Oskar Wilhelm Koch

Oskar Wilhelm Koch (born June 9, 1907 in Langenscheid ; † unknown) was an " old fighter " of the NSDAP and worked for them as district leader.

Life

Oskar Koch attended elementary school in Langenscheid from 1914 to 1921 . He was given two years' leave of absence due to an illness from urinary urgency. In 1921 he accepted an apprenticeship as a businessman , but broke it off in 1922. He then attended the Zimmermann trade school in Koblenz . Initially active as a monarchist in the Bismarck Youth, he participated in the suppression of separatist uprisings in Koblenz, Diez and Limburg an der Lahn in 1923 . From May 1923 to 1925 he taught in the marble industry and soon found a job as a commercial clerk. There he was politicized again and joined the Bund Oberland . Shortly after joining the NSDAP (membership number 169.009) he was dismissed due to the global economic crisis and has worked for the party ever since.

From 1929 to 1932 he was a member of the SA . In 1930 he became head of the local group association of Langenscheid and was active as a Gauredner . In 1932 he became a full-time district leader of the Unterwaldkreis. On April 15, 1932, he joined the SS (SS no. 39,671) and founded a 17-man SS troop in Höhr, which he led until the " seizure of power ". He then became district deputy and first chairman of the district office in Montabaur . At his instigation, the incumbent District Administrator Collet was dismissed, who subsequently had a fatal accident.

From 1933 to March 1934 he was the leader of Oberbanns II of the Hitler Youth . In March 1934, however, he fell ill as a result of excessive work and recovered in the Black Forest . He then attended the German University of Politics from 1934 to 1935 and graduated with a diploma . For two months he represented the district leader of Büdingen , then he worked as a ban leader of HJ-Bannes 80 in Wiesbaden . In 1937 he was appointed district leader of Worms . During this time he wrote reports on the four-year plan for the SS , in which he pointed out mismanagement in Worms. From 1940 to 1941 he was a soldier and was used as a private in the artillery and the air force in Allenstein , but placed in the UK because of his illness .

In 1937 he was appointed SS-Untersturmführer and headed the 79th standard and at times the 33rd standard. On October 26, 1941, he became district leader of the Untertaunuskreis based in Bad Schwalbach . On January 30, 1943, he was awarded the NSDAP's Golden Party Badge . He was honored for his services to the Saarland resettlement and promoted to SS-Obersturmführer .

Towards the end of the war, Koch fled to Lower Austria and was involved in the Volkssturm until the end . On May 9, 1945 he was taken prisoner of war. Before an American military court during the Dachau trials he was charged as a war criminal in an " aviation trial" and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. From October 4, 1947, he served this in the War Criminal Prison in Landsberg am Lech . On December 21, 1951, he was released there for good conduct. In the denazification process he was classified as a follower in 1952.

Koch processed his experience in prison in 1974 in the book Dachau - Landsberg: Judicial Murder or Murder Justice? and 1976 in the follow-up volume Dachau - Landsberg: America's Shame .

Fonts

• Dachau / Landsberg . Vol. 1: Judicial murder - or murder justice. ReFO Druck + Verlag, Witten 1974.
• Dachau / Landsberg . Vol. 2: America's Shame. ReFO Druck + Verlag, Witten 1976.

literature

• Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate (=  publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . No. 28 ). 2nd Edition. Zarrentin v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-7758-1408-9 , pp. 315-317 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Working group search for traces - National Socialism in the Westerwald (ed.): Remembering for the future - 60 years after the liberation from Nazi rule in the Westerwald . Montabaur 2005, p. 12 ( ww-spurensuche.de [PDF]).