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Richard Kockel (1865-1934) who founded the Institute of Legal Medicine of Leipzig started collecting material from interesting criminal cases and began exposing some of the pieces for the public. Apart from the aim to documentate details of interesting cases the pieces of the collection were used in the education of students, policemen, members of the German army and firemen.
Nowadays the collection consists
of about 400 pieces. Unfortunately because of renovation works and the lack
of capacity we cannot expose all the pieces.
If you are interested in visiting the exhibition, please contact Dr.Lindner
for further information.
Some examples from the collection:
Male skull from 1931 when the famous battle of Leipzig took place. The crosswise depression on the right forehead is supposed to be due to a hit with a sharp-edged weaponlike an axe or a sabre. The forensic knows because of the well-rounded fracture lines that this defect of the skull bone had been healed already when the person died.
Right tibia after removal of the
soft tissue.
When reconstructing road accidents the forensic often has to answer the question
from what side a pedestrian or a cyclist was bumped against. The fracture
lines of this typical fracture called "Messerer´s fracture"
are marked in black. The tip of the bony wedge shows the direction of the
force (represented by the arrow) exercised by a vehicle in the accident.
Der Institutsgründer Richard Kockel pflegte die wissenschaftliche, kriminalistische
und photographische Dokumentation von Spuren und Beschädigungen an Bekleidung
von Tätern und Opfern insbesondere auch am Ereignisort, um Hinweise zur
Rekonstruktion des Tatherganges zu erhalten. Diese historischen Photogramme
fanden damals ihren Platz in der Ausbildung von Medizin- und Jurastudenten
sowie Polizisten.
Die serologische Untersuchung der vorhandenen Blutspuren erfolgte nach der
Entdeckung der Blutgruppenmerkmale durch Landsteiner und Wiener. Danach fand
die Blutgruppenserologie Eingang in die Untersuchung von Vaterschaftsanalysen
und die Kriminalistik.
