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Emil Bock (born 19 May 1895 in Barmen; died 6 December 1959 in Stuttgart) was a German anthroposophist, author, theologian, and one of the founders of The Christian Community.
In 1914, he began a study of languages at the University of Bonn. However, the same year he enlisted as a volunteer in the First World War and was sent to the front in Flanders, where he was wounded. In 1916, Bock met the theologian Friedrich Rittelmeyer, and from 1918 he studied Protestant theology in Berlin before graduating in 1921. Bock became one of the founders of the Christian Community in Switzerland that same year. He later became the seminary leader of the Christian Community, and after the death of Friedrich Rittelmeyer, the Community's leader in 1938.
In 1941, the Nazi regime banned the Christian Community due to its alleged "Jewish" and "Masonic" influence, and Bock was sent to the concentration camp Welzheim the same year. He was released from the concentration camp in 1942, but was under surveillance for the rest of the war. After the war, Bock was a principal leader in the rebuilding of the Christian Community.