''Generalarzt'' (short: ''GenArzt'' or ''GA'') is the designation of a military rank as well as the official title in German speaking armed forces. It is equivalent to the ''Admiralarzt'' / ''Generalapotheker'' and

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Bundeswehr

, Admiralarzt and Generalapotheker are the lowest general ranks of the Joint Medical Service or the military medical area of the . Promoted to that senior rank might be assignments or appointments as follows: *Chief surgeon of the Federal Armed Forces Hospital Berlin, – Hamburg, – Koblenz, and – Ulm *Inspector dental medicine of the Bundeswehr (de: Inspizient Zahnmedizin der Bundeswehr) *Inspector military pharmaceutics of the Bundeswehr – Generalapotheker (de: Inspizient Wehrpharmazie der Bundeswehr) * GenArztH

Surgeon General of the Heer (de: Generalarzt des Heeres) * Wappen Generalarzt Lw

Surgeon General of the Luftwaffe (de: Generalarzt der Luftwaffe) *Surgeon Admiral of the Marine (de: Admiralarzt des Heeres) Equivalent to this one-star rank ( NATO-Rangcode OF-6) are

(en: Brigadier general) of the Heer or

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, and the (en: Flotilla admiral) of the Marine.

Address

The manner of formal addressing of military surgeons with the rank Generalarzt'' (OF6, one-star), ''Generalstabsarzt'' (OF7, two stars) or ''Generaloberstabsarzt'' is, „Herr/Frau Generalarzt“. At the other hand, military surgeons with the rank ''Admiralarzt'' (OF6, one-star), ''Admiralstabsarzt'' (OF7, two stars) or ''Admiraloberstabsarzt'' is, „Herr/Frau Admiralarzt“. Military persons with the rank ''Generalapotheker'' (OF6, one-star), will be addressed „Herr/Frau Generalapotheker“.

Rank insignias

On the shoulder straps (Heer, Luftwaffe) there is one golden star in golden oak leaves and the career insignia (de: Laufbahnabzeichen) as symbol of the medical standing, or course of studies. Regarding the Marine, the career insignia is in the middle of both sleeves, tree cm above the cuff strips, and on the shoulder straps between strips and button. ;Sequence of ranks ascenting:

Wehrmacht 1933 – 1945

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''Generalarzt'' of the ''Wehrmacht'' was comparable to the

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OF-6 Military star ranking is military terminology, used in mainly English speaking countries, to describe general and flag officers. Within NATO's armed forces, the stars are equal to OF-6–10. Star ranking One-star A one-star rank is usually ...

, one star), as well as to the Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS. In line to the so-called Reichsbesoldungsordnung (en: Reich's salary order), appendixes to the Salary law of the German Empire (de: Besoldungsgesetz des Deutschen Reiches) of 1927 (changes 1937 – 1940), the comparative ranks were as follows: C 3 *Generalmajor (Heer and Luftwaffe) *Konteradmiral (Kriegsmarine) *Generalarzt from 1934 (medical service of the Wehrmacht) *Admiralarzt, introduced June 26, 1935 (medical service of the Kriegsmarine) *Generalveterinär from 1934 (veterinarian service of the Wehrmacht)

Comparative military ranks

Kriegsmarine

Rank designations of the Kriegsmarine as to Match 30, 1934, are contained in the table below.

Germany before 1933

In Germany before 1933 ''Generalstabsarzt'' was normally the chief of the medical service of an

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(Corps surgeon, de: Korpsarzt), and in some cases of a Division (Division surgeon, de: Divisionsarzt). In Prussian Army ''Generalarzt'', in sense of ''general surgeon'' as a staff position, was a senior military official (de: oberer Militärbeamter) with a definite rank, in the first instance

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(OF3). Since 1856 he could rise to

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(OF4) or even to

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(OF5). Senior ''Generalstabsärzte'' were often promoted to

.Krieg und Sieg 1870-71, Kulturgeschichte, Herausgeber Julius von Pflugk-Harttung. Equivalent authority, mandate and competence were with the ''Admiralarzt'' of the

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. Regular assignments to that staff position were the ''Medical Offices'' on

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and

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, e.g. Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. An Admiralarzt of the Navy's Medical corps could normally be promoted up to the OF5-rank

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Officers with that rank

* Walther Asal (1891–1987) * Erwin Angermeyer (1888–1963) *

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(1909–1943) * Rudolf Attig (1893–1981), Generalarzt (July 1, 1944) * Hermann Bach (1870–1941) * Ernst Baader (1894–1953) * Paul Baethke (1895–1953) * Hans-Joachim Barnewitz (1892–1965) * Wilhelm Baumeister (1887–1963) * Alfred Bayer (1888–1952) * Paul Baethke (1895–1953) * Hermann Bach (1870–1941) * Ernst Becker (1884–1962) * Rudolf von Burk (1841–1924) * Walter Groth (1883–1947) * Stanislaus von Mielecki (1851–1938)(O.Pusch), Königl. Preußischer Generalarzt, Balley Brandenburg Ehrenritter 1917 und Rechtritter 1926 des Johanniter Ordens * Dirk Raphael (born 1953) *

Ferdinand Sauerbruch Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (; 3 July 1875 – 2 July 1951) was a German surgeon. His major work was on the use of negative-pressure chambers for surgery. Biography Sauerbruch was born in Barmen (now a district of Wuppertal), Germany. He st ...

(1875–1951), Generalarzt des Heeres 1942 *

Verena von Weymarn Verena Merethe von Weymarn (born July 16, 1943, in Riga, Latvia) is a retired German medical officer and the first woman in German military history ever to be promoted to general officer rank. Early life She was born Verena von Stritzky, daughter ...

(born 1943), Generalarzt der Luftwaffe * Eugen Wullen (1892–1967) *

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(born 1948)
Thomas Harbaum