Margarete Koppers (born 19 August 1961 in Wissel) is a German lawyer and currently Attorney General in Berlin. She is the first woman in the office.[1] Before that she was Vice President of the Berlin Police, also the first woman in the office.
Life
editKoppers grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia and moved to Berlin in the early-1980s, where she studied law. In 1988, she joined the Berlin Department of Justice, became a judge and finally held the office of Vice President of the Berlin Regional Court. For two years, she worked as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.
On 8 March 2010, Koppers was appointed police vice-president, becoming acting police chief for Dieter Glietsch, who was still in office at that time. She provisionally headed the Berlin police force for one and a half years after no successor could be appointed for Glietsch, who retired at the end of May 2011 and was succeeded by Klaus Kandt only on 17 December 2012. Koppers remained in office as police vice-president until 18 February 2018.[2]
Kopper's conduct of office in the context of Berlin's organized crime as well as her decisions as Attorney General have been the subject of several national reports.[3][4][5][6][7]
Koppers was married and now, after having tried out several "relationship models," lives with her life partner in Berlin.[8][9][10] Koppers is married to a family court judge.[11]
References
edit- ^ Hans H. Nibbrig (2018-03-24). "Margarete Koppers will ressortübergreifende Personalpolitik". Morgenpost.de. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ^ Berliner Morgenpost: Die Polizei ist zusammengespart worden, 18 December 2012
- ^ FOCUS Online. "Experte: So infiltrieren arabische Clans Schaltstellen der deutschen Justiz" (in German). Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ^ "Streit um Koppers' Ernennung". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ^ Philippe Debionne, Jan Thomsen (2018-07-31). "Prozess um Rocker-Mord: Ist Generalstaatsanwältin Koppers in den Fall verwickelt?" (in German). Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ^ Huth, Peter (2018-03-03). Kriminalität: Araberclans in Berlin machen, was sie wollen.
{{cite book}}:|newspaper=ignored (help) - ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com). "Berlin AG wants to get rid of fines for fare evaders | DW | 30.12.2018". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ^ Rennefanz, Sabine (7 March 2012). "Amtierende Polizeipräsidentin Margarete Koppers: Die Entschlossene". Berliner Zeitung. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ Fertig, Gudrun (19 December 2013). "Berliner Polizei-Vizepräsidentin im Interview". siegessäule.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ^ Nicolas Šustr: Auf dem Sprung. (about Margarete Koppers) In: neues deutschland, 18/19 February 2017, p. 2
- ^ Koppers, Margarete; Weidling, Matthias (2021), "Verhältnis der Staatsanwaltschaft zur Polizei", Innovative Entwicklungen in den deutschen Staatsanwaltschaften, Edition Forschung und Entwicklung in der Strafrechtspflege, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, pp. 73–91, doi:10.1007/978-3-658-34219-7_4, ISBN 978-3-658-34218-0, S2CID 244316229, retrieved 2022-10-24