Medical regiment 2

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Medical
Regiment 2 - SanRgt 2 -
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Medical regiment 2

Internal association badge
Lineup August 16, 1956
(as SanBtl 5)
Country Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Armed forces Logo SanDienst Bundeswehr.jpg Central medical service
Type Medical regiment
Subordinate troops
  • 1st to 11th company
  • Training / SimZ SanRgt 2
Strength 900
Insinuation Coat of arms Kdo SanEinsUstg Kdo SanEinsUstg
Location Rennerod coat of arms Rennerod Koblenz
Coat of arms Koblenz
Former locations Brannenburg coat of arms Brannenburg (1956–1957)
Web presence Website SanRgt 2
guide
Regimental commander Chief Physician Sven Funke
Old names
1956-1997 Medical Battalion 5 (SanBtl 5)
1997-2003 Medical Regiment 21 (SanRgt 21)
2003-2008 Military Regiment 21 (LazRgt 21)
2008-2015 Hospital Regiment 21 "Westerwald" (LazRgt 21)

The Medical Regiment 2 ( SanRgt 2 ) is a military service unit of the Central Medical Service of the Federal Armed Forces , which is subordinate to the Medical Service Support Command in Weißenfels . The approximately 900 members of the medical association are stationed in the Alsberg barracks in Rennerod and in the Falckenstein barracks in Koblenz .

history

The regiment is one of the oldest units of the Bundeswehr and was set up on August 16, 1956 as Sanitätsbataillon 5 ( SanBtl 5 ) in the Karfeit barracks in Degerndorf am Inn in Bavaria (1971 incorporated into Brannenburg ) and on October 29, 1957 in the Augusta Barracks moved to Koblenz. In 1960, the association was significantly involved in the first foreign deployment of the Bundeswehr as part of the earthquake relief in Morocco . On May 1, 1969, the battalion was relocated to the then newly built Alsberg barracks in Rennerod.

As medical battalion 5, it went through the most diverse army structures with the corresponding reclassifications in the internal structure. As part of the “New Army for New Tasks” army structure, Medical Battalion 5 became Medical Regiment 21 ( SanRgt 21 ) on April 1, 1997 .

For the first thirty years, the battalion or regiment, as part of the division troops, was subordinate to the deputy division commander and commander of the division troops of the 5th Panzer Division in Diez . This subordination was changed as part of the centralization of the medical service and the dissolution of the 5th Panzer Division on July 1, 2002 and the medical regiment was renamed to Lazarettregiment 21 ( LazRgt 21 ) on January 21, 2003 . Since then it has been subordinate to the Medical Command II in Diez in terms of service and technical matters. On September 20, 2008, the hospital regiment 21 was given the nickname "Westerwald".

In January 2013, as part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr, the 21st military regiment was placed under the command of medical service support in Weißenfels. On July 20, 2015, as part of a public appeal at Hubertusplatz in Rennerod, the 21st hospital regiment was disbanded and the 2nd medical regiment was set up. The formal dissolution of the hospital regiment dated December 31, 2015, the establishment of the medical regiment on July 1, 2015.

assignment

The Medical Regiment 2 is an association of the medical troops for the medical service support of operations for crisis management and conflict prevention, for national and alliance defense, for humanitarian aid and similar obligations. For this purpose, it is equipped with mobile medical service personnel from supply levels 1 (first emergency medical care) to 3 (emergency hospital). These include the first emergency surgical, internal, psychiatric and dental / oral surgical measures following the first general and emergency medical first aid.

The regimental leadership of the medical regiment 2 performs the troop and technical service management tasks at the association level towards the subordinate units in the basic operation. In addition, it guarantees the ability to train and exercise as well as the operational readiness of the subordinate units.

Medical Regiment 2 also manages the training and simulation center for troops and specialist services and ensures that the deployment-related training assignment is carried out as required. It also performs the tasks of a care center for medical officer candidates.

