Friedrich Coch

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Friedrich Otto Coch (born December 11, 1887 in Eisenach , † September 9, 1945 in Hersbruck ) was a German Christian bishop .

Life

His parents were the Privy Councilor Ferdinand Coch and his wife Martha von Ribbeck .

Since 1927 Coch was the clergyman of the Inner Mission and head of the press association of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony . In 1931 he joined the NSDAP , became a Gaufach advisor on church issues in Saxony and leader of the working group of National Socialist pastors. In 1933 he was installed as regional bishop in Saxony. During his inauguration in the Frauenkirche Dresden , the swastika flag waved on the dome of the church; From autumn 1934 the church was called the Cathedral of the German Christians, according to the time . Coch had been partially disempowered since the end of 1935 and died after the war in US internment in the former Hersbruck subcamp .

About Coch as a National Socialist pastor and bishop in 1934 there are records of the opposition clergyman Martin Giebner, who later converted to Catholicism and served there.

He married Elisabeth Adolfine Caroline Wagner . The couple had several children.

Publications

  • Friedrich Coch: The Church in the Third Reich. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1933.
  • Walter Grundmann : Total Church in Total State. Address in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig on October 19, 1933 at the opening of the Saxon People's Mission Week. Preface by Friedrich Coch. Publishing house O. Günther, Dresden 1934.
  • Friedrich Coch: Sermon in the opening service for the 16th Ordinary Evangelical-Lutheran State Synod in the Cathedral Church in Dresden on August 11, 1933. Naumann Verlag, Dresden 1933.
  • Friedrich Coch (ed.): Christian cross and swastika. Monthly newspaper for German Christians. Dresden, 1933f .; later Weimar (a total of 1.1933 - 4.1936)

literature

  • Konstantin Hermann, Gerhard Lindemann : Between Christ Cross and Swastika: Biographies of theologians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony during National Socialism . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8471-0726-2 , p. 61 ff.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer TB, 2. act. Ed., Frankfurt 2005, p. 95.
  • Degeners who is it? Xth edition. Berlin 1935, p. 252.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emanuel Eckardt: Dresden: The miracle of Dresden . In: The time . October 20, 2005, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 16, 2019]). According to other information, the Frauenkirche was called Dresden Cathedral (Kirchliches Gemeindeblatt für Sachsen from December 1, 1934, last page)
  2. ^ Matthias Wolfes: Protestant Theology and Modern World: Studies on the History of Liberal Theology after 1918 . Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 978-3-11-016639-2 ( google.de [accessed on December 16, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Konstantin Hermann, Gerhard Lindemann : Between Christ Cross and Swastika: Biographies of theologians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony under National Socialism . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8470-0726-5 ( google.de [accessed December 16, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Coch, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coch, Friedrich Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, bishop of the German Christians in the Third Reich
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1945
Place of death Hersbruck , Middle Franconia