Julius Koch (politician, 1865)

Julius Koch (born February 16, 1865 in Berlin ; † June 3, 1936 there ) was a German theologian and politician ( DNVP ).

Life

After graduating from high school in the Gray Monastery , Koch studied Protestant theology at the universities in Berlin and Bonn . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Berlin . In 1889 he became assistant preacher at the Zionskirche , a year later he changed to the same position at the Elisabethkirche and from May 1891 he was the fifth pastor at the Markuskirche in Berlin. In January 1896 he became the first pastor at the Berlin Samaritan Church . During the First World War he worked from 1917 to 1918 as a division pastor at the front. He was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

After the November Revolution, Koch joined the German National People's Party (DNVP) and was a member of the Berlin city council from 1919 to 1928 . In February 1921 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged without interruption until the end of the third legislative period in 1932. In parliament he represented constituency 2 (Berlin).

His parish work, he was the first pastor at the Samaritan Church , continued Koch until his death in 1936. He did not join the NSDAP , but after 1933, as a member of the German Christians, he was in opposition to the Confessing Church and its Berlin pastor Wilhelm Harnisch .

literature

Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 547.
Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928. P. 826.

Individual evidence

↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 115.
↑ on behalf of the Parish Council of the Evangelical Samaritan Church Congregation: Festschrift 1894 - 1994 Samaritan Church . Berlin 1994, page 51 (51 pp.).
↑ Manfred Gailus: Protestantism and National Socialism. Studies on the National Socialist penetration of the Protestant social milieu in Berlin. Böhlau, Cologne 2001. p. 483.

personal data
SURNAME	Koch, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and politician (DNVP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1936
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 115.

[2] the Parish Council of the Evangelical Samaritan Church Congregation: Festschrift 1894 - 1994 Samaritan Church . Berlin 1994, page 51 (51 pp.).

[3] Manfred Gailus: Protestantism and National Socialism. Studies on the National Socialist penetration of the Protestant social milieu in Berlin. Böhlau, Cologne 2001. p. 483.