Verena von Weymarn
Verena Merethe von Weymarn ( born of Stritzky, * July 16, 1943 in Riga / Latvia ) is a German doctor and medical officer retired the rank of general. She was the first female general in the German history.
Biography
Verena von Stritzky was the daughter of the historian Karl- Christoph von Stritzky in the then German occupied Riga. My father was killed before she was born as a soldier in Russia. After the war, she grew up in the Federal Republic of Germany. She studied medicine from 1964 to 1971 in Göttingen and Munich and received his PhD in October 1976 with a thesis on the effect of safety belts. She was married to a native of Estonia architect Alexander von Weymarn († 1998); the family has two daughters.
In September 1976 Verena von Weymarn joined the Air Force as a staff physician in the Bundeswehr. At this step, it was by its own account by a regulated hours, moved the diversity of tasks and the opportunity of working as a doctor in the military service and in the clinical area.
From 1976 to April 1980, she worked for the Air Force Supply Regiment 1 in Erding troops as a doctor. As early as 1978 it was taken over as a professional soldier and promoted to Surgeon. At the same location it was from 1980 to 1983 squadron commander of the Air Force sanitary unit. This was followed in April 1983, the dislocation as a command physician for air support group Southern Command to Karlsruhe ( Baden- Württemberg) and a half -year stay in the United States with participation in the international flight surgeon course. The next stop was in October 1985, the 1st Air Division in Meßstetten (Baden- Württemberg) than Division doctor. In 1986 he was promoted to colonel doctor. As of April 1989, Thomas Verena von Weymarn as chief physician management of the Military Hospital in Giessen. In 1993 she stayed for half a year at the NATO Defence College in Rome.
On March 23, 1994 Verena von Weymarn was promoted by the then Defence Minister Volker Ruhe, with effect from 1 April to Surgeon-General. Thus they became the first female general in the German history.
In April 1994, she took over the Department of the Air Force Surgeon General in Lohmar Heath near Siegburg (North Rhine -Westphalia). Your subordinate to the entire medical corps of the Air Force, and thus in the last instance the health responsibility for all airmen. Added to this was the aeromedical responsibility for flying personnel of the Army and Navy. With the transfer to the medical corps of the Bundeswehr in October 1995 took over Generalarzt Verena von Weymarn the job of deputy heads of department and chief of staff of the medical office with about 270 employees. Later, she took over the leadership of the Armed Forces Central Hospital Koblenz.
1 August 2004 Surgeon General Verena von Weymarn retired.