1. The Julius Schaxel Upper School in Jena has become the Ernst Haeckel Grammar School. In March 1994, however, Julius Schaxel Street and the plaque celebrating this "pioneer of our socialist people's university" on his house in Jena, Reichardtstieg 4, still survived. Jena's zoologists have also kept a significant place for Schaxel in the local history of their discipline. And it is now possible to suggest in print (even if evidence is still lacking) that he fell victim to Stalin's purges
2. see Penzlin Heinz (ed.), Geschichte der Zoologie in Jena nach Haeckel (1909-1974) (Jena and Stuttgart, 1994), 56-65, 162-6 (partial bibliography), pp. 61-62.