Max Samuel
Max Samuel (9 January 1883 – 2 September 1942) was a German businessman and self-made man, founder and managing-director of the EMSA-Werke, chair of the Jewish congregation in Rostock and head deputy of the Israelite Upper Council of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (board of deputies of Mecklenburg Jews).
Max Samuel
Siegmund Bernhard (1846–1934)
Arnold Bernhard (1886–1944[2])
Siegfried Silberstein (1866–1935)
Max Marcus (1876–1945)
2 September 1942
Blackburn, England
Blackburn Old Cemetery, Jewish Section, Whalley New Road
German (till 1941)
stateless (after)
German
1918–1930: German Democratic Party (DDP)
1930–1933: German State Party (DStP)
Berta Geßner[3] (1878–1937)
Herbert Gerson (גֵּרְשׁוֹן) Samuel (1907–1992) and
Käte (Kate) Gitel (גיטל) Kaiser (1910–1987)
- Jacob Itzig (1840–1918) (father)
- Rosalie Schrubski (1849–1934) (mother)
George Kaiser (grandson),
Tim Blake Nelson (great-grandson)
1883–1897 Argenau
1897–1916 Güstrow
1916–1937 Rostock
1938–1942 Blackburn
apprenticeship in shoemaking and business
self-employed
businessman
rubber brush for suède
Life[edit]
Years until 1920[edit]
Max Samuel was born into a poor family as penultimate child of seven siblings. His parents were Jacob Itzig (1840–1918) and Rosalie Schrubski (1849–1934). When Max was five years old the Itzig family altered its surname to Samuel, as on 2 June 1888 the Royal Bromberg Regional Government granted the family's request. He left primary education on Easter 1897 at the age of 14 and went to live and work with his elder brother James Samuel (1871–1933) in Güstrow (Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin) where the latter had opened a shoe business (Schuhwaarenhaus J. Samuel).[5] In Güstrow Max Samuel was educated in the trades of shoemaking and business and then also worked as a travelling salesman.[6]