Forensic medicine
Forensic pathology
Forensic medical examinations at crime scenes and places where bodies were found
- External corpse inspections or examinations on behalf of the public prosecutor's office or police
- Estimation of time of death on site
- Issuing a death certificate
Post-mortems (dissections, autopsies)
- Court-ordered post-mortems and corpse openings (in accordance with § 87 StPO)
- Clinical dissections
- Autopsies for employers' liability insurance associations and insurance companies
- Post-mortems for private clients
- Information sheet for relatives (PDF)
- Declaration of assumption of costs for private post-mortems (PDF) - Autopsies of exhumed corpses
Crematorium post-mortem examinations
Oral and written examinations
- Causality assessments on alleged nursing and/or medical malpractice ("malpractice" assessment) from a criminal law perspective
- Anthropological assessments
- Osteological examinations based on bone finds
- Determination of the dental status of corpses and comparison with dental treatment records of missing persons to confirm their identity
- Time of death assessments
- General forensic contextual assessments
Forensic pathology expert witness work in court
Clinical forensic medicine
Physical examinations of injured parties (victims) and suspects (including documentation of findings and securing biological or other traces) on behalf of the public prosecutor's office or police on various issues
- Sexual offenses
- Physical altercations
- Violence in the family
- Child abuse (e.g. shaking trauma)
- Condition after laying a "thief trap"
- Driving offense
- Arsonist
- Self-harm
Blood samples
Verbal and written assessments of injuries with regard to their severity or life-threatening nature
Consultations with physicians and/or examinations of patients for physicians of other specialties
Clinical-legal medical expert witness work before courts
Information for those seeking advice
Telephone inquiries can be made as follows:
in Hanover:
- during office hours via telephone 0511/5324570
- outside office hours via cell phone 0176/15324570
in Oldenburg:
- during office hours via telephone 0441/973850
- outside office hours via telephone 0441/973850 (with forwarding to cell phone)