Balduin Forster
Balduin Forster (born February 20, 1920 in Berlin , † December 28, 1999 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German forensic doctor .
Forster studied medicine in Berlin and Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1954 and his habilitation in 1962. From 1970 to 1988 he was professor of forensic medicine at the University of Freiburg .
In the 1970s he dealt, among other things, with the question of the extent to which rigor mortis or its decrease can be used as an indication of the time of death of murdered people. Among other things, this led to the suspicion that a miscarriage of justice had been committed in the Vera Brühne case .
Publications (selection)
- The influence of fructose <Laevoral> on the breakdown of alcohol in the blood in the experiment and its practical forensic significance . Dissertation Göttingen 1954.
- About the plastic, elastic and contractile deformation of the rigid skeletal and heart muscle . Habilitation Göttingen 1963.
- (Ed.): Practice of forensic medicine . Stuttgart / New York / Munich 1986.
literature
- Stefan Pollak: Balduin Forster in memory . In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 39, No. 147, 2000, p. 119.
Web links
- Balduin Forster on leo-bw.de.
Individual evidence
- ^ As stuffed , in: Der Spiegel , October 2, 1972 ( Spiegel Online ).
- ↑ Death did not come at 7.45 p.m. , in: Der Spiegel , September 24, 1973 ( Spiegel Online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forster, Baldwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forensic doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1999 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |