Walter Koch

Walter Koch is born as the son of a railway officer in Vienna. He visits the Volks-, Bürger- und Handelsschule in the then residence and Reich capital. With the completed trade school, he enters the service of an insurance company in 1922, where he finally works up to the head of the department.

In the interwar period, Walter Koch is a member of the Reichsbund of Catholic-German youth, the “black-yellow Legitimist Party”, the Front Fighter Association, the Christian-Social Party, and the Patriotic Front.

Walter Koch is a regular guest in the guest house of Franz Lambert [today: Pürstner]. There he learns the lawyer Karl Wanner Knows and strikes this, as a persuasive opponent of National Socialism, the Lamberti Round. He participates in the meetings at irregular intervals and is also aware of the plans for the time of the collapse of the Third Reich.

As the Lamberti Round in January 1942 Anti-fascist freedom movement of Austria (AFÖ) around the pastor Anton Granig and the former member of the State Karl Krumpl Joined, Walter Koch is the owner of the conversations with Karl Wanner.

When the AFÖ flies in 1943, Walter Koch is immediately arrested and in the trial in front of the Volksgerichtshof on 15. August 1944 sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for “not displaying a highly traitorious company”. He remains in custody until the end of the war and arrives on the 17th. April 1945 free.

Walter Koch is married to Christine Koch. He dies childless in Vienna in 1957.