Max Johann Otto Adolf Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe, usually known as Adolf von Batocki-Friebe (31 July 1868 – 22 May 1944) was a German noble, lawyer and politician.

Batocki-Friebe was born at Gut Bledau, Cranz

Zelenogradsk

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 near Königsberg

Königsberg

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, East Prussia

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. He served as Governor of East Prussia

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 (1914-1916 and 1918-1919), member of the Prussian House of Lords

Prussian House of Lords

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 (1910-1918) and President of the War Nutrition Office (1916-1917). He died at Gut Wosegau near Cranz.

He belonged to a Lithuanian noble family.

Publications

• Ostpreussens Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, 1915.
• Die Preisbildung im Kriege 1916. (with Karl Thieß)
• Ostpreußen in Harren und Krieg, in Sturz und Sieg, 1916. (with Paul Burg)
• Russisch als Pflichtfach an höheren Schulen der Ostprovinzen, 1918. (with Joh Gerschmann)
• Vom Kampfe um das Geschick Ostpreußens, 1919.
• Warenpreis und Geldwert im Kriege, 1919.
• Wie kann die innere Siedlung und Bodenausnutzung schnell und wirksam [...], 1919.
• Umstellung der Landwirtschaft, 1920.
• Ostpreussens wirtschaftliche Lage vor und nach dem Weltkriege, 1920.
• Schluss mit Kriegszwangswirtschaft!, 1921.
• Staatsreferendar und Staatsassessor, 1927. (with Werner Friedrich Bruck, Heinrich von Friedberg)
• Preussen, der Kern der deutschen Verfassungsfrage, 1928.
• Bevölkerung und Wirtschaft in Ostpreussen, 1929. (with Gerhard Schack)
• Bedeutung und Umfang der Meliorationen in Deutschland, 1931.
• Die Bedeutung landwirtschaftlicher Meliorationen in Ostpreussen im Rahmen..., 1933. (with Otto Heinemann, Kurt Stüwe)

Literature

• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser B Band XVIII, Seite 484, Band 95 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989,
• Acta Borussica, Band 9 (1900-1909) (PDF-Datei; 2,74 MB)
• Acta Borussica, Band 10 (1909-1918) (PDF-Datei; 2,74 MB)
• Dieter Stüttgen: Die preussische Verwaltung des Regierungsbezirks Gumbinnen, 1871-1920, 1980, S. 38-40.
• Fried von Batocki, Klaus von der Groeben: Adolf von Batocki. Ein Lebensbild. Im Einsatz für Ostpreußen und das Reich. Ostsee-Verlag, Raisdorf 1998.