Commemoration of the German Society of Gastroenterology
In memory of

Prof. Dr. med.
Ernst Moritz Fränkel
1886 - 1948

Zeitschrift für Krebsforschung 1931
Zeitschrift für Krebsforschung 1931

Member since 1926

Virologist at the Institute for Cancer Research at the Charité Berlin with Ferdinand Blumenthal

Escape to England in 1933

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1932
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1932

Prof. Dr. med. Ernst Moritz Fränkel

  • Oberglogau/Głogówek, Upper Silesia, Poland, 2‌0‌.‌0‌6‌.‌1‌8‌8‌6‌
  • London, 2‌0‌.‌0‌4‌.‌1‌9‌4‌8‌
  • Member since 1926
  • Escaped to England in 1933
  • Berlin
  • Specialist in internal medicine and virologist

Education and Places of Work

Ernst Maurice Fränkel studied in Breslau/Wrocław, Munich, and Freiburg.

After a brief stint at the Medical Polyclinic in Bonn in 1913, he worked at the Cancer Institute of the University of Heidelberg. He then moved to Berlin to the II. Medical Clinic of the Charité. He habilitated in internal medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin in 1926. He moved to the Institute for Cancer Research at the Charité to join Ferdinand Blumenthal the same year as head of the department of virology.
Among other things, he did research on the Rous sarcoma and published in the Journal of Cancer Research.

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1932
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1932

He was professor (extraordinarius) of internal medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin in 1930.

Fränkel’s teaching licence was revoked on 5 September 1933 and he was dismissed from his position.

 

Escape to England in 1933

Fränkel fled from Germany to London via Paris in 1933. He changed his name to Ernest Maurice Fraenkel/Frankel when he was in England.

He was a research worker at the Westminister Hospital Medical School until 1936 and continued his research on Rous sarcoma and the filterability of mycobacteria. He then worked in the laboratories of the London County Council.

During the war he was a general practitioner in Buxton, Derbyshire. He returned to the London County Council as a consultant allergist in 1945.

Ernest Maurice Fraenkel died in London on 20 April 1948 at the age of 62.

Publications

  1. Methode zur bakteriologischen Untersuchung des leeren Magens, Dtsch med Wochenschr 1913; 39: 1040-1041
  2. Das Rous-Sarkom beim Huhn. III. Ztschr Krebsforschung 1928; 27: 152-166
  3. Mit Mislowitzer E, Simke R. Untersuchungen über das Agens des Rous-Sarkoms. V. Mitteilung. Ztschr Krebsforschung 1928; 27: 477-480
  4. Mit Mawson CA. Adsorption and elution of the Rous sarcoma agent. Br J Exp Path 1935; 16: 416-422

Sources and Further Reading
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Sources/Literature/Weblinks

Biographie of Prof. Dr. med. Ernst Moritz Fränkel

Bibliography

  • Bodleian Library. Society for the Protection of Learning and Science (SPLS). Oxford: MS.SPLS 486/2

Literature

  • Brit med J. News. May 8. 1948; 1 (No. 4557): 913-14
  • Brit med J. Obituary. May 15. 1948; 1 (No. 4458): 958
  • Forsbach R, Hofer H-G. Internisten in Diktatur und junger Demokratie. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin 1933-1970. Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 2018: 420
  • Schleiermacher S, Schagen U (Hg.). Die Charité im Dritten Reich. Zur Dienstbarkeit medizinischer Wissenschaft im Nationalsozialismus. Paderborn-München-Wien-Zürich: Ferdinand Schöningh 2008: 59
  • Schottlaender R. Verfolgte Berliner Wissenschaft. Band 23 Stätten der Geschichte Berlins. Berlin: Edition Hentrich 1988: 124