Andreas Blunck

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Max Andreas Blunck (born December 20, 1871 in Krempe , † April 12, 1933 in Aumühle ) was a German politician of the DDP .

Andreas Blunck

Life and work

1894: Certificate of admission as a Hamburg citizen

Andreas Blunck was the second of eight children of a brimmed dealer. He had been married to Emma Reimers from Eltersdorf near Krempe since 1904 and had five children.

After graduating from high school in Glückstadt , Blunck, who was a Protestant , studied law and the Chinese language in Berlin from 1890 onwards . He earned his studies u. a. as an auxiliary stenographer in the Reichstag and in the Prussian House of Representatives . After the first legal examination and the diploma examination in the Chinese language, he applied in April 1894 to the Foreign Office for the interpreting service at the imperial authorities in China .

Since he did not receive an immediate confirmation, he joined the Hamburg judicial service as a trainee lawyer in May 1894 . But he had the Hamburg civil rights purchase for thirty marks the Hamburg civic oath pay and so Hamburgischer national will. Then he served as a one-year volunteer with the Second Hanseatic Infantry Regiment. In December 1895 and October 1897, his request for the interpreting service remained unsuccessful.

After completing his doctorate in Jena , he worked as a lawyer in Hamburg from 1898 with the law firm Dr. Hermann Samson and Dr. Julius Lippmann. From 1913 to 1933 he was on the supervisory board of H. Maihak AG in Hamburg. In early 1932 he had to give up his legal practice because of a stroke .

MP

On January 1, 1900, Blunck became a member of the Eimsbüttel citizens' association and soon after took over the chairmanship of the association. In 1904 he was elected as a candidate for the Eimsbüttel citizens' association in the Hamburg citizenship . He joined the faction on the left . After the so-called electoral robbery of 1906, in which the electoral law in the Hanseatic city was changed in favor of the higher earners, he formed the faction of the United Liberals together with twelve others . He was in the citizenry until 1919.

With the Reichstag election in 1912 , Blunck became a member of the Progressive People's Party for the constituency of Tondern - Husum - Eiderstedt . In 1918 he participated in the founding of the DDP . He was one of the Weimar National Assembly on (14th constituency: Province of Schleswig-Holstein and to Oldenburg associated Principality of Luebeck ). In the 1920 Reichstag elections , the elections in the 14th constituency were postponed due to the referendum in the Duchy of Schleswig as stipulated in the Versailles Peace Treaty and therefore Blunck was still a member of the Reichstag until the by-election on February 20, 1921 with the transitional provision §38 of the Reich Election Act of April 27, 1920 . That day was the new election of the Prussian state parliament.

His specialty was tax policy . But he also commented on immigration in 1913 when the Reichstag was deliberating on the Reich and Citizenship Act: " Germany today is actually largely dependent on the immigration of foreign population forces, we all know this from the statistics ".

Public offices

On September 8, 1913, Blunck was sent to Haiti by the Foreign Office for several months to represent German interests in Haiti before an arbitration tribunal whose chairman was appointed by the King of Belgium . For this he was awarded the Order of the Crown by Kaiser Wilhelm II .

After the end of the Kapp putsch , Eugen Schiffer was no longer accepted by the left as a member of the cabinet because he had negotiated with the Kapp government. After the resignation of the Bauer cabinet , Blunck was appointed to the Müller cabinet as Reich Justice Minister on March 27, 1920 and had to deal with the criminal law side of the Kapp Putsch. There were sharp arguments in the National Assembly, especially with the legal scholar Wilhelm Kahl from the DVP . The Müller cabinet resigned after less than three months of government activity, as the first Reichstag elections on June 6, 1920 significantly strengthened the right.

Arrested by the workers 'and soldiers' council

On December 8, 1918, Blunck was arrested by the Hamburg Workers 'and Soldiers' Council on suspicion of the counter-revolution and released after two days with the support of Hermann Samson.

