General Veterinary

Badge of rank of the General Staff Veterinary (GenStVet)

Shoulder piece

General veterinarian , also general veterinarian , was the official or functional designation of a high official or superior in the field of veterinary medicine within the German armed forces , but also the police, until 1945.

Importance and precedence

To distinguish it from the medical officers , the veterinary officers carried the snake, but without the Aesculapian staff in the middle. The promotions to the ranks were based on seniority.

With the transition from the Reichswehr to the Wehrmacht, some ranks of the veterinary career were changed. The following renaming took place in 1934:

Senior Veterinarian General in Oberfeldveterinär
General veterinarian in chief veterinarian

General staff veterinarian in general veterinarian

General Senior Staff Veterinarian in General Staff Veterinary

The highest rank was the Senior Staff Veterinarian ( grade C1 ), introduced in 1934 , comparable to the rank of a general . Only Otto Budnowski and Curt Schulze achieved this rank .

Ranking :

Rank
lower: senior veterinarian (colonel, senior physician; C4)	German Empire General Veterinary (Major General, Doctor General, C3)	higher: General Staff Veterinarian (Lieutenant General, General Staff Doctor; C2)

General Veterinarians (selection)

Erich Bartsch (1890–1941)

Otto Bauer (1874–1946)

Karl Berger (1885–1952)

Hans Bethcke (1889–1957)

Maximilian Betzler (1891–1988)

Leo Hepp : Veterinary General in the Reichswehr

Karl Kiesewetter (1887–1965)

Walter König (1891–1971), bearer of the Knight's Cross with Swords

Wilhelm Kries : Veterinarian General of the Police

General staff veterinarians

Julius Eckert (1884–1943)
Hans Fontaine
Philipp Fritsch (1880–1945)
Hans Höfer (1886–1952)
Theodor Hoenecke (1882–1945)
Joseph Klingler (1878–1960), promoted April 1, 1941
Erich Köhler (1885–1955)
Paul Mangow (1886–1942)
Rudolf Neven (1885–1969)
Wilhelm Paulus (* 1883)
Erich Rathsmann (1885–1945)
Eduard Richters (* 1884), promotion on August 1, 1941
Lucas Schäfer (* 1883)
Walter Semmler (1884–1945)
Albert Thieme (* 1881)
L. Weber

literature

Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: Die Generale des Heeres 1921-1945 , Volume 1 Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 978-3-7648-2538-6 , p. 228

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Klaus-Ulrich Keubke, Hans Stadler: The uniforms of the German Wehrmacht in autumn 1936 . SGM, Writings on the History of Mecklenburg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022973-2 , p. 36 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).
↑ Military service and health . 1965, p. 83 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).
^ Rudolf Absolon: The Wehrmacht in the Third Reich: August 1, 1934 to February 4, 1938 . H. Boldt, 1975, ISBN 978-3-7646-1567-3 , pp. 204 ( google.de [accessed January 24, 2020]).
↑ Journal of Veterinary Science with a special focus on hygiene . 1941, p. 204 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).
↑ Journal of Veterinary Science with a special focus on hygiene . 1941, p. 356 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).

[:0-1] Klaus-Ulrich Keubke, Hans Stadler: The uniforms of the German Wehrmacht in autumn 1936 . SGM, Writings on the History of Mecklenburg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022973-2 , p. 36 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).

[2] Military service and health . 1965, p. 83 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).

[3] Rudolf Absolon: The Wehrmacht in the Third Reich: August 1, 1934 to February 4, 1938 . H. Boldt, 1975, ISBN 978-3-7646-1567-3 , pp. 204 ( google.de [accessed January 24, 2020]).

[4] Journal of Veterinary Science with a special focus on hygiene . 1941, p. 204 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).

[5] Journal of Veterinary Science with a special focus on hygiene . 1941, p. 356 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).