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      AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</strong></font></div>
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      S-8</strong></font></div>
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      address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for
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                  of Securities</strong></font></div>
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                  Price Per Share<sup>(2)</sup></strong></font></div>
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                  Maximum</strong></font></div>
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                  Offering Price<sup>(2)</sup></strong></font></div>
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                  of</strong></font></div>
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                  Fee<sup>(2)</sup></strong></font></div>
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                  Stock, par value $.01 per share</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><sup>(1)</sup></font></div>
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                <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 1; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Together
                  with an indeterminate number of additional shares which may be
                  necessary
                  to adjust the number of shares offered pursuant to the plans as
                  a result
                  of a stock split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of the outstanding
                  Common Stock pursuant to Rule
                  416(a).</font></div>
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                  to Rule&#160;457(h)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the
                  proposed maximum offering price per share and the registration
                  fee have
                  been estimated based on the average of the high and low sales prices
                  for
                  the Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market of $43.51 and $42.82
                  on
                  March&#160;1, 2006.</font></div>
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      Bancorp, Inc., a Delaware corporation (&#8220;MAF Bancorp&#8221;) effective February 1, 2006
      (the &#8220;Merger&#8221;), and the outstanding shares of EFC were converted into the right
      to receive cash and/or 0.8082 shares of MAF Bancorp common stock. At the
      effective time of the Merger, previously granted options then outstanding under
      the EFC Bancorp, Inc. 2000 Stock Option Plan and the EFC Bancorp, Inc. 1998
      Stock-Based Incentive Plan, as amended (together, the &#8220;Plans&#8221;), became
      exercisable for shares of MAF Bancorp common stock in accordance with the terms
      of the Merger and the terms of such Plans. Each outstanding and unexercised
      stock option to purchase shares of EFC common stock is deemed to constitute
      an
      option to acquire, on the same terms and conditions as were applicable under
      the
      original option prior to the Merger, that number of shares of MAF Bancorp common
      stock equal to the product, rounded down to the nearest whole share, of the
      number of shares of EFC common stock subject to the original option and 0.8082,
      at an exercise price per share equal to the exercise price per share of the
      EFC
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      documents containing the information required by this section will be given
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      those persons, all of whom were employees or directors of EFC or its affiliates
      immediately prior to the Merger, who are currently holding options granted
      under
      the EFC Bancorp, Inc. 2000 Stock Option Plan or the EFC Bancorp, Inc. 1998
      Stock-Based Plan, as amended, and have elected to convert such options into
      options to purchase MAF Bancorp, Inc. common stock. Such documents are not
      required to be filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement
      or as an exhibit.</font></div>
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      following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
      &#8220;Commission&#8221;) by MAF Bancorp, Inc., a Delaware corporation (&#8220;Registrant&#8221;), are
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      March&#160;11, March&#160;25, April&#160;20, May&#160;2, June&#160;30,
      July&#160;21, August&#160;5 and October&#160;20, 2005, and January&#160;4,
      January&#160;12, January&#160;30 and February&#160;3, 2006 (for report dated
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      15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act&#160;of&#160;1934, as amended, prior to the
      filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
      hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold
      are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and are a part
      hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in
      a
      document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall
      be
      deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
      to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently
      filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
      modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or
      superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
      constitute a part of this Registration Statement.</font></div>
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      organized thereunder the powers to indemnify any individual made party or
      threatened to be made party to any threatened, pending or completed action,
      suit
      or proceeding because the individual is or was a director, officer, employee
      or
      agent of the corporation, against expenses (including attorneys&#8217; fees),
      judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred
      with respect to an action, suit or proceeding if the individual acted in good
      faith, and the individual reasonably believed: (a)&#160;that the individual&#8217;s
      conduct was in the corporation&#8217;s best interests; (b)&#160;that the individual&#8217;s
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      of any criminal proceeding, that the individual had no reasonable cause to
      believe the individual&#8217;s conduct was unlawful. However, there will be limited or
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      Chapter 1 of Title&#160;8 of the Delaware Code), Articles Tenth and Eleventh of
      the Registrant&#8217;s Certificate of Incorporation provide as follows:</font></div>
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      is
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      administrative or investigative (hereinafter a &#8220;proceeding&#8221;), by reason of the
      fact that he or she is or was a director or an officer of the Corporation or
      is
      or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer,
      employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture,
      trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit
      plan (hereinafter an &#8220;indemnitee&#8221;), whether the basis of such proceeding is
      alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or
      agent
      or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or
      agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest
      extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists
      or
      may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the
      extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader
      indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior
      to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including
