Feldjäger

Feldjäger
Baret insignia of the Feldjäger
Active	6 October 1955 - Present
Country	Germany
Branch	Streitkräftebasis Bundeswehr
Type	Army, Navy, Air Force, Jägertruppe (Army part)
Role	Military Police
Size	3 regiments
Garrison/HQ	Scharnhorst Kaserne in Hanover
Motto(s)	Suum cuique ((idiomatically) to each according to his merits)
Insignia
Black MP brassard of the Feldjäger

The Feldjäger is the name given to the military police of the Bundeswehr, Germany's armed forces. Their emblem is the historic Order of the Black Eagle which has as its motto Suum Cuique (Latin meaning "To each his own," a phrase derived from Cicero). The term Feldjäger, literally meaning field huntsmen or field Jäger, has a long tradition and dates back to the mid-17th century.

The first modern Feldjäger unit was activated on 6 October 1955 when the bill creating the Bundeswehr was signed. The new law called for a military police training company to be established at the former Luftwaffe hospital in Andernach. The original intention was to call the military police units of the Bundeswehr "Militärpolizei", literally military police. However, objections arose on the part of the federal states which had been given the mission of law enforcement. They wanted the use of the word "Polizei" to be unique to them and so the name was changed to Feldjäger in 1956.

The Feldjäger corps serves all component forces of the German Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) i.e., German Army, German Navy, German Air Force, Zentraler Sanitätsdienst (Joint Medical Corps) and Streitkräftebasis (Joint Support Service). The Military Police Command has its headquarters in Scharnhorst Kaserne in Hanover and is under the operational command of the Territorial Missions Command of the Streitkräftebasis. The Feldjäger have three regiments of military police stationed around Germany which are subordinate to the Military Police Command as is the Feldjäger School which is also in Hanover, but in Emmich-Cambrai Kaserne.