BÖTTGER, Paul.

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Hunde im Dienste der Kriminalpolizei, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Mordfalles Seefeldt. First edition, inscribed on the contents page to "Herrn Kriminalrat Dr. Wächter, Berlin 31. 8. 1937. Paul Böttger". Franz Wächter worked as government and criminal investigator in the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt (RKPA) under Paul Werner and Arthur Nebe. We have traced nine copies on WorldCat, only two of which are outside of Germany. Böttger was a criminologist and researcher who was influential in the early development of police-dog training in Germany. He led the police dog school during the early 1900s, furthering much of the research into tracking by scent. His research paper reports on search and rescue techniques, recovering buried bodies, and methods of attack, with diagrams showing effective formations for cornering criminals. It particularly references the case of Adolf Seefeldt, the serial killer whose victims were only discovered due to the work of police dogs.

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