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
ConstituencyEast Prussia
Personal details
Born(1885-07-17)July 17, 1885
Wichrowitz, East Prussia, Imperial Germany
DiedMarch 5, 1960(1960-03-05) (aged 74)
Stade, Western Germany
Political partyDNVP

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.

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gollark: I was thinking more about the fact that you can meddle with its functioning using magnets and whatnot.
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gollark: I'm not sure I would trust my brain to computers in any case, given the horrible security record of... most complex computer systems... which will likely only get worse as complexity increases. Though I suppose my foolish organic brain has its own (probably not remotely exploitable, at least?) security flaws.
gollark: SSDs are pretty dense. They're just expensive.

References
  1. Andreas Kossert: Masuren. Ostpreussens vergessener Süden, 2001, p. 336.
  2. 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
  3. Hugo Linck: Der Kirchenkampf in Ostpreussen, 1933 bis 1945: Geschichte und Dokumentation. 1968, S. 139
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