Georg Friedrich von Eichheimer (August 18, 1764 – October 13, 1854) was a Bavaria

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n military physician and Generalstabsarzt

Generalstabsarzt

Generalstabsarzt may refer to:* Major General in the Bundeswehr Joint Medical Service* Surgeon general of the Prussian army* Surgeon general of the Bavarian army...

 (Surgeon General) of the Army

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Eichheimer was born in Bensheim

Bensheim

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. He joined the Bavarian army as a Feldsher

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 on August 21, 1786, and took part in campaigns against France, Austria, Prussia and Russia from 1790 to 1812. Afterwards he was chief of the medical service (Chef des Sanitätswesens) in the army of general Karl Philipp von Wrede

Karl Philipp von Wrede

Karl Philipp Josef Wrede, Freiherr von Wrede, 1st Fürst von Wrede , Bavarian field-marshal, was born at Heidelberg, the youngest of three children of Ferdinand Josef Wrede , created in 1791 1st Freiherr von Wrede, and wife, married on 21 March 1746, Anna Katharina Jünger , by whom he had two more...

 in the rank of Oberstarzt. He was advanced to the rank Major General

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 (MC) in 1826, and died in Munich

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, where he lived at Sonnenstraße 18 around 1850.

Publications

• Umfassende Darstellung des Militair-Medizinal-Wesens in allen seinen Beziehungen mit Rücksicht auf die dermaligen Armeen-Verfassungen im Allgemeinen, zunächst aber als ein vollständiges Reglement für die Königlich-Baierische in Friedens- und Kriegszeiten, Augsburg, 1824