In the context of the national territorial tasks, the Medical Regiment 2 leads the non-active medical reinforcement elements at the level of the district and district liaison commands and works together with the corresponding departments for this purpose. In addition, the Medical Regiment 2 ensures the capability of a civil-military cooperation base of the medical service in civil-military cooperation with recourse to active and non-active forces.

The medical regiment 2 provides the skills to lead medical associations, to operate medical facilities on the supply level Role 2 (comparable to a district hospital) and Role 3, for land-based patient transport, for medical service accompanying the air-supported patient and wounded transport and for medical service support (without medical supplies management ) in action with a focus on operations for crisis management and conflict prevention and for subsidiary deployments in Germany.

In addition, the Medical Regiment 2 can perform the tasks of a lead unit for operations for crisis management and conflict prevention and assigns functional teams, operational organization elements and command posts at the unit level. As part of the operational interplay, it provides individual staff, functional teams and operational organization elements for training and exercise operations as well as the use of other operational options and duties of the same kind.

The medical regiment 2 works closely with the superior command authority within the framework of the training, exercise and the operational group, in particular with the medical service health facilities, the medical service units, the supply and repair centers for medical supplies, the medical units for medical supply operations and the other associations of the medical service and the medical service to support units together.

structure

The medical regiment 2 is stationed with its organizational elements at the Rennerod and Koblenz locations. While the regimental command and six companies (1. - 5./SanRgt 2 and 11./SanRgt 2) are stationed in Rennerod, the Koblenz command area (SanRgt 2 FüBer KOB) with five companies (6. - 10. / SanRgt 2), as well as the training and simulation center of the regiment (training / SimZ SanRgt 2). The two associations in Koblenz were officially put into service on September 29, 2016.

Supply and support companies

The 1st and 6th companies, as so-called supply and support companies, are the service providers for the entire regiment. Starting with the provision of transport capacity for personnel and material, through the procurement of materials and their maintenance, as well as ensuring leadership skills through appropriate telecommunications and IT equipment, these companies are responsible for creating optimal framework conditions for the operational readiness of the treatment facilities for and in foreign deployments . Thus, all peripheral parts from the field laundry, through water supply and field kitchen, to the entire logistical supply of medicines of the treatment facilities are to be assigned to their respective areas of responsibility. As a result, they perform all the tasks of a classic staff and supply company with additional special tasks of the medical service.

Ambulance companies

The 2nd and 7th companies, as ambulance companies, ensure on the one hand the transport of the sick and wounded as well as the care of the patients and on the other hand they have the means to guarantee an initial emergency medical treatment in highly mobile rescue stations. For this purpose, they have the assistant staff, appropriate emergency medical material and protected and unprotected means of transport for patient evacuation and stabilization as well as rescue stations ready, which are staffed with appropriate emergency physicians in a foreign assignment. In Germany, the two companies are responsible for maintaining the technical competence of their medical staff as well as for the material readiness for action. The ambulance companies are therefore an important link on the way to treatment level 2 in the form of a rescue center.

Medical companies rescue center

The 3rd and 8th companies, as medical companies for the rescue center, keep personnel and material ready so that, if necessary, treatment level 2 can be mapped in the form of rescue centers. In these treatment facilities, comprehensive shock control, first emergency surgical interventions, limited further diagnostics and intensive medical treatment as well as general care for the sick and wounded can be carried out. For this purpose, the companies have tents and containers, which can be modularly expanded depending on the requirements in order to be adapted to the location and sustainable.

Medical companies deployment hospital

The 4th and 9th companies, as medical companies, provide the most diversified and, in terms of quality of results, the care of patients and wounded in Germany, corresponding to that of a local hospital. Clinical acute care begins in the operational hospitals, and it is here that in-patient specialist care for patients or wounded up to major operations takes place. In addition, the hospital has additional intensive care capacities and a nursing ward for up to 180 patients. Thus, the two companies represent the highest qualitative authority of medical treatment capabilities in special foreign assignments. In the case of serious and protracted disease and injury patterns, an air-supported strategic relocation of the soldiers to the home country to a Bundeswehr hospital is sought in order to advance clinical follow-up care. In advance of this, telemedicine is used to transmit the relevant data to the medical teams of the Bundeswehr hospitals in Germany to ensure the rescue chain is seamless. The equipment for this is kept available for deployment abroad.

