Steinmeyer made a personal appearance during the Vermont Convention in 2013, where he was recognized publicly. He was also a charter member of the Estey Organ Museum and a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Vermont Humanities Council and the Organ Historical Society. He was a strong supporter in many ways of the Brattleboro Music Center, a consultant for the School for International Training language proficiency testing, and served on the board of the Vermont Arts Council, the Brattleboro Music Center, and the New England Bach Festival. In 1975 in Amherst, Massachusetts, he initiated an exchange program with a college preparatory high school in Germany, in which both Amherst and Brattleboro High School Students participated the program continues to this day. 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. In 1974 he began working at Amherst High School, first as an assistant principal and then as German teacher and department chair for foreign languages at the Junior/Senior High School, retiring in 1992. While working, he earned a master’s degree in education administration in 1974 from the University of Massachusetts, despite never having completed college. He worked as a Fuller Brush man, in life insurance, and eventually for the School for International Training in 1964. After the closure of the Estey Organ Company, his love for Vermont kept him in Brattleboro. In 1955 they immigrated to the United States with their first daughter Charlotte and settled in Brattleboro, heading up the pipe organ division of the Estey Organ Company. In 1953 he met his wife Hanne at an American School in Nurnberg, and they married in 1954. Power Biggs in Mozart Country,” July–October 2006).
Steinmeyer’s and Biggs’s travels were documented in The Diapason by Anton Warde (“E. Power Biggs, with whom he traveled in 1954 to record organs in Southern Germany for Columbia Records. Department of Labor for technical cooperation with other governments and apprenticed with the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company. He traveled to the United States for the first time in 1950 as part of a program sponsored by the U.S. After the war’s end he began formal training as an organ builder in his family’s business, Steinmeyer Organ Company. During World War II, he served in the infantry in Yugoslavia, at the Russian front, and in Denmark. Born in Oettingen, Bavaria, Germany, on March 1, 1924, he was immediately drafted into the German Army upon completing high school.
Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer, 91, died April 9 at Vernon Green Nursing Home in Vernon, Vermont.
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