Senior Field Physician (Switzerland)
Oberfeldarzt (Ofaz; French médecin en chef de l'armée ; Italian medico in capo dell'esercito ; Rhaeto-Romanic schefmedi da l'armada ) is the official name for the chief military doctor in the Swiss Army .
The senior field physician is a federally certified doctor who heads the army medical service, comparable to the inspector of the medical service in the armed forces . In the Army XXI structure, he reports directly to the Deputy Chief of the Army (Deputy CdA) and is assigned to the command staff of the Army and the logistics base of the Army . The senior field doctor represents Switzerland in the International Committee of Military Medicine . He is usually promoted to the rank of divisional officer.
The senior field doctor has been part of the central military service authority since 1817. The department headed by him was named there from 1874 as the Sanitary Service Department (ASAN). This department belonged to the General Staff Services group from 1947 to 1961 and from 1968 to 1995, and to the training group in the intervening years. From 1996 to 2003 the department was jointly responsible for the sanitary system with the Federal Office for Logistic Troops (BALOG).
Post holder
| Surname | from | to | Degree |
| Friedrich Bernhard Jakob Lutz | 1815 | 1832 | |
| Karl Wilhelm wing | 1834 | 1857 | Colonel |
| Samuel Lehmann | 1857 | 1873 | |
| Heinrich Schnyder | 1873 | 1876 | Colonel |
| Franz Adolf Ziegler | 1876 | 1899 | |
| Alfred Mürset | 1899 | 1910 | |
| Carl Hauser | 1910 | 1935 | Colonel |
| Paul Vollenweider | 1936 | 1945 | Brigadier |
| Hans Meuli | 1946 | 1960 | Brigadier |
| Reinhold Käser | 1960 | 1973 | Divisional officer |
| André Huber | 1973 | 1988 | Divisional officer |
| Peter Eichenberger | 1989 | 2001 | Divisional officer |
| Gianpiero Lupi | 2001 | 2008 | Divisional officer |
| Andreas Stettbacher | 2009 | Divisional officer |
Web links
- Medical / Senior Field Physician , Federal Administration
- Major Andreas Stettbacher (current senior medical officer), Swiss Army website
Individual evidence
- ↑ First aid. In: Rudolf Jaun , Sacha Zala (ed.): Directory of the sources on Swiss military history 1848–2000. Volume 3, Swiss Federal Archives, Bern 2006, p. 287 ( PDF ).
- ↑ Oberfeld doctors of the Swiss Armed Forces from 1815 to 2002. In: Heidi Keller (ed.): 100 years of Red Cross service in the Swiss Army - women implement Henry Dunant's ideas. Huber, Frauenfeld 2003, p. 191.