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On 22 March 1926, Koch became a Bezirksleiter of the NSDAP in Essen and, in October of that year, succeeded [[Joseph Goebbels]] as Business Manager of Großgau Ruhr. In 1927, he succeeded Viktor Lutze as the Deputy Gauleiter of the region.
 
In October 1928 he 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 [[Adolf Hitler|Adolf Hitler's]] rise to power in 1933, Koch was appointed to the Prussian State Council that same year. He became Oberpräsident of East Prussia a mothmonth later replacing Wilhelm Kutscher. Koch was appointed SA-Obergruppenführer in 1938.
 
=== Gauleiter & Oberpräsident ===
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