Paul Fraenckel

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Paul Fraenckel (born June 14, 1874 in Naples , † September 10, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German forensic doctor .

Life

Fraenckel attended high school in Frankfurt a. O. and studied medicine in Berlin and Heidelberg . On August 9, 1898, he received his doctorate in Berlin on the subject of the permanent results of total vaginal extirpation in carcinoma uteri . He then worked as an assistant at the Medical Clinic in Göttingen , then at the Second Medical Clinic of the Charité and the Institute for State Medicine in Berlin.

In 1909 he completed his habilitation in forensic medicine, and in 1914 he was appointed associate professor. In 1926, he succeeded Fritz Straßmann as acting director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine; In 1930 he was followed by Victor Müller-Heß (1883–1960).

Fraenckel's scientific focus included research on the physico-chemical properties of blood. In addition to his work as a forensic scientist , he was co-editor of the German magazine for all forensic medicine . Fraenckel and the forensic scientist Fritz Straßmann autopsied and identified a woman's body that had been recovered from a lock in the Landwehr Canal on June 1, 1919, as the body of Rosa Luxemburg , but this is questioned.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Fraenckel had to give up his chair and his work as a forensic doctor at the Berlin police headquarters due to his Jewish descent. In 1935 he was given leave of absence, in 1936 his Venia legendi and in 1938 his license to practice medicine was revoked. In 1941 Fraenckel committed suicide shortly before the police ordinance on the identification of Jews came into force .

Works

  • The criminal poisonings . In: Fritz Straßmann : Medicine and criminal law. A handbook for lawyers, lay judges and doctors . Berlin 1911.
  • Contributions to: Theodor Lochte : Forensic and police medical technology. A manual for students, doctors, medical officials and lawyers . Wiesbaden 1914.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / remed.charite.de
  2. ↑ Elisabeth von Thadden: Corpse find: It would be time for a grave . In: The time . No. 24/2009 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Michael Grüttner , Sven Kinas: The expulsion of scientists from German universities 1933–1945 , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 55th year, 2007, p. 154 ( PDF version ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2009 on the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .: P. 96) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  4. ↑ Volker Klimpel: Doctors Death . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-2769-8 , p. 114 ( GBS )
personal data
SURNAME Fraenckel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1941
Place of death Berlin