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Berlin / Kiel (dpa / lno) - Companies in Schleswig-Holstein received arms export permits worth almost 1.5 billion euros last year.

This is the highest value of all federal states, as can be seen from the response of the Federal Ministry of Economics to a request from the Bundestag member Sevim Dağdelen (Left).

According to the preliminary figures, Lower Saxony follows with a good 1.2 billion euros and Bavaria with just under 1.14 billion euros.

For Hamburg the value is a good 45 million euros.

In 2019, there were arms export licenses in Schleswig-Holstein with a significantly lower value of a good 154 million euros.

Naval ships are built in the northernmost state.

Dağdelen criticized the arms exports from Germany.

"The federal states should finally promote the conversion of the arms industry to civilian production instead of dealing with death," said the member of the Bundestag.

The comparison with the previous year could not hide the high level of arms export permits.

Last year it was more than 5.8 billion euros nationwide, in 2019 it was a good 8 billion euros.

Sevim Dagdelen