will lead this military force into war.<\/p>\n

Referring to Assyria, the ancient name for Germany, God says in Isaiah 10:5-7: \u201cO Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our free booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire<\/a> explains this and many more prophecies for Germany. We must understand these prophecies to know what lies ahead for our world. As Jesus Christ said: \u201cWatch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man\u201d (Luke 21:36).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany is looking to weapons to kick-start its economy. Since the pandemic, Germany\u2019s economy has struggled to regain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-320350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114977318198973567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}