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Fall 1928: Born firstborn son to Jakob and Edie Eisenhardt, named Maximillian ‘Max’ Eisenhardt, the second child (Ruthie, born 1926) in Bavaria, Germany - it's highly likely the family lived in Nürnberg as they still lived there nine years later. Though various art clues and as a nod to various people in Marvel, I'll given him the birthday of October 31.
The Eisenhardt family was fairly well off, and well integrated, Reform Jews, and part of a very large extended family on both sides. Jakob had fought in ‘The Great War’ and was a well decorated soldier saving the life of a Major Jurgen Scharf, later in life he was a civil servant, while most of the other family where jewelers.
15 September 1935: Nuremberg Laws passed causing some hardship for the family, young Max in school (often bullied by the other students and even some of the teachers and headmaster - a very poor athlete he was an exceptionally gifted student in academia), Jakob loses his job but believes his status as a war hero and a good German will protect them, and Erich is attacked for his relationship with a German woman.
Summer of 1936 (prior to the Berlin Olympics): Jakob takes Max to Berlin by train to meet with Major Scharf and try to get his job back. Jakob is arrested by the Gestapo and badly beaten. Major Scharf knocked Max to the ground, nearly knocking him unconscious, and leaving him in a crumbled heap on the sidewalk. Many hours later, Major Scharf brings Jakob out, declaring the Gestapo would have killed him without his intervention, and they are now even. Jakob and Max return home by train. Around this time, Max is also expelled from school - it's hinted but not stated outright that this was the first use of his powers, making the end of his formal education for some time.
1936-1938: Over the next two years, Max becomes increasingly streetwise and quick, stealing and scavenging for food and money, and often becoming involved in street fights. It's highly likely that at least one of the boys he fought with died due to Max's style of attacking. Rather than being out-right punished for his behavior, his father understands but tries to get his son to 'play by the rules' so to speak, understanding the boy is only trying to help, motivated by his mother's tears and worry, his sister's ill health.
9th - 10th November 1938: Kristallnacht. The family at first shelters in their apartment, but once their Shul is attacked, they flee. Jakob at first wants to take up arms in defense of the sacred space, but is stopped by Erich. Max is left to guard and protect his mother and sister, as well at taking point for their flight.
11 November 1938: Family Jakob, Edie, uncle Erich, Ruth, and Max flee Germany to Poland, where they are forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. There, unknown to each other, Max and his Uncle Erich become smugglers. They are both quite successful even though the Eisenhardt family, Ruthie in particular, are suffering the effects of starvation. Edie and Ruthie are very frail, eventually Ruthie is not allowed to leave their apartment for her protection, and Max often feeds her after their mother cooks to hep her save her strength. Despite his deep love for his family, Max shows a strong protection for all his 'people', especially those weaker and younger than himself. At one instance, when Max witnesses a Nazi kill a Jew, he attempts to go after him with a penknife. He is stopped by his Uncle Erich, who tells him that if he had been able to succeed, many of their people would have died.
19 April, 1943 - 16 May, 1943: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Uncle Erich stays behind to fight in the Uprising. Young Max wants to join the combat, but is convinced to go with his mother, father, and sister, told they need him and wouldn't be able to make the trip without him once again taking up point. (Max is stated to still be fourteen at this point.) This night, young Max gets a life lesson from his father. “You were too YOUNG to hear all that. Ach, you're STILL too young. But Max. Max...Sometimes in this life...you get a MOMENT. A time when everything lines up. When anything is possible. When suddenly...you can make things happen. God help us if we TAKE that moment. And God FORGIVE us if we DON'T. My beautiful son...” This sticks with him in ways his father did not mean to occur. This is one night that has stuck very firmly in Magneto's psyche and is an important part of his history.
April 1943: Jakob, Edie, and Ruth killed by Nazis in mass shooting, captured by Erich's former lover turning them over to the Nazis to save her mother. While Jakob surrendered immediately, Max attempted to flee and was brutally beaten by the Einsatzgruppen. Max survived, thanks to his powers, but it left him unconscious, and he was buried alive. He dug his way out, and attempted to flee but was captured.
May 1943: Arrival at Auschwitz II-Birkenau – Max is told by his former headmaster to lie about his age, stating he is eighteen. This saves his life, he was only fourteen at the time. When another boy confesses to being fourteen, he is taken outside and shot, something the others inside the barracks overhear.
