As developers struggle to make money in a slow housing market, Fred Koch is in pursuit of another kind of green. The owner of Koch Development is building what are expected to be the first South Bay ...

As developers struggle to make money in a slow housing market, Fred Koch is in pursuit of another kind of green. The owner of Koch Development is building what are expected to be the first South Ba… ...

Her book points out that Fred Koch sought to enlist in the U.S. military after the start of World War II. The Washington Post’s Alice Crites contributed to this report.

In 1958, Fred Koch, the founder of the Midwestern oil and cattle ranching empire that would become Koch Industries, became a charter member of the John Birch Society, the fiercely anti-communist ...

Fred Koch, the company’s founder, enticed Grendys to join by offering him 50% equity in the tiny company. Eight years later, Grendys bought Koch out and began to aggressively expand.

Fred Koch was also a great admirer of German discipline, the Post notes, and in the 1930s “hired a fervent Nazi as a governess for his eldest boys,” Frederick and Charles.