Erich Koch Foundation
The Erich Koch Foundation was a foundation after Erich Koch , the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Prussia was named. Koch was the founder and only board member of the foundation.
The foundation was established in 1933 and initially served to prevent Adolf Hitler's press officer Max Amann from accessing the publishing house of the Gauorgan Preußische Zeitung in Königsberg , whose shares were owned by Koch . The latter had been commissioned by Hitler to unite the publishers of all district organs, including their profits, in the Munich Eher-Verlag and thus bring them under central control of the Nazi leadership. Koch prevented this through the foundation, the purpose of which was to “educate, promote and train National Socialists, especially for the tasks of East Prussia”. According to the statutes, Erich Koch was the sole director for life. Koch thus had the use of the foundation's income, but was formally tied to the foundation's purpose and the annual advice of the board of directors. The foundation grew with the economic development of East Prussia. In the end, the foundation was a gigantic conglomerate that accumulated huge assets in the course of the war, partly through robbery and breaking the law . With the help of the Erich Koch Foundation, the Gauleiter made himself the richest East Prussia. The foundation was dissolved after the Second World War.
Web links
- Background information on the insurance policy of the Erich Koch Foundation from 1942 ( memento from March 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Gailus : The executioner of East Prussia . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 25, 2009.
- ↑ Useful networks and corrupt clans, by Hillard von Thiessen