Michael Tsokos

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Michael Tsokos

Michael Tsokos (born January 23, 1967 in Kiel ) is a German forensic doctor and professor at the Charité in Berlin . Since 2007 he has headed the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Charité and at the same time the State Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine in Berlin-Moabit . Tsokos is also the medical director of the Charité's violence protection clinic and an author.

Life

Michael Tsokos 2012 in the section hall of the Charité Berlin

Tsokos is the son of a Greek ship officer and a German doctor . He attended high school in Kronshagen near Kiel and graduated from high school in 1986.

According to his own statements, he was a poor student and passed the Abitur with a 3.0. Via the medical test , in which he was second best in Germany, he immediately received a place in medicine.

After graduating from high school, he signed up as a regular soldier in the German Armed Forces. After serving in the German Armed Forces, he studied medicine at the University of Kiel from 1988 to 1995 and specialized in the post-mortem detection of infectious diseases . His dissertation in 1995 was on the subject of: the methanol kinetics with administration of the H2-receptor blocker ranitidine. Until 1997 he was an intern at the Specialist Clinic for Psychiatry Neustadt in Holstein and at the Pathological-Bacteriological Institute of the City Hospital in Kiel. In 1997 he received his license to practice medicine and in 2000 he was certified as a medical specialist .

In 1998 and 1999 he was involved in the exhumation and identification of bodies from mass graves on behalf of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Bosnia and Kosovo .

In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg with the English-language habilitation thesis The postmortem diagnosis of sepsis. Postmortem markers of sepsis in human autopsy specimens with respect to medico-legal implications of infection-associated fatalities and forensic argumentation concerning causality . In the same year he was awarded the Venia legendi for forensic medicine. In 2003 he was appointed senior medical officer as a civil servant for life. In 2004/05 he worked on behalf of the Federal Criminal Police Office to identify the German tsunami victims in Thailand.

Until 2006, Tsokos was senior physician at the Hamburg forensic medicine. He was appointed professor at the University of Hamburg. In January 2007, he replaced Volkmar Schneider , the long-time director of the institute, in Berlin .

In May 2009 Tsokos put forward the thesis that an anonymous wax corpse in the cellars of the Charité was possibly Rosa Luxemburg, who was murdered by members of the voluntary corps.

From 2008 to 2010 Tsokos wrote the monthly column Professor Tsokos determined in the Berlin daily mirror . In 2012 he moderated the science documentary Search for Mister X - The Forensic Experiment for the National Geographic Channel . The eight episodes in the series aired on July 4, 2012. In the fall of 2012, the thriller cut off , which he wrote with Sebastian Fitzek , was released.

At the request of the Egyptian government, Tsokos was commissioned by the Foreign Office from 2012 to 2016 to train Egyptian forensic doctors as part of the German-Egyptian transformation partnership. Together with the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Charité in Berlin, a training program was launched that enabled Egyptian forensic doctors and toxicologists to take intensive ten-day courses in Berlin. Since 2017, Tsokos has been entrusted with the training of Moroccan forensic doctors and toxicologists at the Federal Foreign Office. The project runs until 2019.

At the beginning of February 2013 Michael Tsokos stood in front of the camera together with Jan Josef Liefers for the film adaptation of Elisabeth Herrmann's crime thriller The Last Instance . In the TV production for ZDF in Berlin, Tsokos plays himself. On October 29, 2013, Michael Tsokos opened the Hamburg crime festival for the second time, as in 2012.

In 2014, Michael Tsokos became known to a wider audience through his pamphlet Germany Abused His Children , which he had published as a book with forensic doctor and specialist Saskia Guddat (now Saskia Etzold). Since September 2014 Michael Tsokos can be seen regularly in the rbb crime show Four Innocents and One Death as a forensic medical expert. In 2014 he was involved in the ZDF documentary Fact Check Criminal Case Jesus .

In 2014 he founded the first violence protection clinic in Berlin, where victims of violent acts can have their traces documented in a court-proof manner.

Cover of his book, which became the basis of the Sat1 series

In the summer of 2017, Tsokos presented the program Dem Death on the Track - The Cases of Prof. Tsokos in 4 weekly episodes on Sat1 , which is based on Tsokos' book of the same name. In March 2018 Tsokos`True-crime thriller was decomposes in Berlin and Budapest with Tim Bergmann in the lead role as a forensic pathologist Fred Abel filmed. The broadcast date on Sat1 was December 11, 2018. Dietmar Bär , Claude Oliver Rudolph and Harald Schrott played supporting roles .

In 2015, he said in an interview that he must have seen 200,000 dead.

In June 2017, following a request from the Cameroonian public prosecutor's office, Tsokos was commissioned by Interpol to investigate the mysterious death of the bishop of the local diocese of Bafia, Jean-Marie Benoît Balla . Balla died in Cameroon at the beginning of June under unexplained circumstances and two autopsies that had already been carried out had shown signs of torture and massive violence on the body of the bishop. Tsokos then traveled to Yaounde, Cameroon, and was able to prove with a renewed autopsy on site and his subsequent examinations that Balla had drowned, contrary to the murder theory postulated by the Cameroonian Bishops' Conference.

