Geschichte Der Sowjetischen Ukraine

Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 108. Nicht dargestellt. Kapitel: Holodomor, Erich Koch, Legion Ukrainischer Nationalisten, Christian Georgijewitsch Rakowski, Willi Seibert, Alfred Frauenfeld, Moldauische Autonome Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik, Ukrainische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik, Werchowna Rada, Kommunistische Partei Der Ukraine, Stepan Bandera, Wlas Jakowlewitsch Tschubar, Jewhen Konowalez, Nikolai Anissimowitsch Schtscholokow, Mychajlo Hruschewskyj, Wolodymyr Lytwyn, Leonid Krawtschuk, Hennadij Udowenko, Mykola Kyzenko, Fall Grischino, Awgustyn Woloschyn, Kz Syrez, Andrij Liwyzkyj, Witali Wassiljewitsch Fedortschuk, Serhij Ostapenko, Demjan Korottschenko, Witalij Massol. Auszug: Erich Koch (June 19, 1896 - November 12, 1986) was a Gauleiter of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945. Between 1941 and 1945 he was the Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung) of the Bialystok district. During this period, he was also the Reichskommissar in Reichskommissariat Ukraine from 1941 until 1943. After the war, Koch stood trial in Poland and was convicted in 1959 of war crimes and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment a year later. Koch was born in Elberfeld, today part of Wuppertal, as the son of foreman Gustav Adolf Koch (1862 - 1932) and his wife Henriette, née Matthes (1863 - 1939). In World War I he served without distinction as a soldier from 1915 till 1918 and later fought as a member of Freikorps Rossbach in Upper Silesia. A skilled trader, Koch joined the railway service as an aspirant for the middle level of the civil service. He was dismissed from this position in 1926 for anti-republican activities. Koch joined the NSDAP in 1922 {NSDAP # 90}. From 1922 he worked in various party positions in the NSDAP-Gau Ruhr. During the Occupation of the Ruhr, he was a member of Albert Leo Schlageter's group and was imprisoned several times by the French authorities. In 1927 he became Bezirksführer of the NSDAP in Essen and later the deputy Gauleiter of Gau Ruhr. Koch belonged to the left wing of the party and was a supporter of the faction led by Gregor Strasser. In 1928 Koch became Gauleiter of the Province of East Prussia and the leader of the NSDAP faction in the provincial diet. From September 1930 he was a member of the Reichstag for East Prussia. After the Machtergreifung, Koch became an appointed member of the Prussian State Council in July 1933. He became Oberpräsident of East Prussia in September 1933, replacing Wilhelm Kutscher. In 1938 Koch was appointed SA-Obergruppenführer. Koch's pre-war rule in East Prussia was characterized by efforts to collectivize the local agriculture an