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. 5

“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 arr

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