Career
He had three pen names: Max Felde, Fritz Holten and Andries van Straaden. His life is not very known. He started publishing several novels regularly from 1897 to 1917 in Der Gute Kamerad collections and he was the director of this publication after Wilhelm Speemann.
He also wrote patriotic tales during the Great War, and his novel about aeroplanes Das Aeromobil was very successful.