Eberhard Daerr

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Eberhard Johannes Albrecht Daerr (* 11. July 1912 in Frankenstein in Silesia ; † 16th June 2005 ) was from 1 April 1969 until his retirement on 30 September 1972 at the rank generaloberstabsarzt the inspector of the Medical Services of the Bundeswehr and later federal physician of the German Red Cross .

Life

Daerr was born as the son of Johannes and Magdalena Daerr, geb. Hertting. He started school in 1918, attended the humanistic grammar school from 1922 to 1931 and studied human medicine in Greifswald , Munich , Tübingen and Breslau from 1931 to 1937 . In the meantime, from October 1934 to October 1935, he completed his basic military service with the Reiterent in Breslau and was promoted to sergeant in the reserve as part of a military exercise. Along with the medical state examination, he was promoted to junior physician in the reserve in 1937 . He approved in January 1938 and completed his medical internship at the German Hospital (London) and the Berlin Friedrichshain Hospital . He then worked in Breslau as a volunteer assistant at the State Women's Clinic and at the Bethanien Hospital and as a scientific assistant at the University Institute of Chemistry and Physiology. In September 1939 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . In the meantime he married Katharina Daerr geb. Wingenfeld.

Second World War

During the Second World War he was a reservist troop physician (auxiliary physician) with the Panzer Pioneer Battalion 89. In April 1940 he was promoted to assistant doctor and in March 1941 to senior physician in the reserve. This was followed by assignments as a troop doctor (department doctor) of the 116 armored artillery regiment and as a troop doctor (regimental doctor) of the 14th armored grenadier regiment, where he was promoted to staff doctor of the reserve in November 1942. In 1943 he was a department doctor in the reserve hospital. From July 1943 to March 1944 he was employed as platoon leader and deputy company commander in the medical company 2/85. From November 1944 to January 1945 he was a department doctor in the Obernigk reserve hospital , then in the Frankenstein reserve hospital until February 1945 and then in the Walsrode reserve hospital until March 1945 .

Time after the end of the war

After the end of the war, he continued his work as a department doctor in Walsrode under British supervision until November 1945. He then worked as an assistant doctor in the surgical department of the Schleswig City Hospital until September 1951 , during which time he trained as a specialist in surgery . From October 1951 to October 1953 he worked as a surgeon with the Liberian national health service, from January 1954 in the hospital of the German Red Cross in Busan , South Korea , where he was last head of the surgical department from April 1955 to March 30, 1956.

armed forces

On June 11, 1956, he joined the newly founded Bundeswehr as a senior staff doctor and, after being appointed as a professional soldier, was employed there from October 1956 as head of the medical services department in the medical service department of the troop office (→ Army Office ). Here, in April 1958, he moved to the post of Head of Human Resources in the Medical Service Department , in connection with his later promotion to Senior Field Physician. From September 1959 he was a planning officer for the infrastructure of the sanitary system, and from March 1963 to September 1963 as a medical officer doctor for the German unit SHAPE . This was followed by assignments in the ministry as a consultant until September 1965 (from December 1964 as senior physician ) and as sub-department head I in the inspection of the sanitary and health system (from February 1966 as general physician ) until March 1967. With the transfer to the post as head of the sanitary department of the Bundeswehr in April 1967, he was promoted to general staff doctor. Exactly two years later, in April 1969, he was commissioned as inspector of the medical and health services to manage the medical services of the Bundeswehr.

Activity after retirement

After his discharge from active service in September 1972, Daerr was the executive federal physician at the German Red Cross, and from 1973 also as a member of the executive committee. Among other things, he was a member of the German-Nepalese Society .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The inspectors of the medical service 1955-1976: Generaloberstabsarzt Dr. med. Eberhard Johannes Albrecht Daerr ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Archives. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesarchiv.de
  2. ^ Died , Deutsches Ärzteblatt 102, issue 31–32 of August 8, 2005
predecessor Office successor
Herbert Hockemeyer Head of the Bundeswehr Medical Service
1967–1969 		Hermann Ammermüller
personal data
SURNAME Daerr, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daerr, Eberhard Johannes Albrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic, inspector of the Bundeswehr medical service
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenstein , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2005