Military Medical Academy Bad Saarow

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The Military Medical Academy Bad Saarow (MMA) was a training and research institution with a university character of the National People's Army (NVA) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It emerged in 1981 from the NVA's central hospital in Bad Saarow , which emerged from the central hospital of the Kasernierte Volkspolizei established in 1954 , and had a clinic with around 800 beds and 25 clinics, institutes and departments for all relevant medical specialties.

The military medicine , field surgery and stomatology sections of the Society for Military Medicine of the GDR (GMM), which was established in 1971, were assigned to the military hospital in Bad Saarow even before the MMA was established . When the academy was founded, the staff of the military medical section at the University of Greifswald (MMS) was relocated to Bad Saarow, and the dean of the MMS, Hans Rudolf Gestewitz , became the rector of the academy. An important task of the MMA, which had the right to award doctorates and postdoctoral qualifications , was, in addition to the training and further education of military doctors and medical care for the NVA soldiers, their civilians and the local civil population, as well as research in the field of military medicine .

The academy was also involved in research as part of the compulsory doping system in GDR competitive sport, referred to as State Plan Topic 14.25 , as evidenced by several dissertations and post- doctoral theses that doping expert Werner Franke and his wife Brigitte Berendonk secured in the academy's premises in December 1990.

After German reunification , the military medical academy initially became a Bundeswehr hospital . In 1991, with the Bad Saarow Clinic, a civil standard care hospital was created under the auspices of the Oder-Spree district . This has been a teaching hospital of the Berlin Charité since 1998 , in the same year it merged with the district hospital in Fürstenwalde / Spree . It has been part of the Helios Group since September 2006 . The remaining rescue center at the Fürstenwalde location was gradually relocated to Bad Saarow and closed until 2006.

literature

  • Helmut Reichelt: The Military Medical Academy Bad Saarow and its predecessor institutions 1954-1991. A report of documents, knowledge and experiences. Pro Business, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86460-456-0
  • Immo Gerhard Borth: Contributions to the history of the Society for Military Medicine of the German Democratic Republic (1971–1990). Dissertation at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich 2004
  • Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-49-918677-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Bachner: Of all things, Chief Doper Manfred Höppner was the most important informant of the criminal police . In: tagesspiegel.de . April 28, 2000.

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