Gerold crouches

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Gerold Kauert (born September 13, 1947 in Düren ) is a German pharmacologist , forensic toxicologist and retired university professor .

Education and professional activity

From 1968 to 1973 Kauert studied pharmacy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ; In 1974, he received his license to practice as a pharmacist . He received his doctorate in Bonn in 1977, Dieter Abbo Kalbhen supervised his dissertation on the subject of catecholamines - metabolism in schizophrenic patients. In the same year he moved to the institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich to Wolfgang Spann , where he qualified as a professor in 1983 - the title of the habilitation thesis is "Catecholamines in the Agony ". In 1990 he was appointed adjunct professor at Munich University.

Kauert was offered a professorship at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he became the founding director of the new Forensic Toxicology Department at the Center for Forensic Medicine . It was the first independent department of this specialty in Germany. The title of Kauert's inaugural lecture was "Chemistry of the Psyche and Forensic Toxicology". After later restructuring, the department was named "Institute for Forensic Medicine" and "Institute for Forensic Toxicology" in the center of forensic medicine. Kauert headed the department until his early retirement for health reasons in 2009.

Main areas of work

  • Influence of alcohol and drugs on the ability to drive
  • Development of limit values ​​for fitness to drive
  • Detection of drugs in hair
  • Experimental studies on the deposition of drugs in the hair matrix.

One of the many cases in which Kauert has prepared reports and represented them in court is that of Oury Jalloh .

Honors

literature

  • D. Mebs: Inaugural lecture by Professor Kauert . In Toxichem + Krimitech (T + K), Bulletin of the Society for Toxicological and Forensic Chemistry, Vol. 63, No. 2, p. 63

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A brief outline of the history of forensic medicine in Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt University Hospital , accessed on March 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ The Oury Jalloh case puts pressure on politics . Deutschlandfunk , December 2, 2017, accessed on March 21, 2018


personal data
SURNAME Crouch down, Gerold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist, forensic toxicologist and retired university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren