Otto Alexander Mayer

5 Jan, 1962 letter written by Karl Jaspers: Gertrud's brother Otto in Israel died recently. He was operated on for carcinoma two years ago. This fall the metastases appeared. His brothers and his wife cheered him every day, displaying a wonderful family solidarity. Gertrud was very fond of this brother; she raised him and Fritz like a mother and was constantly attentive to them ever since. Otto was not particularly gifted for life in the world, but a pure soul, always tactful, absolutely reliable, and a skeptic and pessimist. He was the only one of all the siblings who thought very little of religion. In Tel Aviv he won the affection of many people. More than a hundred attended his funeral, and some of the tributes people made following his death were uncommonly warm. Gertrud is sad but at the same time relieved that he was spared dreadful physical pain except in brief episodes. He visited two years ago and was very close to us.

Otto (b. 1887) was Tatig as a newspaper agent.

Loads of this kind were in Jewish families at that time not uncommon. Gustav Mayer and his siblings were, albeit to varying degrees, distance themselves from their origins. They were the first generation that came predominantly Prenzlau his back, partly a study of complete za as Gustav and Ernst Mayer, and as the youngest, born in 1890 brother Frederick, who was studying medicine like Ernst. Henry (born 1885) was a bank clerk and a longer time belonged to the prestigious banking firm Warburg Hamberger: Otto (b. 1887) was Tatig as a newspaper agent. Only Arthur (born 1874) was the merchant industry and the company of his Valters Prenzlau connected. Of the three sisters, Gertrude belonged, as the wife of a Heidelberg professor of philosophy, the Jaspers had since 1916, on their way to the academic world. Elizabeth (b. 1872) died in 1889 of diphtheria and Ida (b. 1880) was mentally ill and died in 1917.

Belastungen dieser Art waren in Judischen Familien der damaligen Zeit keine Seltenheit. Gustav Mayer und seine Geschwister gingen, wenn auch unterschiedlich weit, auf Distanz zu ihren Ursprungen. Sie waren die erste Generation, die Prenzlau uberwiegend den Rucken kehrte, zum Teil um ein Studium za absolvieren wie Gustav und Ernst Mayer oder wie der jungste, 1890 geborene Bruder Friedrich, der wie Ernst Medizin studierte. Heinrich (geb 1885) wurde Bankangestellter und gehorte langere Zeit dem renommierten Hamberger Bankhaus Warburg an: Otto (geb. 1887) war als Zeitungsagent tatig. Allein Arthur (geb 1874) blieb der Kaufmannsbranche und der Firma seines Valters in Prenzlau verbunden. Von den drei Schwestern gehorte Gertrud als Gattin eines Heidelberger Philosophieprofessors, der Jaspers seit 1916 war, auf ihre Weise zur akademischen Welt. Elisabeth (geb. 1872) starb 1889 an Diphterie und Ida (geb. 1880) war psychisch krank und starb 1917.

Mayer-Otto Alexander 1887 Prenzlau birth

• Name: Otto Alexander Mayer
• Gender: männlich (Male)
• Relationship: Kind (Child)
• Birth Date: 8 Dez 1887 (8 Dec 1887)
• Civil Registration Office: Prenzlau
• Mother: Clara Mayer [Gottschalk]
• Certificate Number: 504
• Source Information: Ancestry.com. Prenzlau, Germany, Births, 1874-1901 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Personenstandsregister, Geburtenregister, 1874-1901. Stadtarchiv Prenzlau.