Hans W. Sachs

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Hans W. Sachs (born March 31, 1912 in Aussig ; † September 11, 2000 ) was a German pathologist , coroner and university professor .

Life

Hans W. Sachs was the son of the principal Hans Sachs and his wife Olga, née Krippner. After attending the secondary school in Aussig, he completed a medical degree at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague . During his student days he was arrested on March 3, 1932 in Prague for activities for the NS student union. He was awarded Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as a scientific assistant at the Pathological Institute of Karl Ferdinand University and, after continuing education in 1937, passed the examination to become a medical officer at the bacteriological-serological examination office. In Prague he was in 1943 with a record of the autogenous pigments for the subject "General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy" habilitation .

As a senior physician in the Air Force , he was assigned to the Waffen SS in Prague and served as the chief physician of the SS and police in Bohemia and Moravia. At the end of 1944 he became head pathologist at the Reichsarzt SS Ernst-Robert Grawitz . According to Grawitz, he is said to have been involved in so-called N-substance tests with war gas.

After the end of the war, Sachs worked as a pathologist, bacteriologist and general practitioner until he briefly headed the bacteriological-serological examination center in Bad Mergentheim. From 1948 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Münster under Albert Ponsold . In the following year he received his habilitation in forensic medicine. In Münster he worked from 1951 under Ponsold as an adjunct professor, from 1955 also as senior physician and finally from 1967 as a scientific adviser and associate professor. In 1970 he was appointed full professor, succeeding Ponsold in the chair of forensic medicine and at the same time became director of the Forensic Medicine Institute. He retired in 1980 . His main research interests were in the area of ​​metabolic and infectious diseases. He was the author of various scientific papers.

He had been married to Hildegard, nee Krippner, since 1938. The couple had five children.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Who is who? , Volume 33, Schmidt-Römhild, 1994, p. 1130.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 517.
  3. ↑ a b Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 89, Issue 16, April 17, 1992 (83) A1-1465.
personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Hans W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist, coroner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Aussig
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2000