Max Schacherl

Simmering fire hall, grave of Max Schacherl and his wife Steffi Schacherl

Max Gerwin Schacherl (born November 6, 1876 in Vienna ; † October 26, 1964 ) was an Austrian psychiatrist who had to emigrate during the Nazi era .

Max Schacherl studied medicine and then became an assistant at the Wagner-Jaureggs Clinic . In 1919 he received his habilitation . From 1924 to 1938 he was head of the Neurolues ward and the outpatient clinic for nervous patients at the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital . After the “ Anschluss of Austria ” he had to emigrate to London as a Jew . He returned to Austria in 1946. In 1947 he became head of the outpatient clinic for nervous diseases at the Rudolfspital . From his scientific publications, the therapy of organic nervous diseases is best known.

He was buried in the arcade courtyard of the Simmering fire hall (section ARI number 156).

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Schacherl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of the project “Expelled 1938 - Biographies of Dismissed Professors and Lecturers of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna”

Individual evidence

1. ^ 85th birthday of Max Schacherl , Wiener Rathauskorrespondenz November 1961