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Vehicle of the Sanitätsdienst
Central Medical Services is the English translation of the German Zentraler Sanitätsdienst (in short: Sanitätsdienst) which is the term for the medical services of the German armed forces. Medical professionals in the German forces are part of a central command common to all the various branches rather than commissioned or appointed to serve as a member of any one of them, in contrast systems employed in most other nations, in which medical personnel are assigned to the various branches (Army, Navy, etc.). This system is considered by the German government to be more efficient as the duties of the medical services personnel are seen as being as primarily medical rather than primarily military in nature.
[edit] Ranks of the Central Medical Service
[edit] Army and Airforce
| Human Medicine |
Dentistry |
Pharmacy |
Veterinary |
Army and Airforce |
| Stabsarzt |
Stabsarzt |
Stabsapotheker |
Stabsveterinär |
Hauptmann |
| Oberstabsarzt |
Oberstabsarzt |
Oberstabsapotheker |
Oberstabsveterinär |
Major |
| Oberfeldarzt |
Oberfeldarzt |
Oberfeldapotheker |
Oberfeldveterinär |
Oberstleutnant |
| Oberstarzt |
Oberstarzt |
Oberstapotheker |
Oberstveterinär |
Oberst |
| Generalarzt |
Generalarzt |
Generalapotheker |
-- |
Brigadegeneral |
| Generalstabsarzt |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Generalmajor |
| Generaloberstabsarzt |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Generalleutnant |
rank insignia of the highest Navy doctor (Admiraloberstabsarzt / AdmOSA)
[edit] External links
Heer (Army) | 
Marine (Navy) | 
Luftwaffe (Air force)
