How to not generate a title page in pandoc markdown

I don’t want to generate a title page. My uni gave me a title page. I could merge it with the pandoc PDF afterwards.

How do I make the default title page disappear?

I tried the following:

Get the current template
pandoc -D markdown > md.template

The new template file contains:

$if(titleblock)$
$titleblock$

$endif$
$for(header-includes)$
$header-includes$

$endfor$
$for(include-before)$
$include-before$

$endfor$
$if(toc)$
$table-of-contents$

$endif$
$body$
$for(include-after)$

$include-after$
$endfor$

Now I deleted this part to not have a title page:

$if(titleblock)$
$titleblock$

$endif$

Then I run pandoc --template md.template -V breakurl -V hyphens=URL --pdf-engine=xelatex -o out.pdf in.md and get this error:

Error producing PDF.
! Undefined control sequence.
l.5 hypertarget

What am I doing wrong? Isn’t it supposed to work like this? Is there an easier method to achieve this?

$if(has-frontmatter)$
frontmatter
$endif$
$if(title)$
$if(beamer)$
frame{titlepage}
$else$
maketitle
$endif$
$if(abstract)$
begin{abstract}
$abstract$
end{abstract}
$endif$
$endif$