Franz Edler von Koch

Franz Edler von Koch (also Franz II. Edler von Koch auf Rohrbach ; * February 4, 1875 , † August 13, 1965 ) was a landowner and Bavarian local politician of the CSU . From 1946 to 1958 he was District Administrator of Pfaffenhofen , from 1947 to 1957 he was a member of the Bavarian Senate and in 1947 he was a co-founder of the Bavarian District Council .

Life

Franz Edler von Koch, whose great-grandfather, the royal finance director Alois Koch, was ennobled as "Edler von Koch" in 1817, studied agriculture at the Royal Bavarian Academy for Agriculture and Breweries in Weihenstephan . After the subsequent professional training on his father's farm in Rohrbach , he took over the position of auditor at the regional association of Bavarian agricultural cooperatives in 1904. In 1906 he was appointed director of the health healer Jodquellen AG in Bad Tölz , for which he acquired the Adelheidquelle in Bad Heilbrunn and the Marienheilquelle in Seeg near Füssen . He also initiated the construction of the Tölzer Kurhaus, which was built according to plans by the architect brothers Gabriel and Emanuel von Seidl .

After the death of his father of the same name in 1918, Franz Edler von Koch returned to the Rohrbach family seat . Since the monarchy collapsed in the same year , he campaigned for the development of democratic structures and local self-government. Soon he was in the county council elected by Oberpfaffenhofen and appointed as its chairman. In 1919 he supported the establishment of the regional association of Bavarian districts, which corresponded to the later districts. He was chairman of this association until 1933. In the same year he resigned as a councilor in his home parish. Since 1922 he worked for the German Hop Association, which appointed him its president in 1930. Because of the hop sales crisis that went hand in hand with the global economic crisis , he founded the German Hop Transport Company in 1930, a self-help organization that was supposed to advise and support the hop farmers and regulate the hop market. When the League of Nations in Geneva discussed the area regulations for hops, Franz Edler von Koch represented the interests of the German hop farmers. In 1932 he was awarded the Golden Commemorative Coin of the Bavarian Agricultural Association for his services.

Franz Edler von Koch was a staunch opponent of National Socialism , which he opposed even before the NSDAP came to power in 1933. That is why he retired from political life in 1933 and also gave up the office of President of the German Hop Growing Association in 1934. After the end of the war in 1945, he was immediately ready to take part in the political and economic reconstruction and the removal of the worst misery. Despite his old age, he became mayor of Rohrbach and in 1946 the first democratically elected district administrator in the Pfaffenhofen district. In this capacity he campaigned for the establishment of the Bavarian District Assembly, which came about on August 29, 1947 in Ingolstadt in the presence of 118 district administrators. In the same year he was appointed to the Bavarian Senate, to which he was a member until 1957. In 1958 he turned down a third term of office as district administrator of Pfaffenhofen because of his old age. He was succeeded by the later Bavarian Minister of Agriculture Hans Eisenmann . In 1963 Franz Edler von Koch published the family history of the noble von Koch auf Rohrbach .

For his services, he received numerous other awards in 1952, the Federal Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz), in 1964 the Great Federal Cross of Merit and in 1961 the Bavarian Order of Merit .

literature

• Hermann Schwarzmeier: District Administrator Franz Edler von Koch . In: "Da Rorbekher". Rohrbach, 1999

Web links

• District administrators of Pfaffenhofen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian community newspaper of August 2, 2007