| Fritz Maxin | |
| Birth Date: | 17 July 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Wichrowitz, East Prussia, Imperial Germany |
| Death Place: | Stade, Western Germany |
| Office: | Reichstag |
| Term Start: | 1921 |
| Term End: | 1924 |
| Constituency: | East Prussia |
| Party: | DNVP |
Fritz Wilhelm Maxin (17 July 1885 - 5 March 1960) was a German politician and lay preacher.
Maxin was born into a peasant family in the Masurian village of Wichrowitz (today Wichrowiec, Poland), where he visited school and worked on his family's farm. He married in 1913 and became engaged as a lay preacher of the gromadki-movement in the East Prussian Lutheran Prayer Community (Ostpreußischer Lutherischer Gebetsverein).[1]
After World War I he joined the German National People's Party (DNVP) and was elected as deputy of the Constituency 1 (East Prussia) to the Weimar German Reichstag. Maxin was a member of the Reichstag in 1921 till 1924 and became the Chairman of the Wichrowitz commune and member of the district parliament of Neidenburg.[2]
After the Nazis took over power in Germany in 1933, his citizens involvement was prohibited and Maxin joined the oppositional old-Prussian Confessing Church in 1934. He became a member of the Brethren Council of Confessing Church and organized Lutheran youth camps and Church services on his farm, which caused permanent supervision by the Gestapo.[1] [2] [3]
In 1945 Maxin fled to Western Germany, where he died in Stade in 1960.