Erich Bock

Erich Bock (born October 11, 1907 in Magdeburg , † December 22, 1994 in Gießen ) was a German medical officer .

Life

As the son of an Altmarker , Bock studied medicine at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg after graduating from high school in Magdeburg . At the beginning of the summer semester of 1926 he was active in the Corps Moenania Würzburg . On April 1, 1929, he joined the Reichsmarine as a naval officer candidate . Like all officer candidates in the Reichsmarine and the Kriegsmarine, he went through basic training on Dänholm . Since he was allowed to (further) study at a German university of his choice, he went to the Friedrichs University in Halle for the winter semester 1929/30 ; for he also wanted Palaiomarchia in his father's corpsto become active. There he was a successful consenior . In 1932 he passed the medical state examination at the University of Hamburg .

marine

In 1934 he married Erika Uhland in Hamburg , with whom he had two sons and three daughters. With her he came as a doctor to a torpedo boat semi-flotilla in Wilhelmshaven . Then he was 2nd ship's doctor on the new ironclad Germany and troop doctor at the naval school in Bremerhaven . At the end of 1936 the family moved to Hamburg . Accepted into the Navy , he came to the Bernhard Nocht Institute in October 1936 . As part of his training in tropical medicine , he was sent to the Dutch East Indies for a few months at the end of 1938 ; but he did not return via Russia until November 1940 . From June to September 1940 he headed the hygienic-bacteriological department of the marine station in the Baltic Sea . Squadron doctor since 1942 , he came to southern Russia several times as a hygienist and tropical medicine specialist during the German-Soviet war . In southern Italy and Sofia he served as a senior staff doctor and deputy chief medical officer of the Marine Group Command South . In Hamburg he became Dr. med. habil. and lecturer (not private lecturer ). When his family in the Operation Gomorrah was bombed, Bock took them with the permission of the British military government on the estate of an uncle near Magdeburg. There they had to give way again when parts of the province of Saxony were defeated on July 1, 1945 from the British to the Soviet zone of occupation .

When Siegfried Handloser had to defend himself as the former head of the Wehrmacht medical services at the Nuremberg trials , Bock was called as a witness and - as is usual in Nuremberg - imprisoned for a long time in order to be available to the judges at all times.

Bundeswehr and Green Cross

In the early 1950s he was appointed to the Blank office. In 1953 he became head of the health service department and later was head of the medical services of the Bundeswehr . In November 1957, he was promoted to the position of naval doctor and charged with managing the military hospital in Giessen . In 1960 he also received the Masurian Ribbon . After he retired on March 31, 1968 , he headed the medical-scientific department of the German Green Cross in Marburg for ten years .

Since the fall of 1994, long-term care , he was commissioned by the children in the care of St pin casting. He died at the age of 87. He was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery next to his wife, whom he had lost in 1977.

Works

• with Fritz Pohle and Werner Bauer: About acute nephritis. On the current state of knowledge about pneumonia, taking into account the cases of illness that occurred in the Navy from 1921 to 1934 . Mittler, Herford 1940. GoogleBooks

Web links

• Christian Werk: The history of the Bundeswehr hospitals in Koblenz, Hamm, Detmold, Gießen and Osnabrück from 1957 to 2007 . Dissertation, Munich 2010 (PDF; 5.7 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 101/815; 113/527; 98/1278
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Niewerth: Erich Bock . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 93 (1995), p. 293 f.
3. ↑ Hospital ships and transport of the wounded in the Black Sea (PDF; 2.3 MB)
4. ↑ Military History Research Office (ed.): Beginnings of West German Security Policy 1945–1956 , Vol. 3. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003
5. ↑ HR Hammerich, RJ Schlaffer: Military build-up generation of the Bundeswehr 1955-1970. Oldenbourg, Munich 2011
6. ↑ Head physician BWK Gießen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Erich Bock: Development and problems of the Bundeswehr hospitals from their planning to the present . Giessen 1967  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.