Tsokos is married and has five children. He is the bearer of the black belt (2nd DAN) in Taekwondo . From May 2017 to April 2018 he managed the Berlin-based kickboxing world champion in K1, Dalibor Music , who, with the support of Tsokos, was again world champion in K1 ( WKU ) in October 2017 and in March 2018 European champion K1 of the AFSO association with the support of Tsokos has been.

Memberships

Tsokos is a regular editor and co-editor of numerous international forensic publications and journals such as Forensic Pathology Reviews , Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology , Legal Medicine , International Journal of Legal Medicine , Forensic Medicine , Minerva Medico Legale , Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine and Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine and has so far written 316 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, 114 congress contributions, 44 scientific book contributions and 6 monographs. He is a member of the German Society for Forensic Medicine , the International Academy of Legal Medicine , the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the National Association of Medical Examiners and is on the editorial board of the Russian journal "Судебная-медицина".

Commitment to child protection

Tsokos has been the ambassador of the German Children's Association since 2014 and child protection officer of Berlin's state-owned housing association GESOBAU since 2015.

Honors

  • 2001: Science award of the German Society for Forensic Medicine for his habilitation thesis
  • 2005: Award of the certificate of thanks of the Federal Republic of Germany, by the Federal Minister of the Interior, for work to identify the tsunami victims in Thailand in 2004/2005
  • 2005: Bambi Media Prize for the BAO East Asia of the BKA for its efforts to identify the German tsunami victims
  • 2016: Presentation of the NIFS Best Paper Award 2016 for his book contribution "Postmortem changes: overview" in the Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine by the National Institute of Forensic Science Australia New Zealand
  • 2016: Honorary member of the Romanian Society of Legal Medicine

Fonts (selection)

Specialist literature

  • (Ed., With Klaus Püschel ) Crematorium-Leichenschau (= forensic medical research results. Volume 22). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2000, ISBN 3-7950-0319-9 .
  • (Ed.) Gastrointestinal Causes of Sudden Death. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. med. Klaus Püschel on his 50th birthday (= forensic medical research results ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2002, ISBN 3-7950-0781-X .
  • (Ed.) Forensic Pathology Reviews. Volume 1, Humana Press, Totowa 2004, ISBN 1-58829-414-5 .
  • (Ed.) Forensic Pathology Reviews. Volume 2, Humana Press, Totowa 2004, ISBN 1-58829-415-3 .
  • (Ed.) Forensic Pathology Reviews. Volume 3, Humana Press, Totowa 2005, ISBN 1-58829-416-1 .
  • (Ed.) Forensic Pathology Reviews. Volume 4, Humana Press, Totowa 2005, ISBN 1-58829-601-6 .
  • (Ed.) Forensic Pathology Reviews. Volume 5, Humana Press, Totowa 2007, ISBN 978-1-58829-832-4 .

Popular non-fiction books

  • On the trail of death. Twelve spectacular cases from forensic medicine. Ullstein, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-37262-4 .
  • The reader of the dead. New incredible cases from forensic medicine. Ullstein, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-548-37342-3 .
  • The keyboard of death: Germany's best-known forensic doctor clarifies. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-27602-0 .
  • with Saskia Guddat: Germany is mistreating its children. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-27616-7 .
  • Are the dead always pale? The biggest misconceptions about forensic medicine. , with illustrations by Christoph J Kellner Droemer Knaur, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-27700-3 .
  • The signs of death: new cases from Germany's most famous forensic doctor . Droemer HC Munich, 2017, ISBN 978-3426276174 .
  • Do dead people always swim up? The most common mistakes about forensic medicine , with illustrations by Christoph J Kellner, Droemer, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-426-27764-5 .

Fiction

Paul Herzfeld series
Fred Abel series

Web links

Commons : Michael Tsokos  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b c d Antje Lang-Lendorff: "I must have seen 200,000 dead." In: die tageszeitung , regional section Berlin . March 14, 2015, p. 46-47 ( taz.de ).
  2. ^ German-Egyptian cooperation in forensic medicine. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 25, 2018: Morocco's doctors learn in Moabit - Professor Michael Tsokos explains to colleagues how to read corpses
  4. ^ New violence protection clinic in Berlin perpetrators - victims - Charité . In: Der Tagesspiegel
  5. ↑ Horror in the morgue: New series with Michael Tsokos in: HAZ
  6. ↑ Stern: 3D corpse examination - the most exciting cases of the forensic doctor
  7. ↑ Press portal: Only reality is harder: SAT.1 filmed Michael Tsokos' true crime thriller "Zersetzt" with Tim Bergmann in the lead role
  8. ↑ Internet portal of the Catholic Church in Germany: "Twist in the mysterious death of Bishop Balla"
  9. ↑ Berliner Zeitung, March 4, 2018, p. 17: Quite the best boxing friends
  10. ↑ Судебная медицина: Редакционный совет
  11. ^ German Children's Association: Ambassador
  12. ↑ GESOBAU strengthens child protection and child welfare in Berlin ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gesobau.de
  13. ↑ ANZPAA: Award recipients 2016
personal data
SURNAME Tsokos, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel