Wilhelm Loch

Wilhelm Loch

Wilhelm Loch (born September 9, 1892 in Duisburg , † March 15, 1969 in Süchteln ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school and secondary school, Loch completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter at a machine factory in Duisburg from 1907 to 1911. He then worked as a fitter. In October 1913, Loch joined the “von Borcke” infantry regiment , with whom he took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 . During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters . In 1919 he belonged to the Duisburg Resident Guardon. After his demobilization in September 1919, Loch completed an apprenticeship at the state mechanical engineering and smelting school in Duisburg, which he left in October 1921 as a graduate mechanical engineer. Between 1925 and 1931, Loch worked as an engineer, property manager and insurance agent; the following two years he worked as a freelance designer in mechanical engineering. Loch was married and had three children.

In 1921, Loch joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . In 1924 he was active in the Völkisch Social Block , a substitute organization for the NSDAP, which was banned at the time. After the re-admission of the NSDAP, he joined the party ( membership number 27.714) and the SA in April 1925. From February 1930, Loch was head of the NSDAP local group in Duisburg. In October 1932 he became NSDAP district leader for Duisburg, a position he held until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Loch became a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament and city councilor in Duisburg in March 1933 . From July 1933 he was a full-time NSDAP functionary. On January 30, 1935 he was appointed to the Prussian Provincial Council . From March 1936 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945, Loch sat as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 23 (Düsseldorf West) . He was also the head of the NSDAP.

After the end of the Nazi regime, Loch was interned under automatic arrest from May 1945 to October 1948, most recently in Fallingbostel . In October 1948, the court in Benefeld sentenced him to four years in prison because of his membership in the corps of political leaders of the NSDAP, including his internment. In November 1950, the denazification committee for the Düsseldorf administrative region classified Loch in the group of “less polluted” people. Since Loch was also prohibited from working as an engineer, he first worked as a traveler and later as a trainer in a machine factory in Viersen . As a retiree, Loch owned a kiosk.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 379 f .

Web links

• Wilhelm Loch in the database of members of the Reichstag