Wolfgang Dürwald

Wolfgang Dürwald (born January 13, 1924 in Hagen , Westphalia; † May 24, 2014 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor , forensic pathologist and university professor .

Life

Dürwald studied (interrupted by military service and American imprisonment in Kreuznach) from 1942 to 1949 medicine at the University of Jena , where he also received his doctorate with the thesis "Heat and sun damage in humans". During his studies in 1942 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . 1950–1951 he worked as an assistant doctor at the surgical clinic of the University of Jena and as an assistant doctor at the Jena City Hospital, internal medicine. He also worked from 1951 to 1952 as an assistant doctor at the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology in Jena, headed by Gerhard Voigt . In 1952, he became senior physician at the Sondershausen district hospital . From 1952 to 1954 he worked as a ward doctor at the mental hospital of the University of Jena. In 1955 he became a specialist in forensic medicine. 1954–1958 he was senior physician and acting director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In 1957 he completed his habilitation in forensic medicine at the University of Jena with a thesis on "The distribution of blood groups and blood group factors in Thuringia and their forensic significance". 1958 to 1961 he taught as a professor with a teaching position for forensic medicine at the University of Rostock , 1961-1969 he was a full professor for forensic medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig and from 1969 to 1989 as a full professor for forensic medicine in the field of medicine University of Leipzig active. Dürwald sustainably improved forensic practice by introducing forensic day and night services, looking up corpses before cremations and establishing advanced training courses for judges and public prosecutors.

He was Vice President of the International Academy for Forensic and Social Medicine and for many years chairman of the Society for Forensic Medicine of the GDR. He became a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in 1978. He was Vice Dean from 1966 to 1967, Dean from 1968 to 1972 of the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. In addition to numerous international honorary memberships, he was a member of the German Society for Forensic Medicine . He was also honored with the Georg Handel Prize and the Richard Kockel Medal .

Publications (selection)

• The distribution of blood groups and blood factors in Thuringia and their forensic significance , Leipzig 1957
• Forensic medical examinations in traffic accidents , Leipzig 1966
• Legal issues in medicine , Leipzig 1970
• Forensic medicine , Leipzig 1981
• Dead under oath: A forensic doctor investigates Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-453-86270-8 .

literature

• NN (1978): Prof. Dr. Dürwald on his 50th birthday . Criminalistics and Forensic Science, Vol. 17
• H. Hunger (2004): Prof. Dr. med. habil. Wolfgang Dürwald on his 80th birthday . Ärzteblatt Sachsen, Vol. 2, p. 65
• W. Göhler, H. Hunger and B. Weigel (1988): Wolfgang Dürwald on his 65th birthday . Criminology and Forensic Science, Vol. 71, 72, pp. 7–8
• W. Göhler and H. Hunger (1984): Wolfgang Dürwald on his 60th birthday . Criminology and Forensic Science, Vol. 53, 54, pp. 7–8
• C. Bertolini (2004): On the development of forensic medicine in Leipzig from 1961 to 1989 . Med. Diss., Leipzig
• K. Handel (2002): Forensic Medicine and Criminology . Kriminalistik Heft 12, pp. 761–765 (report on the 81st annual meeting of the German Society for Forensic Medicine, September 24–28, 2002 in Rostock-Warnemünde)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice in the Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 7, 2014.
2. ↑ Burschenschafter Stammrolle 1991. S. 174.
3. ^ Profile at the Saxon Academy of Sciences.
4. ^ Wolfgang Dürwald in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig