General Physician of the Air Force

General Physician of the Air Force - GenArztLw -
Internal association badge (coat of arms)
active	October 1973 to the present
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	air force
Subordinate troops	Aviation physicians of the German armed forces, center for aerospace medicine of the air force
Insinuation	Air Force Command
Luftwaffe barracks madness	Cologne
General Physician of the Air Force
commander	General doctor Bernhard Groß

The General Physician of the Air Force (GenArztLw) is responsible for “advising the Air Force inspector on all basic medical and aeromedical questions” and for “representing the air force's own interests in all military and medical matters”.

It is based in the Luftwaffe barracks in Cologne, in the Luftwaffe's center for aerospace medicine .

All aviation physicians, aviation medical assistants and aviation psychologists of the Bundeswehr , the center for aerospace medicine of the air force with its branch offices in Bückeburg, Fürstenfeldbruck , Königsbrück and Manching are subordinate to him .

At the post of General Doctor of the Air Force , Verena von Weymarn was the first woman in the German military to achieve the rank of general .

history

The history of the agency goes back to the medical department in the General Air Force Office . In 1966 the Air Force Medical Service Inspection , which was subordinate to the Air Force Office, emerged from it. From October 1, 1970, the office was called General Doctor Air Force Medical Service , and for the first time from October 1973 it was set up as an independent office in Lohmar-Heide near Siegburg General Doctor of the Air Force. As before, the service was subordinate to the Air Force Office, but technically it was subject to the Sanitary and Health Inspection (InSan) in the Federal Ministry of Defense. Disbanded with the capture of Air Force Structure 5 by February 2002. The armed forces-specific medical service matters were now the responsibility of the Air Force inspector. The Department of Aviation and Space Medicine / Aviation Medical Service of the Bundeswehr in the staff of the Air Force Office took on the main tasks of the agency . From October 2004 to September 2013, the independent GenArztLw office was again set up under this name in the Brückberg barracks ( Siegburg ).

Organizational change as part of the realignment

After more than 50 years as an integral part of the Air Force, the Air Force General Doctor and the Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine were decommissioned on September 30, 2013 as part of a military appeal on the old parade ground of the Wahn Air Force Barracks. This is followed by the newly established center for aerospace medicine of the Air Force (ZentrLuRMedLw), which has covered the wide range of tasks since October 1, 2013.

Officers in this position

Surname	appointment	End of service
General practitioner Bernhard Groß	March 26, 2020
General practitioner Rafael Schick	July 6, 2015	March 26, 2020
General practitioner Jürgen Brandenstein	October 1, 2013	July 6, 2015
General practitioner Jörg Binnewies	July 1, 2008	September 30th, 2013
General practitioner Erich Rödig	April 1, 2002	June 30, 2008
General practitioner Achim Andexer	April 1, 2001	March 31, 2002
General practitioner Klaus Meurers	October 1, 1995	March 31, 2001
GenArzt Verena von Weymarn	April 1, 1994	September 20, 1995
General practitioner Hartmut Zacher	October 1, 1990	March 31, 1994
General practitioner Hans-Joachim Hildebrandt	October 1, 1985	September 30, 1990
General practitioner Wolfgang Nissen	October 1, 1982	September 30, 1985
General practitioner Kay Staack	April 1, 1980	September 30, 1982
General practitioner Ernst Ebeling	1st October 1972	March 31, 1980
General practitioner Heinz S. Fuchs	1st October 1968	September 30, 1972
General practitioner Gebhard Greiling	October 1, 1967	September 30, 1968
General practitioner Fritz Dörner	February 1, 1959	September 30, 1967

Web links

• Detailed information about the new office
• bundesarchiv.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tasks / Organization  ( page can no longer be accessed , 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. , Federal Archives.  
2. ↑ Christian Esser, Boris Kinetz: set up the Center for Aerospace Medicine in Cologne. www.luftwaffe.de, October 9, 2013, accessed October 10, 2013 .  

3. Surgeon General of the Air Force transported http://www.sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de/portal/a/sanitaetsdienst/!ut/p/c4/NYvBCsIwEAX_aDcVhOCtIRfx5qWttzUN7UKblO1aQfx4k4NvYC7DwwcWEh08kXJOtGCPQ-DL8w2fnRLsUQ4OERKFWTjMil19jBFCTlGrNSbl4klIs8CWRZdaXiKlAI84mMY7Y81_zbf1N3fqztb6q7vjtq7tDzq-zyM!/