Max Maurer

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Max Maurer (born March 23, 1891 in Regenstauf , † 1972 in Ergoldsbach ) was a German police officer , rescuer of Jews and was honored as Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Max Maurer was a village policeman in Ergoldsbach. On April 28, 1945, together with his colleague Josef Kimmerling and the farmer Anna Gnadl , he saved thirteen Jews from death and hid them from the SS on Anna Gnadl's property.

John Weiner, a Hungarian who emigrated to Australia about 50 years ago (died in November 2006), lost his mother in Auschwitz and his father in Buchenwald . He himself survived the march from Buchenwald to Dachau concentration camp and hid with twelve other prisoners in Ergoldsbach. The SS found all thirteen and handed them over to the village police officer Maurer to be shot. He hid her from the SS on Anna Gnadl's property. The Americans who arrived the next day took care of the thirteen survivors from there.

John Weiner founded an initiative to rename the Ergoldsbach secondary school the Max-Maurer-Schule ; however, the parents' council did not accept the initiative. Max-Maurer-Straße was inaugurated in Regenstauf in 2013 .

In 1992, Weiner arranged for Maurer to be honored as Righteous Among the Nations in Yad Vashem in 1997 .

Exhibition and documentation

  • “Anyone would have done that”: the rescue of the 13 Jews from Ergoldsbach; Markt Ergoldsbach in April 2005 to honor Anna Gnadl and Max Maurer. Exhibition and documentation; [Exhibition project of the White Rose Foundation and the Ergoldsbach History Working Group in cooperation with the Bavarian State Center for Political Education and the Ergoldsbach Municipality 2005/2006].

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  • The documentary: Tomorrow is another day - The German village policeman and the Jews (TV documentary SWR 2004)
  • “The drama in the barn. How the policeman Max Maurer saved 13 concentration camp prisoners. "(Feature, B2 radioZeitreisen 2004, Link [1] )

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personal data
SURNAME Mason, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Regenstauf
DATE OF DEATH 1972
Place of death Ergoldsbach