Werner Bloch

Werner Bloch (born February 4, 1890 in Berlin , † August 20, 1973 in Bad Waldsee ) was a German SPD politician .

Werner Bloch's father was the Berlin bookseller Ludwig Bloch (1859–1939), his younger brother was the later district mayor of Berlin-Steglitz Peter Bloch . Werner Bloch graduated from high school and from 1910 studied philosophy, literature and physics, first at the Berlin University and later in Munich . There he received his doctorate in 1913 as Dr. phil. In 1914 Bloch returned to Berlin and worked in school from 1915, and from 1928 at the Karl Marx School in Berlin-Neukölln . With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was dismissed, but thanks to the support of the Jewish community in Berlin , he was able to become a teacher at a Jewish school in Sweden .

Werner Bloch's grave of honor in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

After the Second World War , Bloch first became head of the school system in the Wilmersdorf district , from 1946 he became a teacher and later from 1950 also director of the Paulsen Gymnasium in Berlin-Steglitz . In June 1951 he moved up to the Berlin House of Representatives , since Helmut Mattis was a district councilor in the Schöneberg district . Also in February 1955 he moved up again to the House of Representatives, since Kurt Arnold was now district councilor in the Steglitz district. Bloch was a member of parliament until 1963.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1970 Bloch was honored as the city ​​elder of Berlin .

Werner Bloch died in Bad Waldsee in 1973 at the age of 83. His grave in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 18-L-51) is dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honorary grave .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 72 (331 pages).

Web links

• Cemetery: Heerstrasse cemetery - Werner Bloch grave of honor

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. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 496. Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) (PDF, 413 kB), p. 8. Accessed on November 19, 2019