Werner Janssen (forensic doctor)

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Werner Janssen (born  September 24, 1924 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German pathologist and forensic doctor . From 1968 to 1991 he headed the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . He was considered a specialist in determining causes and times of death.

life and work

The son of an electrical engineer visited the elementary and middle school in Birkenwerder . In 1942 he passed his Abitur in Berlin . Janssen was drafted into the Reich Labor Service , then took part in the Second World War as a member of the Navy and was taken prisoner by the British.

In 1946 Janssen began studying biology at the University of Leipzig , but switched to medicine in 1947 . He passed his medical state examination in 1952 and received his doctorate soon after . By 1959, he trained at the Institute of Pathology at the University of Leipzig, where he became senior physician was appointed and in 1958 at Heinrich Bredt about "morphology and pathogenesis of leukemia " in the subject Pathology habilitated .

Janssen went to the West and worked first at the Institute for Pathology in Aarau , then in Karlsruhe . In 1961 he came to the Institute for Forensic Medicine at Heidelberg University , where he worked under Berthold Mueller and specialized in forensic medicine. In 1963 he completed his habilitation in forensic medicine. In 1967 Janssen became an adjunct professor. In 1968 he took over the chair for forensic medicine at the University of Hamburg and the direction of the local institute for forensic medicine and forensic science, which he headed until his retirement in 1991. From 1974 to 1976 he was dean of the medical faculty.

Janssen stood for an interdisciplinary synthesis of the subjects pathology and forensic medicine and is regarded as a pioneer in morphological accuracy in forensic expertise. In his work Forensic Histology , he showed the importance of a morphologically sound evidence of “vital reactions” for jurisprudence. Janssen's scientific focal points included the analysis of "sudden death", alcoholism from a forensic perspective, general questions about the interaction between medicine and jurisprudence, and research into the effects of drugs in traffic. He had the reputation of being able to determine the causes and times of death even in particularly difficult cases and was asked for follow-up examinations by the relatives of Ulrike Meinhof and Uwe Barschel .

Janssen has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1987 and is also a senator there.

Fonts

  • For the differential diagnosis of myeloid and lymphatic leukemia in special borderline cases. [Sn], Leipzig 1952.
  • Morphology and pathogenesis of leukemias. sn], [Sl 1958.
  • with Johannes Oehme and Christian Hagitte: Leukemia in Childhood Contributions to morphology, clinic, pathophysiology and therapy. Thieme, Leipzig 1958.
  • Forensic histology. With 10 tables. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1977, ISBN 3795006163 .
  • From the street to the barracks ... and then? Drug addiction between human-political responsibility and socio-political reality. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3631482930 .

literature

  • Yearbook of the Leopoldina 2004, p. 204 f.
  • Klaus Püschel (ed.): Forensic medicine, morphology, search for traces. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of em. Professor Dr. med. Werner Janssen, September 24, 2004. Scientific Symposium, October 22, 2004. Inst. For Forensic Medicine, Hamburg 2004.
  • Gerhard Seifert: Prof. Dr. med. Werner Janssen. In: Ärzteblatt 91 (23 September 1994), A-2517. ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. Member entry of Werner Janssen at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 7, 2016.