Victor Müller-Hess

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Victor Müller-Heß (born February 25, 1883 in Beschania near Semlin , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † August 16, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German forensic pathologist .

Life

Victor Müller-Heß was born in Beschania near Semlin in Syrmia , Austria-Hungary (today Serbia ) as Rudolf Victor Müller as a child of Protestant Danube Swabians . He added the mother name Hess to his family name in 1919. His father Ludwig Victor Müller was the school director and religion teacher in Bežanja. Rudolf Victor Müller attended the German elementary school in his hometown for the first five years, after which he switched to the Croatian secondary school in Semlin, which he graduated from high school in 1902. In his own dissertation he names Bonn, Kiel, Leipzig and Graz as study locations. In Graz, “he was also doing his military service.” In 1908, Müller-Heß passed his medical state examination in Leipzig, where he received his doctorate. med. with the topic: "About unusual cases of sublimate poisoning". After participating in the World War for two years, he passed his district medical exam in 1917 and completed his habilitation in Königsberg in 1920 , where he was an assistant at the forensic medical university institute headed by Georg Doll from 1918 to 1922 . From 1922 Müller-Heß was a full professor at the University of Bonn , in 1930 he became a full professor and director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the University of Berlin .

After Gerhart Panning's death , Müller-Heß took over the management of the Institute for Military Medical Academy of the Military Medical Academy in early 1944 . Müller-Heß had prepared an extensive publication for Siegfried Handloser's 60th birthday on March 25, 1945, entitled “About the effects of different types of projectiles on the human body”, which was no longer published as the war ended.

According to Herber, Müller-Hess was not a member of the NSDAP and so after 1945 remained professor and director of the Berlin institute. However, Müller-Hess had obviously written reports at the Hereditary Health Court in Berlin, which led to the forced sterilization, and he was appointed as an expert in processes that were important for the NSDAP politically and propagandistically.

In 1949 Müller-Heß became director of the Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine at the Free University of Berlin until he retired in 1954.

Even a student of Georguppe , Müller-Heß also worked through his students Ferdinand Wiethold , Gerhart Panning , Wilhelm Hallermann and Franz Josef Holzer .

Victor Müller-Heß died in Berlin in 1960 at the age of 77. His grave is in the Dahlem forest cemetery .

Activity as an expert

In the murder trial against Adolf Seefeldt, Victor Müller-Heß came to the conclusion that all murder victims were not poisoned, but strangled or strangled.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 495-496.
  2. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 39.
  3. ↑ Klee 2007, p. 423.
  4. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 274, 496.
  5. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 496 (= note 19 to chapter 13).
  6. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 54.
  7. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 273.
  8. ↑ Klee 2007, p. 423; Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 496.
  9. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 84.
  10. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 585.
  11. ↑ Der Spiegel : THE GAME IS OVER - ARTHUR NEBE The splendor and misery of the German criminal police. Der Spiegel 48/1949 of November 24, 1949 , accessed on August 30, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Müller-Hess, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller-Hess, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Semlin (Hungary)
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1960
Place of death Berlin