Residence Adolf Mayer

Adolf Mayer was born and grew up in Hanau (Hesse) in 1881, he did a commercial apprenticeship and later held leading positions in various magazine publishing houses.  After the First World War, he came to Pößneck and lived at Kastanienallee 5 with his non-Jüdish wife. Adolf Mayer was the director of the Gerold and Vogel publishing houses, both of which were very modern for their time. In 1936 he had to give up his position and do unskilled work. He  was not deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto until  January 1945, because he was very respected and he had a "German" wife. He came back a little later by the liberation of the Red Army and worked again at his old position. In 1948 he died by a heart attack in Pößneck .