Siegfried Krefft

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Siegfried Krefft (born April 6, 1916 in Bobau , West Prussia , † October 16, 1981 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.

Life

Siegfried Krefft was the son of an employee. Even before power was handed over to the National Socialists , he joined the Hitler Youth (HJ) in 1930 and was awarded the golden HJ badge. He later joined the NS Fliegerkorps (NSFK). He completed his school career with a high school diploma and, for economic reasons, first completed an apprenticeship in the commercial field from 1937. In 1939 he began studying medicine at the University of Berlin. During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941 and continued his studies in Leipzig in 1943.

Krefft was transferred to a student company in Halle (Saale) in 1944. In the same year he became a doctoral candidate with Gerhard Schrader at the Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine at the University of Halle . As part of the research for his dissertation , he attended the execution of Eastern workers in the summer of 1944 , which was carried out by very slow strangulation using a pulley system in a barrack on Mansfelder Strasse. During the killing process he determined "the difference in muscle tension [...] through finger pressure" himself. Shortly before the end of the war, Krefft was approved on April 12, 1945 and was then an assistant in Halle.

After the end of the war, he received his doctorate on April 8, 1946 in Halle with his dissertation "On the genesis of bleeding from the neck muscles after death by hanging". med. PhD . In 1948 he passed the examination to become a medical officer. As of May 1948, he took over the acting head of the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig as a senior physician. He completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1950 and then worked there as a private lecturer and professor with a teaching position. In 1956 he received a chair in Leipzig. He was given leave of absence from the university office in 1958 and was finally dismissed from university service. In addition to his well-known investigations on those executed in 1944, his institute management and scientific publication activities were objected to. In Leipzig, Otto Prokop took over temporarily Krefft's function and from 1961 Wolfgang Dürwald succeeded him .

Krefft moved to West Germany and was accepted into the Bundeswehr as senior staff doctor in 1961 . From 1964 until his retirement in 1976 he was head of the aircraft accident medicine department at the Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine in Fürstenfeldbruck. He belonged to the German Society for Anthropology , German Society for Hygiene , German Society for Forensic and Social Medicine and the Hungarian Society for Blood Research .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • About the genesis of neck muscle hemorrhage after death by hanging , Halle 1944 (Med. F., Diss. Of April 8, 1946)
  • Morphological, chemical and physical investigations on corpse hair , Leipzig 1950 (Med. F., Hab.-Schr. Of April 20, 1950)
  • The spread and fight against occupational diseases among doctors and health workers, Arbeitsgemeinschaftmedizinischer Verl., Berlin 1950. In: The new German health system; H. 4.
  • Safety when flying from an aero-medical point of view , Ciba-Geigy Limited, Basel 1974. In: Folia traumatologica Geigy.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Siegfried Krefft in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
  2. ↑ Daniel Bohse, Alexander Sperk (arrangement): The red ox Halle (Saale). Political Justice 1933-1945, 1945-1989 . Edited by Joachim Scherrieble. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-480-8 ( series of publications by the Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation 1), p. 218
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 338
  4. ↑ a b c Siegfried Krefft in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Krefft, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bobau
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1981
Place of death Fürstenfeldbruck