Born in Jaroslaw (today in Poland). He was a descendant of musicians and continued their fame. Geiger studied violin in Zagreb and then in Vienna at the Wiener Musikakademie. He was concertmaster at the Komische Opera of Berlin (1907-1917) and also worked at the Carltheatre Wien, and was bandmaster of RAVAG (on his own show). He was also band master of Radio Warsaw and a composer of popular music for silent movies.
Geioger went on exile to India after the Anschluss (1938), where he founded and conducter the symphony orchestra for the Maharaja of Patiala. Max Geifger returned to Vienna after the WWII (1947).