Adam Bock

Adam Bock (born November 21, 1832 in Aachen , † November 1, 1912 in Aachen) was a German politician of the German Center Party and a member of the Reichstag .

Adam Bock

Adam Bock (1832-1912). Photograph by Leopold Haase & Comp., Berlin around 1874

Life

Bock attended grammar school in Aachen until 1851 and then studied law and political science in Bonn and Heidelberg . He received his doctorate in Heidelberg as Dr. jur. Until 1866 he worked as a lawyer at the Aachen Regional Court . He then worked briefly for the governments in Aachen and Potsdam. However, Bock broke off his career as an administrative officer and successfully devoted himself to the management of a country estate. After his death he bequeathed his fortune to the city of Aachen.

From 1878 to 1898 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Aachen 2 ( Eupen , city and district of Aachen).

In 1867 he was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and from 1871 to 1897 to the Reichstag . There he was elected in the constituency administrative district Aachen 2 (administrative district Aachen-Eupen). In the Reichstag he was a co-founder of the center group.

From 1870, Bock was the papal secret chamberlain . Because of his services to his hometown, he was honored as an honorary citizen of Aachen. Adam Bock was a co-founder of the Palestine Association of German Catholics . Bock was also a board member of the German Association of the Holy Land .

He made an outstanding contribution to promoting art in Aachen.

His portrait, painted by Friedrich August von Kaulbach , which depicts him as a papal secret chamberlain and with the Order of Gregorius and which was most recently in the possession of the Suermondt Ludwig Museum in Aachen , has been lost since the end of the Second World War .

Remarks

^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 71 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3)
^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 182; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883, p. 113
↑ Bernd Haunfelder : Reichstag member of the German Center Party 1871-1933. Biographical handbook and historical photographs (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 4). Droste, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-5223-4 , p. 133, photo from the Aachen city archive p. 56.
↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 76, short biography p. 381.
^ Entry in the Lost Art database

literature

Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanac. 16th edition, 1887
Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1988
Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 .
Official Reichstag handbook, 9th legislative period 1893/98
Biographical yearbook and German necrology. List of the Dead 1912, Volume 18, 1913

Web links

Adam Bock in the database of members of the Reichstag
Adam Bock's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

personal data
SURNAME	Buck, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 1912
Place of death	Aachen

[1] Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 71 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3)

[2] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 182; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883, p. 113

[3] Bernd Haunfelder : Reichstag member of the German Center Party 1871-1933. Biographical handbook and historical photographs (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 4). Droste, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-5223-4 , p. 133, photo from the Aachen city archive p. 56.

[4] Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 76, short biography p. 381.

[5] Entry in the Lost Art database