Max Starcke

Who was Max Starcke?

Maximillian Hugo "Max" Starcke was a businessman and then a government official in Texas for 37 years, first as Mayor of Seguin, Texas, from 1928 to 1938 and then as Managing Director of the Lower Colorado River Authority from 1940 to 1955.

Born and raised on a farm in the York's Creek area about 12 miles north of Seguin, Max Starcke was the son of Hugo and Ida Starcke, and the grandson of German immigrants. He attended Seguin public schools, then Texas A & M University and a San Antonio business college.

Starcke married Meta Blumberg of Seguin in 1908, and they had two daughters before her death in 1938. In 1940 he married Evelyn Quinn of Ackerman, Mississippi, and they had one daughter.