June 1943: Became Sonderkommando to escape the ‘attention’ of a man, who Magneto recalled as playing a piece of music by Franz Schubet. He worked with Mengele, and was called ‘Nosferatu’ by the children, due to him being so pale and always asking for blood.* It was there he found the bodies of those the man had chosen, mutated into monsters. Magneto would spend years post-war searching for him, but never found him. Sonderkommando typically only lived between three and six months, with some who had 'special skills' living upwards of a year. Max's survival was entirely based on how useful he was.
(*This conflicts with Magneto: Testament but follows as canon was laid out in Excalibur vol 3 and older canon text. Testament puts his placement on the squads as random.)
2-3 August, 1944: "Gypsy Family Camp" murdered – Magda (13) moved to a different camp by Max (15), by trading favors*. He had been a smuggler in the Ghetto, he continued this trade inside the camps. Years later, Kitty Pride was told how he had saved lives smuggling food and medicine to those in the camp. Moving Magda cost him a lot, and by entrusting her into his care, as far as the other Roma where concerned, her father consented to their marriage.
(*Some conflict within canon. One source states he smuggled her into another part of Auschwitz, another to another camp all together. I combine the two sources - movement to another camp during this event.)
7 October, 1944: Sonderkommando revolt. Three members of the SS were killed and 451 of the Sonderkommando. Max escaped death this day. Magda was found returned to the camp and it was Max's attempt to save her which rushed the revolt. In the chaos of the revolt, Max moved her into the Jewish Woman's Camp and bribed for her safety, with gold he pulled from the teeth of bodies. (In one canon they both escaped that day but this contradicts with multiple other statements in canon.)
19 January 1945: Max and Magda escape Auschwitz II as the camp was being shut down by the Nazi forces by rushing into the woods and through a hole in the fencing while the guards were busy. Max also killed a guard on their way out. One foot, ill, weakened, and near death, they travel to the Carpathians, where Magda still have family.
Spring of 1945: Max and Magda arrive in a Carpathian Mountain village in the Ukraine, the Roma community considers Max and Magda wed – Max begins working/learning a trade in construction, while studying at home to make up for his lack of education. Max changed his first name to ‘Erik’ in part to honor his uncle and in part to better fit in with the local population.
Fall of 1946: Erik and Magda Eisenhardt marry in town hall.
Late Spring of 1947: Anya Eisenhardt born, named after Magda’s mother. Erik calls her his talisman, his hope. After all he’s lost, he has blood kin now, and she is his hope for the future, physical proof that things MUST be better now.
Late Spring/Early summer of 1949: Eisenhardt family moves to Vinnytsia, in part so Erik can further his education.
Erik takes a day labor’s job and is cheated out of half his pay. After a fight with his (former) employer in which he accidentally uses his powers to fling a crow bar, he returns home. The man calls the KGB and informs the towns’ people. Magda was at market while Anya slept in the inn where they were staying. When the couple arrives home, their find their home aflame, their baby still inside. Although Erik attempts to get inside, his way is blocked by the KGB, and he is brutally beaten while the building – and his child – burns. When Anya’s corpse hits the streets, Erik uses his powers in a big way – destroying much of that section of town and killed, in fact vaporized, all but two people in a multi block radius – himself and Magda. Unable to fully control his powers, he reaches for her hand, meaning to take it and flee, but an arc of magnetic lightening shoots off and Magda thought he meant to kill her too. She fled, leaving him alone with the body of their child. He scooped up Anya’s body and fled, hearing more soldiers. In the woods, in ground still cold, he buried her, alone and unmarked, before the KGB managed to catch up. There he turned their own guns on them and continued to flee.
Later that year, he takes name of ‘Erik Magnus Lehnsherr’ and had paper work forged by George Odekirk and begins search for Magda.
(January marks the birth of the twins and Magda's death soon after.)
1953: He moves to Israel, claiming he needs to find his soul after searching so long for Magda and begins working as an orderly at a psych hospital in Haifa, met Charles Xavier. There, under the urging of Xavier and other doctors, he begins medical school and completes it within four years, beginning his internship after he takes his boards.
1960's: Baron Strucker and HYDRA attack the hospital where Erik and Charles are working. Patients, including Gabby Haller, are abducted and the two young men go after them. It is during this time they show each other they are mutants, defeat HYDRA. Erik and Charles fight, and Erik leaves, taking the gold with him the Nazis were hiding.
Soon after he began working for Israel, likely under the Mossad, pushed in direction of CIA, where he hunts Nazi War Criminals while turning them over the Mossad, and keeping their gold, art work, and other stolen treasures. Some he returns to their owner's families, if the families still exist. Some, belonging to his own family, he keeps. During a hunt for Josef Mengele, he meet Isabelle Romao, a doctor. She becomes his physician, and later the two fall in love and she joins him while he continues his hunt. Isabelle is murdered in retaliation for his working for Mossad and Magneto is born.
