Background
Meebold worked at his father"s factory, in the Württembergische Cattunmanufactur.
Meebold worked at his father"s factory, in the Württembergische Cattunmanufactur.
He travelled to India three times, first in 1904, and to New Zealand for the first time in 1928. Meebold became a personal student of Rudolf Steiner. Between 1928 and 1938 he spent many months in Budapest, Hungary, where he worked at the first non-German-language Waldorf school in the world.
Meebold left Europe in 1938, intending to relocate to New Zealand.
He was detained in Hawaii because of World World War II, and was not able to leave Honolulu until after 1945. The Australian plant species Darwinia meeboldii is named in his honour, as are Acacia meeboldii, Geranium meeboldii and the genus Meeboldina.