Karsten Ocker
Karsten Ocker (born March 23, 1945 in Holte , Emsland ; † January 26, 2015 ) was a medical officer in the German Navy .
Life
Promotions
- 1974 medical officer
- 1977 Chief Medical Officer
- 1981 flotilla doctor
- 1985 fleet doctor
- 1998 admiralty doctor
- 2002 Admiralty Medical Officer
- 2003 Chief Admiralty
Ocher attended the Max Planck School (Kiel) . After graduating from high school, from 1966 he studied medicine at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , the University of Vienna and the Medical Academy in Lübeck . In 1972 he went to Neumünster and Trier as a medical assistant . In 1974 he was licensed as a doctor and awarded a Dr. med. PhD .
In 1974/75 he did basic military service as a medical officer and squadron doctor at the 1st submarine squadron in Kiel. He then spent two years as an assistant doctor to Harald Tscherne at the Clinic for Trauma Surgery at the Hannover Medical School . On October 3, 1977, he joined as a professional soldier in the Medical Service of the Armed Forces . After three years of clinical training in internal medicine , intensive care medicine , aviation medicine and occupational medicine , he joined the Naval Aviation Wing 3 "Graf Zeppelin" in Nordholz and the Naval Aviation Wing 5 in Kiel in 1980 as a flight doctor . Specialist in occupational medicine since 1981 , he became a division doctor in the Naval Aviation Division in 1985 . From 1991 he was the command doctor of the Schleswig-Holstein Territorial Command and the Military District Command I / 6th Panzer Grenadier Division . At the same time he was the commander of the partially cadre hospital regiment 71 in Heide (Holstein) .
His first ministerial assignment was from 1995 to 1998 as head of department (training, principle) in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . Since 1998 admiral doctor of the Navy with the naval office in Rostock , he became commander of the medical command I in 2001 . In 2002 he returned to Bonn as deputy inspector of the medical services. In 2003 he became inspector of the medical service . He retired on September 30, 2006 .
Honorary positions
- Federal doctor and member of the federal executive committee of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Deutschland e. V. (ASB) (2006-2010)
- President of the Advisory Board of Medical Corps International (2006–2011)
- Chairman of the Standing Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and Civil Protection (2008–2010)
Awards
- Medals of honor of the Bundeswehr in bronze, silver and gold
- Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- Officer of the Legion of Honor
- Large gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
- Hungarian Order of Merit in Gold
Web links
- The inspectors of the medical service
- Obituary for Admiral Chief Staff Doctor a. D. Dr. Karsten Ocker Medical Service of the Bundeswehr, February 3, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: Chromosomal structural abnormality in a family with recurrent abortions
- ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Press release. Berlin September 21, 2006 ( PDF ( Memento from October 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Dieter Willers |
Admiralty in the Navy 1998–2001 |
Christoph Büttner |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ocher, Karsten |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German military, inspector of the Bundeswehr medical service |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1945 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Holte , Emsland |
DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 2015 |