MAX ARTHUR ADOLF 1898-1975
Max Arthur Adolf on a postcard sent in May 1918
Certificate on passing the exam for Barber, Hairdresser and Wigmaker (18 March, 1917)
Marriage Certificate 1923
MAX ARTHUR ADOLF 1898-1975
Max Arthur Adolf on a postcard sent in May 1918
Certificate on passing the exam for Barber, Hairdresser and Wigmaker (18 March, 1917)
Marriage Certificate 1923
I visited Max Arthur Adolf Mittelstedt and his wife in 1974 at their apartment in Munich. He was a small man, about 40cm shorter than me. He recalled that his brothers referred to him as "the dwarf" and were ashamed of him.
Max was born 26 September, 1898. He began training for the job of barber/hairdresser in 1913, passed his exams in Magdeburg in March 1917, and was an independent hairdresser/barber in Cottbus intermittently from 1932 to 1950.
In 1918, in World War I, he was in the army — "Eisenbahn Regiment Nr. 1".
He married Anna Marie Bulkow in 1923 and had three children of whom two died in infancy.
In 1928 Max was baptized into the sect later called Jehovah's Witnesses. He spent 4 months (September 14, 1937 to January 14, 1938) in Brandenburg Penitentiary [Zuchthaus] because the sect was banned in Nazi Germany. [Prison is for punishment but a penitentiary is intended for reform. The word comes form "penitent" meaning to be "sorry".]
In 1950 Max was classified as an invalid. He left Cottbus in 1953 when the Communist East German government banned the Jehovah's Witnesses and lived the rest of his life in Munich.
The photo below shows Max Arthur Adolf (right) in 1949 with his son Werner Max and his son's daughter Illona.
Max Arthur Adolf in 1974
Max Arthur Adolf lived from August 26, 1898 to August 9, 1975.
Werner Max Mittelstedt
