Family
Max Oehler was born in Blessenbach im Taunus (today part of Weinbach). His father, Oskar Ulrich Oehler (1838–1901), was a Lutheran minister and the brother of Franziska Nietzsche, Friedrich and Elisabeth Nietzsche's mother. Max Oehler's mother was Auguste Oehler (née Forst) (1847–1920). Like his brother Richard Oehler, a librarian, and his cousin Adalbert Oehler, a low-ranking government official, Max Oehler became involved in Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche's "Nietzsche-Archiv," which thus became sort of a family business.
Oehler married then 18-year-old Annemarie Lemelson in 1911, with whom he had several children. He also had an extramarital son from an affair in 1906, and in 1908 became the father of Tage Thiel, who was accepted by Swedish banker Ernest Thiel as his own son. Whether Ernest Thiel knew that Oehler was the father seems not to be known.
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