German tourist killed in grisly hit-and-run was in NYC celebrating wedding anniversary with husband

The German tourist killed in a grisly Midtown hit-and-run was in the Big Apple with her husband to celebrate the couple’s anniversary, The Post has learned.

Alexandra Sabine Lewalter Maric, 50, took a luxury cruise to New York with her husband, 55-year-old Udo Lewalter, for their 23rd anniversary – only to meet with tragedy, friend Udo Meixer said.

“Alex was always cheerful and full of life,” Meixer, who knew the victim since she was 16, said in a phone interview in German, recalling the slain Apple employee as a loyal and devoted friend.

 “I never saw her have a bad day,” he said. “Throughout the years and decades it was always important for her to stay in touch. She never forgot a birthday and always congratulated me.”

He spoke to The Post just as Mohammed Abouzaid, 40, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of leaving the scene of an accident and failure to yield to pedestrians – with a judge shockingly setting bail at $25,000.

Abouzaid was backing up a Toyota minivan that he was living in when he crushed the tourist couple around 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday, leaving Lewalter Maric nearly decapitated and her husband hospitalized with a skull fracture, authorities said.

Abouzaid, who did not have a driver’s license, drove off after the horrific crash, but was arrested nearby.

Lewalter Maric, from the German town of Selb, was a music lover from a young age, and married her husband on Sept. 21, 2002, with the couple moving to Hamburg, Meixer said.

The two attended a concert by the band “The Kills” on Sunday to mark the anniversary.

Meixer, a journalist for the German outlet Nordbayerrischer Kurier, said the couple took a Virgin Cruise to the Big Apple.

“They both loved cruise ships and traveled to New York on that ship,” he said.