Peter Bloch

This article deals with the German politician, for the art historian and university professor see under Peter Bloch (art historian) , for the journalist see Peter Bloch (journalist) .

Peter Bloch (born May 30, 1900 in Berlin ; † July 20, 1984 ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Bloch's father was the Berlin bookseller Ludwig Bloch (1859–1939), his older brother was the Berlin MP and city elder of Berlin Werner Bloch (1890–1973). After high school he studied at the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg and the universities in Berlin and Leipzig . He received his doctorate in political science and then worked as a publishing bookseller . In 1938 he and his family moved from Berlin-Steglitz to a single-family home in Kleinmachnow . He temporarily participated in the war and was promoted from sergeant to sergeant in 1940. In 1943 he returned from military service to Kleinmachnow in the single-family house Wolfswerder 46 because of "incapacity for military service", but in 1945 he was drafted into the Volkssturm .

After the end of World War II , he was a leading member of the CDU in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945 until his expulsion in 1950 . From 1946 to April 1950 he was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament, where he was secretary and, from February 1948, chairman of the Committee for Reconstruction, Health and Resettlement. From May 1947 to March 1950 he was an assessor and deputy state chairman of the CDU Brandenburg. From July 1948 to May 1949 he was also a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet occupation zone . In March 1950 he fled from Kleinmachnow to West Berlin . In Kleinmachnow he lived with his wife and son in their own single-family house with a garden, but most recently in the street Im Kamp 14 and the family, like the whole town, could be reached via the Berlin telephone network.

From March 1959 to 1965 he worked as district mayor in the Steglitz district . From 1965 he held the office of Vice President of the Berlin State Association of the German Red Cross .

Peter Bloch was married to Charlotte Linienbach, born in 1901. The marriage resulted in two children, Horst Peter (* 1925) and Rosemarie (* 1926). The son Horst Peter Bloch († 1994) became an art historian and was head of the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin .

Peter Bloch died shortly after celebrating the Diamond Wedding (60 years). His final resting place - like the grave of his son Horst Peter - is in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

Peter Bloch's estate is in the Berlin State Archives . receive.

Honors

• 1965: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1983: Naming of a senior meeting place in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde

literature

• Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 872.
• Peter Bloch: Between hope and resignation. As CDU politician in Brandenburg 1945 - 1950 . Ed .: Siegfried Suckut . With a foreword by Johann Baptist Gradl , Cologne 1986; ISBN 978-3-8046-8673-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Bloch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Bloch Collection in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bloch, Ludwig , in: Joseph Walk : Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 37
2. ^ Berlin address book edition 1937, part I, p. 217, column 3; Bloch, Peter Dr., bookseller, Steglitz
3. ↑ Peter Bloch: Between Hope and Resignation. As CDU politician in Brandenburg 1945 - 1950 . Ed .: Siegfried Suckut . With a preface by Johann Baptist Gradl , Cologne 1986, p. 14; ISBN 978-3-8046-8673-1
4. ↑ Michael Richter: Die Ost – CDU 1948-1952. Between resistance and synchronization , Düsseldorf 1990, p. 407; ISBN 3-7700-0899-5
5. ↑ Peter Bloch: Between Hope and Resignation. As CDU politician in Brandenburg 1945 - 1950 , Cologne 1986, p. 181
6. ^ Official telephone book for Berlin, 1950 edition, published by the Magistrate of Greater Berlin, Post and Telecommunications Department, p. 45 column 2
7. ↑ Berlin's district mayor . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 1997, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 125 ( luise-berlin.de ).
8. ↑ Peter Bloch: Between Hope and Resignation. As CDU politician in Brandenburg 1945 - 1950 , Cologne 1986, p. 13
9. ↑ DNB 118931180
10. ↑ Estate of the Bloch family ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Landesarchiv Berlin, E Rep. 200-35. 
11. ↑ Senior citizens' home on Ostpreußendamm is given the name "Seniorenwohnheim Dr. Peter Bloch ” . In: Steglitzer Anzeiger , No. 38/1983