Albert Maier
Albert Maier (1860 Reutlingen – 1944 in Kornwestheim) was the founder of the German Christadelphians. Biography Maier had been a Methodist, but had become disillusioned with religion. Aged 22, he emigrated to Oregon USA and where he found work as an ironworker. His employer in Oregon, Thomas Rogers, was a Christadelphian who, seeing Maier distributing atheistic literature signed ‘a seeker after Truth’, invited him to his home. There they spent long hours discussing the Bible, and Maier realised that he had found what he was looking for. He was baptized by Rogers in November 1885. Maier returned to Obertürkheim in Stuttgart in the mid-1890s with the intention of preaching there, but found little interest so sold his house and prepared with his mother to emigrate permanently. He left two converts: 27-year-old Friedrich Weber (30 April 1899) and, in Schmalkalden near Kassel, Henriette Britzius, who with her husband emigrated to Birmingham, England and remained a bridge between British and German Christadelphians into her old age. Following the death of his mother in the USA, Maier returned to Germany, carrying his own translations of booklets by John Thomas and Robert Roberts, and Thomas Williams' book „Der Welt Erlösung” translated by A. H.