Gottfried Raestrup

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Grave of Gottfried Raestrup in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Gottfried Georg Josef Raestrup (born May 3, 1889 in Borghorst , † September 26, 1955 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.

Life

Gottfried Raestrup was the son of the landowner Adolf Raestrup. He graduated from high school in Bocholt in 1911 with a high school diploma. He then completed a medical degree at the universities of Marburg , Breslau , Münster , Kiel and Leipzig . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Marburg . After the beginning of the First World War he was drafted into the army in 1915 . He passed the medical exam in 1916 and was then assigned to the Western Front and was approved in 1917 . After his release from French captivity, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . From 1919 to 1920 he was an assistant at the pathological-anatomical institute of the St. Georg Hospital in Leipzig and then assistant at the University of Leipzig (1920 to 1922 at the pathological-anatomical institute and 1923 to 1931 at the institute for forensic medicine). He completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1927, where he also worked as a private lecturer.

Raestrup was appointed to the chair of forensic medicine at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1931 and moved from there to the University of Leipzig in 1934 as the successor to the late Richard Kockel , where he also headed the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology.

At the time of National Socialism , he belonged to the NSV , the NS-Dozentbund , the NS-Reichskriegerbund and the NS-Altherrenbund . He was not a member of the NSDAP . He did not allow himself to be captured by the National Socialists and paid attention to a "scientific orientation of forensic medicine".

After the end of the Second World War he was arrested by the Soviet military administration because he had signed a protocol in 1943 in which the Soviet perpetrators for the massacre of Vinnitsa was established. Due to “anti-Soviet propaganda” he received a six-year prison sentence from a Soviet military tribunal on April 22, 1947, which he spent in the Sachsenhausen special camp . After his release from prison at the end of January 1950, he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and in mid-April 1950 became a personal professor at the University of Göttingen. Raestrup died in September 1955 a few hours after a stroke in a hospital in Frankfurt am Main.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the X-ray diagnosis of osteoplastic bone carcinosis , Leipzig 1919 (dissertation)
  • Studies on the resistance of the liver to toxins , Leipzig 1927 (habilitation thesis)
  • Resistance of the liver to poisons , Leipzig 1923.
  • Pistol murder murder . Forensic science, Berlin 1930.
  • Blood typology in forensic medicine , Munich 1932.

literature

  • Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 .
  • Maria Barbara Ilgner: Gottfried Raestrup (1889-1955) - life and work. A contribution to the history of forensic medicine and criminology at the University of Leipzig , dissertation, Leipzig 1999.
  • Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 256.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 177.
  2. ↑ a b German journal for all of forensic medicine , Volume 45, Springer, 1956, p. 1.
  3. ^ Gottfried Raestrup in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 477.
  5. ↑ Hansjürgen Bratzke : Brief outline of the history of forensic medicine in Frankfurt am Main .
  6. ^ Rainer Behring, Mike Schmeitzner (ed.): Enforcement of dictatorship in Saxony. Studies on the genesis of communist rule 1945–1952 (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism , Vol. 22). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, p. 312.
personal data
SURNAME Raestrup, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raestrup, Gottfried Georg Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Borghorst , Steinfurt district
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1955
Place of death Frankfurt am Main