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  1. Fred Chase Koch (/ k oʊ k / KOHK; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which—under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David—would be listed by Forbes ...

  2. Fred C Koch was a chemical engineer and entrepreneur who built a business empire from oil extraction technology. He worked with Stalin and Hitler's regimes in Russia and Germany, and founded the conservative John Birch Society.

  3. www.forbes.com › profile › kochKoch family - Forbes

    Feb 8, 2024 · Learn about the history and wealth of the Koch family, who inherited and diversified the oil and gas business founded by Fred C. Koch in 1940. See their net worth, sources of wealth, related people and companies, and more on Forbes.

  4. Contents. Fred C. Koch. American inventor and businessman. Learn about this topic in these articles: Charles and David Koch. In Charles and David Koch: Early life and business activities.

  5. Jan 19, 2016 · Fred Koch, the patriarch of the family, was an expert in building oil refineries, and he and a friend named William Rhodes Davis proposed building one in Germany during 1934, '35, that period...

  6. Jul 30, 2019 · Mr. Koch is the author of The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present which was published by Pensylvania State University Press in 1977. It is one of the first English-language complete histories of the Volga Germans.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Koch_familyKoch family - Wikipedia

    Fred C. Koch (1900–1967), American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries and was one of the founding members of the John Birch Society. Mary Robinson Koch (1907–1990), wife of Fred C. and eponym of the company's namesake tanker vessel Mary R. Koch