Andreas Blunck

Max Andreas Blunck (20 December 1871 – 12 April 1933) was a German politician of the liberal German Democratic Party (DDP). He served as Minister of Justice in the government of Hermann Müller from March to June 1920.

Biography

Blunck was born on 20 December 1871 in Krempe in the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein.^[1]

After attending the Gymnasium in Glückstadt, Blunck studied law and the Chinese language in Berlin. In 1894, he started working as a public servant in Hamburg. After being awarded a Dr.jur. in Jena 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.^[1][2]

In 1912, he was elected as the Reichstag delegate for the Tondern–Husum–Eiderstedt constituency for the Freisinnige Volkspartei.^[1][2]

In the German Revolution, he was arrested by the local radical Workers' council on 8 December 1918.

He was a DDP member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 to 1920 and a DDP member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1924.^[1]

After the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch of March 1920, Blunck became justice minister in the government of Hermann Müller (SPD). The government resigned in June 1920 after the Reichstag elections.^[1]

He died in Aumühle on 12 April 1933.^[1]

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Secretaries and Ministers of Justice of Germany

German Reich
(1871–1945)

Secretaries: Heinrich Friedberg • Hermann von Schelling [de] • Otto von Oehlschläger • Robert Bosse [de] • Eduard Hanauer [de] • Rudolf Arnold Nieberding • Hermann Lisco • Paul von Krause
Ministers: Otto Landsberg • Eugen Schiffer • Andreas Blunck • Eugen Schiffer • Gustav Radbruch • Rudolf Heinze • Gustav Radbruch • Erich Emminger • Curt Joël • Josef Frenken • Hans Luther • Wilhelm Marx • Johannes Bell • Oskar Hergt • Erich Koch-Weser • Theodor von Guérard • Johann Viktor Bredt • Curt Joël • Franz Gürtner • Franz Schlegelberger • Otto Georg Thierack

German Democratic Republic
(1949–1990)

• Max Fechner
• Hilde Benjamin
• Kurt Wünsche
• Hans-Joachim Heusinger [de]
• Kurt Wünsche
• Manfred Walther [de]

Federal Republic of Germany
(1949–)

• Thomas Dehler
• Fritz Neumayer
• Hans-Joachim von Merkatz
• Fritz Schäffer
• Wolfgang Stammberger
• Ewald Bucher
• Karl Weber
• Richard Jaeger
• Gustav Heinemann
• Horst Ehmke
• Gerhard Jahn
• Hans-Jochen Vogel
• Jürgen Schmude
• Hans A. Engelhard
• Klaus Kinkel
• Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
• Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig
• Herta Däubler-Gmelin
• Brigitte Zypries
• Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
• Heiko Maas
• Katarina Barley
• Christine Lambrecht
• Marco Buschmann