Fritz Maxin
Fritz Wilhelm Maxin (17 July 1885 – 5 March 1960) was a German politician and lay preacher.
Fritz Maxin | |
|---|---|
| Reichstag | |
| In office 1921–1924 | |
| Constituency | East Prussia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 17, 1885 Wichrowitz, East Prussia, Imperial Germany |
| Died | March 5, 1960 (aged 74) Stade, Western Germany |
| Political party | DNVP |
Biography
Maxin was born into a peasant family in the Masurian village of Wichrowitz (today Wichrowiec, Poland), where he visited school and worked on his family's farm. He married in 1913 and became engaged as a lay preacher of the gromadki-movement in the East Prussian Lutheran Prayer Community (Ostpreußischer Lutherischer Gebetsverein).[1]
After World War I he joined the German National People's Party (DNVP) and was elected as deputy of the Constituency 1 (East Prussia) to the Weimar German Reichstag. Maxin was a member of the Reichstag in 1921 till 1924 and became the Chairman of the Wichrowitz commune and member of the district parliament of Neidenburg.[2]
After the Nazis took over power in Germany in 1933, his citizens involvement was prohibited and Maxin joined the oppositional old-Prussian Confessing Church in 1934. He became a member of the Brethren Council of Confessing Church and organized Lutheran youth camps and Church services on his farm, which caused permanent supervision by the Gestapo. [1][2][3]
In 1945 Maxin fled to Western Germany, where he died in Stade in 1960.
References
- Andreas Kossert: Masuren. Ostpreussens vergessener Süden, 2001, p. 336.
- Martin Jend, Helmut Kowalewski, Marc Patrik Plessa (Hg.): Festschrift für Bernhard Maxin zum 80. Geburtstag. Schriften der Genealogischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neidenburg und Ortelsburg Nr. 18, Seeheim-Malchen, 2008
- Hugo Linck: Der Kirchenkampf in Ostpreussen, 1933 bis 1945: Geschichte und Dokumentation. 1968, S. 139