Max Berliner, son of Philipp Berliner, completed his medical studies in Kiel in 1912 with a dissertation in the psychiatric clinic: "Beitrag zur Lehre von den psychischen Veränderungen bei Paralysis agitans." The following year he was licensed1 and came to the Berlin Charité as an assistant, where he published together with the later clinic director Theodor Brugsch.2 It is documented that he worked at the Pathological Institute in 1917.3 He married his wife Lilly Orenstein (1891-1972), daughter of the railroad industrialist Benno Orenstein, in the same year, on 27, August.4 They lived at Bleibtreustraße 30 in Berlin Charlottenburg.5
Emigration to the USA via England
Berliner was able to habilitate in 1925 and was appointed non-tenured professor of internal medicine in 1930.6 He specialized at the Institute for Cancer Research.7 His teaching license was revoked in 1935, based on the "Reichsbürgergesetz" (Reich Citizens Law)".8 He had left Germany and fled to England by June 1936.9 He was registered as an "Unsettled General Practitioner" at 56 Worple Road SW19 in London in 1939.10 Soon after, Max Berliner must have moved to the USA. He was registered in New York in 1942. He claimed to be working in his own practice.11 It is assumed that he died in Brooklyn in the first half of the 1960s.12