Julius Kopsch (politician)

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Julius Kopsch

Julius Kopsch (born January 7, 1855 in Beuthen an der Oder , † April 24, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German politician (FrVP; FVP; DDP).

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Kopsch was born the son of a master shoemaker. After attending elementary school in Bytom from 1861 to 1869, Kopsch was trained for three years at the local preparation institute. In 1875 Kopsch began to work as a teacher in Jannowitz near Hirschberg. Activities in Liegnitz (1876) and Görlitz (1877 to 1879) followed. From 1879 Kopsch worked as a teacher in school. He then belonged to the 58th Infantry Regiment in Glogau for a year. In 1880 he passed the secondary school teacher examination in Berlin, two years later, in 1882, the rector examination. In 1891 he became rector in Berlin. From 1893 to 1898 he was a member of the board of the Berlin teachers' association. In 1921 he retired as rector of a Berlin community school.

In July 1896 Kopsch entered the Reichstag of the German Empire on the occasion of a by-election as a member of the Liberal People's Party (FrVP), after he had been able to prevail in the election against a conservative opponent. For the FrVP, and from 1912 for the successor to the FrVP, the Progressive People's Party (FVP), he was a member of parliament without interruption until the November Revolution of 1918 for the constituency of Liegnitz 5 (Löwenberg). At the same time, he was a member of the Prussian Landtag from 1898 to 1918, which had originally been elected twice for the constituencies of Berlin II and Görlitz (he accepted for the latter). In parliament, Kopsch stood out, among other things, by shouting anti-Semitic slogans in plenary sessions. In parliament, Kopsch, who also belonged to the German Teachers' Association, campaigned in particular for the interests of teachers.

In January 1919 Kopsch became a member of the Prussian state assembly. In the same year Kopsch moved to the German Democratic Party (DDP). For this he was elected in June 1920 as a candidate for constituency 9 (Liegnitz) in the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . The Weimar National Assembly had not heard Kopsch what he was very hurt. After his mandate was confirmed in the May and December 1924 elections, Kopsch was a member of the Reichstag until May 1928. After the constituencies were renumbered in May 1924, his constituency was number 8. From 1919 to 1921 Kopsch also sat for the DDP in the Prussian state parliament.

In April 1921 Kopsch participated in the founding of the Federation for Freedom and Order in Berlin and the surrounding area.

His son was the lawyer, conductor and composer Julius Kopsch (1887–1970).

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  1. ↑ Eric Kurlander: The Price of Exclusion , 2006, p. 82.
  2. ↑ Werner Stephan: Rise and Fall of Left Liberalism 1918-1933 , 1973, p. 174.
  3. ↑ Andreas Wirsching: From World War to Civil War? , 1999, p. 314.
  4. ↑ On him and his importance - especially for Nazi copyright - Friedemann Kawohl in: Simon Apel / Louis Pahlow / Matthias Wießner (eds.), Biographisches Handbuch des Intellectual Property, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, pp. 173–180.
personal data
SURNAME Kopsch, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (FrVP, FVP, DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuthen on the Oder
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1935
Place of death Berlin