Henry Koch (officer)

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Henry Albert Koch (born August 13, 1891 in Breslau , † May 24, 1977 in Regensburg ) was a German naval officer and civil servant .

Life

Henry Koch was born in Breslau in 1891 as the son of the engineer Heinrich Koch and his wife Emma, ​​née Gundlach. He joined the Imperial Navy ( crew 10 ) on April 1, 1910 and was promoted to lieutenant on September 27, 1913 . At the outbreak of the First World War he was on the gunboat SMS Luchs commanded and moved on 1 August 1914 as watch officer on the former Reichspostdampfer Prince Eitel Friedrich , who at that time in Tsingtao for auxiliary cruiser was equipped. The Prinz Eitel Friedrich embarked on the cruiser war in the Pacific and Atlantic on August 6, 1914 . After a steam stretch of 30,000 nm and the sinking of eleven merchant ships with 33,424 GRT, the ship ran into Newport News in the US state of Virginia on March 11, 1915 to be interned . In November 1915 Koch escaped from internment and wanted to return to Germany, but was taken prisoner in England . After fleeing there again, he was interned in the Netherlands from April 1918 until the end of the war.

Koch was promoted to first lieutenant on May 17, 1919 , the patent was dated March 22, 1916. On July 28, 1920 Koch was dismissed from the Reichsmarine with the rank of lieutenant captain , but later reactivated (after May 1922). From May 1937 he was a group leader in the Economic Armaments Office of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW). In 1939 he had the rank of corvette captain . From January 1940, Koch was a shipping officer in the Danzig navy service . From there he was posted to Oslo from June to July 1940 . From June 1941 Koch was then assigned to the high command of the Finnish Army , which was allied with the German Reich , as a military economic officer . He was promoted to captain at sea on March 1, 1942. From September 1944, Koch was head of the military economy replacement department at OKW in Berlin . At the end of the war he was released and lived in Regensburg from 1957, where he died in 1977.

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  1. ↑ a b Wroclaw registry office : birth register . No. 3128/1891.
personal data
SURNAME Cook, henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Henry Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer and military officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1977
Place of death regensburg