Michael Gmelch was the first Catholic military chaplain to take part in the 1st German Sea Rescue Contingent providing “humanitarian assistance for refugees in distress at sea in the Mediterranean.” He is a pastoral theologian and pastoral psychologist as well as psychotherapist according to the German Alternative Medical Practitioners Act and priest of the Diocese of Eichstätt. He is head of the Catholic military chaplain’s office (Militärpfarramt) in Flensburg, and ministers to officer designators of the Naval Academy Mürwik (Marineschule Mürwik) on the training ship Gorch Fock, and at sea as part of the operational and training flotilla (Einsatz- und Ausbildungsverband, EAV).

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