Max Heinrich Maurenbrecher (17 July 1874 – 30 April 1929) was a German publicist, pastor and politician. He served as a pastor in the

Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces The Prussian Union of Churches (known under Prussian Union of churches#Status and official names, multiple other names) was a major Protestant Landeskirche, church body which emerged in 1817 from a series of decrees by Frederick William III of ...

until 1907. From 1909 to 1916, he preached for the free religious congregations in

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and

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. In 1917 he rejoined the evangelical church and became a minister in

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Life

Originally a member of the Christian Social Party, he left that party in 1899 and became one of the leading members of

Friedrich Naumann Friedrich Naumann (25 March 1860 – 24 August 1919) was a German Liberalism in Germany, liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. In 1896, he founded the National-Social Association that sought to combine liberalism, nationalism and ...

National-Social Association The National-Social Association (, NSV) was a political party in the German Empire, founded in 1896 by Friedrich Naumann. It sought to synthesise liberalism, nationalism and non-Marxism, Marxist socialism with Protestantism, Protestant Christian ...

, a party that sought to challenge the Social Democrats by addressing class inequity from a Protestant, non-

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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

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. He left the SPD in 1916 in a dispute over increasing the military budget, joined the conservative

German Fatherland Party The German Fatherland Party (, abbreviated as DVLP) was a short-lived far-right political party active in the German Empire during the last phase of World War I. It rejected the Reichstag Peace Resolution of July 1917, which called for a negoti ...

in 1917, and finally joined the

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after the war. Maurenbrecher was an admirer of

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, who greatly influenced his thinking.

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*''Goethe und die Juden'' (

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and the Jews), 1921,

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's Deutscher Volskverlag.

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Life

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