Artvin Koch was the son of M. "Ilse" Koch and SS-Standartenführer Karl Otto Koch, the commandant of Buchenwald. As a young boy, he grew up in a villa near his father's camp. After the war, he had to live with the legacy that his infamous mother was the internationally known notorious convicted war criminal and his disgraced father had been executed by fellow SS men, in April 1945, having been found guilty of inciting murder, private enrichment, and embezzlement. As a young adult, Artvin married Maria, and they had two children. He was educated at the University of Berlin, where he studied law. After graduating. he worked as a lawyer for many years and also became a successful businessman, owning several companies in Germany. In an interview with the BBC, he publicly denounced his mother's heinous crimes during the war. He said that he was ashamed of her actions and that he wanted to distance himself from her. Unable to separate himself from his family's past, he took his own life, just nine months before his mother's own suicide in prison the same year. (Bio by Jay Lance)
Artvin Koch was the son of M. "Ilse" Koch and SS-Standartenführer Karl Otto Koch, the commandant of Buchenwald. As a young boy, he grew up in a villa near his father's camp. After the war, he had to live with the legacy that his infamous mother was the internationally known notorious convicted war criminal and his disgraced father had been executed by fellow SS men, in April 1945, having been found guilty of inciting murder, private enrichment, and embezzlement. As a young adult, Artvin married Maria, and they had two children. He was educated at the University of Berlin, where he studied law. After graduating. he worked as a lawyer for many years and also became a successful businessman, owning several companies in Germany. In an interview with the BBC, he publicly denounced his mother's heinous crimes during the war. He said that he was ashamed of her actions and that he wanted to distance himself from her. Unable to separate himself from his family's past, he took his own life, just nine months before his mother's own suicide in prison the same year. (Bio by Jay Lance)
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