Alfred Götzl

Born:	12-01-1873
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled teacher

Alfred GÖTZL (born on December 1^st, 1873 in Vienna, died on January 21^st, 1946 in San Francisco) was lecturer ('Dozent') for inner medicine at the Medical School of the University of Vienna and Head of the tuberculosis  care of the city of Vienna.

He was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew lost his position and was thrown out of the university in 1938.

He was able to emigrate to San Francisco/USA with his wife Paula and his Children Johanna and Franz Rudolf in February 1939. His son Franz Rudolf Götzl, who studied at the Medical School, was also expelled from the University of Vienna in 1938 for racist reason.

Lit.: MÜHLBERGER 1993, 22; MERINSKY 1980, 78-79; UB MedUni Wien/van Swieten Blog.

Herbert Posch