Erich Hensel

Born:	12-13-1914
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Erich HENSEL, born on December 13^th, 1914 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), died on June 4^th, 1999 in Vienna, son of Heza Hensel (public school teacher, deceased), lived in Vienna 16^th district, Erdbrustgasse 46/13. After he had graduated high school in 1933 he began to study at the Medical School of the University of Vienna - finally he was enrolled in the fall term 1938/39 in the 4^th year of his studies. He was discriminated as a so called "Mischling 2. Grades" but could continue his studies at first - valid until revoked - and could even finish them and graduated on June 29^th, 1940. Erich Hensel survived World War II in Vienna. He married in 1949 and became father of a son in 1959. He worked as chief physician in a hospital in Mödling near Vienna, where he also ran a private practice. Later he worked in Vienna, as head of the Department for Respiratory at the hospital in Steinhof and then of the nursing home of the hospital in Lainz.

Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 403; Archiv der Universität Wien/Nationale PHIL 1937-1938; information from Ing. Elisabeth Streichsbier, Vienna 06/2014; TRAGL 2007, 505.

Katharina Kniefacz, Herbert Posch