Medical staff?

[beinbruch]

How was the medical staff organized in a batalion, regiment and company?

What was usually the rank of the head surgeon and the people below him?

[Christoph Awender]

Hello,

I start from below:
Company - Sanitätsunteroffizier
Bataillonsarzt - Stabsarzt (exception Regimentsarzt)
Regimentsarzt - was the oldest battalion doctor and was a Oberstabsarzt or Oberfeldarzt
Divisionsarzt - Oberstabsarzt or Oberfeldarzt or Oberstarzt

The commander of a divisional medical company was a Stabsarzt with Assistenzarzt as platoon leaders and helpers.
A divisional field hospital was commanded by a Oberstabsarzt or Oberfeldarzt with Stabsarzt as platoon leaders and Assistenzärzte and Hilfsärzte as helpers.

/Christoph

[sirjahn]

I have a question about the medical staff supporting a POW hospital. At Rennes Military Hospital initially there was a Stabarzt in charge who was superceded by a Oberstabarzt, what organization would they have been from. I have a list below of units in the Rennes area.

Sich.-Regt. 195
Gefechtsstand – Rennes
10.-12. Kp.
13. (schwere) Kp. (4./ Landeschützen-Bataillon (Ls.-Btl). 753)
14. (Pi.) Kp. (1./Ls.-Btl. 454)
Sich.-Btl. 907
Gefechtsstand – Rennes

Sanitätstruppen (Medical Troops) –
4./Armee-Sanitäts-Park 561
Zweigstelle (Branch) Rennes
Krankentransport- (Patient transport) Abt. 571 (t-mot)
Truppenentgiftungs- (Troop decontamination) Kp.647 (mot)
1./Krankentransport Kp.571
5./Krankentransport Kp.595 (P.E.)
Krankenkraftwagen (Ambulance) Zug 619
Krankenkraftwagen Zug 626
Krankensammelstelle (Patient collecting point) Rennes
Chemische Untersuchungsstelle (Chemical investigation Point) Rennes
Hygienische- und Bakteriologische Untersuchungsstelle (Hygiene and Bacteriological Investigation Point) Rennes
Prosektur Rennes

[sirjahn]

I recently got some information from my researcher of the Bundesarchiv. He found a couple of new medical units that support the 7. Armee. I am still having him look for the Sonderlazarett 948 which might be in Rennes too.

In the record RH 50/112 is a list:
In June 1944 were located:
Kriegs.Laz. 1/612 in Alecon
Kriegs.Laz 2/612 in Bagnoles
Kriegs.Laz 3/612 in Le Mans
Kriegs.Laz 4/612 in Rennes
Ortslazarett Angers in Angers
Feldlaz. 257 in Quimper
Feldlaz. 257 in Antrain

[sirjahn]

Well no joy on the Sonderlazarett and the 4/612 Kriegslazarett operated out of the Hotel D'Ville a couple of blocks away. I looked at their doctor roster and no matches with the names from POW E&Es and death certificates on the officer names. I have the doctor/administrators names as Stabsarzt Lumpf and Oberstabsarzt Enzinger.

[Larry D.]

You certainly have been working diligently on all this. I am not quite sure what exactly you are trying to find out, but I am guessing that it has something to do with the care provided to an American captured in Normandy in 1944? If so, have you tried the Krankenbuchlager repository, which I believe is still located in Berlin? I don't know what sort of hospital and patient records are maintained there but I do know that they include those of the hundreds of Wehrmacht general, station and field hospitals that came into existence during the war.

L.

[sirjahn]

Well my object is to figure out which German unit provided the medical care at the POW hospital in Rennes. I have two last names for doctors and that's all I got to track down the unit. I am doing this for myself and in the future maybe creating a webpage for all things related to the POW hospital in Rennes that took care of my father after he was captured on D-Day.

The doctor names I have come from Death Certificates and POW E&E reports. They are Stabsarzt Lumpf (or Lumpp) and Oberstabsarzt Enzinger (or Enziger or maybe Von Enzinger). I have gotten some personnel info for the 612 Kriegslazarett but they don't have those names. I also believe that Enzinger lived in Frankfurt (not sure which one) after the war; this comes from a War Crimes Report.