Ernst Dehne

Born:	09-29-1905
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled teacher

Ernst DEHNE, born September 29, 1905 in Vienna, died on November 2, 1983 in El Paso/Texas, USA. He had graduated in March 1929 in Vienna, trained as a general surgeon in Graz/Styria and went to the Mayo Clinic as a general surgeon, specialized on fractures and trauma. Back in Vienna he became assistant professor ("Assistent III. Klasse") in November 1935 at the II. Surgical Clinic (head: Prof. Denk) at the Vienna University Medical School. In 1938 he was forced to leave the university for racist reason as he was perpetrated as "Mischling" and lost his position. biography only in German - to be translated soon

Lit.: Vienna University Archive/Medical School, Rectorate GZ 680 ex 1937/38; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 2018; Nachruf im JBJS; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022.

Herbert Posch