August Brüning

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August Brüning (1932)

August Aloysius Bernhard Maria Brüning (born January 9, 1877 in Amelsbüren , † March 17, 1965 in Münster ) was a German chemist, food chemist, toxicologist , university lecturer , forensic scientist and author and in 1933 director of the Prussian State Institute for Food, Drugs and Forensic Medicine .

Brüning attended the Paulinum grammar school in Münster and then trained as a pharmacist from 1894 to 1897. He received his doctorate in chemistry in 1903 from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau under Wilhelm Autenrieth (on cyclic compounds containing sulfur and iminothioethers).

After his retirement he moved to Münster and until his death worked as a lecturer for natural scientific forensics at the University of Münster in 1947 and was awarded the title of Dr. jur. hc honored.

On January 1, 1913, he received a laboratory at the Alexanderplatz Police Headquarters in Berlin. As a judicial expert, he also worked for the district court in Zurich beyond Germany . His involvement as an expert, toxicologist and court chemist in the proceedings against Marinus van der Lubbe , the murder proceedings against Adolf Seefeldt from 1935 to 1936 and the suicide of Paul Blomert in 1963 went down in criminal history .

In 1957 he received the Joseph König commemorative coin from the Society of German Chemists for the subject of food chemistry .

He should not be confused with the surgeon and professor in Gießen August Martin Brüning (1874–1941).

Publications

  • 1902: W. Autenrieth and A. Brüning: About multi-membered, sulfur-containing, cyclic compounds. [Communication from the med. Department d. University laboratory. to Freiburg i. B,] (Received December 23, 1902.)
  • 1926: A. Brüning and B. Kraft: Contributions to the detection of plant poisons and medicines in older parts of the body. (Communication from the State Food Research Institute, received in Berlin on November 15, 1926)
  • 1924: Otto Harder, A. Brüning: The criminality at the post office. A guideline for investigations to determine criminal acts in the postal and telegraph operations with special consideration of chemical and microscopic aids. Verlag von W. Ernst u. Son. Berlin
  • 1931: Fühner-Wieland: Collection of poisoning cases: With the participation of the German Pharmacological Society and A. Brüning, Berlin, F. Flury, Würzburg, E. Hesse, Breslau, E. Koelsch, Munich, P. Morawitz, Leipzig, V. Müller-Heß, Berlin, E. Rost, Berlin, and E. Starkenstein Prague, edited by H. Fühner, Bonn. Volume 2, deliveries 7 to 9. Berlin 1931. FCW Vogel publisher. Each delivery comprises 32 pages: Collection of cases of poisoning.

literature

  • Bischoff, Marc A. 1966: Prof. Dr. phil and Dr. jur. hc August Brüning (1877–1965). German journal for the whole of forensic medicine, 58, 1–2.
  • Hans-Georg Breydy: The Reichstag fire trial in Leipzig 1933.
  • Jürgen Schmädeke, Alexander Bahar and Wilfried Kugel: The Reichstag fire in a new light. from: Historische Zeitschrift , Volume 269 (1999), Issue 3, pp. 603–651, published by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag Munich.
  • Lieselotte Steveling: Lawyers in Münster. (Dissertation), Münster 1998, ISBN 3-8258-4084-0
  • Ernst Falck: The technical expert in criminal proceedings. : Expert activity in: Elster and Lingemann: In the hand dictionary of criminology, 1936: Volume 2, pp. 493–498
  • Robert Heindl (ed.), Brüning: The trace on the wallpaper. Archive for criminology. With the participation of Herbert Kalicinski and Franz Meinert (monthly for scientific criminalistics and police archives. Volume 118, 1st and 2nd issue, July and August 1956) Lübeck, Verlag für Polizeiliches Fachschriftentum Georg Schmidt-Römhild, 1956, 87 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Thorwald : The hour of the detectives. Becomes and worlds of criminology. Droemer Knaur, Zurich and Munich 1966, pp. 352–355.
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel : STAND UP, VAN DER LUBBE! The Reichstag fire in 1933 - the story of a legend / Based on a manuscript by Fritz Tobias . Der Spiegel 49/1959 of December 2, 1959 , accessed on May 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel : THE GAME IS OVER - ARTHUR NEBE The splendor and misery of the German criminal police. Der Spiegel 48/1949 of November 24, 1949 , accessed on May 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel : Death at Noon. Der Spiegel 6/1963 of February 6, 1963 , accessed on May 29, 2014.
  5. ↑ BookSC (PDF file, 281 kB) ( Memento from May 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 29, 2014
  6. ↑ BookSC (PDF file, 1.65 kB) ( Memento from May 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Footnote 81, p. 447 ( Memento of October 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 29, 2014
  8. ^ August Brüning - a scientist in the Faculty of Law and Political Science , accessed on May 29, 2014
  9. ↑ The technical expert in criminal proceedings , accessed on May 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Brüning, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüning, August Friedrich Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, food chemist, toxicologist, university professor, forensic scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Amelsbueren
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1965
Place of death Muenster