In the international vocabulary, a new verb is called "to scholz".
It means doing the right thing far too late, if at all.
During his first days in office, the new Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) came across the legacy of a predecessor who stayed in office eleven months too long because of the "scholzing" in the chancellery.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense has done little to strengthen the Bundeswehr.
It wasn't the chancellor, it was the parliament that had noticed this for months.
At the end of the year, the householders had already complained across factions that more of the 100 billion euros in special money had been burned up in inflation than was invested in equipment and ammunition.
Pistorius has to catch up on everything
They therefore also demanded proof of the backorders that are necessary to replace the deliveries to Ukraine.
The overview that is now available goes beyond the well-known scholzing in the military bureaucracy: apart from a few howitzer parts and a few trucks, practically nothing was reordered, although hundreds of millions are ready.
State Secretary Margaretha Sudhof is responsible for financial controlling in the Ministry of Defence.
Pistorius now has to make up for everything that was so criminally neglected in the past few months and of course in the ten years before that.
The Bundestag can be an ally in this, because many there have had enough of the routine in the Bundeswehr.