Herbert Hockemeyer

Robert Wilhelm Herbert Hockemeyer (born March 9, 1909 in Bad Rehburg , † April 19, 1983 in Munich ) was a German doctor and former medical officer . Most recently, he was inspector of the sanitary and health services with the rank of general chief medical officer .

Life

Hockemeyer was the son of Wilhelm and Elisabeth Hockemeyer, born. Schlifter. He started school in 1915, taught at a private school from 1917 to 1921 and then moved to the Bremen Realgymnasium , which he graduated from high school in 1929. This was followed by the study of human medicine and medical training up to the state examination at the universities of Marburg , Graz , Munich , Leipzig and Würzburg until November 1934 . In Marburg he joined the Alemannia fraternity .

1933 to 1939

In the meantime he joined the Reichswehr in April 1933 , where he completed basic training with the III / 11th Infantry Regiment in Leipzig until October . After that he was to end his studies to November 1934, the sanitary unit Würzburg commanded, where he in February 1934 to sergeant and in September for the ensign was promoted. He completed his medical internship as a junior doctor from November 1934 to November 1935 at the Pépinière in Berlin, which was reopened as a military medical academy . After obtaining his license to practice medicine, he was transferred as an assistant doctor to the position of troop doctor in the Brandenburg Medical Unit of Medical Department 23. In September 1936 he became a senior physician and received his doctorate in November during his time as a course leader for medical personnel in the Potsdam site hospital from November 1936 to January 1937. This was followed by a command to the Berlin Charité until May 1937 for scientific further training at the local skin clinic, after which the application as on-site physician in the Züllichau medical team of medical department 3, from May to June 1938 as adjutant of medical company 3 in Berlin-Tegel and from June to July 1938 attending the Hanover War School . As a newly promoted medical officer , he took up the position of adjutant to the corps doctor in the 16th Panzer Corps on September 1. From November 1938 to August 1939 he was a senior medical officer at the Military Medical Academy and during this time in July 1939 he attended the company commander course in the medical training department at the Döberitz Army School . From July to August 1939, as a company commander , he led the medical company 1 of the replacement medical department 39 Neuruppin and then the medical company 1/83.

Second World War

In March 1942 he was promoted to senior staff doctor and in September of the same year he became a division doctor of the 15th Panzer Division . From January 20 to April 30, 1943 he was a member of the Führerreserve of the High Command of the Army (military hospital) before he became a division doctor in the 16th Panzer Division on May 1 and was taken prisoner by the British on September 9, 1943 . He spent captivity in Salerno, Italy, and in Egypt , where he was employed as a camp leader, head of a camp hospital and camp doctor.

Post-war years

He was released from captivity on February 26, 1948 and was a volunteer assistant and then assistant doctor at the Bremen-Blumenthal Hospital of the Bremen Municipal Hospitals from August 1948 to December 1951 . After working as an assistant doctor in the Bremerhaven City Women's Clinic from January to June 1952, he became a specialist in gynecological diseases and obstetrics on July 14 and was again an assistant doctor at the Bremen-Blumenthal Hospital. At the same time he practiced as a general practitioner in Goslar from August 1954 to August 1955 , then represented various doctors in Bremen and Wildeshausen until November 1955, and from December had his own practice in Bremen.

Activities in the Bundeswehr

On July 2, 1956, he was as Oberfeldarzt in the newly formed Bundeswehr adopted, was from September 1956 to October 1957 divisional surgeon and Chief Medical Officer (LSO) on the staff of the 5th Armored Division and from December 1956 professional soldier. From May to October 1957 he was with the business of the Corps physician on the staff of the II. Corps , and from November to 31 December 1957 with the conduct of the business of teaching group commander in the Medical Corps School of the Army in Munich commissioned before succumbing to the latter became commander in January. On August 14, 1958 he was promoted to senior physician and was the first commander in command after the medical school was reorganized into the medical school of the Bundeswehr . On November 30, 1961 Hockemeyer was appointed Surgeon-General conveyed. From April 1962 to January 1965 he was stage manager of the medical troops in the troop office (today the army office ), from February the last head of the military medical office and at the same time the first head of the medical office of the armed forces until March 1967 . In his employment as a medical general doctor and head of the medical office, he was promoted to general staff doctor on January 31, 1967 . In his last military assignment he was from April 1967 to March 1969 as inspector of the medical and health services of the Bundeswehr, the highest medical officer in the Bundeswehr.

Hockemeyer was with Maria Hockemeyer, geb. Priessner, married and had two children with her.

Awards

• Service award IV class on April 16, 1937
• Iron Cross (1939) 2nd class on June 2, 1940
• Iron Cross (1939) 1st Class on May 17, 1941
• Italian silver medal for bravery on February 18, 1942
• Arm band Africa on October 2, 1943
• Decoration of honor of the German Red Cross on May 8, 1961
• Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on March 24, 1969

literature

• Friedhelm Kaiser: Herbert Hockemeyer, an exemplary doctor-officer ; in: Burschenschaftliche Blätter 99 (1984), no. 6, p. 183.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The inspectors of the medical service 1955-1976: Dr. med. Robert Wilhelm Herbert Hockemeyer  ( 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. , Federal Archives.  

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Head of the Federal Armed Forces Medical Office 1965–1967, previously Head of the Military Medical Office	Eberhard Daerr