 Gerd Koch

Gerd Koch (11 July 1922 – 19 April 2005) was a German cultural anthropologist best known for his studies on the material culture of Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific.He was associated with the Ethnological Museum of Berlin (; until 1999 "Museum für Völkerkunde") His field work was directed to researching and recording the use of artefacts in their indigenous context, to begin to understand these societies.