Kurt Walcher

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Kurt Walcher (born October 23, 1891 in Stuttgart ; † March 20, 1973 in Dießen am Ammersee ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.

Life

Kurt Walcher was the son of a district judge. He spent his school career at the Latin School Blaubeuren and the Evangelical Seminars in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren and passed his Abitur in Reutlingen in 1909 . He then did his military service and completed a medical degree at the universities of Munich , Freiburg , Kiel , Erlangen and graduated in Munich. During the First World War , Walcher was continuously in the medical service, initially in the fortress hospital in Ulm and finally as a troop doctor. Multiple awards ( Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class as well as the Frederick Order Second class with swords) he was discharged from the army after the end of the war.

Approved during the war in 1917 , he worked as an assistant doctor in 1919 at the Schüssenried sanatorium and in 1920/21 at the pathological institute of the Stubenrauch Hospital in Berlin-Lichtenberg . Then worked for ten years as an assistant at the Forensic Medical Institute of the University of Munich. During this time he passed the Bavarian physics examination in 1923, completed his habilitation in forensic medicine in 1927 and was approved as an expert.

In 1932 he received a personal professorship for forensic medicine at the University of Halle and was director of the Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Walcher became a member of the NSDAP in early May 1933 ( membership number 2.187.041) and also joined the NS organizations NS-Lehrerbund , NS-Ärztebund , the NS-Altherrenbund and the NSV . In 1933 he was elected a member of the Forensic Medicine Section of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . From May 1935 to September 1936 he was dean of the medical faculty in Halle. In 1935 he became a councilor in Halle.

In 1936, Walcher accepted an appointment at the University of Würzburg, where he was director of the local institute for forensic and social medicine. From 1938 to 1943 he was the head of lecturers and lecturer union at the University of Würzburg. Together with Berthold Mueller , he wrote the work forensic and social medicine in 1938 . According to the foreword, the work should "give the student and doctor a book [...] in which the views of the National Socialist Greater German Reich are related to the medical fields of the subject".

After the end of the Second World War , he was removed from his university position in July 1945 by the American military government . In November 1949 he took over the deputy of the regional court doctor in Amberg and in October 1950 the post of regional court doctor at the regional court Munich II . Walcher was retired in 1956.

Fonts (selection)

  • Forensic diagnostics and technology, especially in the area of ​​the official section , Hirzel, Leipzig 1936 (together with Hermann Merkel )
  • Forensic and social medicine including medical law: a textbook for students and doctors , JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich / Berlin 1938 (together with Berthold Mueller )
  • The newborn in forensic terms , Springer Berlin 1941, (editors: Walcher, K., Meixner, K., Merkel, H., Schneider, Ph.,; Timm, Fr., Zangger, H.)
  • Guide to forensic medicine: With an appendix to statutory provisions , Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin 1950
  • Forensic medicine for lawyers and criminalists: 24 lectures , working group on medicine. Verl., Barth, Leipzig 1950
  • The blood sample in the paternity trial , Heymann, Cologne / Berlin 1957

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Kurt Walcher in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
  2. ↑ member entry of Kurt Walcher at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on August 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ Burkhard Madea, Johanna Preuss (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Society for Forensic Medicine: Development and Scientific Focuses , Shaker Verlag, 2004, p. 24
  4. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 180.
  5. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 559
personal data
SURNAME Walcher, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1973
Place of death Dießen am Ammersee