The Federal Ministry of Defence (, ), abbreviated BMVg, is a top-level federal agency, headed by the Federal Minister of Defence as a member of the Cabinet of Germany. The ministry is headquartered at the Hardthöhe district in Bonn and has a second office in the Bendlerblock building in Berlin, which is occasionally used colloquially to denote the entire Ministry. According to Article 65a of the German Constitution (Grundgesetz), the Federal Minister of Defence is Commander-in-chief of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, with around 265,019 active soldiers and civilians. Article 115b decrees that in the state of defence, declared by the Bundestag with consent of the Bundesrat, the command in chief passes to the Chancellor. The ministry currently has approximately 3,730 employees. Of these, 3,230 work in Bonn while around 500 work in the Bendlerblock building in Berlin. Organization On April 1, 2012, the Federal Ministry of Defence (DEU MOD) changes its organization to the following general structure: Senior Management Level Federal Minister of Defence (acts as High Commander of the German armed forces in peacetime) 2 Parliamentary Secretaries of State 2 Secretaries of State subordinated to the Senior Management Support Office Press & Information Office Politics Directorate Directorates Secretary of State #1 Equipment Directorate (lost the Cyber & IT branch in 2016) Cyber & IT Directorate (founded 2016) Secretary of State #2 Financial & Controlling Directorate Personnel Directorate Infrastructure, Antipollution & Administrative Services Directorate Legal Directorate Inspector General of the Bundeswehr Plans & Policies Directorate Strategy & Operations Directorate Armed Forces Command & Control Directorate Departments of the Federal armed forces The Bundeswehr is divided into a military part (armed forces or Streitkräfte) and a civil part with the armed forces administration (Wehrverwaltung) and consists of 11 Departments/Services: Armed Forces German Army (Heer) German Navy (Marine) German Air Force (Luftwaffe) Bundeswehr Joint Medical Service (Zentraler Sanitätsdienst) Joint Support Service (Streitkräftebasis) including the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr Cyber- and Information Domain Service (Cyber- und Informationsraum)(founded in 2017 from parts of the Joint Support Service) Armed Forces Administration Personnel Management (Personal) Information Technology & In-Service Management (Ausrüstung, Informationstechnologie und Nutzung) Infrastructure, Antipollution & Administrative Services (Infrastruktur, Umweltschutz und Dienstleistungen) Judicature (Recht) Military Chaplaincy (Militärseelsorge) Directly subordinated Offices & Agencies Armed Forces Operational Command (Einsatzführungskommando der Bundeswehr) Office for Military Aviation (Luftfahrtamt der Bundeswehr) Office for Plans & Policies (Planungsamt der Bundeswehr) Command & Control