Bernd Brinkmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bernd Brinkmann (born April 7, 1939 in Hamburg ) is a German forensic doctor .

Life

Brinkmann studied law and medicine in Hamburg and completed his habilitation in forensic medicine in 1972 . From 1981 to July 2007 he was director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1990 to the end of 2009 he was the coordinating editor of the International Journal of Legal Medicine .

In 1998 the Semmelweis University in Budapest awarded him an honorary doctorate, and in 2009 the University of Coimbra in Coimbra .

Bernd Brinkmann was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina Halle in 1991 and was President of the German Society for Forensic Medicine (1995–2001), the International Academy of Legal Medicine (1994–2000) and the International Society of Forensic Genetics (1990–1994 ).

Until the end of 2010 he was chairman of the trace commission that organizes the GEDNAP ring tests for quality assurance in trace science and forensic molecular genetics. The establishment of national and international standards was and is also very important to him in the area of ​​post-mortem examination and dissection.

His main research interests were a. the analysis of traces of blood , sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the histo-morphology of drowning and the evidence of asphyxiation.

Bernd Brinkmann founded the Institute for Forensic Genetics in Münster in 2009, which deals with forensic DNA analyzes and conducts the GEDNAP round robin tests.

Trivia

Bernd Brinkmann is considered a real template for Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne (played by Jan Josef Liefers ) in the ARD - Tatort from Münster.

literature

Bernd Brinkmann has published more than 550 scientific papers and is z. B. together with Burkhard Madea editor of the two-volume textbook "Handbook of Forensic Medicine", Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2003/2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. member entry by Bernd Brinkmann (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 2 2016th
  2. Marc Geschonke: 20 things you did not know about the Münster crime scene. In: MünsterscheZeitung.de. Lensing Medien GmbH & Co. KG, April 9, 2014, archived from the original on April 11, 2014 ; Retrieved April 11, 2014 .