Otto Koch (Mayor)
Otto Koch (born November 20, 1902 in Schweinfurt ; † January 3, 1948 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald ) was a German lawyer , Nazi functionary and Lord Mayor of Weimar.
Life
Koch was the son of a railway official. After finishing school he studied history , law and economics at the University of Würzburg from 1920 to 1929 . He then worked as a lawyer. Politically he was initially active in the Freikorps Oberland . He was a member of the NSDAP from 1922 to 1923 and rejoined the party in 1929. He became a member of the SA in 1932 .
After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he was district leader in Ingolstadt from 1933 to 1937 and was part of the local city council. There he also acted as legal advisor to the NSDAP.
From October 1, 1937 to April 12, 1945 he was Lord Mayor of Weimar . In this function he organized "the ghettoization of the Weimar Jews" in 1941.
After the US Army marched into Weimar, he was relieved of his functions. He was later arrested by the Soviet occupying forces and sent to special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald, where he died.
Web links
- Peter-Hugo Scholz (1954–2019): The tailor of the presidents , radio - feature about Martin Greenfield with statements about the Otto Koch family, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , accessed on September 30, 2019 - also published as a 30-minute video documentary
Individual evidence
- ↑ Buchenwald Book of the Dead, Ed .: Buchenwald Memorial
- ↑ Life data according to: Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 104, CA Starke., 1993, p. 89, deviating from this, February 20, 1902 is sometimes mentioned as the birthday in the literature and 1948 as the year of death, e.g. E.g. in Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1948. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 324
- ↑ Stadtarchiv Ingolstadt (Germany), Scientific City Library Ingolstadt, Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt: Ingolstadt under National Socialism: a study: Documentation on contemporary history , Ingolstadt, 1995, p. 132
- ^ Richard Frank Krummel : Nietzsche and Deutsche Geist , Walter De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, Volume 4, p. 305
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1948. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 324
- ↑ Stadtarchiv Ingolstadt (Germany), Scientific City Library Ingolstadt, Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt: Ingolstadt under National Socialism: a study: Documentation on contemporary history , Ingolstadt, 1995, pp. 130, 132
- ^ Gitta Günther: Weimar: Eine Chronik , Kiepenheuer, 1996, p. 162
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, Nazi official and Lord Mayor of Weimar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schweinfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1948 |
| Place of death | Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald |