James K. Pollock
James Kerr Pollock (born May 25, 1898 in New Castle , Pennsylvania , † October 7, 1968 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American political scientist.
Career
Pollock studied at the University of Michigan and Harvard , where he received his Dr. phil. PhD. From 1921 on he taught history and politics at Geneva College , and from 1923 to 1925 political science at Ohio State University . In 1925 he returned as a lecturer at the University of Michigan and was made an associate professor there in 1927. From 1934 until his death he held a chair for constitutional law there. Pollock received several honorary doctorate hats. He was a member of the Republicans .
In 1935 he was named election commissioner for the USA in the referendum in the Saar region . After the end of the Second World War he was a direct employee of the military governor General Lucius D. Clay in the American zone of occupation in Germany and in this function he was the founder of the southern German state council in Stuttgart. In 1950 he returned to the Federal Republic again and was an advisor to the High Commissioner John Jay McCloy .
Honors
- 1956: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1960: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fonts (selection)
- What should happen to Germany? . 1947
- (Ed.): Change and Crisis in European Government . New York, NY: Rinehart & Comp. 1947
- Source Book in European Government . 1950
- British Election Studies . 1951
- (Mhrsg.): Germany in Power and Eclipse . New York: Macmillan, 1952
- (Ed.): German Democracy at Work . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1955
- Making Michigan's New Constitution . 1963
- Source Materials on the Government and Politics of Germany . 1964
- Ingrid Krüger-Bulcke (Ed.): Occupation and state building after 1945: occupation diary and private correspondence 1945-1948 . Munich: Oldenbourg, 1994
literature
- James K. Pollock , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 09/1969 of February 17, 1969, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Literature by and about James K. Pollock in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about James K. Pollock in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pollock, James K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pollock, James Kerr (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Castle , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th October 1968 |
| Place of death | Ann Arbor , Michigan |