Hans Coppel

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Hans Coppel (born April 20, 1923 in Vienna , † September 27, 1980 in Ternitz ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Hans Coppel was the son of an employee of the municipality of Vienna . He started the apprenticeship of a locksmith . He was a member of the Hitler Youth and from 1941 a member of the NSDAP . In 1942 he enlisted in the Wehrmacht , where he achieved the rank of lieutenant . In 1946 he moved to Ternitz in Lower Austria, where he also worked for Schoeller-Bleckmann . Politically interested he soon became a works council of the FSG . In 1953 he was elected as the youngest member of the National Council at the time, where he stayed until 1969. In between, he was Interior Minister from 1964 to 1966 as the successor to Franz Olah , who was deposed, in the Klaus I cabinet .

From 1969 to 1980 he was Deputy Governor under Andreas Maurer in Lower Austria. As this he was responsible for the communities and nature conservation. During this time the large municipal reform in 1972 took place, which reduced the number of municipalities in Lower Austria from 1,281 - apart from a few small changes - to today's 573.

Bust of Hans Coppel in Ternitz

According to him, the residential complex Hans-Czettel-farm was in Kaltenleutgeben named the 1980 at the site of the former terminal station of Kaltenleutgebner railway was built, and he had opened shortly before his death.

literature

  • Ernst Bruckmüller (Ed.): Personenlexikon Österreich , Verlagsgemeinschaft Österreich-Lexikon, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-9500438-7-X , p. 78.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.profil.at/home/zeitgeschichte-rote-habenenserforschung-die-spoe-protocol-116032
  2. Marktgemeinde Kaltenleutgabe: Kltg from then until today 13 . In: Kaltenleutgabe . ( kaltenleuthaben.gv.at [accessed on November 7, 2017]).
  3. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  4. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)