For years he wages small 'war', fighting much as he did in the Ghetto's - a guerrilla fight against people he no longer trusted to run the world. Sadly this included almost all of the human population. During this time he fought the original X-Men, and eventually, the new group, is deaged to an infant and reaged (during this time Dr Moira MacTaggert 'tinkered' with his DNA, fixed a problem that had been making him mentally unstable, although he has yet to forgive her) and it was during this time when he was attempting to force the world to surrender their nuclear armaments, he badly injuries thirteen year old Kitty Pride. He believes he has killed her and has, in fact, came close. This causes a crisis of conscious for Magneto, so much so, he was willing to allow Storm to kill him. He hands Kitty's body to Storm and flees, going into seclusion on an island he raised in the Bermuda Triangle. While there he meets Aleytys "Lee" Forrester, who later becomes his lover.
Soon after, with Charles Xavier dying, he asked him to step in as headmaster, which he did. During this time the Morlock Massacre occurs, the students were killed and resurrected, Magneto and Storm joined the Hellfire club, and for this and other reasons, his time as headmaster of the New Mutants came to an end.
Soon after Zaladane kidnapped him and Lorna Dane, leading to adventures in Antarctica. With SHIELD’s assistance, Magneto was able to stop her plans and killed her.
After this, he built Avalon, and had it destroyed.
Shortly after the ‘Magneto Protocols’ were enacted which blocked him from using his powers inside the net – blocking him from the planet. When he unleashed a worldwide EMP, fought the X-Men, ripped the adamantium from Wolverine’s bones and due to Xavier’s actions, Onslaught was born.
Astra kidnapped the comatose Magneto and created a clone named Joseph. During this time he was known as ‘Erik the Red’ and murdered George Odekirk. Afterward, he returned to his terrorist cause, blackmailing the world into giving him Genosha. In the end, when declaring war on the rest of the world, Wolverine got his revenge, and crippled him.
Due to his injuries, he was unable to protect Genosha from Cassandra Nova’s attack and believed to have perished. While a being known as Xorn posed as Magneto, he quietly recovered on Genosha.
Fall 1928: Born firstborn son to Jakob and Edie Eisenhardt, named Maximillian ‘Max’ Eisenhardt, the second child (Ruthie, born 1926) in Bavaria, Germany - it's highly likely the family lived in Nürnberg as they still lived there nine years later. Though various art clues and as a nod to various people in Marvel, I'll given him the birthday of October 31.
The Eisenhardt family was fairly well off, and well integrated, Reform Jews, and part of a very large extended family on both sides. Jakob had fought in ‘The Great War’ and was a well decorated soldier saving the life of a Major Jurgen Scharf, later in life he was a civil servant, while most of the other family where jewelers.
15 September 1935: Nuremberg Laws passed causing some hardship for the family, young Max in school (often bullied by the other students and even some of the teachers and headmaster - a very poor athlete he was an exceptionally gifted student in academia), Jakob loses his job but believes his status as a war hero and a good German will protect them, and Erich is attacked for his relationship with a German woman.
Summer of 1936 (prior to the Berlin Olympics): Jakob takes Max to Berlin by train to meet with Major Scharf and try to get his job back. Jakob is arrested by the Gestapo and badly beaten. Major Scharf knocked Max to the ground, nearly knocking him unconscious, and leaving him in a crumbled heap on the sidewalk. Many hours later, Major Scharf brings Jakob out, declaring the Gestapo would have killed him without his intervention, and they are now even. Jakob and Max return home by train. Around this time, Max is also expelled from school - it's hinted but not stated outright that this was the first use of his powers, making the end of his formal education for some time.
1936-1938: Over the next two years, Max becomes increasingly streetwise and quick, stealing and scavenging for food and money, and often becoming involved in street fights. It's highly likely that at least one of the boys he fought with died due to Max's style of attacking. Rather than being out-right punished for his behavior, his father understands but tries to get his son to 'play by the rules' so to speak, understanding the boy is only trying to help, motivated by his mother's tears and worry, his sister's ill health.
9th - 10th November 1938: Kristallnacht. The family at first shelters in their apartment, but once their Shul is attacked, they flee. Jakob at first wants to take up arms in defense of the sacred space, but is stopped by Erich. Max is left to guard and protect his mother and sister, as well at taking point for their flight.
