Marx Maier

Marx Maier ( July 12, 1875 in Hörden - September 3, 1932 in Mannheim ) was a German secondary school teacher and cantor .

Life

After studying at the Grand Ducal Conservatory in Karlsruhe , Marx Maier was employed as a cantor and religion teacher by the Jewish community of Weinheim in 1898 . He was the main teacher at the Pestalozzi School and set up the natural science collection of the Weinheim elementary school. In his first years in Weinheim, Marx Maier studied singing with Karl Marx and Paul Hieber in Mannheim. From 1899 to 1904 he took cello lessons from concertmaster Carl Müller and worked as a cellist in the orchestra of the Mannheim University of Music .

New synagogue in Weinheim

In 1904 he founded the Synagogue Choir Association of the Synagogue in Weinheim. In 1918 he was also a co-founder and first chairman of the Weinheim Chamber Music Society, which still exists today. For over a quarter of a century he gave Jewish religious instruction at the Weinheim High School and made special contributions to community singing in the Association of Jewish Teachers . In 1931, Marx Maier was appointed honorary speaker for church chanting by the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden .

As a choir director and founder of the Chamber Music Association, Marx Maier shaped the musical events in Weinheim with a supraregional impact: in his house a. a. Wilhelm Furtwängler , Erich Kleiber , Clemens Krauss and Siegfried Wagner , the young composer Paul Hindemith and the pianists Eugen d'Albert , Alexander Borovsky and Rudolf Serkin . During his creative period he brought famous quartets such as the Amar , Wendling , Rosé , Gewandhaus and Busch quartets to Weinheim for concerts.

Marx Maier married Bertha, born on October 24, 1901 in Weinheim. Rothschild. The children came from this marriage: Frieda Diana (1902–1994; she became a well-known painter and married the painter and set designer Hein Heckroth in 1924 ), Georg Alfred (born 1904), Ruth Helene married. Cohn (born 1907), Friedrich Hermann (born 1910) and Otto Albert Adolf (born 1911).

Chamber music festivals in Weinheim

Marx Maier organized five chamber music festivals in Weinheim: 1923 with Erich Kleiber , 1924 with Hermann Abendroth , 1925 with Clemens Krauß , 1926 with Siegfried Wagner and again in 1927 as a Beethoven celebration with Clemens Krauss.

Web links

Jewish traces in Weinheim (accessed March 27, 2016)
Jewish community Weinheim near Alemannia Judaica

Individual evidence

↑ Heinz Keller: Two documents commemorate Weinheim's Jewish community , Weinheimer Nachrichten, December 17, 2005, online at juden-in-weinheim.de
↑ Heinz Keller: The man who sat Schiwe. Marx Maier, his daughter Ada and their beloved "Goi". Jewish traces in Weinheim. Retrieved on March 28, 2016 (first published in Weinheimer Nachrichten on December 29, 2007).
^ Franz Hundsnurscher, Gerhard Taddey : The Jewish communities in Baden. Monuments, history, fates . Ed .: Archive Directorate Stuttgart (= publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg . Volume 19 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1968, p. 291 .

personal data
SURNAME	Maier, Marx
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German secondary school teacher and Chasan
DATE OF BIRTH	July 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hörden
DATE OF DEATH	September 3, 1932
Place of death	Mannheim

[1] Heinz Keller: Two documents commemorate Weinheim's Jewish community , Weinheimer Nachrichten, December 17, 2005, online at juden-in-weinheim.de

[2] Heinz Keller: The man who sat Schiwe. Marx Maier, his daughter Ada and their beloved "Goi". Jewish traces in Weinheim. Retrieved on March 28, 2016 (first published in Weinheimer Nachrichten on December 29, 2007).

[3] Franz Hundsnurscher, Gerhard Taddey : The Jewish communities in Baden. Monuments, history, fates . Ed .: Archive Directorate Stuttgart (= publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg . Volume 19 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1968, p. 291 .