Max Steinmeier was born on December 8, 1855 in Munich. His parents were Isaak Steinmeier, a wholesaler in Munich, and Emilie Steinmeier, née Neustätter. He completed a banking apprenticeship and after that he worked as a senior bank clerk in Munich. He married Clara Rosa Herzfelder, born on August 1, 1860 in Speyer, on August 21, 1891 in Munich. In 1941 Max Steinmeier was widowed.
The place and date of Clara Rosa’s death are not known. Her parents were Dr. med. Jacob Herzfelder, born in Speyer in 1818 and Helene Pflaum. Clara Rosa had three siblings: Dr. jurisprudence Felix Salomon Herzfelder, Privy Counsellor, born on 15 October 1863 in Speyer. He and his wife Emma managed to emigrate to Istanbul in November 1939. He died on October 3, 1944 in Haifa.
August Herrmann Herzfelder, banker and numismatist, co-owner of Bankhaus Neustätter in Munich, was born on 12 March, 1862 in Speyer. He managed to emigrate to Scotland in February 1940, where he died in 1950.
Her sister was Julie Johanna Neustätter, born in Speyer in 1858, who died in Munich in 1940.
Rosa Clara also had a half-brother, Moritz Pflaum, a son from Helene Pflaum’s first marriage.
Max and Clara Rosa had a son, Kurt Steinmeier, who was born in Stuttgart on February 22, 1895. Kurt was awarded a doctorate in law and lived in Munich until 9 March, 1936. He probably succeeded in emigrating.
At the age of 81, Max Steinmeier moved to Widenmayerstrasse 36 on January 23, 1936. After another move to Bauerstrasse 22 (to Rapp’s apartment, see article Heims), he had to move to the Haimann apartment on the ground floor of Martiusstrasse 8 on March 21, 1941 and a week later, on March 28, 1941, to Isabellastrasse 13. From September 15, 1941 he lived in the Israelite Hospital Herrmann-Schmidt-Strasse 5-9, where he died on October 31, 1941. Widenmayerstrasse 36 and Bauerstrasse 22 were among the houses where Jewish citizens were accommodated for shorter or longer periods.
He has a grave at the New Israelite Cemetery, Section 7, Row 12, Square 10.