| Born: | 11-25-1915 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Marianne Alma BAUER (née NELKE), born on November 25th, 1915 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), daughter of Josef Bauer (1881-1950, merchant) and Stefanie, née Abeles (1884-1924), lived in Vienna's 7th district, Schoenborngasse 1/II/10, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 4th and last year of her studies and took courses in Zoology and Botany (Leaving Certificate ("Abgangszeugnis") was issued on April 2nd, 1938).
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism she was forced to quit her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
She had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to England in time with a "domestic permit" where she lived and worked as a maid in The Homestead, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey, she was classified as a "friendliy alien" after the outbreak of war and was not interned. She married Gunter Nelke (1908-1996 Nuremberg), born in Stettin, Germany, in Birmingham on March 7th, 1946, with whom she had two children. Soon after, her father, who was also able to emigrate to England, died in Birmingham in 1950, and her husband died in Nuremberg/Germany on March 21st, 1996.
Little is known so far about her further life.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 358; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de.
Herbert Posch
