As member, and later president of the Upper Council, Max Samuel was, for example, busy with protests at the Mecklenburg-Schwerin ministry of education against an anti-Semitic poem and image in the 1929-issued new reader for German lessonsMecklenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv, 10.72-1 Israelitischer Oberrat, 161 [Entscheidungen des Oberrates in verschiedenen Angelegenheiten], folio 263, 16 March 1929 (Upper Council to the Amt für Volksbildung, letter). or welcoming Jewish intellectuals like Harry Torczyner (future Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai) at a seminar on Jewish Biblical exegesis at the foundation Akademische Gesellschaft Hausmann-Stiftung ArendseeIn 1929 Margarete Hausmann, née Frank (1863–1929) bequeathed her villa as a venue of seminars and recreation of Jewish scholars and their families to the Berlin Higher Institute for Jewish Studies. Cf. Alexander Schacht, „Verschollene Grabplatte entdeckt“, in: Ostsee-Zeitung, 20 February 2008, p. 13. in Arendsee in Mecklenburg in August 1932.
