Max Woldemar Gustav Eduard Bock (4 April 1885 – 29 April 1948) was a

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politician and lawyer prominent in

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. Bock was born in

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(later named Tallinn) on 4 April 1885 to Julius Bock, a medical doctor, and his wife Alice, ''née'' Kampf. He attended the Nikolai Gymnasium in Reval, studying medicine between 1905 and 1908, then law until 1910, working as a private tutor in the meantime. He then studied law at the

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until 1912, and then practised law in Reval until 1939 and was a district judge in

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between 1940 and 1945."Bock, Max Woldemar Gustav Eduard"
''Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital'' 'Baltic Biographical Dictionary Online''(Baltische Historische Kommission), 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019. Bock was elected to the

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, which governed the

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between 1917 and 1919. He was then elected to the Asutav Kogu (Constituent Assembly) of the newly formed

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in 1919, serving till the session ended in 1920. He was elected to the first legislature of the

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and served throughout the session (1920–23) as a

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member; he joined the second legislature on 27 September 1923, when he replaced

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, but stepped down only two days later (he was succeeded by Gerhard Kress).Jaan Toomla,
Valitud ja Valitsenud: Eesti parlamentaarsete ja muude esinduskogude ning valitsuste isikkoosseis aastail 1917–1999
' (

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, 1999), pp. 42, 214. Bock died on 29 April 1948 at

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in Germany.Toomla, p. 214.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bock, Max 1885 births 1948 deaths Politicians from Tallinn People from Kreis Harrien German-Baltic Party politicians Members of the Estonian Provincial Assembly Members of the Estonian Constituent Assembly Members of the Riigikogu, 1920–1923 Members of the Riigikogu, 1923–1926 University of Tartu alumni Estonian emigrants to Germany