Max Ring (August 4, 1817 in Zauditz - March 28, 1901 in Berlin) was a German physician, novelist, poet, and dramatist.

[4] During the revolution in 1848, Ring took part in the political movement as a staunch democrat and was attacked with an anti-Semitic pamphlet by his opposition.

[4] Heinrich von Kleist was a German poet, who died with his lover Henriette Vogel in a suicide pact.

[5] Because of the nature of their deaths, Kleist and Vogel were denied church burial and were instead interred where they died and the gravesite fell into disrepair for most of the nineteenth century.

In 1941, Georg Minde-Pouet, a Nazi Kleist scholar and librarian, informed Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels that the quatrain on the tomb was written by a Jew, and Ring's words were removed.