Merwin Maier
{{short description|American attorney and bridge player}}
Merwin D. "Jimmy" Maier (August 14, 1908 – February 15, 1942) was an American attorney and bridge player from New York City.{{OEB|5|685}} He was a member of the Four Aces from 1937 until his death from an unknown virus in New York in 1942.
Maier was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan,{{cite news|title=In Memorium|url=http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0882/00227/ms0882.0227.1947-02-13.pdf|accessdate=July 7, 2017|work=Rodeph Sholom Chronicle|date=February 13, 1947|page=2}}Merwin D Maier in the New York, New York, Birth Index, 1878-1909 the son of Julius Maier and Lydia B. Maier. All four of his grandparents emigrated from Germany.New York, New York, Manhattan Assembly District in 1920 United States Census. He attended Columbia Law School and was an editor on the Columbia Law Review.{{cite journal|title=Editorial Board|url=http://columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1930-CLR-MASTHEAD.pdf|journal=Columbia Law Review|date= January 1930|volume=XXX |number= 1|page=1}}
He died at age 33 after suffering from an illness for two months. Maier was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2004.
Bridge accomplishments
=Honors=
=Wins=
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|title=von Zedtwitz LM Previous Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db1.pdf
|page=6
|date=2014-06-18
|accessdate=2014-10-17
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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163438/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db1.pdf
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- Wernher Open Pairs (1) 1940 {{cite news
|title=Wernher Open Pairs Winners
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|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db5.pdf
|page=4
|date=2014-07-22
|accessdate=2014-10-17
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021050535/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db5.pdf
|archivedate=2014-10-21
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- Vanderbilt (2) 1937, 1938 {{cite news
|title=Vanderbilt Previous Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/01/bulletins/db4.pdf
|page=6
|date=2014-03-24
|accessdate=2014-10-17
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163636/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/01/bulletins/db4.pdf
|archivedate=2014-10-21
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- Spingold (2) 1935, 1937 {{cite news
|title=List of Previous Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db4.pdf
|page=12
|date=2014-07-21
|accessdate=2014-10-17
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163711/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db4.pdf
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- Spingold (2) 1938, 1939 {{cite news
|title=Spingold Previous Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db4.pdf
|page=12
|date=2014-07-21
|accessdate=2014-10-17
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163711/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db4.pdf
|archivedate=2014-10-21
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=Runners-up=
- North American Bridge Championships
- Masters Individual (1) 1936
- Vanderbilt (2) 1935, 1941
- Masters Team of 4 (1) 1936
- Reisinger (2) 1934, 1939 {{cite news
|title=Reisinger Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2013/03/bulletins/db8.pdf
|page=6
|date=2013-12-06
|accessdate=2014-10-17
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163719/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2013/03/bulletins/db8.pdf
|archivedate=2014-10-21
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- Spingold (1) 1941
See also
References
{{reflist |25em |refs=
[http://www.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/maier-merwyn "Maier, Merwyn"]. Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-13.
"Merwin D. Maier, Bridge Expert, 33". The New York Times. February 16, 1942. Retrieved 2014-11-13. Quote: "died yesterday morning".
"A Long-Delayed Honor for an All-Too-Brief Career". Alan Truscott. The New York Times. August 9, 2004. Page E4.
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External links
- {{ACBLhof|maier-merwyn}}
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Category:American contract bridge players
Category:20th-century American Jews
Category:Columbia Law School alumni
Category:Lawyers from New York City
Category:American people of German-Jewish descent
Category:20th-century American lawyers
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