Wolfgang Bonte

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Wolfgang Bonte (born September 22, 1939 in Nordhausen ; † October 21, 2000 in Düsseldorf ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.

Life

Bonte first studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Hanover . There he became a member of the Corps Alemannia-Thuringia . As an inactive , he switched to studying medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität after four semesters , where he also became active in the Corps Rhenania Erlangen in 1962 . Finally he went to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , where he passed the state examination in 1968 and was awarded a Dr. med. received his doctorate . He stayed in Göttingen for two years as a medical assistant and for training in forensic medicine . In 1979 he completed his habilitation. As a lecturer he followed in 1985 the reputation of the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf to the Department of Forensic Medicine. Together with Peter Pieper , he organized the 13th World Congress of the International Association of Forensic Sciences (IAFS) in Düsseldorf in 1993 . The new section Forensic Archeology and Anthropology was integrated.

After the unsuccessful GSG-9 mission in Bad Kleinen , in which the RAF terrorist Wolfgang Grams and a police officer died in an attempt to arrest on June 27, 1993 , his forensic medical report ensured the public support of the thesis that Grams was from GSG-9 - Officials were downright executed, which sparked a scandal about the federal authorities involved. After all the reports had established that Grams had been killed with a head shot from his own weapon, there was much to be said for the assumption that he had killed himself in a hopeless situation. In June 1994, however, Bonte stated that a round skin abrasion on the back of Grams' right hand could "be explained without contradiction by a grazing contact with the end of the tap in the context of a coiling grip" - that GSG-9 officers who were running behind turned the weapon out of his hand and could have shot Grams themselves. The expert opinion became the central argumentation in the civil case of the parents against the Federal Republic, in which they tried unsuccessfully to prove the killing by police officers. Peter Pieper succeeded in this experimental disarming with the original weapon from the Federal Criminal Police Office.

Wolfgang Bonte and Peter Pieper worked as scientific advisors on the popular television series Der letzte Zeuge , which was broadcast from 1998 and whose crime story involved complex forensic problems. At the age of 61 he died of carcinoma .

Honors

  • President of the International Association of Forensic Sciences (1990)
  • Honorary member of the Polish Society of Forensic Medicine
  • Honorary member of the Baltic Society for Forensic Medicine
  • Honorary member of the Hungarian Society of Forensic Medicine
  • Widmark Award (1989)

Fonts

  • Accompanying substances in alcoholic beverages. Lübeck 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 128/350
  2. ↑ Thomas Daldrup: In memoriam University Professor Dr. med. Wolfgang Bonte (1939-2000). (PDF; 61 kB)
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: Postmortem protein catabolism
  4. ↑ University Archive Düsseldorf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ulb.hhu.de  
  5. ↑ Butz Peters : The last myth of the RAF. The Bad Kleinen disaster: who shot Wolfgang Grams? Ullstein, Berlin 2006, pp. 176-183 and 194, quotation p. 177.
personal data
SURNAME Bonte, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2000
Place of death Dusseldorf