Friedrich Bloch

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Friedrich Bloch (born January 21, 1904 in Ballenstedt ; † April 10, 1996 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was Lord Mayor of Gera from 1945 to 1948.

Life

Bloch's father, Kurt Bloch, was a native Jew who had been baptized as a Christian as a student. He was a civil servant, tax councilor and from 1912 a member of the state parliament in the small principality of Reuss younger line ; In 1915 he fell on the Eastern Front of the First World War . Friedrich Bloch was the oldest of three children. He graduated from the Rutheneum high school in Gera and studied law and economics at the University of Jena from 1922 to 1925 . Among other things, he financed his studies by working as a construction worker and bank clerk. After completing his studies, he was employed as a trainee lawyer at the court in Gera from 1925 to 1929, at the same time he worked for the Gera city administration and for a lawyer. On January 31, 1930 he passed his assessor exam ; in the summer of 1930 he received his doctorate with a thesis on trade tax on liberal professions. He then worked for the Reich Finance Administration ; first in Thuringia ( Greiz ), later in Mannheim .

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists his profession has become increasingly difficult because of his Jewish ancestry. As the son of a war soldier , he was initially not affected by the law to restore the civil service ; on December 31, 1937, however, he was finally dismissed from civil service under the Reich Citizenship Act . He then worked from 1938 for a public accountant in Frankfurt am Main and in a tax office in Mannheim and Heidelberg . In 1944 he was bombed out with his family in Heidelberg.

After the end of the war, Bloch became district court director in Gera on July 10, 1945. On October 22, 1945, after Rudolf Paul was appointed President of the State of Thuringia, he was appointed Lord Mayor. The appointment of a successor to Paul brought discrepancies between the Soviet military administration in Thuringia (SMA) and the responsible local authorities. Before Bloch was appointed, the SMA had a Dr. Hübner was appointed mayor. In August 1946, Mayor Fritz Giessner and the Gera local branch of the SED, which had meanwhile been founded , submitted a petition to State President Paul against the appointment of Leopold Dietz (SED) as Lord Mayor by the SMA.

In addition to the rebuilding of the post-war years and the increasing influence of the communists, Bloch's term of office was also characterized by the problems of the numerous displaced persons and refugees, who briefly let the city's population rise to over 100,000 in November 1946. On September 8, 1948, Bloch announced his resignation, as he was appointed President of the Gera Regional Court. From 1949 he lived in Jena ; In 1950 he went to the Federal Republic.

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SURNAME Bloch, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician; Lord Mayor of Gera
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballenstedt
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1996
Place of death Berlin - Wilmersdorf