Walter Koch (Author)

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Walter Koch (born April 14, 1955 in Straubing ) is a German banker, historian and company archivist. In his dissertation and in further research he dealt with Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen .

Life

Walter Koch studied sociology , German and history at the universities of Augsburg and Würzburg . During his studies he worked during the semester break at Raiffeisenbank Fürstenfeldbruck and later at Raiffeisenbank Schwandorf-Nittenau . At the time, his career goal was to become a teacher .

After graduation, he had planned a dissertation on Gottfried Benn and Arnold Gehlen . His doctoral supervisor Lothar Bossle showed him 31 letters from Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen in 1980 and suggested that he write about them, which Koch then agreed. While working on his doctorate, since the career opportunities for teachers were rather poor at the time, he began training as a banker at Raiffeisenbank Schwandorf. The disputation of his paper “The cooperative idea of ​​FW Raiffeisen as a model of cooperation in modern industrial society” did not take place until 1991 due to the simultaneous occupation. He was thus awarded a doctorate in philosophy.

Already during this time he had, mostly in his own publishing house "Verlag Walter Koch", later "Verlag Dr. Walter Koch ”, source editions and publications on Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, his family and the cooperative system. There are also publications in several anthologies.

From 2000 he worked as a company archivist at Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Dachau . After the material had increased significantly through two mergers with other banks, he got an assistant from 2004. In 2005 the bank's board of directors suggested setting up a bank museum in the former vault that was intended for the archive. Walter Koch and his assistant were entrusted with the conception and implementation of this idea from 2007 to 2009. After renovation work, he set up the museum in 2007. The first cooperative bank museum was then opened in spring 2009. In 2014 the symposium “Cooperatives in the Region” was organized by the Historical Association of Bavarian Cooperatives in Dachau, where Koch presented the museum and gave a lecture.

Walter Koch is referred to as one of the German-speaking experts on Raiffeisen, whom one can hardly ignore when dealing with it, and is also recognized as a researcher abroad. On May 7, 2012, Koch was the interviewed expert on the topic of "Friedrich W. Raiffeisen" from radio knowledge in Bavarian Broadcasting.

Publications

  • FW Raiffeisen's cooperative concept as a cooperation model in modern industrial society . Creator, Paderborn / Würzburg 1991, ISBN 3-89247-049-9 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen . State Center for Political Education Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 2002 ( online as pdf )
  • And they couldn't come together: the relationship between Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , the Friends of Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and the Memorial of the German Cooperative System, 2000
  • New insights into the life of FW Raiffeisen in Otmar Hesse , Albert Pauly: Protestant Information Service (Supplement 3), Altenkirchen, 1987.
  • Causes of Raiffeisen's appearance in the previous century in Lothar Bossle (ed.): The future of cooperatives in the 21st century: In memory of Friedrich W. Raiffeisen and Georg Heim , Creator, 1989
  • The share of cooperative education in the German cultural statehood in Lothar Bossle (Ed.): Deutschland als Kulturstaat , Paderborn, 1993
  • The importance of corporate culture in the context of strategy processes in cooperative banks in Harald Müller (Ed.): Hope and Responsibility in Our Time , Festschrift for Lothar Bossle on his 65th birthday, Paderborn, 1994
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen in the Institute for Cooperatives at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Ed.): Berlin Contributions to Cooperatives - On the Trail of the Cooperative Thought , Issue 20, Berlin, 1994
  • Amalie Raiffeisen - A life for the Raiffeisen movement in Frauenbüro Neuwied (ed.): In search of the buried history of important women in and around Neuwied (Part 2), Neuwied, 1995
  • The idea of ​​freedom in the Raiffeisen cooperatives in Lothar Bossle: Gates to freedom , Festschrift for Alexander Böker on his 85th birthday, Paderborn, 1997
  • Raiffeisen's idea of ​​a cooperative in today's industrial company in Hotel Alte Vogtei (Hrsb.): Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888) woher-woin , Hamm / Sieg, 1997
  • The development of the cooperative concept with Dr.hc Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , in the Historischer Verein bayerischer Genossenschaften eV, Munich (ed.): Series of publications on the history of cooperatives - The beginnings of the modern cooperative movement in Bavaria, Austria and South Tyrol (Volume 1), Munich 1998
  • The diary - A short novel from the life of FW Raiffeisen in Volkshochschule Neuwied (ed.): Neuwieder Menschen-Bilder , Neuwied, 1998
  • FW Raiffeisen - Letters: 1875–1883 , Österreichischer Agrarverlag Vienna, 1986
  • Schulze-Delitzsch and Raiffeisen in Förderverein Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and memorial of the German cooperative society (Ed.): Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch. Path - work - effect , Wiesbaden, 2008 ( online ; review )
  • with Bärbel Schäfer: Chronicle of Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Dachau eG - 1913–2013 , publishing house “Bayerland” GmbH, Dachau, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b short curriculum vitae on wkoch-verlag.de; Retrieved June 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Small museum guide - Germany's first cooperative bank museum in the bank's own rooms on the website vr-dachau.de, pdf
  3. ↑ First cooperative banking museum opened , on the website of Münchner Merkur on March 30, 2009, accessed on June 18, 2016
  4. ↑ The eG under the sign of tradition, innovation and diversity on gv-bayern.de from October 13, 2014, accessed on June 18, 2016
  5. ↑ FW Raiffeisen's thoughts are updated on ak-kurier.de from March 12, 2008; Retrieved June 18, 2016
  6. ^ The 'green' Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen on kooperieren.at, accessed on June 18, 2016
  7. ↑ Manuscript of Radiowissen available as pdf on www.br.de.
  8. ↑ Quotations from google Scholar
  9. ↑ Quotations from google Scholar
  10. ↑ DNB 930252667
  11. ↑ http://www.expertisen-schaefer.de/buch.htm
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker, historian and company archivist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing