Max Maddalena (17 January 1895 - 22 October 1943) was a German political activist and trades union leader whose political allegiance, after 1920, was to the recently launched Communist Party. After 1933 he emerged as an anti-government activist. Earlier, between 1928 and 1933 he served as a Member of Parliament (“Reichstagsmitglied”), but sources indicate that even during these crisis years his party work and trades union activism were more to the fore than any contributions that he made in the increasingly deadlocked Reichstag.