Heike Groos

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Heike Groos (born August 3, 1960 in Gießen ; † December 11, 2017 ) was a German doctor who, among other things, processed her experiences as a senior staff doctor in the Bundeswehr as a book author during operations in Afghanistan .

Life

After studying medicine, Heike Groos started her first job as an assistant doctor for anesthesia at the Bundeswehr hospital in her hometown. Since the Bundeswehr hospital was integrated into the civil rescue service there, she was trained for this. Groos signed up as a temporary soldier for four years. She drove as an emergency doctor for the German Armed Forces, later for the German Red Cross , the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe , the Malteser Hilfsdienst , the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund , was an emergency doctor at motocross and kickboxing events and was on duty on rescue flights Helicopters, Learjets and patient return transports for Lufthansa . After retiring from the military, she worked as an independent emergency doctor and general practitioner .

After the Bundeswehr's mission in Afghanistan began in 2001, she was recruited again in 2003 and spent a total of two years in Afghanistan in four missions, most recently with the rank of senior staff doctor .

Groos was stationed as a member of the ISAF troops in Kabul , Feyzabad and Kunduz . After retiring from the military, she emigrated to New Zealand with three of her five children , where she found a job as a doctor.

Processing of the Afghanistan missions

Groos had been on her first mission in Afghanistan for two weeks when on June 7, 2003 an Afghan suicide bomber blew up a Bundeswehr bus. The bus, fully occupied with German soldiers, was on Jalalabad Road in Kabul , on the way between the Camp Warehouse base and the airport. The evening before, Groos and her comrades who wanted to fly back to Germany had celebrated their farewell. Four of them died, including Sergeant Carsten Kühlmorgen , and 31 others were injured, some seriously. It was by far the worst incident of the year by the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan, which is also the first fatal attack on German soldiers since the end of the Second World War . The killed soldiers are among the first Germans to die in an attack in this country. Heike Groos led the rescue operation.

During the next six months of her service in Afghanistan, she declined the offered psychological help. Groos was last assigned to Afghanistan in 2007 as a senior staff surgeon.

As a result of a total of four missions in New Zealand, she fell ill with post-traumatic stress disorder with severe depression . In 2009 she began to write down her experiences in a book and wanted to use it to talk about the "horrors and sufferings of the German soldiers in Afghanistan" in addition to dealing with her own experiences. In her book A Beautiful Day to Die , she also demanded from politicians and the public "a dialogue with the soldiers and more appreciation for their work in operations". She is quoted in the blurb of the book: “I forgot to cry there in these mighty mountains of the Hindu Kush. And then I forgot how to cry. "

With This is your war - German soldiers talk about their missions , their second release. The foreword to the book is by Roger Willemsen . It includes their own war experiences as well as reports from soldiers and their relatives. Groos himself said about this book that it breaks taboos and that the soldiers openly talk about their own feelings in it. Like her first book, the publication became a bestseller and is now used by the German armed forces as a training publication for psychologists, pastors and doctors.

Further book publications followed. In You Must Love People , she devoted herself to the topic of a full-time mother and doctor. I'll write to you when I'm dead and tell the story of her best friend who died of cancer. In the novel Tomorrow begins again a hundred new days she processes her war experiences as a soldier in a fictional story.

Books

  • 2009: A beautiful day to die , S. Fischer Verlag, ISBN 3596185025
  • 2011: This is your war too - German soldiers report on their missions, S. Fischer Verlag, ISBN 359618892X
  • 2011: You have to love people: As a doctor in the ambulance, in the intensive care unit and in the war , Krüger-Verlag, ISBN 3810509248
  • 2013: Tomorrow a hundred new days will begin again , ISBN 1492345008
  • 2013: I'll write to you when I'm dead - or: the women's flat share , ISBN 1492376671

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heike Groos: Book: A beautiful day to die . In: The time . October 26, 2009, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  2. ↑ opus5 interactive medien gmbh, http://www.opus5.de : S. Fischer Verlage - Groos, Heike. Accessed April 14, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Hauke ​​Goos: Life after death. In: Der Spiegel 25/2008, June 16, 2008.
  4. ^ Susanne Koelbl: Die for Kabul. In: Der Spiegel 47/2006, November 20, 2006.
  5. ^ German mission in Afghanistan: "No peace mission, but war" . In: Spiegel Online . September 9, 2009 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  6. ↑ - "People die on both sides and you can't talk about that nicely" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  7. ↑ "Finally being able to cry" . In: stern.de . September 15, 2009 ( stern.de [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Groos, Heike (Bundeswehr doctor) | Program | SWR1 Baden-Württemberg . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on April 14, 2018]).
  9. ↑ 3sat.online: Marked by the war. Accessed April 14, 2018 (German).
  10. ↑ - Souvenirs from the war . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  11. ^ Deutscher Ärzteverlag GmbH, editor of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Heike Groos: More appreciation for soldiers . ( aerzteblatt.de [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Julia Encke: Afghanistan: The voices of the soldiers . In: FAZ.NET . September 16, 2009, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  13. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: "Wonder what we have lost there" . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Heike Groos: This is your war too !. German soldiers report on their operations . ( perlentaucher.de [accessed on April 14, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Roger Willemsen: Roger Willemsen asks: "The mothers of the Taliban also cry" . In: The time . August 8, 2013, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Mittelbayerische.de: Heike Groos lets soldiers tell stories . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed on April 14, 2018]).
  17. ↑ www.heikegroos.de. Accessed April 14, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Groos, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2017