Max Andreas Blunck (20 December 1871 – 12 April 1933) was a German

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of the liberal

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(DDP). He served as Minister of Justice in the

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of Hermann Müller from March to June 1920.

Biography

Blunck was born on 20 December 1871 in

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in the Prussian

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. After attending the ''Gymnasium'' in

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, Blunck studied law and the Chinese language in

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. In 1894, he started working as a public servant in

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. After being awarded a Dr.jur. in

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in 1898, he began working as a lawyer in Hamburg. From 1904 to 1918, Blunck was a member of the Hamburg '' Bürgerschaft'' (the local parliament) for a rural area. In 1912, he was elected as the Reichstag delegate for the Tondern–

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–

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constituency for the '' Freisinnige Volkspartei''. In the

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, he was arrested by the local radical

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on 8 December 1918. He was a DDP member of the

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in 1919 to 1920 and a DDP member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1924. After the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch of March 1920, Blunck became

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in the government of Hermann Müller (SPD). The government resigned in June 1920 after the Reichstag elections. He died in

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on 12 April 1933.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blunck, Andreas 1871 births 1933 deaths People from Steinburg People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein German Lutherans Progressive People's Party (Germany) politicians German Democratic Party politicians Justice ministers of Germany Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the Weimar National Assembly Members of the Reichstag 1920–1924