Hans-Ulrich Holtherm

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Hans-Ulrich Holtherm (born June 6, 1964 in Rheine ) is a German doctor and medical officer in the Bundeswehr with the rank of general staff doctor . Since March 1, 2020, he has been head of the new department for health protection, health security, sustainability in the Federal Ministry of Health .

Military career

After passing the baccalaureate at the secondary school Dionysianum in Rheine, stepped Holtherm 1983 as a reserve officer candidate in the Bundeswehr one. By 1985 he completed his training as an officer in the supply force with Transport Battalion 170 in Rheine. In the same year, he switched to the medical officer trainee career and began studying human medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . He completed this in 1991 and was then employed from 1991 to 1994 as a doctor in an internship and later as a further training assistant in the departments of internal medicine , dermatology and surgery at the Bundeswehr Hospital in Hamburg . In 1992 he received his doctorate in this regard. med. From 1994 to 1997 he was employed as a troop doctor and aviator in the Army Aviation Regiment 6 in Itzehoe . From 1997 to 1998 Holtherm completed a training section in tropical medicine at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg , and from 1998 to 1999 further training sections in anesthesia , microbiology and pediatrics at the Bundeswehr Hospital in Hamburg and at the Altona children's hospital . This was followed by a one-year tropical medicine training course in Senegal, West Africa, from 1999 to 2000 . From 2000 to 2001 Holtherm completed postgraduate studies in London , which he completed as a Master of Science in Public Health for Developing Countries . From 2001 to 2008, a use as Department Head of Tropical Medicine / Medical Intelligence in Medical Office of the Bundeswehr in Bonn and Munich . From 2008 to 2010, Holtherm was Head of Preventive Medicine in the Medical Command I in Kiel . From 2010 to 2012 he was employed on a multinational basis as Branch Chief NATO Deployment Health Surveillance Capability Branch (DHSC) in Munich, as a branch of the Budapest NATO Center of Excellence for Military Medicine (MilMedCOE) of NATO . From 2012 to 2014 Holtherm was sub-department head VI preventive medicine / public health in the medical service command of the Bundeswehr based in Munich. From 2014 to 2016 he was employed as a ministerial head of FüSK II 7 (later FüSK III 6) preventive health protection; Public law tasks in the BMVg division in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin . From 2016 to 2017 Holtherm was Director of Teaching and Training in Health Care at the Medical Academy of the Bundeswehr in Munich.

Service as a general

From November 1, 2017 to January 15, 2019, Holtherm was the successor of General Doctor Norbert Weller , Director of Defense Medical Science and Capability Development of the Medical Service and Deputy Commander of the Medical Academy of the Bundeswehr in Munich . On this post he was also promoted to general doctor. In January 2020, Holtherm handed over this post to General Doctor Bernd Mattiesen in order to replace General Doctor Ralf Hoffmann as Commander and Medical Director of the Bundeswehr Hospital in Ulm on January 15, 2020 . On March 1, 2020, however, he was appointed head of the new department for health protection, health security and sustainability in the Federal Ministry of Health . Here he was also promoted to General Staff Doctor on May 28, 2020 .

Assignments abroad

Awards

Professional qualifications

Holtherm include specialist - and additional qualifications : Specialist in General Medicine , Master of Science "Public Health for Developing Countries", specialist in Public Health , Additional titles: Tropical Medicine, Infectious Diseases , aviation medicine, occupational medicine ; Specialist customers: ambulance service , emergency x-rays.

Private

Holtherm is married and has two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  6. Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - February 2020. In: https://www.bundeswehr.de/ . Press and information staff in the BmVg, February 4, 2020, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
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