Max Zeiller – a well known personality in the town

Max Zeiller (*1864), who belonged to an old, established Jewish family was a classic example of Jewish integration into German society.

He was unmarried and lived in the house Bamberger Straße 8. He was the chairman of the Jewish community in Forchheim for more than 25 years. From 1910 to 1917 he was a member of the Town Council representing the Citizen and Trade Association. From 1912 to 1932 he was the head of the Forchheim fire brigade alongside it’s commandant, the brewery owner Andreas Schindler. Max Zeiller was a notable personality of the town. He died in 1937, and thus did not experience the worst excesses of the National Socialists. Nevertheless, the antisemitic propaganda and hate campaigns in the Nazi publication “Der Streiter”, which appeared in Forchheim after the First World War, cannot have escaped his attention.