Wilfried Rasch

Wilfried Rasch (second from left) in 1990 in the Waldheim mental hospital

Signature 1999

Wilfried Rasch (born August 27, 1925 in Peine , † September 23, 2000 in Peymeinade , canton Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey in France) was a German forensic psychiatrist.

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Wilfried Rasch was born in Peine in 1925, where he lived until 1928. After the family moved to Berlin, his parents worked in a social institution for young people. He attended the Zum Grauen Kloster grammar school in Berlin until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942 . He obtained his Abitur while a prisoner of war in England. In 1948 he began to study medicine in Göttingen, which he completed in Hamburg in 1951 after changing universities.

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Rasch then worked at the Psychiatric and Neurological Clinic of the University Hospital in Eppendorf with Hans Bürger-Prinz and at the University of Cologne . His habilitation thesis from 1964 Killing the Intimate Partner is considered a milestone in legal history and forensic psychiatry. He was also known for his intensive expert opinion practice before German courts, for example in the cases against the serial killers Jürgen Bartsch and Wolfgang Schmidt and in the proceedings against RAF terrorists . From 1971 until his retirement in 1993, Rasch headed the Institute for Forensic Psychiatry at the Free University of Berlin . His successor was Hans-Ludwig Kröber .

The clinic for forensic psychiatry of the regional association Westphalia-Lippe in Dortmund was named Wilfried-Rasch-Klinik .

Fonts (selection)

Forensic psychiatry . 2. revised and exp. Edition Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-17-015623-4 .
The discomfort of the psychiatric expert in criminal proceedings . In: Peter-Alexis Albrecht (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Horst Schüler-Springorum for his 65th birthday . Heymann, Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-452-22616-6 , pp. 561-570 .
Psychiatric assessment on suspension of life imprisonment . In: New journal for criminal law . tape 13 , 1993, ISSN 0720-1753 , pp. 509-510 .
Doubtful criteria for the assessment of the profound disturbance of consciousness . In: New legal weekly . tape 46 , 1993, ISSN 0341-1915 , pp. 757-761 .
Choosing the right psycho-expert in criminal proceedings . In: New journal for criminal law . tape 12 , 1992, ISSN 0720-1753 , pp. 257-265 .
Pathological gambling and guilty responsibility . In: Practice of Forensic Psychology . tape 2 , 1992, p. 25-34 .
Killing the intimate partner . Enke, Stuttgart 1964, DNB 453915450 .

literature

Volkmar Sigusch , Günter Grau (Ed.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9 , p. 575 ff. ( Limited preview in Google book search).
Norbert Leygraf, Renate Volbert, Hartmut Horstkotte, Sybilla Fried (eds.): The language of crime - ways to a clinical criminology. Festschrift for Wilfried Rasch. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1993, ISBN 3-17-012324-6 .
Norbert Konrad : Wilfried Rasch in memory. In: Monthly for criminology and criminal law reform. 83 (2000), ISSN 0026-9301 , pp. 343-345.

Web links

Literature by and about Wilfried Rasch in the catalog of the German National Library
gerichts-psychiatrie.de

Individual evidence

↑ Volkmar Sigusch, Günter Grau (ed.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research. Campus, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9 , p. 575 ff., Here p. 576 (There, the date of death 23 September 2000 is expressly mentioned with reference to the widow Ursula Rasch) . In contrast, the wrong date of death is September 22nd, 2000 in: Norbert Konrad: Wilfried Rasch zum Gedenken. In: Monthly for criminology and criminal law reform. 83 (2000), ISSN 0026-9301 , pp. 343-345; Wilfried Rasch, Norbert Konrad: Forensic Psychiatry. 4th edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-023389-8 (preface by Norbert Konrad on the 3rd edition; limited preview in the Google book search).
^ Elisabeth Müller-Luckmann: Wilfried Rasch on retirement. In: Norbert Leygraf, Renate Volbert, Hartmut Horstkotte, Sybilla Fried (eds.): The language of crime - ways to clinical criminology. Stuttgart et al. 1993, pp. 1-3.
^ Professor Wilfried Rasch. Thought leaders in science and practice. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, accessed on January 26, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Quickly, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German forensic psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Torment
DATE OF DEATH	September 23, 2000
Place of death	Peymeinade , Canton of Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey

[1] Volkmar Sigusch, Günter Grau (ed.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research. Campus, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9 , p. 575 ff., Here p. 576 (There, the date of death 23 September 2000 is expressly mentioned with reference to the widow Ursula Rasch) . In contrast, the wrong date of death is September 22nd, 2000 in: Norbert Konrad: Wilfried Rasch zum Gedenken. In: Monthly for criminology and criminal law reform. 83 (2000), ISSN 0026-9301 , pp. 343-345; Wilfried Rasch, Norbert Konrad: Forensic Psychiatry. 4th edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-023389-8 (preface by Norbert Konrad on the 3rd edition; limited preview in the Google book search).

[2] Elisabeth Müller-Luckmann: Wilfried Rasch on retirement. In: Norbert Leygraf, Renate Volbert, Hartmut Horstkotte, Sybilla Fried (eds.): The language of crime - ways to clinical criminology. Stuttgart et al. 1993, pp. 1-3.

[3] Professor Wilfried Rasch. Thought leaders in science and practice. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, accessed on January 26, 2017.