Karl Eyerich
Karl Eyerich (born February 5, 1886 in Würzburg , † July 17, 1971 there ) was a medical officer in three German navies. Like few other naval doctors, he combined troop and medical experience with ship medical and clinical expertise.
Life
As a one-year volunteer , he joined the Prussian Army in 1904 . He then studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University . In 1905 he became a member of the Corps Moenania Würzburg . In 1951 he became a member of the Corps Lusatia Breslau in Hamburg .
Imperial Navy
Again initially as a one-year volunteer, Eyerich joined the Imperial Navy in 1911 and served in the Kiel naval hospital. In the following year he received the first on-board commands in the East Asia Squadron, mainly on SMS Scharnhorst , and in the meantime on SMS Luchs and SMS Leipzig . Returned from the Far East in January 1914 , he was posted to the Baltic Sea naval station, for example V., and transferred to SMS Königsberg on April 1, 1914 . After the outbreak of the First World War , he came to German East Africa with the Königsberg . After Kaiser Wilhelm II's favorite ship sank in a hopeless position in the Rufiji Delta, Eyerich headed the Neu-Stieten field hospital from July to December 1915. Until August 8, 1916, he was a battalion doctor with the protection force in Dar es Salaam for a good eight months . As head of another field hospital , he was taken into (British) captivity for the first time on August 21, 1917 .
Imperial Navy
Promotions
- February 8, 1911 Navy under doctor (Imperial Navy)
- May 13, 1911 Naval Assistant Physician
- May 6, 1912 senior naval assistant physician
- April 12, 1913 Naval Staff Physician
- April 1, 1925 Chief Marine Officer (Reichsmarine)
- February 1, 1930 Marine Senior Physician General
- April 1, 1932 Marine General Practitioner
- April 1, 1934 Navy doctor
- January 1, 1937 Admiral doctor (Kriegsmarine)
Released on February 5, 1919, he was posted to the North Sea naval station for a few months . After three years with the on-site doctor in Kiel, he was assigned to the Dermatology Clinic of the University of Freiburg from April 1, 1922 to March 31, 1924 .
From April 1924 he was in charge of the Kiel Navy Hospital for two years, and the Flensburg-Mürwik Navy Hospital for five years from March 1926 , where he was also responsible for the Navy School , the Torpedo School and the Signal School. In 1931 he was chief medical officer in the training inspection and in the torpedoes and mines inspection for six months.
Navy
Taken over by the Kriegsmarine , he was chief medical officer of the naval station in the Baltic Sea until October 1938. From November 1, 1938 to May 25, 1941 he was in command of the Navy . Until February 1944 he was head of the Marine Hospital in Bergen op Zoom , then head of the Marine Hospital in Marseille . There he was taken prisoner of war for the second time on August 26, 1944 , from which he was released in 1945.
literature
- Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 308-309.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eyerich, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medical officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 1971 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |