Ludwig Mayer

Dr. Ludwig Mayer was born in Augsburg and came from "old Schwabian-Jewish roots." His father was from Horkheim, near Heilbronn, and his mother was from Hainsfarth, near Oettingen (Ries). Dr. Mayer was a lawyer in Augsburg from 1931 to 1933. After the brown-shirted dictatorship came to power, he worked until 1938 as counsel in an Augsburg company that manufactured leather goods. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1938, he worked as a tax advisor and corporate auditor. He retired in 1975. Until 1933 Dr. Mayer primarily published in the field of law, but after 1933 in light of German Jewry's hopeless situation he primarily wrote works of fiction. In retirement, he again turned his attention to works of literature, and even after a half-century in America he still wrote his novellas, tales, and legends in German.