Stephan Apel

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Stephan Apel (born January 23, 1958 ) is a German doctor and medical officer ( admiralty doctor ). Since 2016 he has been an admiralty of the Navy in the naval command in Rostock .

Life

Stephan Apel joined the Bundeswehr in 1976 with the 6th Company of Medical Battalion 110 in Budel as a basic military service provider in the army and was taken on as a medical officer candidate in the same year and switched to the Navy . From October 1976 to October 1982 he studied human medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and then initially became an assistant doctor in the Bundeswehr hospital in Kiel and then a ship's doctor on the frigate Bremen .

After qualifying as an aviation physician in 1986, he took over the aviation physician division of Naval Aviation Squadron 1 in Kropp as the squadron chief . After five years in this position, he moved as chief medical officer to the destroyer flotilla in Wilhelmshaven and in 1996 to the Federal Ministry of Defense as head of the situation center for the Bosnia mission. In mid-1996 Apel was finally deputy command physician of the fleet in the fleet command in Glücksburg and took from 2000 to 2002, the command of the naval sanitary section East in Rostock true.

His further career led via the control medical center 110 in Kiel as head (2002-2006) and the post of department head in the medical command I (2006), commander of regional medical facilities and deputy commander, also in Kiel (2007-2012) to the medical service command of the Bundeswehr in Koblenz , where he was Head of Department A from 2012 to 2016. At this post, Apel was promoted to admiralty doctor. During his period of service, Apel was twice, in 2003 and 2010, commander of the medical task force of the KFOR contingent in Kosovo . Since March 17, 2016, Apel has been an admiralty in the Navy in the Navy Command in Rostock.

Stephan Apel is married and has four children.

Awards

  • 1989 Silver Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
  • 2002 Operation Medal Flood Aid 2002
  • 2004 Mission Medal of the German Armed Forces Kosovo
  • 2004 Non Article 5 NATO Medal Balkan Operations
  • 2019 Armed Forces Somalia Medal

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Claudia Thiele: Change at the top of the marine medical service. Bundeswehr, March 18, 2016, accessed on March 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Admiralty of the Navy. Central Medical Service (Bundeswehr), March 18, 2016, accessed on March 21, 2016 (Vita).
  3. ↑ Knut Klein: Change in the medical service command. In: Bundeswehr. March 17, 2016, accessed March 21, 2016 .
predecessor Office successor
Hans-Wolfgang von der Heide-Kattwinkel Admiralty of the Navy
2016 – today 		-
personal data
SURNAME Apel, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1958