Military medical section at the University of Greifswald

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The Military Medical Section at the University of Greifswald (MMS) was a 1955 to 1990 in Greifswald existing Department of Kasernierten People's Police (CIP) and the National People's Army (NVA). In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) it served the university training of medical officers in the medical , dental and pharmaceutical sectors. From February 26, 1970, the section had the status of a faculty of the University of Greifswald . It was administratively largely independent and existed parallel to the medical faculty of the university. She had the right to promotion A and Promotion B .

history

Graduation badge for medical officers of the MMS

The building of the Military Medical Section was built in 1940/41 as a military hospital for the Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht) with 600 beds. Similar buildings were built in Braunschweig and Halle-Dölau .

The Military Medical Section was founded on June 1, 1955, following a resolution by the GDR Council of Ministers on education as a KVP office in Greifswald III, after members of the KVP had previously started studying medicine at the University of Leipzig . First in command was Karl Hans Walther , followed by Ludwig Mecklinger (1957–1964), Heinz-Werner Hackenberg (1964–1965), Herbert-Peter Liphardt (1965–1971), Edgar Steiner (1971–1988) and Dietmar Enderlein (1988–1988) 1990). Original plans to convert the university's medical faculty into a military medical academy of the KVP were not implemented after extensive protests by the student body. Nevertheless, a large number of Greifswald's medical students moved to other universities after the military medical section was founded.

On October 5, 1956, the MMS was taken over by the NVA and on January 15, 1964, while maintaining its character as an NVA office, affiliated to the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald. The commander of the MMS was also Vice-Rector for Military Medicine at the university. The MMS carried out social science, military and specialist training and further education at its institutes and chairs. Her tasks also included military medical research, military medical information and documentation as well as the computational processing and preparation of military medical data for the management process in the medical service of the NVA and the border troops of the GDR . The medical, stomatological and pharmaceutical training took place largely in the medicine and pharmacy sections. From 1987 the stomatological teaching was taken over by the newly established Stomatology Section.

Upon completion of their studies, the graduates were appointed first lieutenant . They were approved and received the graduate badge (NVA) . They were assigned to medical institutions of the NVA, the state health system or the Ministry for Higher and Technical Schools of the GDR for further training . From 1964 to 1970 MMS had the right to award the academic degree Dr. med. and after the introduction of the academic degrees of diploma medicine, diploma stomatologist and diploma pharmacist in 1968 the right to conduct diploma proceedings. With the transformation into a Faculty of Military Medicine at the University of Greifswald, the right to award doctorates was transferred to it and, from 1981, to the Scientific Council of the newly founded Military Medicine Academy Bad Saarow (MMA).

From February 29, 1988, MMS carried the name of the surgeon Maxim Zetkin . After the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR and German reunification , the Military Medical Section was dissolved with effect from December 31, 1990. Their properties were privatized through the establishment of the Medigreif group of companies active in the healthcare sector .

Awards from the Military Medical Section

literature

  • Dipl.-Stom. WA Achilles, Prof. Dr. Dietmar Enderlein, Prof. Dr. Edgar Steiner: The Military Medical Section at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald 1955-1990, Druckhaus Panzig, Greifswald 2015, 123 pages
  • Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, Karl-Heinz Spiess, Ralf-Gunnar Werlich: Student revolt in the early GDR: The resistance to the transformation of the Greifswald medical faculty into a military medical training center in 1955. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3 -515-07704-9
  • Günter Ewert, Rolf Hornei: Interactions between the city of Greifswald, the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University and the military. trafo-Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-89626-793-0
  • Carsten Gerd: Training as a military pharmacist in the National People's Army: The Military Medical Section 'Maxim Zetkin' at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University. In: Christoph Friedrich , Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke : Pharmacist and University. Series: Publications on the history of pharmacy. Volume 2., Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8047-1968-6 , pp. 103-113

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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 12.8 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 37.8"  E