Hans Molitoris

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Hans Molitoris (born August 8, 1874 in Meschen , Austria-Hungary ; † May 29, 1972 in Erlangen ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.

Life

Hans Molitoris was the son of the school principal von Meschen. After finishing his school career, he studied medicine in Innsbruck until 1903 . During his studies in 1892 he became a member of the Germania Innsbruck fraternity . After completing his studies, he was an assistant at the forensic medicine institute at the University of Innsbruck from 1902 , where he was awarded a doctorate in 1903. med. doctorate and passed the physics examination in 1905. At the beginning of September 1919, Molitoris accepted the chair for forensic medicine at the University of Erlangen, initially as an associate professor and from 1922 as a full professor. From 1921 he was president of the German Society for Forensic Medicine.

At the time of National Socialism, Molitoris was a member of the NSDAP and the NS teachers 'association as well as a shop steward of the NS lecturers' association at the Medical Faculty in Erlangen. He retired in August 1939 , but continued his activities as a professor and head of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Erlangen until the end of the Second World War . In 1945 he was retired by the military government.

Molitoris was married and had three sons and two daughters. One of the sons, the gynecologist Hans Albrecht Molitoris (1905–1987), was the most influential NSDAP functionary at the University of Erlangen as a long-time lecturer leader at the University of Erlangen and as a Gaudozentenbundführer in Gau Franken .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 343.
  2. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 480.
  3. a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 180.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 414.