Max Maurenbrecher

Max Maurenbrecher (17 July 1874 – 30 April 1929) was a German politician and pastor from Königsberg. He served as a pastor in the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces until 1907. From 1909 to 1916 he preached for the free religious congregations in Nuremberg and Mannheim. In 1917 he rejoined the evangelical church and became a minister in Dresden.

Originally a member of the Christian Social Party, he left that party in 1898 and became one of the founders of Friedrich Naumann's National-Social Association, a party that sought to challenge the Social Democrats by addressing class inequity from a Protestant, non-Marxist perspective; the party succeeded in winning only one seat in the Reichstag, in 1903, before dissolving. Maurenbrecher then became a member of that party's rival, the Social Democratic Party. He left the SPD in 1916 in a dispute over increasing the military budget, joined the conservative German Fatherland Party in 1917, and finally joined the German National People's Party after the war.

Maurenbrecher was a great admirer of Friedrich Nietzsche, and his thinking was heavily influenced by that author.

See also

• Evangelical Social Congress (for which Maurenbrecher was a secretary)

References

• Lothar Bily (1993). Bautz, Traugott. ed (in German). Maurenbrecher, Max. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 5. Herzberg. cols. 1051–1055. ISBN 3-88309-043-3. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/m/maurenbrecher.shtml. 

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Date of birth	17 July 1874
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Date of death	30 April 1930
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