Reserve hospital organization
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The reserve hospital organization was a medical service of the Bundeswehr. With hospitals , it was supposed to ensure the care and rehabilitation of wounded soldiers of German and allied troops in the event of a defense .
background
In 1963, during the Cold War , the federal government began (re-) setting up the reserve hospital organization. Ernst Rebentisch was the driving force. As far as possible with the shallow depth of the federal territory, the reserve hospital groups were set up as equipment units in the rear west, later also in allied countries ( Netherlands , Denmark , Norway ). By 1990 there were 126 reserve hospital groups with around 126,000 beds. They belonged to the territorial army and were by far the largest reserve area in the Bundeswehr.
Task and structure
After the first aid stations in the front area, a reserve hospital group was supposed to ensure further surgical treatment and final rehabilitation (!). Fixed hospitals would only have existed in the form of the (formerly 15) Bundeswehr hospitals . A reserve hospital group corresponded to a battalion and consisted of a staff and supply company and five reserve hospitals ( companies ) with 200 beds each. The treatment capacity of a ResLazGrp was estimated at around 8,000 wounded. In the event of a defense , the groups would have moved into empty barracks , schools and other public buildings. Often the individual hospitals were not located together, but distributed over distances of up to 40 km.
The reserve hospital groups and their hospitals had operating theater groups with different medical specialties. The treatment capacities were later expanded through civil-military cooperation : Depot equipment was made available to partner hospitals. Medical, nursing and technical management and functional staff completed "white military exercises" in civilian houses.
In 1975, the reserve hospital groups were combined in non-active or partially active hospital regiments and placed under active medical commands, which in turn were absorbed into partially cadre hospital regiments. A hospital regiment consisted of six to eight reserve hospital groups and was responsible for five patient collection and transport companies, two medical and chemical examination centers and a field prosecution .
staff
The staff of a ResLazGrp consisted predominantly of reservists from all branches of the armed forces who were mob-ordered . The hospital groups were led by a colonel as commander and his staff . The chiefs of the hospitals were staff or senior staff doctors . Active cadre personnel were responsible for personnel administration during peacetime , and they were subordinate to an officer in the medical service ( captain ). The staff departments S 1, S 2, S 3, S 4 and S 6 as well as troop administration , military pastoral care , pharmacy , psychology team, motor vehicle group, field kitchen and maintenance served to support the staff . The acute care was the responsibility of the treatment train of the staff and supply company. Resident specialists and habilitated clinicians in various fields were subordinate to the (active, non-medical) company commander, and technically to the commander. In the hospitals, too, the chiefs were primarily responsible for the military leadership. The chief of the 1st hospital was mostly the (unofficial) representative of the commander.
- Service post (V) of a hospital (5)
- 12 medical officers
- 22 NCOs
- 3 teams
- 32 civilians
- Service post (V) of a reserve hospital group
- Headquarters and supply company: 49 officers, 69 NCOs, 46 men, 103 civilian employees
- 5 hospitals with 60 medical officers, 110 NCOs, 15 men and 160 civilian employees
- In total: 109 medical officers, 179 non-commissioned officers, 61 men, 263 civilian employees
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- Service post (V) of a hospital regiment (na)
- 969 medical officers / officers
- 1,085 NCOs with portepée
- 704 NCOs without portepée
- 1,115 teams
- A total of 3,873 soldiers / reservists
material
The material was stored in depots and administered by NCOs and employees who were subordinate to the cadre personnel. The material was by no means out of date, it was constantly serviced, maintained and renewed. According to the assessment of the Federal Audit Office , the material value of a group was 16 million DM. Most of the time, the depot location also corresponded to the mobilization location and the property, the so-called K (riegs) property. In the event of mobilization , everything had to be brought to the ResLazGrp with your own vehicles and vehicles that were the subject of the complaint. The trains chartered by the Deutsche Bundesbahn to transport the wounded were of particular importance . The ambulance companies (rail) , each with 75 soldiers, practiced for one to two weeks almost every year until 1995.
New subordination and dissolution
With the dissolution of the Territorial Army in 2001, the territorial commands ceased to exist ; the reserve hospital organization was subordinated to the four active medical commands. After material had been diverted from the depots and mob orders had been lifted for years, the reserve hospital organization was dissolved in 2007 because "the old reserve hospital organization with its undisputed suitability for national defense is no longer suitable for the new range of tasks of the Bundeswehr" ( Kurt-Bernhard Nakath ) . In 2003, chief medical officer Dr. Martina Rafelt for the first time a woman commander of a hospital regiment (Lazarettregiment 21 in Rennerod). Today the hospital regiments are active units that are also used by the Bundeswehr on missions abroad .
LazRgt 71
LazRgt 73
TZ ResLazGrp
literature
- Marc Ebel, Arno Roßlau : The reserve organization in the area of responsibility of the Medical Command I 1963 to 2007 . Kiel 2007
Web links
- DÄB: Medical Service 1998
- Medical officer
- Army structure 5
- LazRgt 31 Berlin
- LazRgt 73
- Defending health at Lake Constance - mobile operations center ensures care ( memento from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Remarks
- ↑ As early as 1951, the city authorities were obliged to provide the reserve hospitals with suitable buildings.
- ↑ One example is the SanKdo 600 in Neumünster , which was merged with the partially cadre LazRgt 71 in Heide (Holstein) in 1993 . The ResLazGrp were in Heide (training), Idstedt , Schleswig , Albersdorf and Brück (3).
- ↑ With the hospital regiments , the cadre group was disbanded with the activation of the reservists and the regiment . The staff was often assigned elsewhere.
- ↑ Example LazRgt 71 (na)
- ↑ Some depots were subordinate to active combat units (e.g. the 13th PzDiv ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Y-BERHOLSPUR.DE - Issue 5 from May 12, 2004. Chamber of Crafts Koblenz, accessed on October 22, 2017 .