Ingo Patschke joined the German armed forces in 1973. He has been Surgeon General of the German Bundeswehr (Inspekteur des Sanitätsdienstes) since 2011. He was awarded the Bundeswehr Silver Cross of Honor in 1994 and the Bundeswehr Gold Cross of Honor in 2000, and in 2002 he received the Bronze German Armed Forces Deployment Medal for flood relief efforts. In 2006 he was awarded both the German Armed Forces Deployment Medal for service with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, and the NATO ISAF medal. In 2014 he was presented with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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