Carl Koch (politician, 1879)

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Carl Johannes Leopold Koch , also Karl Koch (born November 1, 1879 in Güstrow , † May 5, 1965 in Schönberg (Mecklenburg) ) was a German lawyer, CDU politician and mayor of Schönberg .

Life

Carl Koch, the son of a businessman, attended the cathedral school in Güstrow until his final exams at Easter 1900 and then studied law at the Universities of Berlin and Freiburg and from October 1903 at the University of Rostock . In 1905 he passed the first and in 1909 the second legal examination. In January 1910 he was appointed court assessor and temporarily worked as an unskilled worker for the Treptow magistrate . In 1911 Koch settled down as a lawyer and notary in the small town of Schönberg in western Mecklenburg. From 1914 to 1920 and from 1926 to 1933 he held the office of mayor. In this role he represented the landscape in the state day of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( Principality of Ratzeburg ) during the First World War . In February 1933, the National Socialists removed him from the office of mayor and imposed a professional ban until 1937, because Koch had prominently stood out as a republican-minded lawyer during the Weimar period .

On May 10, 1945, the Soviet commanders reappointed Carl Koch as mayor of Schönberg. In August he was appointed district judge. In the same month, Koch set up a CDU local group together with the businessman Leonhard Stender, the district judge Alfons Malik, the engineer Heinrich Ahrendt, the representative Wilhelm Piper, the mechanical engineer Franz Fischer, the car mechanic Werner Behrend and the trade supervisory officer Franz Kirchner. In the local elections , the CDU was ahead of the SED . Karl Koch was finally elected to the city council, the district council and the state parliament, where he took on presidential offices. As a legal politician, Koch campaigned for the adoption of a state constitution in the state parliament and wanted the constitution to be armed against the totalitarian challenges of the SED. In 1950, Koch was violently attacked together with the CDU district administrator Adalbert Schreiber. The CDU withdrew him as chairman of the Grevesmühlen district council after the SED national newspaper attacked him as an "arch reactionary and double-faced". He was even briefly detained by the Ministry of State Security . On the pretext of his old age, the CDU, which had been brought into line, suggested that he renounce political mandates.

Koch's house in Schönberg

His former house in Schönberg, the listed Kochsche Haus , Am Markt 1, is named after him. The building was erected in the first half of the 19th century.

In 2006 and 2008 the CDU local association Schönberg-Umland awarded a Carl Koch Prize in his memory , with which the voluntary commitment of a person living in the former district of Schönberg is recognized regardless of party affiliation.

literature

  • Klaus Schwabe: State elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1946. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament from August 28 to October 20, 1996. Schwerin 1996.
  • Christian Schwießelmann: The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1945 to 1952. From the foundation to the dissolution of the regional association. A representation of party history. ( Research and sources on contemporary history ; 58.) Droste, Düsseldorf 2010. ISBN 978-3-7700-1909-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date follows the information in the state bibliography MV .
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ The Kochsche Haus needs a future , Lübecker Nachrichten of October 18, 2007, accessed on February 11, 2010
  4. ↑ Error in wikipedia: The Koch house is even older ( memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in: Lübecker Nachrichten from August 6, 2011
  5. ↑ Frank Brinker receives the Carl Koch Prize today , Lübecker Nachrichten of April 4, 2008, accessed on August 6, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Karl Johannes Leopold (full name); Koch, Carl Johannes Leopold (full name); Koch, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, politician (CDU) and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1965
Place of death Schoenberg (Mecklenburg)