Yes and no. Every Swiss male has to serve in the military. You are allowed to compensate for it instead, but there is still a Wehrpflicht, that doesn’t change. Just that the compensation is Part of the Wehrpflicht.
You can also be arbitrarily deemed “unfit for service” and forced to pay a pretty expensive compensation fee for the next several years, even if you would have preferred to have done the months of military or year of civil service instead.
*Every Swiss male has to enter the military unless unable or unwilling to.
No Swiss person has to enter the military.
I’d also like to see proof of the first claim. Germany’s Grundgesetz Art. 20 (4) gives the right to oppose but doesn’t require it.
Yes and no. Every Swiss male has to serve in the military. You are allowed to compensate for it instead, but there is still a Wehrpflicht, that doesn’t change. Just that the compensation is Part of the Wehrpflicht.
You can also be arbitrarily deemed “unfit for service” and forced to pay a pretty expensive compensation fee for the next several years, even if you would have preferred to have done the months of military or year of civil service instead.