Carl Koch (mayor)
Carl Koch may refer to: * Carl Koch (director) (1892–1963), German film director and writer * Carl Koch (architect) (1912–1998), American architect * Carl Ludwig Koch (1778–1857), German entomologist and arachnologist See also * Karl Koch (other) Karl Koch may refer to: * Carl Koch (director) (1892–1963), also spelled Karl Koch, German film director, writer * Karl Koch (botanist) (1809–1879), German botanist * Karl Koch (cyclist) (1910–1944), German cyclist * Karl Koch (Fallschirmjäge ...

Carl Koch (director)
Carl Koch or Karl Koch (30 July 1892 in Nümbrecht, Germany – 1 December 1963 in Barnet, England) was an art historian, a German film director and a writer with many secondary credits including collaborations with his wife Lotte Reiniger, the animator of ''The Adventures of Prince Achmed'' (1926). In these collaborations, Koch often managed the camera work, which was mounted above Reiniger's animation table. Koch was an art historian, and before he met Reiniger, he made films for museums about art history and other educational matters. Other than his work with Reiniger, Koch is perhaps best known as assistant to Jean Renoir, who helped get Koch and Reiniger exit visas from Germany in 1936. Koch and Renoir, during the filming of ''La Grande Illusion'' (in which Koch has an uncredited role), discovered that Koch's artillery unit had actually fired on Renoir's airplane during World War I. In 1939, Koch and Renoir began an adaptation of ''Tosca'' at Mussolini's invitation. The ...
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Carl Koch (architect)
Carl Koch (May 11, 1912 – July 3, 1998) was a noted American architect. He was most associated with the design of prefabricated homes and development of the Techcrete building system. Early life and education Albert Carl Koch, Jr. was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 11, 1912. He was educated at Harvard College and received his Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), completing his studies in 1937. The time he spent at Harvard overlapped briefly with the arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus in Germany, who had come to lead GSD. Koch served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. In April 1944, he was recruited for transfer to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program of the Allied Military Government in the European Theater of Operations, where he served in Germany with other ‘Monuments Men.’ Career After completing his education, Koch moved to Sweden where he briefly worked for Modernist archite ...
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Carl Ludwig Koch
Carl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and common house spider. He was born in Kusel, Germany, and died in Nuremberg, Germany. Carl Ludwig Koch was an inspector of water and forests. His principal work ''Die Arachniden'' (1831–1848) (16 volumes) was commenced by Carl Wilhelm Hahn (1786–1836). Koch was responsible for the last 12 volumes. He also finished the chapter on spiders in ''Faunae insectorum germanicae initia oder Deutschlands Insecten'' lements of the insect fauna of Germanya work by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (1755–1829). He also co-authored, with Georg Karl Berendt, an important monograph ''Die im Bernstein befindlichen Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt'' (1854) on arachnids, myriapods, and wingless insects in amber based on material in Berendt's collection, now held in the Muse ...
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