Medical companies reinforcement reserve

The 5th and 10th companies are required to ensure the full operational readiness of the superordinate active unit of the medical group. They support the active association in the entire range of tasks in training, exercise and deployment, in particular in performing the tasks of a base for civil-military cooperation as well as in national aid missions.

Basic training company

The 11th Company carries out basic training for soldiers in the "Medical Service" careers and the Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr in other careers. This includes training in preparation for deployment as well as advanced medical training.

Training and simulation center

The training and simulation center Medical Regiment 2 offers medical service-technical training as well as advanced and advanced training for paramedics and emergency medical technicians or training as first aiders on duty. In military training, among other things, tactical wound care is practiced in action and, in the medium term, country-specific training (ELUSA) is carried out.

Internal association badge

The regimental coat of arms "Sanitätsregiment 2" has the shape of the heraldic round shield. This is split by an ascending curved tip and shows the Madonna of Stalingrad in the right, red field , in the left, silver field a red cross and in the rising dark blue tip the coat of arms of the medical service of the Bundeswehr.

Reasons for the coat of arms in the front (right) field

In gold, a seated female figure who, like a protective Madonna, hides a child under her coat, looks at it lovingly and gives it protection and security. Christmas 1942 in the Stalingrad pocket - in the midst of darkness, despair and fear of death - the priest and doctor Dr. Dr. Kurt Reuber , troop doctor at the MunBtl des VersRgt der 16. PzDiv, for his comrades on the back of a Russian map with coal the later famous Stalingrad Madonna. In a bunker in Stalingrad his comrades prayed in front of this drawing of the mother and child at Christmas 1942. It became an edifying expression of hope and love for the soldiers. The symbol has represented the medical service at the Rennerod site for many decades and is at the same time a symbol of humanity, charity and hope.

Reasons for the coat of arms rear (left) field

The city colors of the city of Koblenz are red and white. The current coat of arms appears for the first time in the 14th century. The cross on a silver background stands for the coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Trier, to which Koblenz had belonged since 1018 and whose residence Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein was around 1629 to 1786 and Koblenz from 1786 to 1794. The golden crown placed on the crossing point of the cross is the local coat of arms symbol and stands for the Queen of Heaven, the patron saint of the city, to whom the parish church "Our Lady" is consecrated. The symbol represents the elements of the Medical Regiment 2 stationed at the Koblenz location and closely connected to the city, the Koblenz command area and the Medical Regiment 2 training and simulation center.

Foundation of the coat of arms lower field

The rising point in dark blue symbolizes the weapon color of the medical troops of the Bundeswehr. The iron cross located in the middle of the ascending peak depicts the insignia of the Bundeswehr. This is overlaid by the Aesculapian staff, a staff wound around it by a snake. Originally it was an attribute of Asclepius (German: Aesculapia), the god of medicine in Greek mythology. Today it is the symbol of the medical and pharmaceutical status and thus reflects all approvals of the Bundeswehr (doctor, dentist, veterinarian or pharmacist). The two black lines of the rising top symbolize the rivers Rhine and Moselle , which converge at the upper edge of the coat of arms.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bundeswehr medical service: history. In: sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
  2. Search term "Saniätsregiment 2" u. a. In: Bundeswehr location database . www.zmsbw.de, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
  3. ^ The Sanitätsregiment 2. In: sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
  4. ^ Bundeswehr medical service: order. In: sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
  5. ^ Bundeswehr medical service: structure. In: sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
  6. ^ Bundeswehr Medical Service: Another piece of the puzzle: Medical Regiment 2 - Koblenz command area set up. In: sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .