Max, the first son of Albert Kissinger and his wife Jenny, née Baer was born in 1908. The family owned a respected men’s clothing and tailoring business at Marktplatz.

Max Kissinger attended Kissingen Realschule since 1917 and graduated successfully in 1923. According to his student’s file, he must have been a good student. His class teachers characterized him as “very well gifted, very ambitious, vividly interested in everything and thinking independently”, but who had also become a little vain “because of his good progress and the easiness for learning for him” (See “Rektorats-Zensur” in classes 1 and 2!)

Presumably, Max Kissinger then worked in his parents’ clothing business.

After his younger brother Ernst had already emigrated to Palestine in 1933, Max Kissinger followed him in 1935. In the same year, he married Nusha Rosenblatt. The two brothers jointly tried to get an immigration permit for their parents, but at the beginning with no success. 

But it was not only the British Mandate government that caused problems for the two two brothers. Their parents didn’t want to leave Germany because they still felt very much attached to it. It was only after the experiences in the Pogrom Night of 1938, that their parents fled from Germany, first to Lausanne and in 1939 to Palestine.

Max Kissinger died in Jerusalem in 1976. His wife Nusha survived him by two decades, she died in May 1995 in Jerusalem.