Karl Wilhelm Demmer

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Karl Wilhelm Demmer (born March 18, 1941 in Gummersbach ; † February 20, 2019 ) was a German doctor. As a medical officer he was inspector of the medical service of the Bundeswehr and since 2003 in the presidium of the German Red Cross .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1961, Karl Demmer was called up to do basic military service and began his career as an officer in the telecommunications force . From 1964 to 1970 he studied human medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Cologne . After his time as a medical assistant, he qualified as a doctor in 1971; In 1972 the doctorate followed . Training as a specialist in surgery followed in Bergheim and Frechen by 1978, and military assignments as a department head in the Army Office , as a division doctor, until 1997, as territorial command doctor, as head of division and sub-department head and deputy inspector of the medical service of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Ministry of Defense . In the meantime, in 1981 he was given the additional title of "industrial medicine". As head of the InSan II 1 division, he was in charge of the German medical service in Phnom Penh, Cambodia ( UNTAC ) from 1992 to 1993 . As a sub-department head "Healthcare" and as a deputy inspector, he played a key role in the development of the medical service's maxim to provide medical service to soldiers deployed abroad, which ultimately corresponds to the professional standard in Germany. Until his temporary retirement on March 31, 2003, he was from October 1, 1997 Inspector of the Sanitary and Health System with the rank of Chief Staff Doctor . During his tenure, the post was renamed to "Inspector of the Medical Service of the Bundeswehr". As an inspector, he made a decisive contribution to the transformation of the Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr into an independent military organization . He initiated the collar pin, which indicates that uniforms of all branches of the armed forces belong to the Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr.

Since his retirement in 2003 he has been a federal doctor in the Presidium of the German Red Cross. In 2004 he became a board member of the German Air Rescue Service . Since 2009 he has been the officer for civil-military cooperation at the DRK. Since 2013 he has been chairman of the Darmstädter Signal support group . He died in 2019 after a long illness.

Awards

• Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic, 1st grade
• Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Vita Karl Wilhelm Demmer, DRK ( Memento from December 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Literature by Karl Wilhelm Demmer in military medicine and military pharmacy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary in the General-Anzeiger from February 23, 2019.
2. ↑ Collar studs
3. ↑ Federal Minister a. D. Rudolf Seiters new DRK President ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the DRK, Berlin, November 21, 2003. 
4. ^ Presidium of the German Red Cross after the presidium election in 2009 , presentation of the Presidium of the DRK
5. ↑ Board of the sponsorship group. In: https://www.darmstaedter-signal.de/ . Retrieved January 26, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Florian Kling and others: Obituary: We mourn the loss of the Chief Staff Officer Dr. Karl Demmer. In: Darmstadt Signal Working Group. February 23, 2019, accessed February 23, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Three German military doctors honored with high military awards from the Czech Republic ( Memento from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 180 kB), 2005.