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Karl Koch

Karl Koch was an acquaintance or relative of Otto Frank from Frankfurt.

Person

  • Karl Koch
  • Born on: March 18, 1852
  • Born in: Offenbach am Main, Duitsland
  • Died on: July 3, 1942
  • Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Karl Koch was an acquaintance or relative of Otto Frank from Frankfurt. Karl Koch was a son of Samuel Koch, and his mother's name was Schmidt. He married Hedwig Oppenheimer on 26 October 1882 in Königstadten.[1] The Oppenheimer family was related to Otto Frank's family.

As Carl Koch, he had a Maskengarderobe, a shop in mask and party clothes at 27 Mosel straße in Frankfurt.[2] On 4 July 1942, Otto Frank wrote a postcard to his mother in Basel announcing, among other things, the death of 'Herr Koch (Maskenkoch)'. He asked her to let Herbert know.[3]

Anne does not mention him in her diary, but Otto Frank adds in The Secret Annex that on 5 July 1942, the day of Margot's call, he visited old people in the Jewish Invalid Home. In his list compiled for Ernst Schnabel: Im 'Achterhuis' genannte Personen, he wrote: "Alte Leute im Joodse Invalide: Koch aus Frankfurt a/M †".[4]

Source personal data. [5] Addresses: Frankfurt am Main; Weesperplein 1, Amsterdam (20 April 1940).[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart K. Koch.
  2. ^ Amtlicher Frankfurter Adreßbuch 1935, Frankfurt am Main: August Scherl GmbH, 1935, deel I, p. 364 (https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/periodika, geraadpleegd 22 augustus 2022
  3. ^ Anne Frank Fonds (AFF), Bazel, Familiearchief Frank-Elias (FEFA), AlF_corr_10: briefkaart Otto Frank aan Alice Frank-Stern, 4 juli 1942
  4. ^ Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, Collectie Schnabel, namenlijst d.d. 3 juni 1957.
  5. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart K. Koch; SAA, Burgerlijke Stand, Overlijdensregister 1942, deel 9, 7v, overlijdensakte K. Koch