Paul Frölich at the founding party conference of the KPD on December 31, 1918: “ A Dr. Blunck, a member of the Reichstag who took part in counterrevolutionary movements, no longer belongs in public, and I give the assurance that if we had had things in hand, we would have had to decide, he would never have been released until the revolution was secured was . "

Flyer , quoted in the article “ An alleged counter-revolutionary putsch in Hamburg - arrest of the Reichstag deputy Dr. Blunck and seven other suspects ”in the General-Anzeiger for Hamburg-Altona on December 9, 1918

The counter-revolution is working feverishly!

A group of political adventurers decided to arrest the following members of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council and other prominent revolutionaries for the night from Sunday to Monday: Laufenberg , Heise, Herz , Kalweit, Siemer, Ms. Halbe , Schneider, Frölich , Dittmann, Schädlich, Scheible, Lamp'l , Lindau and Settler.

All preparations had been made in detail. A leaflet should be distributed in huge numbers. It was intended to mislead the masses and gather the full force of the counter-revolution. The revolutionary working class should be crushed at gunpoint. Misguided soldiers were to be used for the assassination. After a successful prank, they wanted to reinstate the old forces.

The Workers 'and Soldiers' Council immediately took its measures. He dug the conspiratorial nest. The tools of the counter-revolutionaries are under arrest. There are

Abter, editor of the Hamburg Correspondents ,
Freund and Wolf, former members of the press department of the workers 'and soldiers' council,
Zeller, former member of the workers 'and soldiers' council.

Behind them stand:

Baron von Steineck, captain lieutenant a. D.,
von Gerstein, director of the Lower Elbe power station,
Dr. Hansen, lawyer,
Dr. Blunck, former member of the Reichstag, member of the citizenry.

The seized papers show that around half a million marks were made available for the coup.

The workers 'and soldiers' council has decreed:

  • The security service is strengthened.
  • The plenum of the workers 'and soldiers' council meets on Monday from 9 a.m. in the town hall.
  • At 12 noon there is a combined meeting of the large workers 'council (general assembly) and the soldiers' councils (30th committee, delegates 'assembly and general assembly of all soldiers' councils in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area) in the large hall of the trade union building.
  • At 11 o'clock all troops gather on the Rathausmarkt.
  • At 7:30 a.m. mass meeting.

literature

Web links

Commons : Andreas Blunck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blunck family tree
  2. ↑ a b Hermann Samson in Hamburg
  3. ↑ a b c Association Gazette Eimsbüttel Citizens Association April 1933: Obituary Dr. Blunck
  4. ^ Coburger Zeitung January 14, 1912 election result and Coburger Zeitung January 24, 1912: result of the runoff election
  5. ^ Result of the 14th constituency: National Assembly 1919
  6. ^ Reichstag election 1920 postponement of the election in constituency 14 (province of Schleswig-Holstein) ; Reich Election Act April 27, 1920
  7. ^ Stenographic report of the Reichstag, 153rd session, May 28, 1913, p. 5286;
    Coburger Zeitung, May 30, 1913: German Reichstag. Meeting on May 28th
  8. ^ Coburger Zeitung, March 27, 1920: Resignation of the Reich government
  9. ↑ Confrontation with the deputy professor Kahl in the National Assembly:
    161st meeting, page 5142A 162nd meeting, page 5163D 170 meeting, page 5393A.
    Coburger Zeitung, April 17, 1920: Sharp disputes and
    Coburger Zeitung, April 27, 1920: Kahl versus Blunck for insulting professors with a quote from King Ernst August
  10. ^ Contribution to the discussion after the presentation by Rosa Luxemburg
  11. ^ A b Wilhelm Heise, from November 10, 1918 to December 23, 1918 Chairman of the Soldiers' Council. He replaced the sailor's mate Friedrich Zeller, who had taken power in Hamburg on November 6, 1918.
  12. ^ Biography of Ferdinand Kalweit . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
  13. ^ Biography of Henry Siemer . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
  14. ↑ Biography of Konstanz Schneider . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
  15. ^ Paul Dittmann, † May 30, 1919, brother of Wilhelm Dittmann
  16. ↑ Biography of Franz Schädlich . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
personal data
SURNAME Blunck, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blunck, Max Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (DDP), MdHB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH brim
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1933
Place of death Aumühle