Fritz Pragst

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Fritz Pragst (born September 9, 1941 in Stove (Carlow) ) is a German chemist and forensic toxicologist .

education and profession

After graduating from high school, Pragst studied chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1961 . After graduating in 1966 and graduating as Dr. rer. nat. In 1969 with a thesis on the oxidation of aliphatic diazo compounds, he completed his habilitation there in 1976. This time, the topic of the work was the electrochemical luminescence of organic compounds. From 1970, Pragst worked at the Humboldt University, initially as a senior assistant in the chemistry section, and from 1987 as a university lecturer for forensic chemistry at the Institute for Forensic Medicine. From 1987 to 1989, Pragst completed a degree in toxicology for graduates at the University of Leipzig and subsequently became head of the forensic toxicology department at the Charité Forensic Medicine Institute ; In 1996 he was appointed adjunct professor. Pragst has retired since 2006 and continues to work as a visiting scientist at the Charité.

Research interests

The focus of Pragst's work lies in the detection of medium and long-term drug and alcohol abuse. For the detection of longer periods of increased alcohol consumption, Pragst developed a method based on hair analysis , with which he played a pioneering role in Germany

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Individual evidence

  1. Aliki Nassoufis: Alcohol test: hair splitting at Charité in: Der Tagesspiegel of December 28, 2006