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Fred Chase Koch (born September 23, 1900, Quanah, Texas – died November 1967, Kansas City, Missouri) was an American businessman. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The businesses Fred Koch started and passed down to his family would come to be known as Koch Industries. Fred Koch formed the predecessor corporation in 1945. Prior to that he had been active in expanding the oil refining industry in the U.S.S.R., while that nation was allied with the United States during World War II. Koch was a founding member of the John Birch Society. He authored A Business Man Looks at Communism (1961).

[edit] Family

He was the father of Charles, Bill, David, and Frederick Koch.

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