Johann von Bloch

Johann von Bloch

Johann von Bloch (born July 24, 1836 in Radom ; † January 7, 1902 in Warsaw ) ( Polish Jan Gotlib Bloch , Russian Иван Станиславович Блиох (Ivan Stanislavovič Blioch), English Ivan Bloch , French Jean de Bloch ) was a leading banker and Industrialist, railway pioneer in Poland and Russia, also known as the "Railway King".

Bloch was the author of the extensive study The Future of War in Technical, Economic and Political Relation , which thematically anticipated the devastating effects of modern military operations. In 1899 Bloch was the organizer of the Hague Peace Conference . In 1901 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was also the founder of the first museum for war and peace in Lucerne , Switzerland .

Works (selection)

• The war. Translation of the author's Russian work: The future war in its technical, economic and political significance. 6 volumes, Berlin 1899
  • Volume 1: Description of the war mechanism ( digitized version )
  • Volume 2: The land war ( digitized version )
  • Volume 3: The naval war ( digitized version )
  • Volume 4: The economic upheavals and material losses of the future war ( digitized version )
  • Volume 5: The Efforts to Eliminate War. The causes of the political conflict and the consequences of the losses ( digitalization )
  • Volume 6: The Mechanism of War and its Effects. The question from the international court of arbitration ( digitized version ).

• Ivan Stanislavovich Bloch, William Thomas Stead (transl.): The future of war in its technical, economic, and political relations. From the Russ. 1899
  • Excerpts in English: Modern weapons and modern war. Being an abridgment of “The War of the Future…”. First in 1890. Several reprint publishers in facsimile, e. B. Kessinger , Whitefish 2008, ISBN 143714666X .

literature

• Manfred Sapper : Overcoming the war. Jan Bloch: entrepreneur, publicist, pacifist . In: Osteuropa 8-10 (2008), pp. 303-312 ( digitized version ).
• D. Zimmerli: The International War and Peace Museum in Lucerne. In: Schweizer Illustrierte , Vol. 6, 1902, pp. 361–366.

Web links

Wikisource: Johann von Bloch  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Johann von Bloch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Johann von Bloch in the catalog of the German National Library
• How a Russian oligarch predicted the modern war
• The Jan Bloch Foundation
• War and Peace in the Museum (pdf) (15.16 MB)
• Jörg Wollscheid: "Postmodern War" (pdf) (4.07 MB) pages 62–71

Individual evidence

1. ^ A Museum of Peace and War; Interesting Collections Donated by M. de Bloch Just opened to the Public. in the New York Times on Sunday, June 29, 1902.