Kurt Zentner

Born:	09-24-1919
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Kurt ZENTNER, born on September 24th, 1919 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Salomon Zentner (merchant, bicycle dealer), lived in Vienna 20th district, Wallensteinstrasse 42/29. After he had graduated from high school ("Realgymnasium") in Vienna 20th district, he was first and finally enrolled in fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 1st year of his studies (fall term 1937/38 was validated on February 16th, 1938). After the "Anschluss" 1938 Kurt Zentner was able to emigrate to Melbourne/Australia. He was never able to continue his medical studies after emigration, but later completed his Master of Science in Microbiology and owned a food analysis laboratory in Melbourne. Kurt Zentner later immigrated to Israel, where he died 20 years later on September 4, 2011. Both his sons became Medical doctors.

Lit.: information from his granddaughter Dr. Naomi Cohn Zentner, Jerusalem/Israel, 2014 and his son Dr. Rodney Zentner, 2015.

Katharina Kniefacz, Herbert Posch