Maritime Medical Institute of the Navy
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Maritime Medical Institute of the Navy |
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 Internal association badge (coat of arms) |
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| Lineup | 2nd January 1961 |
| Country |
 Germany
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| Armed forces |
 armed forces
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| Armed forces |
 German Navy
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| Type | Command authority |
| Strength | 84 (63 soldiers , 21 civilians) |
| Insinuation |
 Naval command
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| Location | Kronshagen near Kiel ; Schleswig-Holstein |
| Web presence | Website |
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| Current commander |
Fleet doctor Dirk Möllmann |
The Naval Medical Institute of the Navy ( SchiffMedInstM , also SMIM ) in Kiel - Kronshagen is the central specialist facility for all medical officers in the German Navy . In addition to the marine medical competence for the fleet, diving medicine also provides services for the entire Bundeswehr .
The institute is to move to Hamburg in 2023 to a new building on the premises of the Hamburg Armed Forces Hospital.
history
The Naval Medical Institute of the Navy was founded on January 2, 1961 under the name Uboots - and Diver Physiological Institute of the Navy (UTPIM) with headquarters in the medical area of the Technical Naval School I. The agency has had its current name since May 1, 1965. The agency has been located on the site of the former naval hospital since August 1961. With the transformation of the Bundeswehr and the associated restructuring of the naval medical service, the management of the troops was again transferred to the head of the naval office .
Since October 1, 2012, it has been subordinate to the Head of the Marine Medical Department and Admiralty Doctor of the Navy in the Marine Command in Rostock .
tasks
Today the range of services includes the entire maritime medicine . These include occupational and environmental medicine on board, shipping medicine , maritime medical ergonomics , marine psychology as well as diving and hyperbaric medicine .
The institute has one of the most modern pressure chamber systems in Europe . The Institute will ship and diving medical training for all branches of the armed forces carried out the armed forces. For the completed ship doctor training, the participants receive the certificate maritime medicine , which has been a prerequisite for employment as a ship doctor in the German Navy since June 6, 2001 , but is also open to all non-Bundeswehr members. Scientific work in the areas of shipping, diving and hyperbaric medicine, occupational medicine, ergonomics, performance and nutritional physiology on board and maritime psychology is carried out in close cooperation with the Universities of Kiel and Lübeck . The institute also carries out examinations, assessments, treatments and aptitude tests.
structure
The institute is divided into:
- Department I: Maritime Medicine
- Department II: diving and hyperbaric medicine
- Department III: Research
- Marine Medical Service Training Center
- Diver Service Officer (BeaTD)
Commanders since 1965
| No. | Rank | Surname | Commencement | Retirement |
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| 1 | Fleet doctor | Armin Wandel | 1965 | 1973 |
| 2 | Fleet doctor | Klaus Seemann | 1973 | 1985 |
| 3 | Fleet doctor | Joachim Prohl | 1985 | 1989 |
| 4th | Fleet doctor | Bodo Greiner | 1989 | January 14, 2004 |
| 5 | Fleet doctor | Rainer Pinnow | January 14, 2004 | September 19, 2006 |
| 6th | Fleet doctor | Stefan Neidhardt | September 19, 2006 | 3rd June 2019 |
| 7th | Fleet doctor | Dirk Möllmann | 3rd June 2019 |
Web links
- Website of the Maritime Medical Institute of the Navy at www.bundeswehr.de
- Maritime Medical Institute of the Navy (SMIM) - Navy researches for civilians too. In: Federal Government .
- Maritime Medicine Certificate. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- Homepage of the German Society for Maritime Medicine e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Florian Sötje: 2023 move to Hamburg: Marine Institute is slowly saying goodbye. In: Kiel News. December 28, 2019, accessed April 10, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/ratgeber/wissen/article132555799/Mediziner-der-Marine-züge-von-Kiel-nach-Hamburg.html
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/eimsbuettel/article205574391/Frau-vergiftet-Warum-Shisha-rauchen-so-gefaehrlich-ist.html#
- ↑ Federal Archives: Maritime Medical Institute of the Navy 1959–1982 ( Memento from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Medical Service of the Navy - The first restructuring , Medical Service of the Bundeswehr, May 29, 2006.
- ↑ Axel Schimpf. The naval command in Rostock - the navy on course for the future . In: Marineforum 1 / 2-2013, p. 22ff.
- ^ Change at the head of the Naval Medical Institute of the Navy , maritimemedizin.de
- ↑ a b Transfer of command at the Naval Medical Institute of the Navy. www.maritimemedizin.de, September 19, 2006, accessed on September 12, 2013 .