Fritz Maxin

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

Life

Maxin was born the son of a self-employed farmer. After attending primary school in Wychrowitz, he learned the trade of a farmer. Then he took over his father's estate in Wychrowitz in the Neidenburg district. In 1913 he married. As a member of the East Prussian Lutheran Prayer Association, Maxin served the church lay movement of the Gromadki.

After the war Maxin joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). After a new election in constituency 1 (East Prussia) on February 20, 1921, Maxin subsequently entered the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic on March 7, 1924, of which he was a member until May 1924.

In the second half of the Weimar Republic he was community and district chairman and member of the Neidenburg district committee.

At first he had sympathy for the NSDAP for some time, but from 1933 he was forbidden from any public relations work by the National Socialists. From 1934 he joined the Confessing Church and was there as a lay member of the Brotherhood Council . He had Christian youth camps held on his property, and after the local church services in Wychrowitz had ceased, they were moved to his house along with the children's services. Among other things, he had contact with Hans Joachim Iwand , the pietistic community of St. Chrischona ( pilgrim mission) and the Bahnau community around Pastor Friedrich Busch . This finally earned him permanent observation by the Gestapo .

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ingrid Laufer: Heads of the home. Collection of descriptions of the lives of people who lived and worked in our homeland - excerpts from Neidenburger Heimatbriefe since 1953. Self-published, 2003. With the obituary from Heimatbrief No. 31, p. 20, and the article Fritz W. Maxin, Hardichhausen , as an everyday Christian, farmer and expellee from the Heimatbrief No. 109, pp. 48–60 ( online , PDF file, 1.27 MB)
  2. ↑ a b c Andreas Kossert: Masuren. East Prussia's forgotten south. 2001, p. 336.
  3. ↑ a b c Andreas Kossert: Masuren. East Prussia's forgotten south. 2001, p. 337.
  4. ↑ http://www.bioparl.de/
  5. ↑ a b Martin Jend, Helmut Kowalewski, Marc Patrik Plessa (eds.): Festschrift for Bernhard Maxin on his 80th birthday. (PDF; 2.2 MB) Writings of the Genealogical Working Group Neidenburg and Ortelsburg No. 18, Seeheim-Malchen, 2008
  6. ^ Hugo Linck: The church struggle in East Prussia, 1933 to 1945: history and documentation. 1968, p. 139
  7. ↑ a b c d Fritz Maxin: Estate. Family property
personal data
SURNAME Maxin, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maxin, Fritz Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Wychrowitz near Janowo , Neidenburg district
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1960
Place of death Stade