Erich Fritz (forensic doctor)

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Erich Fritz (born February 2, 1899 in Hötting , Tyrol; † December 28, 1989 in Hamburg ) was an Austrian forensic doctor and university professor.

Life

Erich Fritz completed by the end of his school career, a study of medicine , which he in 1925 with state examination and doctoral Dr. med. completed. He then worked from the beginning of August 1925 to the end of July 1936 as an assistant at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Innsbruck , where he completed his habilitation in 1935 . He then moved to the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Münster and at the end of 1937 at the University of Munich under Hermann Merkel , where he worked as the first assistant and private lecturer for forensic medicine. He was a member of the Nazi Lecturer Association and joined the NSDAP in 1938 . At the beginning of January 1942, Fritz accepted the chair for forensic medicine at the University of Hamburg , where he was director of the institute for forensic medicine. Fritz taught in Hamburg until his retirement in 1967.

Fritz published on gunshot wound examinations, pathological-anatomical problems and serological topics.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 467.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 169