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Karl Koch

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

Person

  • Karl Koch
  • Offenbach am Main, Duitsland March 18, 1852
  • Amsterdam, Nederland July 3, 1942

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]

Koch died as a result of Parkinson’s disease and was buried in Diemen on Sunday 5 June 1942.[4] It stands to reason that Otto Frank was present at the funeral and that this is why he was not there when a police officer came to deliver the summons for Margot.

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 †".[5]

Source personal data. [6] Addresses: Eppsteinerstraße 8-II, Frankfurt am Main; Weesperplein 1, Amsterdam (7 February 1940).[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Karl Koch.
  2. ^ Amtliches Frankfurter Adreßbuch 1935, Frankfurt am Main: August Scherl GmbH, 1935, deel I, p. 364.
  3. ^ Anne Frank Fonds, Bazel, Familiearchief Frank-Elias (FEFA), AlF_corr_10: briefkaart Otto Frank aan Alice Frank-Stern, 4 juli 1942
  4. ^ SAA, Burgerlijke Stand, Bevolkingsregister en Verkiezingen (toegang 5176), inv. nr. 548: verklaring van overlijden Karl Koch, 4 juli 1942, bij reg. 9, aktenr. 39.​
  5. ^ Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, Collectie Schnabel, namenlijst d.d. 3 juni 1957.
  6. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Karl Koch; SAA, Burgerlijke Stand, Overlijdensregister 1942, deel 9, 7v, overlijdensakte K. Koch
  7. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam (toegang 5225), inv. nr. 3982: vreemdelingenkaart Karl Koch.