Thomas Treu

Thomas Treu ( Thomas Michael Treu ; born January 17, 1949 in Vienna ) is an officer in the military medical service ( military doctor ) of the Austrian Armed Forces (ÖBH).

Youth and family

Treu was born on January 17, 1949 as the son of the Austrian diplomat and resistance fighter Emanuel Treu and his wife Christina, nee. Popović, a philologist and later UN official, was born in Vienna. He grew up mainly in England, USA, Brazil, Colombia, Switzerland and France. Only at the age of 16 did he finally return to Vienna and after graduating from the Theresianum studied medicine, languages ​​and philosophy at the University of Vienna. In 1980 he became a doctor of medicine doctorate . This was followed by his training as a general practitioner, as a specialist in urology and andrology in the specialist hospital in Oberwart, as well as at the urological university clinics in Vienna and Paris and training as an emergency doctor. In 1992 he completed a course in hospital management and in 2012 graduated from the Institute for Law and Ethics at the University of Vienna with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) . Treu is the father of two daughters from his first marriage and is in his second marriage to the doctor Maria Paloma Treu, geb. Herglotz, married.

Military medical career

Before joining the Austrian Armed Forces, Treu held various positions as a civilian doctor and was a reservist officer in the militia . In 1990 he became an active officer in the medical service of the Austrian Armed Forces and was initially deployed in the troops as commander of the 9th Field Ambulance and brigade doctor of the 9th Panzer Grenadier Brigade (PzGrenBrig) and completed the disaster medicine course of the French army at the university in Paris. In 1992 he took over the management of urology and andrology at the Heeresspital Vienna. a. worked at the university hospital of the French army "Val de Grâce" in Paris. On March 1, 2003, he was appointed commander of the medical school and on April 1, 2003, he was also appointed chief medical officer (chief of weapons) of the Austrian Armed Forces. The appointment as chief medical officer took place u. a. due to the decision of the former Defense Minister Herbert Scheibner (at that time still FPÖ ) to assign a veterinarian as head of the military health service in the central office of the Austrian Armed Forces. Brigadier (international: Brigadier General), as the highest-ranking human medicine specialist in the Armed Forces, represented the medicine of the Austrian Armed Forces both in public and in national and international organizations (including NATO and CIMM ). In this function he organized, not least because of his versatile language skills, etc. a. the first talks between Croatian and Serbian officers after the war in ex-Yugoslavia.

Due to critical remarks regarding the medical care of the troops in action, Treu fell out of favor and his former position of chief medical officer was abolished in the course of the army reform in 2008. On leave at his own request, he subsequently completed the "Course for Patient Safety and Quality in Health Care" at the Institute for Law and Ethics at the University of Vienna. Treu retired at the end of 2013.

Assignments abroad

Treu served in Iran in 1991 as the commander and medical director of the UNAFHIR field hospital , a humanitarian mission for Kurdish aid at the request of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and in 2000 as a battalion doctor at KFOR , the NATO mission in Kosovo .

Others

In the interest group of Austrian military doctors and pharmacists (IGÖM), he was a board member and training officer from 2005 to 2012 and its president and in the Austrian Society for Military Medicine and Military Pharmacy he was a board member and training officer.

He is currently active in the humanitarian and social field as Deputy Secretary General and Chief Physician of the Austrian Albert Schweitzer Society (ÖASG)

Treu is a member of the philanthropic association of the Shriners and Vice President of the Austrian section Almas Shirne Club Austria.

Awards

Treu has received numerous awards for his work as head of medical services in the Austrian Armed Forces. a. Officer of the French Legion of Honor and holder of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2013 he was awarded the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

literature

• Stefan Bader: At the highest level ... The generals of the Federal Army of the Second Republic. Gra & Wis, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-902455-02-0 .
• Wolfgang Baumann: The Götzendorf desert garrison. Austria-Medien-Service, Graz 2000, ISBN 3-85333-059-2 .
• Alois Benc: 20 years of Kurdish aid in Iran: Use of the UNAFHIR field hospital. In: The soldier . No. 15/2011 of August 3, 2011 ( online ).
• Rolf M. Urrisk: The deployments of the Austrian Armed Forces at home and abroad from 1955–2002 (= history of the Austrian Armed Forces in 10 volumes. Vol. 10). Weishaupt, Graz 2002, ISBN 3-7059-0096-X .
• Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences : - 158th year (2008). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7001-6660-3 . - 159th year (2009). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6849-2 . - 160th year (2010). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7001-7106-5 . - 161st year (2011). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-7270-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Board members on the ÖASG website , accessed on October 11, 2016.
2. ↑ ALMAS Shrine Club Austria , accessed on September 11, 2018.
3. ↑ Speech to General Thomas Treu , website of the French Embassy in Austria, November 20, 2007
4. ↑ Great Cross of Merit for the Chief Medical Officer of the Austrian Armed Forces ( memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the German Embassy in Austria, March 6, 2009