2018-05-07/2019-04-29 - From the OHS Online Organ Database Builders Listing editor Stephen Hall, March 2, 2017. - Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer was born in Oettingen, Bavaria, Germany on March 1, 1924. Upon completion of high school, he was immediately drafted into the German Army. After World War II, he began training as an organbuilder in his family-s business. He traveled to the United States in 1950 as part of a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor for technical cooperation with other governments and apprenticed with Aeolian-Skinner. During this time he met the organist E. Power Biggs with whom he traveled to Southern Germany in 1954 to record historic organs for Columbia Records. In 1955, he immigrated to the United States with his family and settled in Brattleboro, Vermont to be in charge of the pipe organ division of the Estey Organ Company. After the Estey Company closed, he held several jobs, eventually working for the School for International Training in 1964. While working, he earned a master-s degree in 1974 from the University of Massachusetts in education administration. He was subsequently an assistant principal at Amherst High School and then department chair for foreign languages at the Junior/Senior High School and German teacher. He retired in 1992. Steinmeyer was an active board member and president of both the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German as well as the Massachusetts Association of Foreign Language Teachers. In 2000, he was honored as Massachusetts German Educator of the Year. Steinmeyer served on the board of the Vermont Arts Council, the Brattleboro Music Center and the New England Bach Festival. He was a charter member of the Estey Organ Museum, a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Vermont Humanities Council, and an active member of the Organ Historical Society. Steinmeyer passed away on April 9, 2015 at the age of 91. Source: Tracker 59:3 (Organ Historical Society, 2015), 39.
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