Eberhard Mock

Eberhard Mock (1883-1960) is a fictional detective and counsellor of the police department in Breslau in a series of novels by Marek Krajewski. A graduate of a classical college and once a student at the faculty of Classical Studies of the local university, Mock is also a typical protagonist of a hardboiled crime fiction: often brutal, inclined towards fatalism, alcohol and violence.

Fictional character biography

Mock is born in Waldenburg in Silesia in 1883, to a humble shoemaker Willibard Mock. After graduating from a local gymnasium, Mock joins the University of Breslau, but did not graduate. Instead he joins the police force and quickly advances through its ranks, partially due to protection from the local masonic lodge. Mock remains in service until the very end of the Siege of Breslau, after which he reappears in the German Democratic Republic in 1950 only to escape to the United States shortly afterwards. He dies around 1960 from lung cancer in New York.