Carl Friedrich August Koch

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Carl Friedrich August Koch  (born September 7, 1820 in Leimbach ; † January 4, 1890 in Magdeburg ) was a German lawyer and insurance company.

Life

Koch was born in 1820 as the first son of the silver distiller Ernst Friedrich Koch at the Silberhütte in Leimbach.

He attended the Latin school in Donndorf Monastery from 1831 to 1833 , then switched to the Royal Gymnasium in Eisleben , where he graduated from high school in 1838. From 1838 to 1841 Koch studied law in Halle before he returned to Eisleben with the first exam in October 1841, where he acted as an auscultator at the regional and municipal court. In February 1843 he went to Berlin to take the second exam at the Supreme Court and then from June 1843 to work for another ten months at the City Court in Eisleben. Prevented by a brief serious illness, he was only able to transfer to the higher regional court in Naumburg in 1845 , in order to finish his training with the assessor examination in early 1847.

In May 1847, in Eisleben, he married Therese Doerk , the daughter of the district and city court director Eduard Moritz Doerk .

After a short stop in Stendal, the family went to Hettstedt . In the context of the political unrest in 1848, Koch joined the Hettstedter Volksverein on July 1, 1848 , and took over its chairmanship on July 25. In March 1849 he was sentenced to one year imprisonment at the second instance for causing a riot, which he took up on October 21, 1850 at the Magdeburg Citadel . After imprisonment and a brief activity in Weißensee , the family finally moved to Magdeburg in 1854.

In 1854, Koch applied for the position of authorized representative of the Magdeburg Hagelversicherungs-Gesellschaft founded by Johann Christian Friedrich Knoblauch and received this. In 1858 he was then general director of this company and as such was appointed to the board of directors of the Magdeburger Feuerversicherungs-Gesellschaft , as well as to the reinsurance company of the Hamburg-Magdeburg and the Magdeburger Bankverein.

In 1872 he founded Magdeburger Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG (Wilhelma), of which he became the first general director.

Koch died in Magdeburg in 1890.

After Koch's death, his son-in-law Ferdinand Hahn took over the general management of Magdeburger Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG and Magdeburger Hagelversicherungs-Gesellschaft.

literature

  • 100 years of the Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company, 1844–1944.
  • 100 years of the Magdeburg Hagelversicherungs-Gesellschaft, 1854–1954.
  • Peter Koch: Insurance City Magdeburg. Magdeburg, 2005, ISBN 3-89812-302-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Carl Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and insurance company
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Leimbach (Mansfeld)
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1890
Place of death Magdeburg