Wilhelm Maxen

Wilhelm Maxen (born July 30, 1867 in Hildesheim , † November 21, 1946 in Schellerten -Dingelbe) was a Catholic priest, German politician, member of the Center Party , member of the Prussian state assembly and member of the German Reichstag.

biography

The son of a master carpenter attended the Episcopal Gymnasium Josephinum Hildesheim and studied in Münster , where he became an active member of the Catholic student union Germania in the KV , and at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, where he was ordained a priest in 1894 with a doctorate in philosophy and the Graduated from theology.

From 1895 Maxen was active in pastoral care, school, club life, Caritas and popular education in Linden . Initially he was chaplain at the Ludwig Windthorst Memorial Church of St. Marien , but was soon released due to his diverse activities and in 1906 took over the pastor's office in St. Godehard in Linden, from where he became the pastor of St. Marien in March 1917 changed. He became district school inspector for the Catholic schools in Linden and Hameln . From 1898 to 1910 he was editor of the Hannoversche Volkszeitung and co-founder of the Christian trade unions in Linden. In 1917 he belonged to Frankfurt a. M. on the co-founders of the "Association of Catholic Student Chaplains for the German Language Area".

He was an active member of the Catholic Center Party in the largely Protestant province of Hanover . He advocated the idea of a non-denominational Christian party for the German Reich. The center (which was renamed the Christian People's Party for a short time ) also entered into several coalitions with the Protestant German-Hanoverian Party (DHP) in the province of Hanover for tactical reasons . In the election to the German National Assembly on January 19, 1919, Maxen took the place of DHP deputy Ludwig Alpers on the joint list of the DHP / Center in constituency 16 "Süd-Hannover" . Alpers had secured a seat in the National Assembly for the DHP in constituency 37 "Bremen-Hamburg".

Maxen's tombstone in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery, Hanover

In the constituent Prussian state assembly , he represented the center faction in the committee for population policy that had existed since February 28, 1920. On September 10, 1920, he resigned from the Prussian state assembly. He left the Reichstag early on December 1, 1921. In 1936 he became an honorary canon and cathedral chapter. He was an honorary philistine at the Hanover KV association Gothia and the Aachen KV association Grotenburg.

His grave is in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery in Hanover.

literature

Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians, 1919–1945 , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, p. 233
Franz Josef Wothe : Wilhelm Maxen . Hildesheim 1962
Josef Nowak: The Church in the Big City: Pastor Wilhelm Maxen , in ders .: More than a thousand years: Life pictures from the history of the Church of Hildesheim , Hildesheim: Bernward-Verlag, 19741
Hans-Georg Aschoff : For the sake of people. The development of the Catholic Church in the Hanover region . Bernward, Hildesheim 1983
Joachim Raffert : For Hildesheim and the center in the German Reichstag. Maxen, Offenstein and the others . In: Hildesheimer Jahrbuch für Stadt und Stift Hildesheim , published on behalf of the city of Hildesheim, Hildesheim: Stadtarchiv, ISSN 0944-3045, 1997
Thomas Scharf-Wrede : Wilhelm Maxen (1867-1946). Pastor - publicist - politician . In: Yearbook for History and Art in the Diocese of Hildesheim 77/78 (2009/2010), pp. 255–292

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Maxen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Wilhelm Maxen in the catalog of the German National Library
Wilhelm Maxen in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Jens Schmidt-Clausen: Maxen, Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 247.

personal data
SURNAME	Maxen, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH	November 21, 1946
Place of death	Rang out

[HBL-1] Jens Schmidt-Clausen: Maxen, Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 247.