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Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology

Centre of medical competence

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ656790 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology (IMB, military abbreviation InstMikroBioBw) in Munich is the German Armed Forces' scientific competence center in the field of medical defense against biological warfare agents and other dangerous pathogens or biotoxins. The institute provides procedures and methods for the rapid and unambiguous identification and verification of allegations of the use of biological warfare agents, conducts specialized training, and participates in the development of medical biodefense concepts and strategies.

Tasks

Provide expertise, specialized diagnostic capabilities, principles, concepts, guidelines, and procedures for preserving/restoring the health of populations and individuals exposed to biological warfare agents.

Deployment of specialized, rapidly deployable military response teams in biological threat situations, investigation of unexplained outbreaks of infectious diseases, and medical verification of biological agent use.

Research on the epidemiology, epidemic management, pathomechanisms, prevention, diagnostics, and treatment of diseases caused by biological warfare agents.

Advising the German Ministry of Defense and other federal agencies on scientific and medical issues related to bioweapons disarmament and arms control.

Directors

1984–1994: Colonel Dr. med. vet. Ahrens

1994–2008: Colonel Dr.

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“Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology” enters the record as centre of medical competence. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bundeswehr, Institute and Microbiology can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 1994, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bundeswehr, Institute and Microbiology.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q656790. VIAF identifies the subject as 1918156317453902350004. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984, 1994 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.