Emil Weinig

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Emil Erich Weinig (born July 6, 1904 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 1, 1979 ) was a German forensic doctor .

Life and work

Emil Weinig began studying chemistry at the University of Frankfurt in 1924 after graduating from high school and passed his association examination in 1927 . In 1928, at the received Humboldt University of Berlin 's testimony as a chemist, in 1930 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with his work over the carbons and simple oxygen compounds in the groups of o-cymene and o-methane Dr. phil. In the same year he was hired as a chemist at the Institute for Vegetative Medicine at the University of Frankfurt am Main and on October 1, 1931, he switched to the Institute for Forensic Medicine under Gottfried Raestrup as a chemical assistant . Weinig came to the realization that forensic chemistry and forensic medicine are closely related and began studying medicine in Frankfurt am Main, where he completed his physics course in February 1934 , followed by the medical state examination on October 13, 1936 and almost at the same time the doctorate to Dr. med. with the dissertation on the subject of the alcohol level in corpse blood . After submitting the habilitation thesis The Significance of Polargraphy for Forensic Medicine and Criminology in 1941 at the University of Leipzig , Weinig was appointed lecturer on June 2, 1942. After the end of the war, Weinig took over the extraordinary chair for forensic medicine and criminology at the University of Erlangen on June 1, 1948 , with the appointments in 1950 as personal and 196 as regular professor , from 1952 he held the office of dean of the medical faculty. Weinig's main areas of work, with over forty publications, included

  • forensic medicine
  • Toxicology (change of organic poisons in corpse putrefaction and toxicological analysis of lead and thallium ), application of polarography for the detection of heavy metals
  • Blood alcohol research (corpse blood alcohol determinations).

Outstanding from numerous lectures is the lecture on the problems of forensic toxicology at the 42nd meeting of the German Society for Forensic and Social Medicine on October 4, 1963 in Munich. He was a member of several professional associations and an honorary member of the Spanish Society for Forensic Medicine. In his function as university director was

“[...] the kind, fatherly manner in which he guides and monitors the scientific activities of his employees and takes part in their personal well-being [...] has created a working atmosphere in his Erlangen institute that is so pleasant seldom found. [...] The gratitude and love with which you are all attached to your honored boss are probably the greatest success of this unique mutual relationship. [...] "

- Franz Meinert : Professor Dr. med. Dr. phil E. Weinig on his 60th birthday

During the investigation into the 1962 murder of the Reichelshofen tailor Lina Lindörfer, the crime was cleared up with the help of new methods (the Ouchterlony test and the mixed agglutination according to Robin Coombs ) used by the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology in Erlangen , headed by Weinig . Weinig's assistant Lautenbach carried out the investigations.

Emil Weinig was co-editor of the archive for criminology . The later Würzburg forensic doctor Wolfgang Schwerd was one of his students. In 1970 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was a knight of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Meinert: Professor Dr. med. Dr. phil E. Weinig on his 60th birthday . In: Archives for Criminology . tape 133 , 5 and 6. Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck June 1, 1964, pp. 9 ff .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Thorwald : The hour of the detectives. Becomes and worlds of criminology. Droemer Knaur, Zurich and Munich 1966, pp. 269–285.
personal data
SURNAME Weinig, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinig, Emil Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 1979