Otto Schmidt (doctor, 1898)

Otto Schmidt (born December 28, 1898 in Fischerbabke near Danzig ; † October 16, 1962 in Göttingen ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.

Life

The farmer's son Otto Schmidt took part in the First World War after graduating . He then completed a medical degree , which he completed in 1923 in Berlin with a state examination and doctorate to become a Dr. med. completed. He then worked as an assistant doctor in 1923/24, initially at the Pathological Institute of the University of Munich and for another year at the municipal mental hospital in Wroclaw . After completing a second degree in law from 1923 onwards, he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. From 1926 he was an assistant at the forensic medical institute at the University of Breslau, where he passed the district medical exam in 1929 and qualified as a professor in 1931 on close-range signs . He then worked as a private lecturer in Wroclaw.

In 1937 he was appointed associate professor and moved to the University of Bonn . Schmidt became a candidate for membership in the NSDAP in June 1938 . At the beginning of January 1940, he accepted a call as a full professor at the Medical Academy in Danzig , where he was also director of the forensic medical institute. In the final phase of the Second World War , before the conquest of Danzig by the Red Army and Polish units in March 1945, he left the city.

In the post-war period he worked as a general practitioner in Rendsburg and from the beginning of September 1945 as a forensic doctor for the Hamburg health authority. Schmidt was appointed full professor and director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the University of Göttingen in 1949 as the successor to the suspended Gottfried Jungmichel and remained in this position until his death in October 1962. His main research interests were ballistics , standardization of the Widmark method and traffic analysis . In the police and judiciary, he was nicknamed Mord-Otto . After his death, Augustin Förster temporarily took over the management of the institute.

literature

Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

Literature by and about Otto Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 480-481.
↑ ^a ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 546
↑ Klaus-Steffen Saternus, Gerhard Kernbach-Wighton (ed.): Forensic medicine: a 100-year history of forensic medicine at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Universitätsdrucke, Göttingen 2004, p. 25 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German forensic doctor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fischerbabke
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1962
Place of death	Goettingen

[Herber480f-1] A ^b Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 480-481.

[Klee546-2] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 546

[3] Klaus-Steffen Saternus, Gerhard Kernbach-Wighton (ed.): Forensic medicine: a 100-year history of forensic medicine at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Universitätsdrucke, Göttingen 2004, p. 25 f.