Max Bock (politician, 1888)

Max Bock (born December 31, 1888 in Pennewitz , Thuringia , † August 20, 1953 ) was a Hessian politician ( SPD ) and member of the Hessian state parliament .

After elementary school, Max Bock completed an apprenticeship as a blacksmith. From 1907 he was politically organized, a member of the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV) and 1919–1921 union secretary in Eisenach . After further training in the years 1921/22 at the newly founded Academy of Labor in Frankfurt (Main) , Bock was union secretary in Herborn and Saarbrücken and a member of the state executive committee of the SPD in the Saar region for the next six years until 1928 . In 1933 he was relieved of the position of union secretary and he went back to Saarbrücken, where he took over the management of the DMV until 1935, after the Saar referendum , the Saar area fell back to the German Reich. Before that, he had actively campaigned against the return of the Saar region to the German Reich in accordance with the policy of the Social Democratic Party of the Saar region .

Bock fled to Luxembourg and organized the national association of the "Foreign Representation of the German Trade Unions" there until the Anschluss of Luxembourg in June 1940. He was not only in contact with several resistance groups in the Reich, but he also kept in touch with several important trade union emigrants such as Fritz Tarnow , Heinrich Schliestedt and Hans Jahn . At the beginning of June 1940 he was arrested and sentenced by the Hamm Higher Regional Court to three years in prison for "preparing to commit high treason" in connection with his illegal resistance activities against the Nazi regime . Bock was imprisoned in Altenhagen near Bielefeld from 1941 to 1944, in the Buchenwald concentration camp from January to October 1944 and then in the Neuengamme concentration camp until liberation by the British troops .

From January 1946 Bock worked full-time again for the trade unions in Frankfurt am Main and became a member of the national executive committee of IG Metall . He was actively involved in rebuilding the trade unions in Hesse. From December 1, 1950 to August 20, 1953 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament.

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• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 214 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 79.
• Siegfried Mielke : Max Bock (1888–1953) , In: Siegfried Mielke, Stefan Heinz (ed.) With the collaboration of Julia Pietsch: Emigrierte Metallgewerkschafter in the fight against the Nazi regime (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 3). Metropol, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-210-7 , pp. 88-104.
• Wolfgang Röll : Social Democrats in Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1937–1945 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

• Bock, Max. Hessian biography. (As of August 20, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).