Franz Heinrich Bock

Franz Heinrich Wilhelm Bock (born July 11, 1901 in Magdeburg , † 1964 in Bonn ) was a German administrative officer. Under his pseudonym Alexander Hohenstein , he was the author of the Wartheländisches Tagebuch .

Bock initially worked as an administrative officer in the Reich. In 1934 he joined the NSDAP . From 1940 to 1942 he was the mayor and commissioner of Poddębice in the German-occupied Poland . In 1942 Bock was expelled from the party. In 1948 denazification took place ; he was classified in group 3 (supporters of the NSDAP; those with minor stresses), after an appointment procedure in 1950 he was only classified as a “ fellow traveler ”. After the war he lived in Braunschweig .

Franz Heinrich Bock wrote detailed diary entries about his time in what was then the Warthegau . These were published in 1961 by the Munich Institute for Contemporary History and appeared under the pseudonym Alexander Hohenstein .

Fonts

Alexander Hohenstein (pseudonym for Franz Heinrich Bock ): Wartheländisches Diary from the years 1941/42 (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 8). Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1961, DNB 450513602 ; (= dtv [pocket books]. Vol. 99). Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1963, DNB 450513610 .

Movie

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe : He called himself Hohenstein. From the diary of a German official commissioner in occupied Poland 1940 to 42 (Germany, 1994, 90 min.).

Web links

Literature by and about Franz Heinrich Bock in the catalog of the German National Library
Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin: Witness literature online. ZS 1731, Bock, Franz-Heinrich (PDF file; 569 kB). Bock affidavit, October 15, 1959 regarding the deportation of Jews and gassing in Poland

Individual evidence

↑ Birth register of the StA Magdeburg-Altstadt, No. 1821/1901.
↑ Death register StA Bonn, No. 1567/1964.
↑ Sascha Feuchert , Erwin Leibfried , Jörg Riecke (eds.): The Chronicle of the Ghetto Lodz / Litzmannstadt . Volume 5: Supplement and Appendix. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89244-834-1 , p. 408.
↑ He called himself Hohenstein. From the diary of a German official commissioner in occupied Poland 1940–42. Film by Hans-Dieter Grabe on the occasion of the director's 80th birthday ( memento from March 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: phoenix.de, accessed on March 4, 2017 (film description).

personal data
SURNAME	Bock, Franz Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hohenstein, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	1964
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Birth register of the StA Magdeburg-Altstadt, No. 1821/1901.

[2] Death register StA Bonn, No. 1567/1964.

[3] Sascha Feuchert , Erwin Leibfried , Jörg Riecke (eds.): The Chronicle of the Ghetto Lodz / Litzmannstadt . Volume 5: Supplement and Appendix. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89244-834-1 , p. 408.

[4] He called himself Hohenstein. From the diary of a German official commissioner in occupied Poland 1940–42. Film by Hans-Dieter Grabe on the occasion of the director's 80th birthday ( memento from March 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: phoenix.de, accessed on March 4, 2017 (film description).