Wolf, Agnes Weiler

David Weiler was born in 1887 in Noerdlingen, Germany. He was a lawyer and an accomplished musician, both as a composer and as a pianist and accordion player. After serving in the German Army as a zeppelin pilot during World War I, he became a lawyer in Munich. He and his wife Jakobine (Bina), née Wassermann, had a daughter, Agnes Matilde, in 1918. In 1936 the family emigrated to Palestine, where they ran a chicken farm in Nahariyah. In 1938, Agnes Weiler married Herbert Wolf (b. 1913). In 1948, the whole family immigrated to the United States and became farmers in New Paltz, NY.

From the guide to the David Weiler Family Collection, undated, 1906-1962, (Leo Baeck Institute)