Max Heinrich Maurenbrecher was a German publicist, pastor and politician.
Career
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.
Maurenbrecher was an admirer of Friedrich Nietzsche, who greatly influenced his thinking.
Politics
He left the Social Democratic Party of Germany 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.
Membership
Maurenbrecher then became a member of that party"s rival, the Social Democratic Party.