Karl Hoppe (politician, 1889)

Karl Friedrich Hoppe (* 10. June 1889 in Kürzell ; † 7. July 1963 in Saarbrücken ) was a Saarland politician ( SPD , KP ).

Life

Karl Hoppe was the son of a farmer. After elementary school he worked as a clerk in administration until 1924 and then worked full-time in the war victims movement. At that time he belonged to the Social Democratic Party. After moving to Saarland, he took over the Gauleitung of the Reichsbund from 1929 to 1933 to reorganize the associations in Saarbrücken. During the Nazi regime he emigrated from Saarland to France in 1935 and became a member of the Committee Free Germany for the West (CALPO) and was a member of the Resistance .

After the war he returned to the Saar area in 1945 . There he joined the “Communist Party Saar” (KP) in 1946 and became party secretary. A year later he was a founding member and first chairman of the Association of War Disabled and War Relatives of the Saarland (VdKdS)

In 1947 he was a member of the Constitutional Commission of the Saarland and the Constituent Assembly of the Saarland and was elected to the Saarland Landtag on October 5, 1947 . He took over the function of the second secretary of the state parliament and was chairman of the state parliament group for his party until October 14, 1948. On October 14, 1948, he resigned from the Communist Party and remained a member of the state parliament until December 8, 1952, without party affiliation. In September 1950 he took over the management of the press and information office of the Saarland government.

Web links

• Saarland biographies: Karl Hoppe (as of August 11th, 2009)