Medical Command 850

Sanitary Command 850 - SanKdo 850 -
( did not have an association badge )
active	until approx. 1985 until March 31, 1994
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Medical Command
Insinuation	Territorial Command South
Staff seat	Mannheim

The Sanitätskommando 850 was one of the medical commands of the Army of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters were in Mannheim . The medical command was subordinate to the Territorial Command South .

assignments

The medical command bunched at the level of territorial commands the Medical Corps of the Territorial Army . The task was primarily to provide medical services to the soldiers of the Territorial Army, in particular to the troops directly subordinate to the Territorial Command South in one or more main training stations to be set up for this purpose . Fixed position the medical command supported the medical regiments the weir areas of the territorial commands and the medical commands 2 and 3 of the Army . Unlike the Medical Command 800 in the area of ​​the Territorial Command North , the Medical Command 850 was not charged with setting up and operating a reserve hospital organization in the rear area . In the area of ​​the Territorial Command South, however, the reserve hospital groups were subordinate to the medical regiments of the three subordinate military areas. Supported by the ambulances of the ambulance battalions and the rail-bound ambulance trains of the Medical Command of the CENTAG and the Military District Command assumed medical regiments, the medical command was in charge of its own trains on the railway wounded from the advanced hospitals of hospital regiments and from the dressing stations to take over and into the rear Reserve hospitals of the Territorial Army where further treatment and recovery was planned. The commander of the medical command, as the chief medical officer of the territorial command, and the subordinate medical officers advised the commander of the territorial command on medical and military medical issues. As part of civil-military cooperation , the medical command provided disaster relief .

In peacetime around 1989, the medical command consisted of only a few active units and only a few active soldiers. Instead, the stored device only had to be made mobile in the event of a defense or confiscated by civil organizations . An essential element for the growth was the drafting of reservists , including in particular reserve medical officers . Overall, the size of the medical command after mobilization, with around 12,000 members, was roughly the size of two brigades in the field army.

structure

Tactical sign of the ambulance company (rail) 856

Around 1989 the medical command was roughly divided into:

• Staff / staff company Sanitätskommando 850, Mannheim
  • Medical training battalion 851 (cadre), Munich (in peacetime as a training unit for the Academy of Medical and Health Services of the Bundeswehr , 1 company intended for AMF-L )
  • Medical Battalion 852 (GerEinh), Schorndorf
  • Medical Battalion 853 (GerEinh), Friedrichshafen
  • Medical Battalion 854 (GerEinh), urchin
  • Medical battalion 855 (GerEinh), Külsheim
  • Medical battalion 856 (GerEinh), Bensheim
  • Medical Battalion 857 (GerEinh), Muggensturm
  • Medical battalion 858 (GerEinh), Weißenhorn
  • Ambulance company (rail) 851 (GerEinh), Sankt Ingbert
  • Ambulance company (rail) 852 (GerEinh), Sankt Ingbert
  • Ambulance company (rail) 853 (GerEinh), Sankt Ingbert
  • Ambulance company (rail) 854 (GerEinh), Sankt Ingbert
  • Ambulance company (rail) 855 (GerEinh), Sankt Ingbert
  • Ambulance company (rail) 856 (GerEinh), Walkertshofen
  • Ambulance company (rail) 857 (GerEinh), Walkertshofen
  • Ambulance company (rail) 858 (GerEinh), Aalen
  • Ambulance company (rail) 859 (GerEinh), Aalen
  • Ambulance company (rail) 860 (GerEinh), Aalen
  • Ambulance company (rail) 861 (GerEinh), Aalen
  • Ambulance company (rail) 862 (GerEinh), Aalen
  • Ambulance company (rail) 863 (GerEinh), Walkertshofen
  • Ambulance company (rail) 864 (GerEinh), Walkertshofen

Note: the medical depot (including the Lorch-Rheingau medical depot ) in the area of ​​the territorial command was operated by the 850 and 860 supply commands .

See also : Division of the Territorial Army (Bundeswehr, Army Structure 4) # Sanitätskommando 850

history

The medical command was set up in Mannheim's Loretto barracks by 1985 at the latest to take over Army Structure IV .

After the end of the Cold War , the medical command was decommissioned on March 31, 1994 around the same time as the southern territorial command was dissolved.

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

Due to its planning as part of the troops directly subordinate to the territorial command, similar to corps troops, the medical command did not have its own association badge . The soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the higher-level territorial command.

As a "badge", the internal association badge of the staff and the staff company " pars pro toto " was sometimes used imprecisely for the entire medical team. It showed the Palatinate lion as in the Mannheim city arms , the stylized Rhine , the Aesculapian staff similar to the beret badge of the medical troops , the Iron Cross as the emblem of the Bundeswehr and two crossed swords similar to the badge on the visor of the army .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} O.W. Dragoons: The Bundeswehr 1989. Territorial Command SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. Territorial Command NORTH. Territorial Command SOUTH. Appendix: Territorial structure . 4th edition. 2.2 - Army, February 2012 ( religte.com [PDF; accessed July 10, 2018]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '  N , 8 ° 33'  E