      attorneys&#8217; fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts
      paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in
      connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in
      Section&#160;C hereof with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to
      indemnification, the Corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in
      connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee
      only
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      of
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      include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in
      defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter
      an &#8220;advancement of expenses&#8221;); provided, however, that, if the Delaware General
      Corporation Law requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee
      in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity
      in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without
      limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon
      delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an &#8220;undertaking&#8221;), by
      or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall
      ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no
      further right to appeal (hereinafter a &#8220;final adjudication&#8221;) that such
      indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this
      Section&#160;or otherwise. The rights to indemnification and to the advancement
      of expenses conferred in Sections&#160;A and B of this Article&#160;shall be
      contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has
      ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the
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      Corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the
      Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses,
      in
      which case the applicable period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may at
      any
      time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount
      of the claim. If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit
      brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to
      the
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      by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not
      in a
      suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses)
      it shall be a defense that, and (ii)&#160;in any suit by the Corporation to
      recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking
      the
      Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication
      that, the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification
      set
      forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law. Neither the failure of the
      Corporation (including its board of directors, independent legal counsel, or
      its
      stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such
      suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances
      because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth
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      Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or
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      stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of
      conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the
      applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the
      indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the indemnitee
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      or by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the
      terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not
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      partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense,
      liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to
      indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware
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      or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a
      director, except for liability (i)&#160;for any breach of the director&#8217;s duty of
      loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii)&#160;for acts or omissions
      not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation
      of law, (iii)&#160;under Section&#160;174 of the Delaware General Corporation
      Law, or (iv)&#160;for any transaction from which the director derived an
      improper personal benefit. If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended
      after approval by the stockholders of this Article&#160;to authorize corporate
      action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors,
      then
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      to
      the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so
      amended.</font></div>
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      corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director
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      modification.</font></div>
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      and agent may deem necessary or advisable to enable said corporation to comply
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      requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with
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      and authority to sign for us or any of us in our names in the capacities
      indicated below, any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments)
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Form S-8 Registration Statement
As
      filed
      with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2006
Registration
      No. 333-
SECURITIES
      AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
      D.C. 20549
___________
FORM
      S-8
REGISTRATION
      STATEMENT
Under
THE
      SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
___________
MAF
      Bancorp, Inc.
(Exact
      name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State
                or Other Jurisdiction
of
                Incorporation or Organization)
36-3664868
(I.R.S.
                Employer
Identification
                No.)
55th &
                Holmes
Clarendon
                Hills, Illinois 60514
(Address,
                including zip code of registrant's principal executive
                office)
__________________________
EFC
      BANCORP, INC. 2000 STOCK OPTION PLAN
EFC
      BANCORP, INC. 1998 STOCK-BASED INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full
      title of the plans)
___________
Jennifer R.
      Evans, Esq.
MAF
      BANCORP, INC.
55th &
      Holmes
Clarendon
      Hills, Illinois 60514
(630) 887-6178
(Name,
      address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for
      service)
Copies
      to:
Thomas P.
      Desmond, Esq.
VEDDER,
      PRICE, KAUFMAN & KAMMHOLZ, P.C.
222
      North LaSalle Street
Chicago,
      Illinois 60601
(312) 609-7500
___________
CALCULATION
      OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
                  of Securities
to
                  be Registered
Amount
                  to
be
                  Registered
Proposed
                  Maximum
Offering
                  Price Per Share
(2)
Proposed
                  Maximum
Aggregate
                  Offering Price
(2)
Amount
                  of
Registration
                  Fee
(2)
Common
                  Stock, par value $.01 per share
(1)
168,690
$43.17
$7,282,348
$779.21
(1)
Together
                  with an indeterminate number of additional shares which may be
                  necessary
                  to adjust the number of shares offered pursuant to the plans as
                  a result
                  of a stock split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of the outstanding
                  Common Stock pursuant to Rule
                  416(a).
