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Hermann Kopf

German politician and lawyer (1901-1991)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ1611828 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hermann Kopf (29 May 1901 – 5 May 1991) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Career

He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1969. He was directly elected in all ballots in the Freiburg constituency. From 25 May 1960 to 1969 he was Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs.

From 16 July 1952 to 29 November 1961, Kopf was also a member of the European Parliament.

References

Further reading

Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hermann Kopf” is german politician and lawyer (1901-1991). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hermann, Kopf and German, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901, 1991, 1949, 1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901-05-29. For this dossier, Hermann, Kopf and German is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “german politician and lawyer (1901-1991)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1611828. VIAF identifies the subject as 67271951. The Library of Congress control number is nr2005007569. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1901, 1991, 1949 and 1969.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hermann Kopf” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.