When Johann Mahler was born on 25 March 1924, in Altenkessel, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany, his father, Johann Mahler, was 30 and his mother, Elisabetha Hirschmann, was 25. He married Martha Maria Folz Mahler on 21 June 1946, in Püttlingen, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. He died on 31 December 2010, in Gronig, Sankt Wendel, Rhineland, Prussia, Germany, at the age of 86.
Some characteristic forenames: German Ernst, Kurt, Heinz, Aloysius, Claus, Franz, Gottfried, Guenther, Hans, Hermann, Ilse, Juergen.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Mähler); Danish: occupational name for a painter, especially a painter of stained glass, from an agent derivative of German malen to paint (Middle High German mālen, Old High German mālōn ‘to mark’, from māl ‘point, mark’).
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