Jakob Maier

Jakob Maier was my great-grandmother Dorline Springer’s older brother. He was born in Munich on April 30, 1875, the son of the horse merchant Abraham Maier and Rebekka Maier, née Schwab. After completing school at the Wilhelmsgymnasium, he became a businessman and, with Martin Salzer, the co-owner of the Maier & Salzer company, a textiles agency located at Schützenstrasse 9. Jakob Maier and Ida Adler married on June 28, 1909 and the following year the couple had a son: Alfred Jakob, born on December 4, 1910. The Maiers moved to Hermann-Lingg-Strasse 16 in July 1913. On March 17, 1925, two years after the death of his first wife Ida, Jakob married Hermine (Mina) Engländer, née Kleemann. The family moved to the first floor of Uhlandstrasse 4 in 1932.
In July 1938, Jakob and Mina Maier were forced to leave their home and move to Reitmorstrasse 52. Less than three years later, the Gestapo moved them to a so-called “Judenhaus” (“Jews’ house”) at Landwehrstrasse 44, where they were lodged with many other people in extremely crowded conditions. In March 1942, the Gestapo transferred the couple to the “Judensiedling Milbertshofen” (“Milbertshofen Jews’ Colony”), a barracks camp at Knorrstrasse 148. On April 4, 1942, the Gestapo deported Jakob and Mina to the Piaski Ghetto. Their relatives Dorline Springer, Arnold Springer and Emma Springer were on the same transport. To this day, we have no information about when or where Jakob and Mina Maier were killed.
Jakob’s son Alfred was also a victim of the Holocaust; the SS murdered him in Auschwitz on September 12, 1942.(Text and translation: Judith Rosenthal; editor: C. Fritsche)