Max Fritzsche (Mayor)

Christian Adolf Max Fritzsche , mostly just Max Fritzsche , rarely also Fritsche († 20th century in Dresden ) was a German lawyer , notary and politician in German South West Africa .

Fritzsche entered South West Africa in 1906.

Fritzsche is considered the first mayor (1909/10) of Windhoek , today's capital of Namibia . From 1910 to 1915 he was appointed member of the National Council and from 1911 to 1915 consul of Belgium . As a member of the Windhoek Advisory Council , Fritzsche campaigned primarily for the rights of people of German descent vis - à - vis South Africa in the early 1920s.

Possible mix-up

Max Fritzsche is possibly to be confused with Amandus Fritzsche (or Fritsche ; 1877–1939). At the same time (1909) he was the first mayor of Klein Windhoek . Fritzsche was a bricklayer for the railway administration of German South West Africa and is buried in the Gammams cemetery in Windhoek.

Fritzsche-Strasse in Windhoek is named after one of the two . One of the descendants is Waltraut Fritzsche, who heads the Namibia Scientific Society (as of 2020).

Individual evidence

↑ Fritsche, Max. Archive Guide for German Colonial History. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Biographies, F. Klaus Dierks . Retrieved August 18, 2020.
^ Mayors - running the Capital City. Namibian Sun, July 11, 2011.
↑ Notice. Lüderitzbuchter Zeitung, Volume 2, No. 13, March 26, 2010.
↑ Sean Andrew Wempe: Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019, ISBN 978-0-19-090721-1 , p. 96.
↑ Fritsche, Amandus. Archive Guide German Colonial History. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
^ Windhoek The capital of Namibia. Namibweb. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
↑ FRITZSCHE Amandus 1877-1939. eGGSA Library. Retrieved July 29, 2020.

personal data
SURNAME	Fritzsche, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fritzsche, Christian Adolf Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German MP, lawyer and notary in German South West Africa
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1906
DATE OF DEATH	after 1923
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Fritsche, Max. Archive Guide for German Colonial History. Retrieved August 18, 2020.

[dierksF-2] Biographies, F. Klaus Dierks . Retrieved August 18, 2020.

[3] Mayors - running the Capital City. Namibian Sun, July 11, 2011.

[4] Notice. Lüderitzbuchter Zeitung, Volume 2, No. 13, March 26, 2010.

[5] Sean Andrew Wempe: Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019, ISBN 978-0-19-090721-1 , p. 96.

[6] Fritsche, Amandus. Archive Guide German Colonial History. Retrieved August 18, 2020.

[7] Windhoek The capital of Namibia. Namibweb. Retrieved August 18, 2020.

[8] FRITZSCHE Amandus 1877-1939. eGGSA Library. Retrieved July 29, 2020.