11 November 1938: Family Jakob, Edie, uncle Erich, Ruth, and Max flee Germany to Poland, where they are forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. There, unknown to each other, Max and his Uncle Erich become smugglers. They are both quite successful even though the Eisenhardt family, Ruthie in particular, are suffering the effects of starvation. Edie and Ruthie are very frail, eventually Ruthie is not allowed to leave their apartment for her protection, and Max often feeds her after their mother cooks to hep her save her strength. Despite his deep love for his family, Max shows a strong protection for all his 'people', especially those weaker and younger than himself. At one instance, when Max witnesses a Nazi kill a Jew, he attempts to go after him with a penknife. He is stopped by his Uncle Erich, who tells him that if he had been able to succeed, many of their people would have died.
19 April, 1943 - 16 May, 1943: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Uncle Erich stays behind to fight in the Uprising. Young Max wants to join the combat, but is convinced to go with his mother, father, and sister, told they need him and wouldn't be able to make the trip without him once again taking up point. (Max is stated to still be fourteen at this point.) This night, young Max gets a life lesson from his father. “You were too YOUNG to hear all that. Ach, you're STILL too young. But Max. Max...Sometimes in this life...you get a MOMENT. A time when everything lines up. When anything is possible. When suddenly...you can make things happen. God help us if we TAKE that moment. And God FORGIVE us if we DON'T. My beautiful son...” This sticks with him in ways his father did not mean to occur. This is one night that has stuck very firmly in Magneto's psyche and is an important part of his history.
April 1943: Jakob, Edie, and Ruth killed by Nazis in mass shooting, captured by Erich's former lover turning them over to the Nazis to save her mother. While Jakob surrendered immediately, Max attempted to flee and was brutally beaten by the Einsatzgruppen. Max survived, thanks to his powers, but it left him unconscious, and he was buried alive. He dug his way out, and attempted to flee but was captured.
May 1943: Arrival at Auschwitz II-Birkenau – Max is told by his former headmaster to lie about his age, stating he is eighteen. This saves his life, he was only fourteen at the time. When another boy confesses to being fourteen, he is taken outside and shot, something the others inside the barracks overhear.
June 1943: Became Sonderkommando to escape the ‘attention’ of a man, who Magneto recalled as playing a piece of music by Franz Schubet. He worked with Mengele, and was called ‘Nosferatu’ by the children, due to him being so pale and always asking for blood.* It was there he found the bodies of those the man had chosen, mutated into monsters. Magneto would spend years post-war searching for him, but never found him. Sonderkommando typically only lived between three and six months, with some who had 'special skills' living upwards of a year. Max's survival was entirely based on how useful he was.
(*This conflicts with Magneto: Testament but follows as canon was laid out in Excalibur vol 3 and older canon text. Testament puts his placement on the squads as random.)
2-3 August, 1944: "Gypsy Family Camp" murdered – Magda (13) moved to a different camp by Max (15), by trading favors*. He had been a smuggler in the Ghetto, he continued this trade inside the camps. Years later, Kitty Pride was told how he had saved lives smuggling food and medicine to those in the camp. Moving Magda cost him a lot, and by entrusting her into his care, as far as the other Roma where concerned, her father consented to their marriage.
(*Some conflict within canon. One source states he smuggled her into another part of Auschwitz, another to another camp all together. I combine the two sources - movement to another camp during this event.)
7 October, 1944: Sonderkommando revolt. Three members of the SS were killed and 451 of the Sonderkommando. Max escaped death this day. Magda was found returned to the camp and it was Max's attempt to save her which rushed the revolt. In the chaos of the revolt, Max moved her into the Jewish Woman's Camp and bribed for her safety, with gold he pulled from the teeth of bodies. (In one canon they both escaped that day but this contradicts with multiple other statements in canon.)
19 January 1945: Max and Magda escape Auschwitz II as the camp was being shut down by the Nazi forces by rushing into the woods and through a hole in the fencing while the guards were busy. Max also killed a guard on their way out. One foot, ill, weakened, and near death, they travel to the Carpathians, where Magda still have family.
Spring of 1945: Max and Magda arrive in a Carpathian Mountain village in the Ukraine, the Roma community considers Max and Magda wed – Max begins working/learning a trade in construction, while studying at home to make up for his lack of education. Max changed his first name to ‘Erik’ in part to honor his uncle and in part to better fit in with the local population.
Fall of 1946: Erik and Magda Eisenhardt marry in town hall.
Late Spring of 1947: Anya Eisenhardt born, named after Magda’s mother. Erik calls her his talisman, his hope. After all he’s lost, he has blood kin now, and she is his hope for the future, physical proof that things MUST be better now.
