Hans-Joachim Wagner (doctor)
Hans-Joachim Wagner (born March 9, 1924 in Gera ; † January 4, 2014 in Homburg ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor .
Education and professional activity
Hans Joachim Wagner began his medical studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and completed his doctorate in 1951 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . The subject of his dissertation was the history of the uncovering of poisoning from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. The habilitation followed in 1960, the habilitation thesis was about the role of antibiotics and sulfonamides in determining the time of death.
In 1966 the University of Mainz appointed Wagner as associate professor. In 1968 he accepted a call to the Saarland University in Homburg as professor and founding director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine (since 1971 Institute for Forensic Medicine). The field of activity of the institute was not limited to the Saarland , but also extended to parts of Rhineland-Palatinate and, from 1986, Luxembourg . Wagner turned down offers to the universities in Erlangen and Bonn and stayed in Saarland until his retirement in 1993. Until his retirement, Wagner was chairman of the German Society for Traffic Medicine.
Main areas of work
- Analysis of injury patterns of traffic victims as a basis for optimizing the passenger compartment and of seat belts and other safety devices
- Investigation of driving safety and its impairment through illness, medication, intoxicants, the influence of alcohol
- Establishment of limit values for alcohol and intoxicants
- Interdisciplinary basis for prediction of fitness to drive
In the Birgit Dressel case , Wagner acted as an expert.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st class
- Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Commander)
- Senator Lothar Danner Medal of the Federation against Alcohol and Drugs in Road Traffic ,
- Ernst von Bergmann plaque from the German Medical Association
- Honorary member of the German Society for Forensic Medicine
- Honorary Chairman of the German Society for Traffic Medicine
literature
- Forensic doctor Professor Hans-Joachim Wagner has died , in: Saarbrücker Zeitung of January 9, 2014.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans-Joachim Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
- The DGRM mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Wagner . German Society for Forensic Medicine
- Obituary for Professor Dr. med. Hans-Joachim Wagner, Saarland University, Homburg. German Society for Traffic Medicine. PDF document
Individual evidence
- ↑ Slide into the legal drug swamp , in: Der Spiegel No. 37, 1987; Spiegel online, September 7, 1987 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Hans-Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forensic doctor and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 2014 |
| Place of death | Homburg |