Christian Stock

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Christian Stock (August 28, 1884 – April 13, 1967) was a German Social Democrat politician and the first Prime Minister—Ministerpräsident—of the provisional state of Greater Hesse (later Hesse), which had been constituted in the aftermath of World War II. He was born in Darmstadt and died in Seeheim-Jugenheim.

Stock was over 82 at the time of his death, making him the oldest Minister-President that the Republic had had until then.

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• Christian Stock in the German National Library catalogue

v • d • e Ministers-President of Hesse People's State of Hesse (est. 1918) Carl Ulrich · Bernhard Adelung Nazi period (1933-1945) Ferdinand Werner · Philipp Wilhelm Jung Greater Hesse (1945-1946) Ludwig Bergsträsser · Karl Geiler Modern Hesse (since 1946) Christian Stock · Georg August Zinn · Albert Osswald · Holger Börner · Walter Wallmann · Hans Eichel · Roland Koch