Walter Krauland
Walter Krauland (born April 10, 1912 in Mooswald near Gottschee , Austria-Hungary ; † August 13, 1988 Vöcklabruck , Austria ) was an Austrian forensic doctor and university professor .
Career
After studying medicine at the University of Vienna and completing his doctorate in 1936 with Carl Sternberg , Walter Krauland worked as an assistant to Karl Meixner in Innsbruck , where he completed his habilitation in 1942 with his work on aneurysms of the arteries on the base of the brain and their development .
In 1950 he moved to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , where he became an adjunct professor. In 1955, Krauland was appointed to the chair of forensic and social medicine at the Free University of Berlin as the successor to Victor Müller-Heß . Krauland kept the chair until his retirement in 1983; He was replaced by Volkmar Schneider
Focus of interest and areas of work
Walter Krauland's main interests were in the field of neuropathology and neurotraumatology . The measurement of alcohol in the blood and its consequences in traffic medicine were an area intensively worked on by Krauland. In the 1960s he was one of the first medical professionals to participate in crash tests
In addition to his habilitation thesis, his book On the Sources of Acute and Chronic Subdural Hematoma from 1961 was considered the standard work.
Appraiser in the event of death
Krauland acted as an expert in many deaths. Günther Routhiers and Benno Ohnesorgs are among his most famous cases .
Honors
- Senator Lothar Danner Medal of the Federation against Alcohol and Drugs in Road Traffic , 1978
- Golden doctoral degree from the University of Vienna, 1988
- Honorary member of the German Society for Forensic Medicine
literature
- Volkmar Schneider: In Memoriam: Professor Krauland , in: Zeitschrift für Rechtsmedizin , Vol. 102 (1989), p. 7 f.
- Volkmar Schneider: Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. med. Walter Krauland, full professor and managing director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the Free University of Berlin Free University of Berlin, 1977
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Krauland in the catalog of the German National Library
- Volkmar Schneider: Forensic medicine in Berlin in times of political upheaval, lecture October 2010. Society for Natural History and Medicine in Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ S. Schwalm: Crossing Krauland "- the indexing of the Krauland estate in Kalliope in the university archive of the Free University of Berlin in: Der Archivar vol. 59 (2006) issue 1, p. 71 f.
- ↑ Immo Sievers: The motor vehicle department of the TU Berlin through the ages . In: Volker Schindler and Immo Sievers (eds.): Research for the car of tomorrow: Future emerges from tradition , Springer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 878-3-540-74150-3, pp. 3–126, esp. 92.
- ↑ Rolf Düdder: After a brutal police operation: Why did Günther Routhier die? It was lied and covered up. Time online April 3, 1981, accessed March 17, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krauland, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian forensic doctor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mooswald near Gottschee , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1988 |
| Place of death | Vöcklabruck |