Wilhelm Koch (Deacon)

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Grave of Wilhelm Koch in Dortmund-Aplerbeck

Karl Konrad Wilhelm Koch (born July 27, 1907 in Kassel , † October 25, 1976 in Dortmund ) was a deacon , church musician and CDU local politician in Dortmund- Aplerbeck .

Life

Wilhelm Koch was born as the son of the worker Wilhelm Koch and Mathilde Koch, née Möller, in Kassel and grew up in Rosenthal (Hesse) . After finishing school, he trained as a shoemaker and then trained as a deacon in the Hephata Brothers' House near Treysa . From 1932 to 1974 he was a parish deacon in the Protestant parish of Aplerbeck, and also in Schüren and Sölde until 1937 . Wilhelm Koch passed the C-examination as church musician and the catechist examination at the church music school in Dortmund in 1940 and since then has also worked as an organist , choir and trombone conductor and gave church lessons. Because the Aplerbeck pastors Paul Kramm and Leopold Schütte could no longer perform their duties, Koch was commissioned in 1943 with the pastoral duties of the parish of Aplerbeck. In 1944 he passed the second administrative examination for parish officials in order to continue the Aplerbeck Protestant parish office , whose head Erich Riecke had been called up for military service.

Because his successful youth work seemed suspicious to the Nazi state , Wilhelm Koch was arrested several times by the Gestapo . In 1939 he was imprisoned for several weeks in the Dortmund Gestapo prison Steinwache for distributing writings dangerous to the state . As a result, Koch was expelled from the Reich Music Chamber .

After the war, Wilhelm Koch was one of the founding members of the Dortmund CDU and, from 1949, on the Aplerbeck administrative committee, which later became the district representative . After the war he founded the ascension meetings of the YMCA as well as Midsummer celebrations, for which thousands of young Dortmunders met every year. The ZDF production “God's own brass music” for the 1963 Kirchentag documents Wilhelm Koch's work as a trombone choir leader.

In 1944 Wilhelm Koch married Elfriede Böings (July 20, 1905– May 23, 1980). Wilhelm Koch and his wife have their grave in the Evangelical Cemetery in Aplerbeck.

Publications

Honors

  • In 1975 Wilhelm Koch received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.
  • In 1989 the Diakon-Koch-Weg in Dortmund-Aplerbeck was named in his honor.

literature

  • Siegfried Liesenberg: Wilhelm Koch. A life of service and commitment. For the 100th birthday of the Aplerbeck deacon. Dortmund 2007.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Liesenberg, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Liesenberg, pp. 1-2.
  3. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Schüren (Ed.): Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Schüren. History and stories from 100 years. Bielefeld 2015, p. 92.
  4. ↑ Liesenberg, p. 8.
  5. ↑ Liesenberg, pp. 8-10.
  6. ↑ Liesenberg, p. 9.
  7. ↑ Liesenberg, pp. 4-7.
  8. ^ Hermann-Ulrich Koehn: Protestantism and the public in the Dortmund area 1942 / 43–1955 / 56. Münster 2008, pp. 42–44.
  9. ^ Günther Högl (Ed.): Resistance and persecution in Dortmund 1933-1945. 2nd edition, Dortmund 2002, p. 289.
  10. ^ Hermann-Ulrich Koehn: Protestantism and the public in the Dortmund area 1942 / 43–1955 / 56. Münster 2008, p. 192.
  11. ↑ Liesenberg, pp. 12-14.
  12. ↑ Liesenberg, pp. 16-17.
  13. ↑ Liesenberg, p. 21.
  14. ↑ Liesenberg, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Karl Konrad Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deacon, church musician and CDU local politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1976
Place of death Dortmund