(2)
Pursuant
                  to Rule 457(h)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the
                  proposed maximum offering price per share and the registration
                  fee have
                  been estimated based on the average of the high and low sales prices
                  for
                  the Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market of $43.51 and $42.82
                  on
                  March 1, 2006.
INTRODUCTORY
      STATEMENT NOT FORMING PART OF THE PROSPECTUS
EFC
      Bancorp, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("EFC"), was merged with and into MAF
      Bancorp, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("MAF Bancorp") effective February 1, 2006
      (the "Merger"), and the outstanding shares of EFC were converted into the right
      to receive cash and/or 0.8082 shares of MAF Bancorp common stock. At the
      effective time of the Merger, previously granted options then outstanding under
      the EFC Bancorp, Inc. 2000 Stock Option Plan and the EFC Bancorp, Inc. 1998
      Stock-Based Incentive Plan, as amended (together, the "Plans"), became
      exercisable for shares of MAF Bancorp common stock in accordance with the terms
      of the Merger and the terms of such Plans. Each outstanding and unexercised
      stock option to purchase shares of EFC common stock is deemed to constitute
      an
      option to acquire, on the same terms and conditions as were applicable under
      the
      original option prior to the Merger, that number of shares of MAF Bancorp common
      stock equal to the product, rounded down to the nearest whole share, of the
      number of shares of EFC common stock subject to the original option and 0.8082,
      at an exercise price per share equal to the exercise price per share of the
      EFC
      common stock under the original option divided by 0.8082, rounded up, if
      necessary, to the nearest cent.
This
      Registration Statement covers the 168,690 shares of MAF Bancorp common
      stock that may be issued upon exercise of outstanding stock options previously
      granted by EFC under the Plans.
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PART
      I
INFORMATION
      REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The
      documents containing the information required by this section will be given
      to
      those persons, all of whom were employees or directors of EFC or its affiliates
      immediately prior to the Merger, who are currently holding options granted
      under
      the EFC Bancorp, Inc. 2000 Stock Option Plan or the EFC Bancorp, Inc. 1998
      Stock-Based Plan, as amended, and have elected to convert such options into
      options to purchase MAF Bancorp, Inc. common stock. Such documents are not
      required to be filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement
      or as an exhibit.
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PART II
INFORMATION
      REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
      3.
Incorporation
      of Documents by Reference.
The
      following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
      "Commission") by MAF Bancorp, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Registrant"), are
      incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference:
(a)
Annual
      Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004;
(b)
Proxy
      Statement for the MAF Bancorp, Inc. 2005 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, filed
      with the Commission on March 25, 2005;
(c)
Quarterly
      Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2005, June 30,
      2005 and September 30, 2005;
(d)
Current
      Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 31,
      March 11, March 25, April 20, May 2, June 30,
      July 21, August 5 and October 20, 2005, and January 4,
      January 12, January 30 and February 3, 2006 (for report dated
      January 31, 2006); and
(e)
The
      description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained in the Registration
      Statement on Form 8-A, dated November 14, 1989.
All
      documents filed by Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and
      15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, prior to the
      filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
      hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold
      are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and are a part
      hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in
      a
      document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall
      be
      deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
      to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently
      filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
      modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or
      superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
      constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item
      4.
Description
      of Securities.
Not
      applicable.
Item
      5.
Interests
      of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not
      applicable.
Item
      6.
Indemnification
      of Directors and Officers.
Section 145
      of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") grants each corporation
      organized thereunder the powers to indemnify any individual made party or
      threatened to be made party to any threatened, pending or completed action,
      suit
      or proceeding because the individual is or was a director, officer, employee
      or
      agent of the corporation, against expenses (including attorneys' fees),
      judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred
      with respect to an action, suit or proceeding if the individual acted in good
      faith, and the individual reasonably believed: (a) that the individual's
      conduct was in the corporation's best interests; (b) that the individual's
      conduct
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was
      at
      least not opposed to the corporation's best interests; and (c) in the case
      of any criminal proceeding, that the individual had no reasonable cause to
      believe the individual's conduct was unlawful. However, there will be limited or
      no indemnification for directors, officers, employees or agents adjudged to
      be
      liable to the corporation where such individuals are parties to any action
      by or
      in the right of the corporation.
In
      accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (being
      Chapter 1 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code), Articles Tenth and Eleventh of
      the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provide as follows:
TENTH:
a.
Each
      person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or
      is
      otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
      administrative or investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the
      fact that he or she is or was a director or an officer of the Corporation or
      is
      or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer,
      employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture,
      trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit
      plan (hereinafter an "indemnitee"), whether the basis of such proceeding is
      alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or
      agent
      or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or
      agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest
      extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists
      or
      may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the
      extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader
      indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior
      to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including
      attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts
      paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in
      connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in
      Section C hereof with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to
      indemnification, the Corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in
      connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee
      only
      if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors
      of
      the Corporation.
b.
The
      right
      to indemnification conferred in Section A of this Article shall
      include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in
      defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter
      an "advancement of expenses"); provided, however, that, if the Delaware General
      Corporation Law requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee
      in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity
      in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without
      limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon
      delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an "undertaking"), by
      or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall
      ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no
      further right to appeal (hereinafter a "final adjudication") that such
      indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this
      Section or otherwise. The rights to indemnification and to the advancement
      of expenses conferred in Sections A and B of this Article shall be
      contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has
      ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the
      benefit of the indemnitee's heirs, executors and administrators.
c.
If
      a
      claim under Section A or B of this Article is not paid in full by the
      Corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the
      Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses,
      in
      which case the applicable period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may at
      any
      time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount
      of the claim. If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit
      brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to
      the
      terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee shall be entitled to be
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paid
      also
      the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. In (i) any suit brought
      by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not
      in a
      suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses)
      it shall be a defense that, and (ii) in any suit by the Corporation to
      recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking
      the
      Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication
      that, the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification
      set
      forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law. Neither the failure of the
      Corporation (including its board of directors, independent legal counsel, or
      its
      stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such
      suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances
      because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth
      in
      the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the
      Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or
      its
      stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of
      conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the
      applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the
      indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the indemnitee
      to
      enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder,
      or by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the
      terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not
      entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this
      Article, or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.
d.
The
      rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this
      Article shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have
      or hereafter acquire under any statute, the Corporation's certificate of
      incorporation, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested
      directors or otherwise.
e.
The
      Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any
      director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation,
      partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense,
      liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to
      indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware
      General Corporation Law.
f.
The
      Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of
      Directors, grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses
      to
      any employee or agent of the Corporation to the fullest extent of the provisions
      of this Article with respect to the indemnification and advancement of
      expenses of directors and officers of the Corporation.
ELEVENTH:
A
      director of this Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation
      or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a
      director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of
      loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions
      not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation
      of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation
      Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an
      improper personal benefit. If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended
      after approval by the stockholders of this Article to authorize corporate
      action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors,
      then
      the liability of a director of the corporation shall be eliminated or limited
      to
      the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so
      amended.
Any
      repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph by the stockholders of the
      corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director
      of
      the corporation existing at the time of such repeal or
      modification.
The
      Registrant has purchased $40 million of insurance policies that insure the
      Registrant's directors and officers against liability which they may incur as a
      result of actions taken in such capacities.
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In
      addition, the Registrant maintains fiduciary liability coverage up to a limit
      of
      $5 million and bankers' professional liability up to a limit of $10
      million.
Item
      7.
Exemption
      from Registration Claimed.
Not
      applicable.
Item
      8.
Exhibits.
4.1
Restated
                Certificate of Incorporation of MAF Bancorp, Inc. (incorporated by
                reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Registrant's Current Report on
                Form 8-K filed with the Commission December 22,
                2000).
4.2
Amended
                and Restated By-Laws of MAF Bancorp, Inc. (incorporated by reference
                to
                Exhibit 3(ii) to Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for
                the quarter ended September 30,
                2003).
5.1
Opinion
                of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C. regarding legality of
                the securities.
23.1
Consent
                of KPMG LLP.
24.1
Powers
                of Attorney (included on the signature pages of the Registration
                Statement).
Item
      9.
Undertakings.
