Max Hausmann was born in Hüttenheim in the district of Kitzingen on March 24, 1880 as the son of the cattle dealer Pfeiffer Hausmann and his wife Adelheid, née Hausmann. He apprenticed as a butcher and in April 1906 went from Frechen near Cologne to Bad Kissingen. There he worked in the butchery of Emanuel Hamburger in Obere Marktgasse 10 after Hamburger had died at the age of 53. In March 1907, he married Hamburger’s oldest daughter Hertha and took on the butchery. As early as 1911, he was given citizenship by Bad Kissingen Magistrate. The couple had two daughters: Anny was born on December 23, 1907 and in January 1920 Nora followed her. Their daughter Anny Marx who had married in 1932 emigrated to the USA in 1939. Nora, married Ballon, also emigrated to the United States and survived.

In September 1935, Max Hausmann, his wife Hertha and his mother-in-law Lina moved to Frankfort into Kronberger Strasse 49. There Max died in December 1935. In June 1941, his wife managed to emigrate from Barcelona to New York on board the ship “Villa de Madrid”. 

In August 1942, at the age of 77, his mother-in-law Lina Hamburger was taken from Frankfort/Main to Theresienstadt and in September of the same year deported to Treblinka and murdered there.