Emil Greul
Emil Greul (born December 29, 1895 in Neubessingen ; † October 30, 1993 in Bremen ) was a German officer , most recently an admiralty doctor and last medical chief of the Navy and head of the Naval Medical Office .
Life
Greul joined the Bavarian Army as a volunteer on May 1, 1915 during the First World War and was assigned to the field artillery . With the end of the war, in which he was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Wound Badge in Black, he was discharged from military service as a lieutenant in the reserve .
During his studies he became a member of the AMV zu Würzburg .
He tried to be accepted into the Reichsmarine and was hired on February 17, 1922 by order of the naval command in the active marine medical officer corps.
As fleet doctor of the Navy he was in World War II from 1939 chief physician of the naval hospital in Wesermünde . From 1941 he headed the Military Medical Academy in Tübingen . From October 1943 he was chief medical officer of the Kriegsmarine , and after the capitulation he held this position until May 23, 1945. Greul was one of the editors of the magazine Der Deutsche Militärarzt .
In the post-war period he was in Allied captivity from May 23, 1945 to August 17, 1947 . He later encouraged Hartmut Nöldeke to publish the first results of his work on the topic of medical services on board and “to continue searching for documents that are still hidden, especially from the Second World War, in order to make the lessons of the past usable for the present and the future”. From 1948 Greul was President of the State Health Administration Bremen and from 1953 to 1962 Deputy Senate Director of the Senate Administration for Health.
Awards
- Wehrmacht service award IV. And III. class
- War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class with swords
- Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords on April 20, 1945
literature
- Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1988. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . Pp. 458-459.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Admiralty staff doctor Dr. med. Emil Greul ( Memento from March 2, 2010 on WebCite ), military background at Axis Biographical Research
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marine Medical Department / Marine Medical Office (G) / Chief Medical Officer of the Kriegsmarine , German Naval Archives.
- ↑ Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1929. p. 68.
- ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 48.
- ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 200.
- ↑ From the foreword to The medical service in the German fleet in World War II , Vice Admiral a. D. Günter Fromm, Schortens, April 2003
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alfred Fikentscher |
Chief Medical Officer of the Navy 1943–1945 |
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greul, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer, most recently admiralty staff doctor and last chief medical officer in the Navy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neubessingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1993 |
| Place of death | Bremen |