Peter Köpf (politician)

Peter Köpf (born October 19, 1939 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and insurance director. From 1979 to 1990 he was a member of the Austrian Federal Council and from 1990 to 1991 a member of the Salzburg state parliament .

education and profession

Köpf first attended elementary school in the Liefering district of Salzburg from 1945 to 1949 and then switched to secondary school from 1949 to 1953. After completing compulsory school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship as an iron trader from 1953 to 1956 and then worked from 1956 to 1959 as a commercial clerk at the Roittner company, where he did military service in 1958. He then worked from 1959 to 1963 as a commercial clerk for the Salzburger Nachrichten . After graduating from the Social Academy of the Vienna Chamber of Labor in Mödling from 1961 to 1962, he became District Party Secretary of the SPÖ Salzburg-Stadt in 1963. Köpf worked in this position until 1970 and was then director of Graphia-Betriebe Salzburg from 1971 to 1979. After he was employed as state party secretary of the SPÖ Salzburg from 1979 to 1985, he became an employee in 1985 and finally from 1987 to 2000 regional director of the Wiener Städtische Versicherungsanstalt in Salzburg.

Politics and functions

From 1954 to 1963, Köpf was active as a functionary in the youth union and was also the youth chairman of the GPA. He joined the Socialist Party in 1957 and from 1973 to 1974 held the position of executive district party chairman of the SPÖ Salzburg-Stadt. Furthermore, he was active from 1979 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1985 as the state secretary of the working group of socialist community representatives. Within the party, he was a member of the SPÖ Salzburg state party executive from 1974 to 1991, and from 1978 to 1984 and from 1988 to 2000 as well as from 2004 the function of a member of the state party presidency of the SPÖ Salzburg. He also worked as a state party cashier from 1989 to 2000 and in 2004 took over the chairmanship of the control commission of the Salzburg SPÖ. He held his highest internal party function between 1975 and 1979 as deputy regional chairman, from 1979 to 1980 he was also regional chairman of the Free Trade Association in Salzburg and its district chairman in the city of Salzburg until 1979.

Köpf was a member of the Federal Council from May 16, 1979 to February 6, 1990, after which he represented the SPÖ from February 7, 1990 to February 5, 1991 in the Salzburg state parliament.

Awards

• Professional title Commercial Council (1995)
• Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg (1999)
• Ring of the City of Salzburg

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .

Web links

• Peter Köpf (politician) on the website of the Austrian Parliament