Augustin Förster
Augustin Förster (born December 3, 1895 in Adlum ; † February 28, 1963 in Marburg ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.
Life
The teacher's son Augustin Förster attended the humanistic grammar school in Goslar . After graduating from high school, he took part in the First World War from 1915 . From 1918, he completed a degree in medicine at the Universities of Göttingen, Bonn and Cologne, which he in 1921 with state examination and doctoral Dr. med. graduated in Cologne. After that, he worked as an assistant doctor until 1926, first at the Institute of Pathology at the University of Cologne and then at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Münster. In the meantime , he qualified as a professor in 1930 , and in 1936 he became an adjunct professor at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Munich. In 1937 he accepted a chair for forensic medicine at the University of Marburg, where he taught with interruptions from 1945 to 1949 until the early 1960s and headed the institute for forensic and social medicine.
After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Förster became a member of the NSDAP and the SA at the beginning of May 1933 and also joined the NS organizations NS-Lehrerbund , NS-Ärztebund , the NS-Dozentbund and the NSKK . After the end of the Second World War he was dismissed from the professorship and was interned for a while.
Förster's main research areas were pathological-anatomical and forensic medicine, in which he also published.
literature
- Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary for Augustin Förster . In: German journal for all of forensic medicine, Volume 54, Springer, 1963, p. 333.
- ^ A b Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 479.
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 158.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forester, Augustin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forensic doctor and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adlum |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1963 |
| Place of death | Marburg |