Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf 1948
Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (6 May 1893 – 21 December 1961) was a German politician (SPD).
He joined the SPD in 1919. Kopf worked from 1939 to 1943 on behalf of the Nazi government as an asset manager in occupied Poland, initially with his own company together with the lawyer Edmund Bohne, later for the
Haupttreuhandstelle Ost and was "trustee of confiscated Polish and Jewish goods" and worked as an expropriation commissioner in the
Lubliniec region. In 1948, Polish authorities requested his
extradition
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for being involved in deportations, harassing and abusing Polish workers, and confiscating Jewish property, but Military Governor
Robertson dismissed the allegations saying they were "insufficient".
He served as Prime Minister of the short-lived
State of Hanover in 1946 and then as
Minister President of Lower Saxony from 1946 to 1955 and from 1959 to 1961. He served as the third President of the
Bundesrat from 7 September 1951 to 6 September 1952.
Kopf was born in
Neuenkirchen,
Hanover
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, and died in
Göttingen
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.
His grave is located in the Stöcken city cemetery in Hanover and was a so-called honorary grave of the city of Hanover until 2015, whose administration decorated it with flowers and cared for it.
[Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Ausgabe Stadt Hannover, 13. Juni 2015, S. 15]
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1893 births
1961 deaths
Presidents of the German Bundesrat
Politicians from the Province of Hanover
University of Göttingen alumni
Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Minister-presidents of Lower Saxony
Ministers of the Lower Saxony State Government
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