Max Bock (politician, 1885)
Max Woldemar Gustav Eduard Bock (* April 4, July 16 / April 16, 1885 greg. In Reval ; † April 28, 1949 in Reicholzried ) was a politician of the German minority in Estonia and a member of the German-Baltic Party in Estonia (DbPE) .
Life and education
Max Bock was a son of the doctor Dr. med. Julius Bock (born February 6, 1827 in Reval) and his wife Alice, born Kampf (born February 4, 1862 Hamburg). After attending the Nikolai grammar school in Reval and graduating from high school in 1905, Max Bock studied medicine from 1905–1908 and law from 1908–1910 at the University of Dorpat . He then worked in 1908 in Euseküll (today: Õisu ) and 1909-1910 in Sontack ( Soontaga ) in Livonia as a private tutor. From 1910 to 1912 he continued his law studies at the Demidow Lyceum in Yaroslavl and graduated from the 1st degree. From 1912 to 1939 he worked as a lawyer in Reval.
politics
From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the Estonian Maapäev (Landtag). He was elected to parliament in the summer of 1917 by the urban Estonian Germanness. He was also successful in the election for the Asutav Kogu , the constituent assembly in 1919. In parliament he was chairman of the parliamentary group of the German-Baltic Party in Estonia, a task that he also held in the Riigikogu from 1920 . As spokesman for the German minority, he was there from December 1921 on representing the German position in the deliberations of the Estonian Cultural Autonomy Act. He was a member of parliament until 1923.
Further life
On October 20, 1939 he married Artha Marie née Granström, widowed Willingen (born January 9, 1895 in Yalta / Crimea). As part of the relocation of the German ethnic group forced by the Hitler-Stalin Pact , he had to move from Reval to Posen on March 8, 1940 . There he became a German citizen on March 14, 1940 through naturalization . From 1940 to 1945 he was a commissioned judge and district judge in Leslau im Warthegau . After the end of the war, he fled to Reicholzried near Kempten (Allgäu) as a displaced person, where he spent the rest of his life.
literature
- Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945, Volume 1, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , pp. 123 .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Max Bock. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the Nikolaikirche in Reval (Estonian: Tallinna Niguliste kirik)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bock, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bock, Max Woldemar Gustav Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Estonian politician, member of the Riigikogu |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1949 |
| Place of death | Reicholzried |