(a)
The
                undersigned Registrant hereby
                undertakes:
(1)
To
                file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
                a
                post-effective amendment to this Registration
                Statement:
(i)
to
                include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
                Act
                of 1933;
(ii)
to
                reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective
                date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective
                amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent
                a
                fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration
                Statement;
(iii)
to
                include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution
                not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material
                change to such information in the Registration
                Statement;
provided,
      however
,
      that
      paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required
      to
      be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained
      in
      reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant
      to
      section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
      incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.
(2)
That,
                  for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities
                  Act of
                  1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
                  a new
                  registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
                  and the
                  offering of
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such
                  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                  fide
                  offering thereof.
(3)
To
                  remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
                  any of the
                  securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination
                  of the
                  offering.
(b)
The
      undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining
      any
      liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's
      annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
      Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in this
      Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
      relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities
      at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
      thereof.
(c)
Insofar
      as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933
      may
      be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant
      pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
      advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
      indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is,
      therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against
      such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred
      or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the
      successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
      director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
      registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
      has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
      jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against policy
      as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
      issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
      to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant
      certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the
      requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
      Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
      authorized, in the Village of Clarendon Hills, State of Illinois, on
      this 6th day of March, 2006.
MAF
                  BANCORP, INC.
By:
/s/ Allen H. Koranda
Allen
                  H. Koranda
Chairman
                  of the Board and
Chief
                  Executive Officer
We,
      the
      undersigned officers and directors of MAF Bancorp, Inc., and each of us, do
      hereby constitute and appoint each and any of Allen H. Koranda, Jerry A.
      Weberling and Michael J. Janssen our true and lawful attorney and agent,
      with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to do any and all acts
      and
      things in our name and behalf in any and all capacities and to execute any
      and
      all instruments for us in our names in any and all capacities, which attorney
      and agent may deem necessary or advisable to enable said corporation to comply
      with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any rules, regulations, and
      requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with
      this
      Registration Statement, including specifically, but without limitation, power
      and authority to sign for us or any of us in our names in the capacities
      indicated below, any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments)
      hereto; and we do hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorney and agent,
      or
      his substitute, shall do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant
      to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration
      Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on
      the
      date indicated.
Name
Title
Date
/s/
                  Allen H. Koranda
Allen
                  H. Koranda
Chairman
                  of the Board and
Chief
                  Executive Officer
(principal
                  executive officer)
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Kenneth Koranda
Kenneth
                  Koranda
President
                  and Vice Chairman of the Board
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Jerry A. Weberling
Jerry
                  A. Weberling
Executive
                  Vice President,
Chief
                  Financial Officer and Director
(principal
                  financial officer)
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ M. Christine Roberg
M.
                  Christine Roberg
First
                  Vice President and Controller
(principal
                  accounting officer)
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Robert J. Bowles, M.D.
Robert
                  J. Bowles, M.D.
Director
March 6,
                  2006
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Name
Title
Date
/s/ David C. Burba
David
                  C. Burba
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Terry A. Ekl
Terry
                  A. Ekl
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Harris W. Fawell
Harris
                  W. Fawell
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/
                  Leo M. Flanagan, Jr.
Leo
                  M. Flanagan, Jr.
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Joe F. Hanauer
Joe
                  F. Hanauer
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Barbara L. Lamb
Barbara
                  L. Lamb
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Edward Mentzer
Edward
                  Mentzer
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Thomas R. Perz
Thomas
                  R. Perz
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Raymond S. Stolarczyk
Raymond
                  S. Stolarczyk
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ F. William Trescott
F.
                  William Trescott
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Lois B. Vasto
Lois
                  B. Vasto
Director
March 6,
                  2006
/s/ Andrew J. Zych
Andrew J.
                  Zych
Director
March 6,
                  2006
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INDEX
      TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit
Number
Description
                of Exhibit
4.1
Restated
                Certificate of Incorporation of MAF Bancorp, Inc. (incorporated by
                reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Registrant's Current Report on
                Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 22,
                2000).
4.2
Amended
                and Restated By-Laws of MAF Bancorp, Inc. (incorporated by reference
                to
                Exhibit 3(ii) to Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for
                the quarter ended September 30, 2003).
5.1
Opinion
                of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C. regarding legality of
                the securities.
23.1
Consent
                of KPMG LLP.
24.1
Powers
                of Attorney (included on the signature pages of the Registration
                Statement).
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