Medical office

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German Empire

Medical office

In the German Reich, the medical office was a military medical authority that managed health and sickness services for the troops. The medical office was supported by the military directorate and then had to regulate the administration of the military hospitals in the area of ​​an army corps .

The medical office was assigned to the general command. In addition to the senior corps physician , each medical office also had a senior physician , a corps staff pharmacist and a regular clerk.

A medical officer from the garrison could be assigned to the medical office for microscopic bacteriological examinations .

In the area of naval existed in Wilhelmshaven , the Medical Office North Sea and in Kiel the Medical Office Baltic Sea .

Federal Republic of Germany

Shortly after the introduction of the medical officer career in the Bundeswehr , the Military Medical Office was set up on October 1, 1956 , initially with three departments. This was reclassified in February 1965 to the Medical Office of the Bundeswehr (SanABw), which was reorganized in October 2001 as part of the restructuring of the Bundeswehr and relocated to the Munich location.