Jürgen Dick

Hans-Jürgen Dick (born November 23, 1949 in Saarbrücken ) is a German doctor and medical officer in the Bundeswehr with the rank of General Staff Doctor a. D. In his last employment he was head of the Bundeswehr Medical Service (SanABw) in Munich until November 17, 2011 and then retired.

Life

Jürgen Dick joined the German Armed Forces as a basic military service in 1968 at the 5 Medical Battalion in Koblenz . In the following year he started studying medicine as a Bundeswehr scholarship holder at the Saarland University , in 1975 he became a medical assistant and in 1976 he was reinstated in the Bundeswehr as a troop doctor and aviator in the Army Aviation Regiment 35 in Mendig . As early as 1977 he was transferred to the Castlemartin military training area, County Pembrokeshire in Great Britain as an on-site doctor . A year later there was another transfer and Dick was assigned to S3 with the corps doctor of III. Corps in Koblenz. Following this assignment, he became a consultant (Referat II 4) in the inspection of the medical service at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn in 1980 . In 1984 he switched to the personnel department within the ministry, where he was also employed as a consultant in Section V 6.

Dick was transferred to Bruchsal in 1986 and was division doctor of the 1st Airborne Division until 1994 , at the same time he was Medical Advisor to the AMF . During this period he was also head of operations in the earthquake mission in Iran in 1990, the following year he was chief medical officer of Kurdish Aid and in 1993 Medical Advisor Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT) in Brunssum and chief medical officer of the German Somalia Support Association. After working as a division doctor , he became a command doctor at the Military District Command VI / 1st Mountain Division in Munich and at the same time commander of the military hospital regiment 76 in Feldkirchen . In 1996 he took over the command of the Medical Brigade 1 in Leer , before he was appointed Deputy General Physician of the Army and Group Leader III 1 at the Army Support Command in Mönchengladbach in 1998 .

In 2001, Dick became the commanding officer of Medical Command IV in Bogen , during which time he was appointed general physician . In 2003 he was again transferred to Hardthöhe in Bonn , this time as Head of Staff Department II in the management staff of the medical service (FüSan). From mid-2005 he was Medical Advisor and Branch Chief of the J -4 Medical Branch at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons , Belgium , before he was transferred to the Bundeswehr Medical Office on October 1, 2008, where he was Deputy Head of Office and Served chief of staff. On August 11, 2009 he took over from Detlev Fröhlich as head of office, and this position was linked to his appointment as General Staff Doctor on August 19, 2009 by the Federal Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung . He was retired on November 17, 2011.

Jürgen Dick is married and has three children. He was awarded the German Armed Forces Cross of Honor in gold and the UN medal UNOSOM .

Fonts

• Jürgen Dick: From Waghäusel to Pea Ridge - Germans in the USA fight for freedom and democracy in the 19th century . In: if magazine for inner leadership . 2014 ( online [accessed October 13, 2015]).
• Jürgen Dick: The Second Baden Revolution - German Democrats in the American Civil War . In: Military History · Journal for Historical Education . Issue 4/2006, 2006, p. 10–13 ( mgfa.de [PDF; 3.6 MB ; accessed on October 13, 2015]).

Web links

• Literature by Jürgen Dick in military medicine and military pharmacy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. (No longer available online.) BMVg press and information staff, September 15, 2008, archived from the original on October 1, 2009 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Detlev Fröhlich	Head of the Bundeswehr Medical Service 2009–2011	Ulrich splendor