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Max Lynar Louden (1869-?) was a bigamist, and confidence man, and a spy for Germany during World War I.
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Biography
He was born in 1869 as Max Scheimangk in Staupitz, Germany. He studied at a military school but never graduated. He then migrated to the United States in 1890.
He at first passed himself off as Max de Chimang in Poughkeepsie, New York where he organized a Schützenbund and fled with the money he collected from a charity event.
On August 29, 1911 he got his license to marry Lalia Florence Allendorf.
In 1915 he was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to Sing Sing.
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