Fritz Maxin

Fritz Wilhelm Maxin ( born July 17, 1885 in Wichrowitz, Circle Neidenburg; † March 5, 1960 in Stade ) was a German politician ( DNVP ).

Life and work

Maxin was born the son of a self-employed farmer. After attending elementary school in Wichrowitz he learned the trade of the farmer. Then he took over his father's estate in Wichrowitz district Neidenburg. In 1913 he married. As a member of the East Prussian Lutheran prayer Association Maxin stood in the service of ecclesial lay movement of Gromadki.

After the war Maxin joined the German National People's Party ( DNVP ). After re-election in the constituency 1 ( East Prussia ) on February 20 In 1921 Maxin on 7 March of the year later in the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic, a, where he remained until May 1924.

In the second half of the Weimar Republic, he was the municipal and district director and member of the county committee Neidenburg.

First, he harbored some time sympathy for the Nazi Party, starting in 1933 it however any public work was forbidden by the Nazis. From 1934, he joined the Confessing Church and was there as a layman member of the Brethren. On his estate he went ahead with Christian youth camps, and after the local church worship had ceased in Wichrowitz, they were transferred together with the children's services in his house. He had, among other things Contact Hans Joachim Iwand, the pietistic Community St. Chrischona ( Pilgermission ) and the web Auer Community Pastor Frederick Busch. He finally entered the permanent observation by the Gestapo.

1945 Maxin fled before the advancing Red Army from Wichrowitz to West Germany. In the 1950s, he wrote down his memories.