{"id":3724,"date":"2022-08-09T17:20:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2022-08-09T17:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:31:16","slug":"weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/worldtime-the-disaster-of-afghan-local-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"World Time: The Disaster of Afghan Local Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an in-depth conversation with Weltzeit from Deutschlandfunk Kultur on the anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Kabul. What happened back then was a disaster to be ashamed of. The German local forces system was deliberately not very functional. Things have changed here with the new German government. You can read the entire interview listen here<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an in-depth conversation with Weltzeit from Deutschlandfunk Kultur on the anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Kabul. What happened back then was a disaster to be ashamed of. The German local forces system was deliberately not very functional. Things have changed here with the new German government. You can read the entire conversation …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-presse","9":"with-featured-image"},"yoast_head":"\nWeltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte - Erik Marquardt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Das deutsche Ortskr\u00e4fteverfahren war mit Absicht nicht besonders funktional. Mit der neuen Bundesregierung hat sich hier einiges ge\u00e4ndert.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Das deutsche Ortskr\u00e4fteverfahren war mit Absicht nicht besonders funktional. Mit der neuen Bundesregierung hat sich hier einiges ge\u00e4ndert.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Erik Marquardt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-09T15:20:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-09T15:31:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"964\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"658\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Erik Marquardt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Weltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Das deutsche Ortskr\u00e4fteverfahren war mit Absicht nicht besonders funktional. Mit der neuen Bundesregierung hat sich hier einiges ge\u00e4ndert.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Erik Marquardt\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Erik Marquardt\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ae6a90f9433e208a6be9ba844e6cff23\"},\"headline\":\"Weltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-09T15:20:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-09T15:31:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":75,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ae6a90f9433e208a6be9ba844e6cff23\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/08\\\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Presse\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/\",\"name\":\"Weltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte - Erik Marquardt\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/08\\\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-09T15:20:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-09T15:31:16+00:00\",\"description\":\"Das deutsche Ortskr\u00e4fteverfahren war mit Absicht nicht besonders funktional. Mit der neuen Bundesregierung hat sich hier einiges ge\u00e4ndert.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/08\\\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/08\\\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg\",\"width\":964,\"height\":658},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Weltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/\",\"name\":\"Erik Marquardt\",\"description\":\"Mitglied des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments \",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ae6a90f9433e208a6be9ba844e6cff23\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ae6a90f9433e208a6be9ba844e6cff23\",\"name\":\"Erik Marquardt\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/12\\\/erik-markquardt_combined-logo_same-size.svg\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/12\\\/erik-markquardt_combined-logo_same-size.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/12\\\/erik-markquardt_combined-logo_same-size.svg\",\"width\":370,\"height\":123,\"caption\":\"Erik Marquardt\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/erik-marquardt.eu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/12\\\/erik-markquardt_combined-logo_same-size.svg\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"World Time: The Disaster of Afghan Local Forces - Erik Marquardt","description":"The German local staff procedure was intentionally not particularly functional. With the new federal government, things have changed here.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Weltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte","og_description":"Das deutsche Ortskr\u00e4fteverfahren war mit Absicht nicht besonders funktional. Mit der neuen Bundesregierung hat sich hier einiges ge\u00e4ndert.","og_url":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/","og_site_name":"Erik Marquardt","article_published_time":"2022-08-09T15:20:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-09T15:31:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":964,"height":658,"url":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Erik Marquardt","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Weltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte","twitter_description":"Das deutsche Ortskr\u00e4fteverfahren war mit Absicht nicht besonders funktional. Mit der neuen Bundesregierung hat sich hier einiges ge\u00e4ndert.","twitter_image":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Erik Marquardt","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/"},"author":{"name":"Erik Marquardt","@id":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/#\/schema\/person\/ae6a90f9433e208a6be9ba844e6cff23"},"headline":"Weltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte","datePublished":"2022-08-09T15:20:17+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-09T15:31:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/"},"wordCount":75,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/#\/schema\/person\/ae6a90f9433e208a6be9ba844e6cff23"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg","articleSection":["Presse"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/","url":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/","name":"World Time: The Disaster of Afghan Local Forces - Erik Marquardt","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg","datePublished":"2022-08-09T15:20:17+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-09T15:31:16+00:00","description":"The German local staff procedure was intentionally not particularly functional. With the new federal government, things have changed here.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg","width":964,"height":658},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/weltzeit-das-desaster-der-afghanischen-ortskraefte\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Weltzeit: Das Desaster der afghanischen Ortskr\u00e4fte"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/#website","url":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/","name":"Erik Marquardt","description":"Member of the European Parliament","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/#\/schema\/person\/ae6a90f9433e208a6be9ba844e6cff23"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/#\/schema\/person\/ae6a90f9433e208a6be9ba844e6cff23","name":"Erik Marquardt","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/erik-markquardt_combined-logo_same-size.svg","url":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/erik-markquardt_combined-logo_same-size.svg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/erik-markquardt_combined-logo_same-size.svg","width":370,"height":123,"caption":"Erik Marquardt"},"logo":{"@id":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/erik-markquardt_combined-logo_same-size.svg"}}]}},"featured_image_src":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Erik Marquardt","author_link":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/author\/erik\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deutschlandfunk-Weltzeit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erik-marquardt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}