Ernst Köpper

Ernst Köpper (born October 28, 1893 in Hespe ; † July 25, 1965 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After attending primary school in Hespe, Köpper initially worked as a seaman. He took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 , worked as a railway attendant in Achum from 1918 until he was discharged from the railway in 1934 and was promoted to chief railway attendant in 1927. From 1934 he ran an inn in Hespe.

Köpper was deputy mayor of Hespe from 1919 to 1923 and then until April 6, 1933, when he was deposed by order of the National Socialist-dominated state council. In April 1929, he replaced the resigned MP Franz Reuther in the state parliament of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe , of which he was a member until 1931.

After the Second World War , Köpper was appointed mayor of Hespe by the British military government in May 1945 . He held this position until April 1961, when his younger brother succeeded him in office.

Ernst Köpper had been married since 1919.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 198.

Web links

• Ernst Köpper's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)