Waldemar Koch (politician)

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Waldemar Koch (1945)

Waldemar Koch (born September 25, 1880 in Harzburg ; † May 15, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German industrial engineer , university professor and liberal politician ( DDP , LDP , FDP ).

Life

The son of a shipbuilding engineer completed a traineeship at a shipbuilding company between 1897 and 1900 after obtaining the primary school leaving certificate at a secondary school in Bremerhaven . After his military service with the Imperial Navy , Koch passed his Abitur as an external student in 1903. He then studied industrial administration at the Technical University of Berlin and graduated in 1904 with a degree in engineering . From 1905 to 1907 Koch worked for the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) and at the same time took up a second degree in economics, philosophy and history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , at the end of which he began in 1907 with a thesis on the subject of Die Concentration movement in the German electrical industry to the Dr. phil. received his doctorate . After several years of study trips to China, Russia and the USA, Koch presented a second dissertation entitled The Industrialization of China , with which he also obtained the degree of Dr. ‑ Ing. attained.

From 1910 to 1914 Koch worked as director of an AEG company in London . During the First World War he did military service from 1914 to 1915. After that he was department head until 1918 and then deputy director at the Institute for Maritime Transport and World Economy at the University of Kiel . In 1918 Koch became a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP). In his function as chairman of the citizens' committee of Greater Berlin from 1918 to 1919, he supported the volunteer regiment under Colonel Wilhelm Reinhard in suppressing the Spartacus uprising . From 1919 to 1930 Koch worked in various industrial companies. 1930 habilitation cooking for Business Administration at the Technical University Berlin and then worked until 1945 as a freelance accountant.

In 1934, Koch represented the interests of the major Jewish shareholder of the Engelhardt brewery Ignatz Nacher against the Dresdner Bank, which was willing to Aryanization . As a result, he was taken into protective custody for three weeks . Thereupon his license to teach was withdrawn and he was dismissed as a private lecturer at the TH Berlin in accordance with Section 6 of the Professional Civil Service Act . After he was given his license to teach again in 1939, he accepted a teaching post at the University of Halle in 1942 and 1943 .

Joint rally of the anti-fascist-democratic bloc (August 1945) in front of the Berlin radio building (from left to right): Otto Grotewohl (SPD), Andreas Hermes (CDU), Wilhelm Pieck (KPD), Arthur Werner (Lord Mayor) and Waldemar Koch (LDPD).

In June 1945 Koch was the main initiator of the founding and from July the first chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany. Because of internal party disputes, especially on the question of land reform and at the instigation of the Soviet military administration , he handed over the chairmanship to Wilhelm Külz in November 1945 . In 1948 Koch was expelled from the LDP, moved to West Berlin and became a member of the Free Democratic Party . From 1949 to 1953 he lectured as a professor of business administration at the TH Berlin. In 1956 he resigned from the FDP.

Koch was the son-in-law of the lawyer and liberal politician Eugen Schiffer .

Fonts

  • The concentration movement in the German electrical industry. Diss. Phil., Berlin 1907, OCLC 313148297 .
  • The industrialization of China. Springer, Berlin 1910, DNB 1050144082 (also: Diss. Ing., Berlin 1910).
  • Trade war and economic expansion. Overview of the measures and efforts of hostile countries to combat German trade and to promote their own economic life. Fischer, Jena 1917, DNB 361079125 .
  • The installment business in trade and industry and its financing. Springer, Berlin 1931, DNB 574382933 .
  • The crisis of the industrial enterprise. Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1933, DNB 574382941 .
  • Purpose saving and purpose saving companies. Development and status of the special purpose savings system. Heymann, Berlin 1935, DNB 57438295X .
  • Basics and technology of sales. 2 volumes. Finanz-Verlag, Berlin 1950.
Volume 1: Organization of sales. DNB 452483611 .
Volume 2: Market Research. DNB 452483638 .
  • The development of the German partial payment economy since 1945 and its problems. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1956, DNB 452483581 .
  • University problems (business administration). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1956, DNB 452483662 .
  • The profession of auditor. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, DNB 452483573 .
  • From the memoirs of an industrial engineer. Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne 1962, DNB 452483670 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Waldemar Koch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Koch: Memoirs . S. 12 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-663-07093-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, auditor and liberal politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Harzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1963
Place of death Berlin