Otto Budnowski

[Franz] Otto Budnowski (born May 25, 1874 in Danzig ; † September 21, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German veterinary surgeon , 1929–1934 Army Veterinary Inspector and reactivated 1939–1943, most recently as characterized Senior Staff Veterinarian .

Life

Prussian Army

Budnowski entered on October 1, 1892 as a military veterinary candidate - d. H. Candidates for the military veterinary service - and so-called one-year volunteers in the 1st Leib-Hussar Regiment No. 1 in Danzig- Langfuhr in the Prussian Army . After completing his one-year military training, he started special training at the Berlin military apprenticeship forge from October 1893 and from October 1894 studied veterinary medicine at the Berlin Military Horse Doctor School and the Berlin University of Veterinary Medicine , which he obtained in 1898 with a license to practice as a veterinarian and appointed as an under horse doctor completed.

On August 19, 1901, Budnowski was transferred to the Brandenburg Train Battalion No. 3 in Spandau as a senior veterinarian . In 1908 he was supported by the University of Giessen Dr. med. vet. PhD , still as senior veterinarian in the same battalion. On May 17, 1910, he received the character as a staff veterinarian and on January 8, 1918 he was promoted to senior staff veterinarian.

Reichswehr

Budnowski was in the provisional Reichswehr and then into the Reichswehr accepted and on May 1, 1923 Superiors General Veterinary (this rank was renamed until 1 April 1934, Oberfeld veterinary) transported and Division Veterinary of the 3rd Division appointed in Berlin. After being promoted to senior veterinarian (at that time still called general veterinarian) on January 1, 1928, he was appointed group veterinarian at Reichswehr Group Command 1 in Berlin on October 1, 1928 .

On April 1, 1929 Budnowski (called to April 1, 1932, General Staff Veterinary) with simultaneous promotion to general veterinary for veterinary inspector in the Defense Ministry and thus appointed to the highest veterinary officer of the army and head of the entire veterinary sector in the army. In this position he was responsible for the supervision of the training of the veterinary personnel, the army training forges, the army main veterinary park, the army veterinary examination office, the teaching and experimental veterinary company and the teaching and experimental horse hospital. At the same time he became chairman of the Scientific Senate for Army Veterinary Affairs. With the reorganization and renaming of the highest veterinary ranks, Budnowski was promoted to the newly created rank of General Staff Veterinarian on April 1, 1932, corresponding to the rank of Lieutenant General .

On March 31, 1934 Budnowski retired. His successor as veterinary inspector was the previous chief of staff of the veterinary inspection, Curt Schulze , who was promoted to veterinary general staff at the same time , and who was then promoted to general veterinary general on April 1, 1938 as the first German military veterinarian , with the rank of general of the infantry .

Wehrmacht

In the mobilization of the armed forces on the eve of World War II Budnowski was reactivated on 26 August 1939 and received on 23 October 1939 character as General Chief Staff Veterinary zV However, it was then only in the Führerreserve the OKH made available or principally with occupation duties entrusted rear Rods used. So he was initially from October 1939 to May 14, 1940 Army Group Veterinarian with the Commander- in -Chief East and later from July 1, 1941 to April 15, 1942 with the "Stettin Disposal Staff" or Wehrmacht Commander Ostland established on June 20, 1941. He then remained in the OKH's Führerreserve until September 30, 1942 and was finally retired on August 31, 1943.

literature

• Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Footnotes

1. ↑ In the Military Horse Doctor School, renamed the Veterinary Academy in 1903, only military instruction and sport took place, while the actual study of veterinary medicine took place at the Veterinary College.
2. ↑ The lowest ranking military veterinarian. From August 1903 this rank was called sub-veterinary; he corresponded to the vice sergeant or vice sergeant .
3. ^ Journal of Veterinary Science; Organ for the veterinarians of the army. Twentieth volume, 12th issue, Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, December 1908, p. 549
4. ↑ With the dissertation : About the inflammation of the supporting ligament of the coffin flexor tendon on the forefoot of the horse ( Berliner and Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift , Berlin, 1908, p. 672 ).
5. ↑ See also the Army Ordinance Sheet of 1926, No. 23, page 11.
6. ↑ On July 25, 1941, the “Stettin Dispatch Staff” was renamed “ Wehrmacht Commanders in the Reich Commissariat Ostland”.