State dossier
Germany
DEU · GERMANY · board row present
What does this state want?
Coded LBI-BAN: Supports a legally binding instrument that includes prohibitions.
LBI-BAN since 2024-05-24, EXPLICIT
Supports a legally binding instrument that includes prohibitions.
Germany's national contribution to the Secretary-General's report supports a legally binding instrument in the CCW GGE that prohibits lethal autonomous weapons systems that cannot comply with international humanitarian law, and separately supports an additional CCW protocol prohibiting LAWS operating outside human control, with regulation for other systems. The human-decision principle is stated in its own words.
Germany supports a CCW additional protocol prohibiting LAWS outside human control.
Germany supports the creation of an additional protocol to the CCW that entails the prohibition of LAWS operating outside of human control
UN Secretary-General's Report on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS): Germany's national contribution, 2024-05-24 source
The human-decision principle grounds the German position.
The decision over life and death must be made by humans.
UN Secretary-General's Report on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS): Germany's national contribution, 2024-05-24 source
This state shown large among peers · hover a mark for its coding
How did it vote?
Yes on all three UN votes on autonomous weapons.
Hover a legend chip to light those votes · each resolution links to its record
What has it signed?
Membership is fact, not opposition.
Hover a track header to light its signings · click a seal to open the document
When is it on the record?
The engagement cadence, dated.
Hover a mark for its act · a legend chip lights that type
What has it written down at home?
National doctrine.
No published national policy identified by this project, as of 2026-07-17.
Research pass 5b (2026-07-17) reviewed the German record: German security analysts themselves note the absence of a national directive on weapon autonomy in the DoDD 3000.09 sense; the position lives in coalition-treaty language and international submissions. No published national policy specifically governing autonomy in weapons systems identified by this project, as of 2026-07-17.
The record
The documents on file.
Each mark opens its source