Friedrich Pietrusky

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Friedrich Pietrusky

Friedrich Pietrusky (born January 12, 1893 in Pschow , † November 23, 1971 in Pöcking ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.

Life

Early years, university studies, career entry and university professor

Friedrich Pietrusky was the son of the mine director Friedrich Pietrusky (1862-1946) and his wife Elfriede (1870-1953), née Harbolla. He finished his school career in 1913 at the Realgymnasium with the Abitur and then studied medicine at the University of Freiburg and the University of Breslau . In 1914 he joined the Corps Borussia in Breslau . From 1914 to 1916 he took part in the First World War as a volunteer , most recently as a non-commissioned officer. After he was dismissed from military service in 1916 as incapacitated, he continued his studies in Breslau and passed the state examination there in 1919. Furthermore, he was active in the volunteer corps and took part in the Kapp Putsch in 1920. After the medical internship, which he did at the University Eye Clinic in Breslau, he was awarded a doctorate in 1921 with the dissertation “The Behavior of the Eyes in Sleep”. med. PhD .

In 1922 he became 1st assistant at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Breslau. In December 1924 he was called to Münsterberg in this capacity to examine the living room of serial killer Karl Denke at Teichstrasse 10 in the presence of the police . Among other things, pots with meat and fat from his victims were discovered in Denke's living room. In 1924 he passed the examination to become a district doctor. He completed his habilitation in forensic medicine in 1925 and worked as a private lecturer in Breslau. After the death of the director of the Wroclaw Institute for Forensic Medicine Georguppe , he took over the provisional management of the facility in 1925.

Pietrusky followed the call to the chair of forensic medicine at the University of Halle in 1927 and headed the forensic medical institute there as director. On November 1, 1930, Pietrusky moved from Halle to the University of Bonn as the successor to Full Professor Victor Müller-Hess , where he headed the Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine.

Period of National Socialism - full professor in Bonn and Heidelberg

The respected scientist was rector in 1933/34 and 1935/36 as well as 1934/35 and 1936 to 1939 as well as 1942 prorector of the University of Bonn.

Pietrusky had been a party candidate since 1933 and was admitted to the NSDAP retrospectively from May 1, 1933 ( membership number 2.103.018) in 1937 . Furthermore, he belonged to the NS-Ärztebund and the NS-Lehrerbund and was a supporting member of the SS . He was an assessor at the Hereditary Health Supreme Court in Cologne , where a decision was made on compulsory sterilization under the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring .

The historian Hans-Paul Höpfner (* 1953) counts Pietrusky as one of the most unpleasant National Socialists in Bonn and ascribes to him "a particularly perfidious kind of economic chivalry". Together with 13 other professors and assistants from Bonn University, he signed the appeal “For Adolf Hitler ” in the Bonner General-Anzeiger on March 4, 1933 . On May 1, 1933, party candidate Pietrusky gave his inaugural speech as rector in Nazi style and raved about the "failing bourgeoisie", the "international Jewry" and Horst Wessel . He listed colleagues who were considered politically unreliable, approved student boycotts against the psychologist Kurt Gottschaldt, among others, and initiated National Socialist training courses for students and lecturers.

From September 1934, Pietrusky was chairman of the German Society for Forensic and Social Medicine for two years . Pietrusky was elected a member of the Forensic Medicine section of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1937 . In 1938 he was involved in the DFG project “Effects of Toxins and Combat Poisons on Cell Ferments”.

Pietrusky intrigued during the Second World War against the rector of the University of Bonn Karl F. Chudoba, who was on the Eastern Front, because of his alleged Catholic university policy. Pietrusky, who was defeated in this conflict, received a "severe warning" from the Supreme Party Court of the NSDAP and was only able to move to an extraordinary position in Heidelberg in 1942 because of his services to the party . He took part in secret research for the Air Force . He was editor of the "Journal for All Forensic Medicine".

post war period

After the liberation from National Socialism , Pietrusky was released from his professorship in 1945 and was not taken back into university service. His main research interests were blood grouping techniques and paternity records. Officially, he was only in 1954 emeritus . Pietrusky became Honorary President of the International Academy of Forensic and Social Medicine in Copenhagen and was a member of the Presidium of the International Academy of Forensic Medicine .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ferdinand von Neureiter , Friedrich Pietrusky and Eduard Schütt : Concise dictionary of forensic medicine and scientific criminalistics. Springer, Berlin 1940.
  • Forensic medicine , C. Heymann, in: Handbook for the public health service ; Volume 15., Heymann 1943.
  • Technique of blood grouping with an introduction to blood group practice: For hospital doctors and judicial Expert , Springer, Berlin 1940.
  • The blood group report , Biederstein, Munich 1949 (1st edition)
  • About the medical proof of paternity and the evaluation of its examination results according to the current state of science , CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1954.

literature

  • 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 .
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 130.
  • Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 .
  • Hans-Paul Höpfner: The University of Bonn in the Third Reich. Academic biographies under National Socialist rule (= Academica Bonnensia, publications of the archive of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, Volume 12), Bouvier, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-416-02904-6 .
  • Ralf Forsbach : The medical faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich" , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57989-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to Oskar Pusch : The Silesian cloth maker family Renner and his Versippung , East German Research Center in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Edition 13, Dortmund 1967, p. 41. Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich" , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, p. 119 names Zalenze near Kattowitz as the place of birth and Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 462 Kattowitz.
  2. ^ Date of death, place according to Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 462.
  3. ↑ Oskar Pusch: The Silesian cloth maker family Renner and its lineage. East German Research Center in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Edition 13, Dortmund 1967, p. 41.
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 78/746
  5. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 130.
  6. ↑ a b c Friedrich Pietrusky in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
  7. ↑ Armin Rütters: "Father Think" - "I smell, smell human flesh" (Germany 1924). In: Historical serial killers. Human monsters from the late Middle Ages to the mid 20th century. Volume II, Kirschschlager, 2009, ISBN 978-3-934277-25-0 , pp. 164ff.
  8. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 150.
  9. ↑ a b Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich". Munich 2006, p. 120.
  10. ^ Hans-Paul Höpfner: The University of Bonn in the Third Reich. Academic biographies under National Socialist rule. Bonn 1999, p. 68.
  11. ^ Ralf Forsbach: The medical faculty in the Nazi era. In: Thomas Becker (ed.): Between dictatorship and a new beginning: The University of Bonn in the Third Reich and in the post-war period . Bonn 2008, p. 131.
  12. ↑ Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich". Munich 2006, p. 120f.
  13. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 210, 216.
  14. ↑ member entry by Friedrich Pietrusky at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on April 11, 2015.
  15. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 462.
  16. ↑ Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich". Munich 2006, p. 123ff.
personal data
SURNAME Pietrusky, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pietrusky, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Pschow
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1971
Place of death Poecking