Max Maurenbrecher

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Max Maurenbrecher

Max Heinrich Maurenbrecher (born July 17, 1874 in Königsberg , † April 30, 1930 in Osthausen ) was a German Protestant Reformed theologian and pastor as well as a political journalist and politician ( NSV , SPD , DVLP and DNVP ).

Life

Maurenbrecher comes from the old Düsseldorf postmaster family of the Maurenbrecher . He was the youngest son of the historian Wilhelm Maurenbrecher and his wife Mary. His brothers were the classical philologist Berthold Maurenbrecher and the actors Wilhelm and Otto Maurenbrecher . A second uncle - his father's cousin - was the left-liberal politician Eugen Richter .

Maurenbrecher studied at the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig until 1892 . He then studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Leipzig . After taking the second theological exam in 1898, he studied economics , philosophy and history in Leipzig . His teachers included Karl Bücher , Wilhelm Wundt and Karl Lamprecht . In 1898 he was with the dissertation Thomas' position relative to the economic life of his time to the Dr. phil. PhD . He was a member of the Association of German Students Leipzig (VDSt) and was in contact with Friedrich Naumann .

In 1898 he first became a religion teacher at the Zwickau secondary school. In 1906 he left the Protestant Church and in 1909 became a preacher of the free religious community in Nuremberg and from 1911 to 1916 in Mannheim . In 1917 he rejoined the Evangelical Church and in 1919 became pastor of the Evangelical Reformed Congregation in Dresden . After 1924 he was pastor in Mengersgereuth-Hammern , since 1929 in Osthausen.

Maurenbrecher had been a member of the National Social Association around Friedrich Naumann since 1899 . As a result, he became party secretary and editor of the weekly association publication Die Hilfe . After the association was dissolved, Maurenbrecher joined the Social Democratic Party in 1903, succeeding Paul Göhre , who had already taken this step three years earlier. He organized the "Lauensteiner Meetings" by Eugen Diederichs . On July 17, 1913, he left the SPD and in 1917 joined the German Fatherland Party and the Pan-German Association . In 1920/21 he was briefly a member of the Saxon State Parliament for the German National People's Party . From 1921 to 1924 he was editor of the Deutsche Zeitung, which is closely related to the Pan-German Association .

Maurenbrecher dealt with Adolf Hitler early on and met with him. In May 1921, Maurenbrecher noted Hitler's self-assessment: “He is probably the agitator who knows how to gather masses. But he is not the master builder who sees the plan and elevation of the new building pictorially clearly before his eyes and who is able to lay one stone on top of the other with calm firmness in creative work. He needs the bigger one, whose command he can lean on. ”In 1923 he accused Hitler of not only having lost his sense of proportion, but of having fallen victim to the“ devil of prima donna vanity ”.

Journalistic activity

In his publications, Maurenbrecher campaigned for socialism beyond the working classes of the population. He tried to link social, Christian and national ideas and is considered one of the pioneers of ethnic ideas and as a representative of the National Socialist ideology of German Christians . In his writings he took decidedly anti-Semitic positions. He was significantly influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche .

Fonts

  • Thomas' position on the economic life of his time . Leipzig 1898 (dissertation).
  • The educated and the social democracy . An extended lecture. Leipzig 1904.
  • The Hohenzollern legend. Cultural images from Prussian history from the 12th to the 20th century. Berlin 1905.
  • Biblical stories. Contributions to the historical understanding of religion . Berlin 1910.
  • From Nazareth to Golgotha. Investigations into the world-historical connections of early Christianity . Berlin 1909.
  • Socialism as a new level of religion . In: Religion and Socialism, Seven Lectures, held at the 5th World Congress on Free Christianity and Religious Progress, ed. by W. Schneemelcher, Berlin 1910
  • The pain. An examination of religion . Jena 1912.
  • Goethe and the Jews. Munich 1921; Reprint Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-9807552-0-7 .
  • The Savior of the Germans. The path of the nationality-creating church . Goettingen 1930.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inho Na: Social Reform or Revolution. Sociopolitical visions of the future in the Naumann district 1890–1903 / 04. Tectum, Marburg 2003, ISBN 3-82-888562-4 , p. 66 f.
  2. ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 85.
  3. ^ Hans Güldner, Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations : Directory of honorary members and old men. Gütersloh 1899, p. 33.
  4. ^ Dieter Fricke: National attempts to promote the crisis of the German social democracy. On the correspondence between Max Maurenbrecher and Friedrich Naumann 1910-1913 . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement . Berlin 25 Jg., 1983, No. 4, pp. 537-548, here p. 541. ISSN  0005-8068
  5. ^ Bavarian Courier, November 19, 1923
personal data
SURNAME Moorsbreaker, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maurenbrecher, Max Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1930
Place of death Osthausen-Wülfershausen