Max Weil was born in Bad Kissingen on June 13, 1887 as the sixth of eight children of the merchant Hermann Weil and his wife Klara, née Berg. His father came from Aufhausen in Wuerttemberg which is a suburb of Bopfingen nowadays. At least at the end of the 1870s Hermann Weil moved to Bad Kissingen where he married Klara Berg, who was born there, and had eight children with her. The family lived in Weidgasse 10. In 1890, Max’s father was given citizens’ rights by Bad Kissingen Magistrate.

At the beginning of 1905, the family moved to Frankfort/ Main where Max’s father opened a food store in Rechneigrabenstrasse. Only little is known about his further life. In the middle of the 1920s, he ran a haberdashery shop in Frankfort and registered a new one in 1935. According to the census list of May 1939, he was registered in Frankfort in Waldschmidtstrasse 83. (Information obtained from: Sigrid Kämpfer, Municipal Archive of Frankfort, mail from March 12, 2020).

Max Weil was deported to Mauthausen Camp in 1942 and murdered there in September.

Max's sister Hermine was also deported from Berlin to Kovno together with her husband Salomon and murdered. His siblings Ida (1882 - 1906), Justin (1888 - 1917) and Siegfried (1878 - 1917) had already died at an early age, and his parents - Klara (1852 - 1913) and Hermann (1851 - 1932) - did not live to see the Nazi terror.  The fate of his sister Lina (*1890) has not yet been clarified. She was still registered in Hölderlinstraße in Frankfurt in 1939/1940.