Late Spring/Early summer of 1949: Eisenhardt family moves to Vinnytsia, in part so Erik can further his education.
Erik takes a day labor’s job and is cheated out of half his pay. After a fight with his (former) employer in which he accidentally uses his powers to fling a crow bar, he returns home. The man calls the KGB and informs the towns’ people. Magda was at market while Anya slept in the inn where they were staying. When the couple arrives home, their find their home aflame, their baby still inside. Although Erik attempts to get inside, his way is blocked by the KGB, and he is brutally beaten while the building – and his child – burns. When Anya’s corpse hits the streets, Erik uses his powers in a big way – destroying much of that section of town and killed, in fact vaporized, all but two people in a multi block radius – himself and Magda. Unable to fully control his powers, he reaches for her hand, meaning to take it and flee, but an arc of magnetic lightening shoots off and Magda thought he meant to kill her too. She fled, leaving him alone with the body of their child. He scooped up Anya’s body and fled, hearing more soldiers. In the woods, in ground still cold, he buried her, alone and unmarked, before the KGB managed to catch up. There he turned their own guns on them and continued to flee.
Later that year, he takes name of ‘Erik Magnus Lehnsherr’ and had paper work forged by George Odekirk and begins search for Magda.
(January marks the birth of the twins and Magda's death soon after.)
1953: He moves to Israel, claiming he needs to find his soul after searching so long for Magda and begins working as an orderly at a psych hospital in Haifa, met Charles Xavier. There, under the urging of Xavier and other doctors, he begins medical school and completes it within four years, beginning his internship after he takes his boards.
1960's: Baron Strucker and HYDRA attack the hospital where Erik and Charles are working. Patients, including Gabby Haller, are abducted and the two young men go after them. It is during this time they show each other they are mutants, defeat HYDRA. Erik and Charles fight, and Erik leaves, taking the gold with him the Nazis were hiding.
Soon after he began working for Israel, likely under the Mossad, pushed in direction of CIA, where he hunts Nazi War Criminals while turning them over the Mossad, and keeping their gold, art work, and other stolen treasures. Some he returns to their owner's families, if the families still exist. Some, belonging to his own family, he keeps. During a hunt for Josef Mengele, he meet Isabelle Romao, a doctor. She becomes his physician, and later the two fall in love and she joins him while he continues his hunt. Isabelle is murdered in retaliation for his working for Mossad and Magneto is born.
For years he wages small 'war', fighting much as he did in the Ghetto's - a guerrilla fight against people he no longer trusted to run the world. Sadly this included almost all of the human population. During this time he fought the original X-Men, and eventually, the new group, is deaged to an infant and reaged (during this time Dr Moira MacTaggert 'tinkered' with his DNA, fixed a problem that had been making him mentally unstable, although he has yet to forgive her) and it was during this time when he was attempting to force the world to surrender their nuclear armaments, he badly injuries thirteen year old Kitty Pride. He believes he has killed her and has, in fact, came close. This causes a crisis of conscious for Magneto, so much so, he was willing to allow Storm to kill him. He hands Kitty's body to Storm and flees, going into seclusion on an island he raised in the Bermuda Triangle. While there he meets Aleytys "Lee" Forrester, who later becomes his lover.
Soon after, with Charles Xavier dying, he asked him to step in as headmaster, which he did. During this time the Morlock Massacre occurs, the students were killed and resurrected, Magneto and Storm joined the Hellfire club, and for this and other reasons, his time as headmaster of the New Mutants came to an end.
Soon after Zaladane kidnapped him and Lorna Dane, leading to adventures in Antarctica. With SHIELD’s assistance, Magneto was able to stop her plans and killed her.
After this, he built Avalon, and had it destroyed.
Shortly after the ‘Magneto Protocols’ were enacted which blocked him from using his powers inside the net – blocking him from the planet. When he unleashed a worldwide EMP, fought the X-Men, ripped the adamantium from Wolverine’s bones and due to Xavier’s actions, Onslaught was born.
Astra kidnapped the comatose Magneto and created a clone named Joseph. During this time he was known as ‘Erik the Red’ and murdered George Odekirk. Afterward, he returned to his terrorist cause, blackmailing the world into giving him Genosha. In the end, when declaring war on the rest of the world, Wolverine got his revenge, and crippled him.
Due to his injuries, he was unable to protect Genosha from Cassandra Nova’s attack and believed to have perished. While a being known as Xorn posed as Magneto, he quietly recovered on Genosha.