Reinhard Redhardt

Reinhard Redhardt (born March 11, 1921 in Schlüchtern ; † May 7, 2013 in Darmstadt ) was a German forensic doctor , neurologist and psychiatrist .

He was a student of Ferdinand Wiethold , who was director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine (today: Center for Forensic Medicine) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main until his death .

Reinhard Redhardt represented forensic psychiatry at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University until his retirement in 1986 and continued to provide expert opinions beyond that point in time. He was a sought-after expert in his field throughout the district of the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court . He was involved in numerous public prosecutor's investigations and processes that have become known nationwide. These included the death of Rosemarie Nitribitt (1957), in whose autopsy he was involved, and the proceedings against Gudrun Ensslin , the later RAF terrorist, after the department store arson on April 2, 1968 in Frankfurt. Andreas Baader rejected an assessment. Reinhard Redhardt also examined the employee of a furniture store in Kelkheim who set fire to the furniture store and the arsonist who set the Frankfurt Opera on fire on November 12, 1987 .

Works

• Clinical experience with the treatment of convulsions at the Frankfurter Nervenklinik in 10 years (1937-1946) . Diss. Frankfurt 1950.
• To same-sex male prostitution . In: Studies on Homosexuality = Contributions to Sexual Research 5 (1954), pp. 22–72.
• Prostitution among female and male adolescents . In: Contributions to Sexual Research. H. 45. Stuttgart 1968 (together with: Brigitte Reng).

Web links

• Hansjürgen Bratzke A brief outline of the history of forensic medicine in Frankfurt am Main . In: B. Madea (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Society for Forensic Medicine / Forensic Medicine. From the founding resolution in 1904 to forensic medicine of the 21st century (2004)
• Herbert Neumann: The man who made Gudrun Ensslin think . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine v. March 10, 2011.