Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameMax CASSIRER
Birth8 Oct 1857, Schwientochlowitz, Silesia, Poland762
Death15 Jan 1943, Tandalar, Wales, United Kingdom582
OccupationOwner Polish Cellstoff Co/Timber Co, Berlin110
MotherJeanette STEINITZ (1813-1889)
Spouses
Birth6 Oct 1862
Death13 May 1928
Family Media
ChildrenKurt Hans (1883-)
 Edith Johanna (1885-1982)
 Franz Otto Konrad (1886-1912)
Notes for Max CASSIRER
Henry Cassirer’s comment in his new book “One hundred years of struggle for a Humanistic World”763

"Grandfather Max devoted his" leisures "to the municipal businesses of Berlin, and his richness to help his daughter and his son-in-law, Edith and Paul Geheeb, to create the" Odenwaldschule "which would become the cocoon of a humanistic education. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a notable city council man in Berlin Charlottenburg... "764


In 1911, the Duck Fountain endowed by Max Cassirer in Hardenbergstrasse in Charlottenburg was the first of the sculptur, August Gaul's works to be erected in the Berlin city area. He also made a Cygnet Fountain for Max Cassirer (today at Kurfürstendamm/corner of Leibnizstr. in Berlin). Posthumously, the gravestones Gaul had made for Max and Alfred Cassirer were erected in the cemetery in Heerstrasse, Berlin (although Max Cassirer's grave has been reutilised since Max died in London).631


Formerly resided at: Tharandter Strasse 5, Kaiseralle 183 Berlin.765
Last Modified 17 Aug 2012Created 21 Mar 2024 by Jim Falk