Waldemar Koch

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Waldemar Koch
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Waldemar Koch (1945)
Born25 September 1880
Died15 May 1963
Berlin, Germany
OccupationPolitician
Political partyDDR
LDPD
FDP

Waldemar Koch (25 September 1880 – 15 May 1963) was a German liberal politician and economist.[1]

He was born in Bad Harzburg, Duchy of Brunswick. Koch studied Economics, Philosophy and History at Berlin. He received a doctorate in 1907 for a dissertation entitled "Consolidation in the German Electrical Indudstry" ("Konzentration in der dt. Elektroindustrie").[1] Between 1907 and 1910 he undertook an extensive study tour that included Russia, China and the United States.[1]

He also worked for AEG from 1905 to 1907,[1] returning to the company to head a London-based company for them from 1910 to 1914.

During World War I he served in the German army. In 1918 he joined the German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei). Between the wars he worked as an economist and professor on the Technical University of Berlin.

After World War II he co-founded the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) in the Soviet Occupied Zone (SBZ). In 1945 he was briefly the Chairman of the LDPD, but the Soviets forced him to resign after a few months. He opposed the land reform plans of the Soviet authorities and the Socialist Unity Party (SED). Koch was a member of the LDPD's executive committee until 1948.

In 1949 he went to West Germany (West Berlin) and again worked as an economics professor. From 1948 to 1956 Koch was a member of the liberal FDP (Free Democratic Party).

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Koch, Waldemar * 25.9.1880, † 15.5.1963 Vorsitzender der LDPD". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

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Party political offices
Preceded by
none
Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany
1945
Succeeded by
Wilhelm Külz
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