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It doesn't, only German citizens
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Immigrants can be German citizens.
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does citizen and German not mean the same thing? Are EU citizens living permanently in germany even considered to have a duty to either militarily or in civil service serve in war times?
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Not a lawyer but the German constitution, Article 12a, speaks of men above 18, not of citizens, or even residents of Germany.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h...

So that article can in theory be used to conscript any man, citizen or not, living in Germany or not.

The Wehrpflichtgesetz, which is a simple law and requires just the 50% Bundestag majority to have it changed, refines this very wide constitutional power in article 1, to require men who hold German citizenship above 18.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/BJNR006510956.ht...

Article 3 refines it even further to folks below 45 or 60, depending on the severity of the situation.

But yes, in theory it can be changed to include any non-German citizen man, people aged 80, living inside of Germany since a while or never having been to Germany ever, or just random men who happen to change flights at FRA.

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