Joint Medical Service (Germany)

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Joint Medical Service
Zentraler Sanitätsdienst der Bundeswehr
Medical Corps
RoleMilitary medicine
Size20,000 personnel (2023)[1]
HeadquartersKoblenz
Anniversaries1 October 2000
Equipment
Commanders
Inspector of the Joint Medical ServiceGeneraloberstabsarzt Ulrich Baumgärtner (German Army)
Stellvertretender Inspekteur des Zentralen Sanitätsdiensts der BundeswehrGeneralstabsarzt Stephan Schoeps (German Army)
Notable
commanders		Ingo Patschke
A medic during the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) in Croatia, 1995
Field hospital exercise
Vehicle of the Sanitätsdienst during KFOR

The Joint Medical Service (

Cyber and Information Domain Service). Members of the central medical corps remain members of their respective military branches. Only a few specialized medical units such as the medical care for divers and aircraft crews are not incorporated in the Joint Medical Service. Prior to 2002 each military branch had its own medical service. The services were then largely merged, forming the Joint Medical Service. In May 2021 the minister of defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer together with Inspector General of the Bundeswehr Eberhard Zorn published a plan to dissolve the Joint Medical Service and to reintegrate its units into the army, navy, airforce and cyber command.[2]

Structure

Ranks of the Joint Medical Service

Army/Airforce:
Generaloberstabsarzt
(GenOStArzt)		 Navy:
Admiraloberstabsarzt
(AdmOStArzt)

Army and Airforce

Human Medicine Dentistry Pharmacy Veterinary Army and Airforce Foreign equivalents
Stabsarzt Stabsarzt
Stabsapotheker
Stabsveterinär
 Hauptmann
Captain
Oberstabsarzt Oberstabsarzt
Oberstabsapotheker
Oberstabsveterinär
 Major Major
Oberfeldarzt Oberfeldarzt
Oberfeldapotheker
Oberfeldveterinär
 Oberstleutnant
Lieutenant Colonel
Oberstarzt Oberstarzt Oberstapotheker
Oberstveterinär
 Oberst Colonel
Generalarzt Generalarzt
Generalapotheker
 – Brigadegeneral
Brigadier General
Generalstabsarzt – – – Generalmajor
Major General
Generaloberstabsarzt – – – Generalleutnant
Lieutenant General

Navy

Human Medicine Dentistry Pharmacy Navy Foreign equivalents
Stabsarzt Stabsarzt
Stabsapotheker
 Kapitänleutnant Lieutenant
Oberstabsarzt Oberstabsarzt
Oberstabsapotheker
 Korvettenkapitän
Lieutenant Commander
Flottillenarzt
Flottillenarzt
Flottillenapotheker
 Fregattenkapitän Commander
Flottenarzt
Flottenarzt
Flottenapotheker
Kapitän zur See
 Captain
Admiralarzt
Admiralarzt
Admiralapotheker
Flottillenadmiral
 Commodore
Admiralstabsarzt
 – – Konteradmiral Rear admiral
Admiraloberstabsarzt
 – – Vizeadmiral
Vice Admiral

See also

References

  1. ^ "Aktuelle Personalzahlen der Bundeswehr [Current personnel numbers of the Federal Defence]". Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Strukturen für die 'Bundeswehr der Zukunft': Viel Unruhe, wenig Klarheit – Augen geradeaus!".

External links

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