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| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Maximilian JÄCKEL (JEKEL, JACKEL), born on January 19th, 1912 in Vienna/Austro-Hungarian Empire (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Hermann/Hersch Jekel/Jäckel (1883-1942, merchant from Rożniatów/Rozhnyatov, Dolina Galicia) and Frieda Jekel/Jäckel, née Friederike Zlate Frimet Diamantenstein vel Weinfeld (1887-1942), and lived in Vienna's 6th district, Esterhazygasse 15/17. He had graduated from high school in 1931 at Bundesgrymnasium Wien 6, Amerlinggasse 6, and enrolled at the Law School for one year of legal studies from the fall term of 1930/31 and transferred to the Medical School in the fall term of 1931/32 and studied medicine there until the fall term of 1936/37. Maximilian had his name officially changed from "Jekel" to "Jäckel" in December 1936. He was no longer enrolled at the University of Vienna in 1938, but was already in the final examinations stage (graduation certificate issued on November 3rd, 1938).
After the “Anschluss” in 1938, he was forced to abandon his studies for racist reasons and leave the University of Vienna, but after a long period of uncertainty, he was still able to obtain his doctorate on October 31st, 1938 under numerous symbolic discriminations as part of a "non-Aryan graduation", while at the same time being banned from working in the entire German Reich.
He had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to England/Great Britain in time, where he lived in Richborough, Kent, and married his Viennese fellow student, Dr. med. Golda Hella Ellendmann, recte Pompan (1914-2003), who received her doctorate on the same day as part of the "non-Aryan graduation", in London on February 27th, 1940. Both then emigrated via Quebec/Canada to the USA where they arrived in Rouses Point, NY on June 12th, 1940 and then lived in Bronx, New York, NY in 1941.
His parents were unable to emigrate in time and were forcibly relocated to a collective apartment and deported from Vienna's 2nd district, Lilienbrunngasse 11/10 to Izbica on April 9th, 1942, where they were murdered.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") Law School 1930-1931, Medical School 1931-1937, graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") MED 1929-1942 No. 4146; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 371.
Herbert Posch
