Hans Joachim Mallach

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Hans Joachim Mallach (born September 23, 1924 in Flatow / Grenzmark ; † January 18, 2001 in Tübingen ) was a German forensic doctor .

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Hans Joachim Mallach was born in the border region of Posen-West Prussia . He became a member of the Hitler Youth and the NSDAP (membership number 9.154.986) and volunteered for the Waffen SS in 1942 . As a member of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler , he fought on the Eastern Front , was wounded and then deployed as a guard at the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. He was assigned to the SS Panzer Division Hitler Youth with the rank of Unterscharführer and deployed with it on the Western Front and with the Iron Cross, 2nd classexcellent. He became an American prisoner of war and was interned in Darmstadt.

From 1946 Mallach studied medicine and chemistry at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn . In 1952 he passed the state examination. He received his doctorate in the same year with a dissertation about the determination of the respiratory variables in congenital heart disease with special reference to the error of the methodology . He initially worked as an assistant at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Bonn and from 1956 at the Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine at the Free University of Berlin . Here habilitated to Mallach 1963. 1965 he moved to the University of Tübingen to the Established on April 1, 1964, led by Georg Schmitt Institute of Forensic Medicine. In 1968 Mallach was given the temporary representation of the chair. A year later he was appointed second professor and appointed director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine.

The scientific focus of Hans Joachim Mallach was in the field of forensic alcoholology and toxicology , the interaction between alcohol and drugs, thanatology and medical law .

In the self-government of Tübingen University, Mallach was a member of the board of directors from 1969 to 1974, chairman of the Grand Senate from 1974 to 1976 and dean of the medical faculty (theoretical medicine) from 1977 to 1979 .

Mallach became known to the general public as an obducent of the heads of the Red Army faction , Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe . After the examinations, Mallach himself made additional death masks without permission . He kept this hidden for a long time; their whereabouts are still unclear.

Hans Joachim Mallach headed the Institute for Forensic Medicine until his retirement in 1989. He died in 2001 at the age of 76. Mallach was married twice: in his first marriage with the dentist Gisela Doeschl (born August 11, 1926 - † January 28, 1973) and in his second marriage with the secretary Dürten Iris von Jutrzenka (born January 18, 1943). He had two sons from his first marriage.

Honors

Mallach was an honorary member of the Polish Society for Forensic Medicine and Criminology and the Bohemian-Slovak Purkinje Society and received numerous domestic and foreign awards, such as the Federal Cross of Merit in 1989 and the Konrad Handel Prize in 2000 .

Fonts (selection)

  • About the determination of the respiratory size in congenital heart defects with special consideration of the error range of the methodology. Dissertation , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , 1952.
  • About histochemically detectable phosphatases in the contractile elements of the skeletal muscle fiber and their changes after death. Habilitation , Free University of Berlin , 1963.
  • with Hanspeter Hartmann and Volker Schmidt: Effects of alcohol on humans: pathophysiology, evidence, intoxication, interactions. Thieme 1987, ISBN 3-13-697101-9 .
  • The importance of air embolism in modern medicine: examinations with a new detection technique. Springer 1987, ISBN 3-540-17509-1 .
  • with Gerhard Schlenker and Alfons Weiser: Medical malpractice: a case study from practice and clinic as well as their legal assessment. Gustav Fischer 1993, ISBN 3-437-11472-7 .
  • History of forensic medicine in German-speaking countries. Schmidt-Römhild 1996, ISBN 3-7950-0721-6 .
  • Forensic medicine in Tübingen. Attempto 1998, ISBN 3-89308-291-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Jürgen Dahlkamp : Red Army Faction: Trophies for the safe . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 2002 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Obituary for Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Mallach of the University of Tübingen ( Memento from January 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Dtsch Arztebl 2001; 98 (11): A-715 .
personal data
SURNAME Mallach, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coroner
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Flatow , Grenzmark
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2001
Place of death Tübingen