Julius Koch (Chief of Police)
Julius Koch (born January 29, 1881 in Hofheim in Lower Franconia ; † November 19, 1951 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and Munich police chief .
Life
Julius Koch attended elementary school in Bad Brückenau from 1887 to 1891 , the Riemenschneider grammar school from 1891 to 1900 and studied law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from 1900 to 1904 . In 1904 he passed the first state examination in law and was employed in the preparatory service. In 1907 he passed the legal assessor examination and was employed as a legal intern and accessist in the government of Lower Franconia . On October 1, 1912, he was appointed District Office Assessor in the Bad Neustadt an der Saale district. On May 1, 1921 appointed to the government of Lower Franconia. On August 1, 1922, he was appointed first class councilor at the Munich police department.
On March 9, 1929, he was commissioned to carry out the preparatory measures for the establishment of the state police in Augsburg . With effect from April 1, 1929, he was appointed senior government councilor and board member of the Augsburg police department. Koch was a member of the Bavarian People's Party .
After Karl Mantel's death on August 28, 1929, he followed him on November 1, 1929 as President and opponent of the NSDAP in the Munich police headquarters . On April 13, 1931, the Held II cabinet banned the Sturmabteilung in Bavaria, and on July 3, 1931, the Munich City Police carried out a search of the Brown House to enforce the ban on the SA .
The Bavarian Ministry of the Interior took on 5 June 1930 ban on uniforms in the Assembly Act on. On July 1, 1931, the Munich Police Department banned the wearing of uniform clothing and enforced this ban: City police arrested SA guards in front of the Brown House. When the NSDAP continued to let SA uniform wearers patrol in front of the Brown House, 29 members of the SA were arrested. The Reich-wide ban on the SA issued by the Brüning I cabinet on April 13, 1932 was followed by a search of the Brown House ( Brienner Straße 38), the attached Drexl Palace (office of the Supreme SA Fuehrer, OSAF, Brienner Straße 43) as well as a search and Temporary closure of the SA Reichsfuhrer School (Briennerstrasse 44) enforced.
Koch was removed from the office of the Munich Police President on March 10, 1933 by Franz Ritter von Epp , who was appointed Reich Commissioner on March 9, 1933 on the basis of the ordinance of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State . On January 1, 1934, he was put on hold and on February 1, 1934, pursuant to Section 4 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, he was dismissed from the civil service with the remark that he had "as police chief in Munich fought the national movement in an immeasurable manner".
On September 11, 1945, Fritz Schäffer reassigned him to the Bavarian civil service with effect from May 1, 1945. On October 24, 1945 he was appointed ministerial director in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. On May 6, 1946, Wilhelm Hoegner put him on leave at the urging of the military government . On December 1, 1946, he was appointed public prosecutor at the Bavarian Administrative Court. He was retired on September 30, 1950.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Director of the Augsburg City Police March 9, 1929 to November 1, 1929 |
Ernst Eichner | |
| Karl Mantel |
Munich Police President November 1, 1929 to March 10, 1933 |
Heinrich Himmler |
Individual evidence
- ^ Cook Julius. In: Munich Digitization Center . Retrieved January 7, 2015 .
- ^ Peter Köpf, The Königsplatz in Munich: a German place p. 73
- ↑ Völkischer Beobachter , July 7, 1931 according to Schröder p. 51
- ↑ Joachim Schröder: The Munich Police and National Socialism , S, 50 ff; Mathias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925–1933: An investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic, pp. 64 , 238
- ↑ Oliver Braun (Ed.): The minutes of the Bavarian Council of Ministers 1945-1954, September 13, 1950
- ^ Augsburger Allgemeine , October 11, 2011, No friend and helper
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Munich police chief |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hofheim in Lower Franconia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1951 |
| Place of death | Munich |