Wolfgang Kopitzsch

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Wolfgang Kopitzsch (born January 18, 1949 in Langendamm , today a district of Varel ) is a German historian , politician ( SPD ) and was police chief in Hamburg from 2012 to 2014 .

Life

His father Walter had been a Prussian police officer since 1927, first in Erfurt, then in Altona since 1931 and was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933 as a social democrat. From 1945 to 1948 the father was a police officer in Thuringia and was dismissed from duty in 1948 for political reasons, he fled with his family to the West and from 1949 to 1966 was a police officer - most recently police chief inspector and district leader - in Hamburg. Wolfgang Kopitzsch is married, has a son and is the brother of the historian Franklin Kopitzsch .

From 1966 to 1969 he graduated from the Wendenstrasse Business School in Hamburg , where he graduated from high school. From 1969 to 1974 he studied history and education at the University of Hamburg . He has been a member of the SPD since 1971 . In 1974 the first state examination and in 1978 the second state examination for teaching at elementary and secondary schools took place. Since 1979 he has worked as a teacher at the Hamburg State Police School for Politics, Constitutional and Constitutional Law, German. Since 1980 he has worked as a teacher. From 1986 to 1988 Kopitzsch had a research assignment from the Ministry of the Interior on the history of the Hamburg police in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism . In 1995 he became senior teacher. Kopitzsch worked at the State Police School from 1979 to 2009. In 1999 he became director of studies and at the same time deputy head of the state police school. From 1993 to 2010 he was chairman of the SPD operating group Police Hamburg. In 2007 he became head of the state police school. From April 2009 he was district office manager Hamburg-Nord , previously he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the district assembly Hamburg-Nord. On January 18, 2012, Kopitzsch succeeded Werner Jantosch as police chief in Hamburg. When he reached the age limit on April 30, 2014, he retired. His successor as police chief in Hamburg was Ralf Martin Meyer .

Kopitzsch published on the history of upbringing and education, contemporary history and the history of the police. Among other things, he is a member of the police union , the Society for Police History , the Association for Hamburg History and the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . Kopitzsch worked scientifically on the exhibitions 50 Years of the Seizure of Power in Hamburg (1983), 100 Years of the Criminal Museum in Hamburg (1993), Hamburg Police Battalions in World War II (1995) and 125 Years of the Hamburg Criminal Police (2001). He is also a member of the board of the “Lebendige Stadt” foundation and chairman of the federal board of the working group of formerly persecuted social democrats .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Peter Freimark : Anne Frank - a Jewish fate. Texts and materials for political education. State Center for Polit. Education, Hamburg 1979.
  • Education and Science Union (GEW) 1947–1975. Basics of its history (= research reports of the Max Traeger Foundation. Vol. 15). Winter, Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-533-03420-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kopitzsch, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, police chief in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Langendamm