Steffen Berg

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Steffen Berg

Steffen Peter Berg (born September 27, 1921 in Düsseldorf ; † January 22, 2011 in Deisenhofen (Oberhaching) ) was a German forensic doctor.

Life

Berg's parents were the coroner Carol Berg and his wife Marie geb. Benoit. The father was initially a forensic doctor in Düsseldorf and later became a professor and director of the newly founded forensic medical institute at the Düsseldorf Medical Academy . After his father died as emeritus in 1936, Steffen Berg moved with his mother and brother to Munich, where he graduated from high school two years later. Then he was employed in the Reich Labor Service in Grabenstätt am Chiemsee to drain a bog. He received full military training while still on duty.

Education

In the autumn of 1938 he began to study medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In the spring of 1939 he attended an introductory course for first-year students organized by the National Socialist German Student Union in Seeshaupt . There he got to know members of the Munich comradeship “Prince Eugene of Savoy”. Berg became a member. Some of the 35 members were looking for a connection to the old rulers of the Corps Suevia Munich . With the beginning of the Polish campaign , the so-called trimester regulation - three study sections in one year - was introduced. In 1941 after the 7th semester he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) , Berg served in a tank artillery regiment in Russia from January 1941 to 1943 . The high loss of doctors meant that medical students from the 7th semester of the war front withdrawn and, in student companies combined, for further studies at their home universities drafted were. In this way Berg was able to continue his studies in Munich in 1943 and participate in the life of comradeship again. The "inner circle" within the comradeship tried to revive the Suevia's corps student legacy. This also included (forbidden) fencing . In all secrecy was allowed to Helmut Jebens (1914-1992), an aspiring pediatrician of Tübingen francs , on the Corpshaus of Franconia Munich cram. The first Munich Bestimmtag since 1938 was 25-26. July 1943 at Bavaria's Würzburg home . Berg fought the second game on April 29, 1944 at Franconia Munich . This designated day was also kept under the strictest secrecy; because Schmisse could be punished as self-mutilation and degradation of military strength . After the war Berg was one of only two members of the Prinz Eugen comradeship who had fought and been reciprocated at Suevia Munich .

Forensic medicine

After the state examination and the doctorate to Dr. med. (1944) Berg was deployed again on the German Western Front in 1944/1945 , where he was taken prisoner by the Americans. Discharged in the winter of 1945/46, he first worked as a clinical assistant at the Gauting Lung Hospital. From 1946 he was an assistant in forensic medicine at the University of Munich. In 1952 he began a second degree in biology with a focus on microbiology . In 1959, he was medical officer at the state police Bavaria , where he soon became the head of the forensic appointed department and the Government Medical Officer was promoted. At the same time he was working on his habilitation thesis in Munich forensic medicine . The Habilitation took place in 1964. The following year he was from the Georg-August-University of Goettingen as o. Professor appointed and head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Criminology. He mainly devoted himself to scientific forensics , medical law , medical ethics and forensic medical findings in archeology . For many years he was chairman of the ethics committee of the medical faculty, one of the first ethics committees in Germany. In 1989, after 23 years, he retired . He died on January 22, 2011 at the age of 89. He is buried in the Oberhaching cemetery .

marriage

Berg was married to Gila Berg born on July 11, 1943. Hörtrich. The happy marriage of over 67 years resulted in three daughters and a son.

Honors

Works

  • Forensic and peer review medicine . Rudolph Müller and Steinicke, Munich 1950
  • Outline of forensic medicine, with medical law and insurance assessment . Rudolph Müller and Steinicke, Munich 1958 (3rd edition), 1960 (4th edition), 1963 (5th edition), 1964 (6th edition), 1968 (8th edition), 1971 (9th edition, ISBN 3- 87569-010-9 ), 1973 (10th edition, ISBN 3-87569-011-7 ), 1976 (11th edition, ISBN 3-87569-012-5 ), 1984 (12th edition, ISBN 3-87569- 013-3 )
  • The sex crime: manifestations a. Criminology d. Moral offenses . Kriminalistik publishing house, Hamburg 1963.
  • with Renate Rolle and Henning Seemann: The Archaeologist and Death. Archeology and forensic medicine . CJ Bucher, Munich and Lucerne 1981, ISBN 3-7658-0350-2 .
  • Unexpected deaths in clinic and practice . Springer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-540-55415-7
  • Forensic osteology: anthropology, biomechanics, clinic, archeology . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995, ISBN 3-7950-0308-3 .
  • Identification of unknown dead: interdisciplinary methodology, forensic osteology . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1998, ISBN 3-7950-0629-5 .
  • Victims' lawyer: a coroner remembers . Einhorn-Presse-Verlag, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-88756-465-0 .
  • The soul: philosophical and scientific aspects . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7950-7032-8 .

Web links

Commons : Steffen Berg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans-Bernd Herzog: Steffen Berg, b. September 27, 1921, d. January 22, 2011, Kam. Prinz Eugen 1939, rec. 1944 . “Die Trausnitz” No. 1/2011, pp. 55–63.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 159/1956
  3. ↑ Berg had to face his cartel brother Walter Höfling, later a dermatologist in Ratingen.
  4. ↑ The counterpart was the Franconian Rolf Burkhardt from Munich, later an internist in Munich.
  5. ↑ The other was René Kreuzer from Aachen. He died at the age of 25 in the battle of Königsberg .
  6. ↑ University professor Dr. Steffen Berg passed away ( memento from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 23, 2011
  7. ↑ The book title was "imposed" on Berg by the publisher.
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Steffen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, Steffen Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2011
Place of death Deisenhofen (Oberhaching)