Hans-Reinhard Koch (lawyer)

Hans-Reinhard Koch

Hans-Reinhard Koch (born October 29, 1902 in Halle (Saale) , † April 14, 1997 in Bonn ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Life

As the son of the Supreme Court Counselor Wilhelm Koch , Koch began to study law at the Hessian Ludwig University . In 1921 he became active in the Corps Hassia . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . He passed the legal traineeship there (1930) and received his doctorate in Dr. iur. utr. (1931). In 1931 he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 475.684). The SS (membership number 79,652) accepted him in 1933.

After having passed the assessor examination with distinction , he joined the internal administration of Hesse in 1933 . As a councilor he came to Darmstadt and a little later to the staff of the Reich Governor in the People's State of Hesse . In 1934 he became district administrator of the Offenbach district . After the annexation of Austria he was assigned to the governor of Upper Austria in Linz in 1938 . With the annexation of the Sudetenland as a result of the Munich Agreement , he was referred to the Reich Commissioner for the Sudeten German Areas in Reichenberg and charged with building up the German administration.

In 1939 he moved to Tyrol-Vorarlberg . In Innsbruck he represented the Reichsstatthalter in the state administration as "District President"; There were no administrative districts in the Austrian imperial districts. Because of a loyalty conflict with Franz Hofer , Koch was transferred in 1941 as head of the main administration department to the German civil administration in Oslo . Before his suicide on May 8, 1945 - the day of the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht - Reichskommissar Josef Terboven entrusted him with the last official duties. Koch was taken into solitary confinement for a long time by the English . Thanks to the efforts of a member of the Swiss Red Cross , for whom he had paved the way during the war by caring for Allied prisoners of war, he was deported on a German steamer from Oslo to Hamburg. The British clean bill of health was so effective that he was released after a short time and was able to travel to Bonn to his family.

As a denazification proceedings had been opened, Koch went against the harmful judgments of denazification proceedings in revision . Eventually he was classified as a “fellow traveler”, which was the basis for a future civilian existence as a lawyer .

From 1951 to 1977 he ran a law firm in Bonn. In 1951 he became the founding chairman of the Andernach working group . The Corps Rhenania Bonn awarded him the ribbon in 1952 . In 1953 he gave the impetus to found the Association for Student Dormitories. V., which he served as a managing board member until 1976; In 1996 he was made honorary chairman. As Herbert Scherer for the Weinheimer Senior Convent worked and he signed for the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband the second cartel contract with the WSC (1954). The Convent of German Academic Associations honored him with the Fabricius Medal for his services to corporate students . From 1967 to 1972 he sat in the VAC Board Bonn I . He received the VAC silver bowl twice .

estate

Koch's estate is in the Kösener archive in the Institute for University Studies at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Web links

Commons : Hans-Reinhard Koch (1902)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Koch's estate in the Kösener archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 66 , 1146; 127 , 997
2. ↑ Dissertation: Civil society under German and Austrian law
3. ^ Robert Bohn: The German rule in the "Germanic" countries 1940-1945 , p. 78. ISBN 3515070990 .
4. ↑ territorial.de
5. ↑ Philipp W. Fabry , Deutsche Corpszeitung 4/1998, p. 175; 1/1999
6. ↑ Ph. Fabry, Hessenzeitung No. 204 (1999)
7. ^ Written communication from Koch 8 to Fabry 1 Hassiae, Thuringiae Jena (Fabry private archive)