Brigadier General Thorsten Schütz

Director Multinational Medical Coordination Centre/European Medical Command

Career

July 1990 Entry into the Bundeswehr, 8 Company, 11 Medical Battalion, Leer (East Frisia)

1998–2001 Intern and junior physician, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamm (Westphalia)

2001–2002 Junior physician, Delmenhorst garrison medical clinic

2002 Unit physician and airborne emergency physician team, 4 Company, 272 Airborne Support Battalion, Wildeshausen

2003–2005 Company commander, 2 Company, 22 Medical Regiment, Hamm (Westphalia)

2005–2006 Supporting role at the Bundeswehr Personnel Office, Directorate IV, Section 2, Cologne

2006–2008

2006 General/Admiral Staff Officer Course, Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg

2008–2012 Commander, Medical Training Regiment "Niederbayern", Feldkirchen Jan–March 2012 Section chief, Section I 1.3 (Fundamentals of Training), Bundeswehr Medical Office, Munich

2012–2013 Desk officer, Branch II 6, Directorate-General for Forces Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn and Berlin

2013–2014 Desk officer, Management Development branch (formerly Reorientation branch until May 2014), Organisation Staff, Federal Ministry of Defence, Berlin

2014–2016 Commander, 3 Medical Regiment "Alb-Donau", DornstadtUNTERSTÜTZUNG SUPPORT

2016–2017 Section chief, Special Staff Section, Section 1, Bundeswehr Medical Service Headquarters, Koblenz

2017–2020 Department head, Medical Service and Health Sciences Department, Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg

2020–2022 Director, Special Staff Section, Bundeswehr Medical Service Headquarters, Koblenz

2022–2025 Chief of branch, formerly Branch San 1 of the Directorate-General for Forces Policy, now Branch III 1 of the Directorate-General for Joint Forces Readiness and Support, Federal Ministry of Defence, Berlin

Since April 2025 Director of the Multinational Medical Coordination Centre – Europe, Koblenz

Mission experience

Jan–March 2002 4th Stabilisation Force (SFOR) contingent, mobile emergency physician team (MEPT), Camp Filipovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina May–July 2003 Member of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) contingent, MEPT and unit physician, Camp Doha, Kuwait City, Kuwait

July–Sept 2004 2nd German contingent, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), MEPT, Provincial Reconstruction Team Feyzabad and Kunduz, Afghanistan (AFG)

Nov 2009–March 2010 21st German ISAF contingent, JMedPlans, HQ Regional Command North (HQ RC N), Mazar-e Sharif, AFG

June–Sept 2017 German contingent, Resolute Support, JMED and medical advisor, Train Advise Assist Command – North (TAAC – North) HQ, Mazar-e Sharif, AFG

Deployment days 470

Awards and decorations

2002 Bundeswehr Foreign Duty Medal, SFOR

2002 NATO Medal for service on operations in relation to Former Yugoslavia

2003 Bundeswehr Foreign Duty Medal for participation in the Bundeswehr mission abroad as part of the fight against international terrorism in the context of Operation Enduring Freedom

2004 Bundeswehr Bronze Foreign Duty Medal, ISAF

2004 Non-Article 5 NATO Medal for service on operations in relation to the ISAF mission

2016 Gold Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr 2017 Bundeswehr Bronze Foreign Duty Medal for Operation Resolute Support

2017 Non-Article 5 NATO Medal for service on operations in relation to Operation Resolute Support in Afghanistan