Alfred Koch Explained

Alfred Koch
Office:Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
President:Boris Yeltsin
Primeminister:Viktor Chernomyrdin
Term Start:17 March
Term End:13 August 1997
Office2:Head Federal Agency for State Property Management
Term Start2:12 September 1996
Term End2:13 August 1997
Predecessor2:Alexander Kazakov
President2:Boris Yeltsin
Primeminister2:Viktor Chernomyrdin
Birth Name:Alfred Reingoldovich Kokh
Birth Date:1961 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Zyryanovsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, (now Kazakhstan)
Nationality:Russian
Occupation:Statesman, mathematician-economist and businessman
Profession:Politician
Mathematician-Economist
Business executive
Alma Mater:Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Signature:Alfred_Koch_signature.svg
Children:Elena Koch (born 1981)
Olga Koch (born 1992)
Native Name Lang:ru

Alfred Reingoldovich Kokh (Koch) (Russian: Альфред Рейнгольдович Кох, German: Alfred Reingoldowitsch Koch, born 28 February 1961) is a Russian statesman, writer, mathematician-economist, and businessman. From 12 September 1996 to 13 August 1997 and from 17 March 1997 to 13 August 1997, he was the head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management and a deputy prime minister of Russia under Viktor Chernomyrdin, respectively.

Education and early life

He was born in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic to an ethnically German father who was deported there in 1941 and an ethnic Russian mother.

During the beginning of the construction of the Volzhsky Automobile Plant, he and his parents then moved to Tolyatti where his father became the head of the department of related industries, a structure that dealt with all the component parts.

Career

He served as a deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin and was an ally of economic reformer Anatoly Chubais, a chief architect of Russia's privatization. On 12 September 1996, Kokh was appointed head of Russia's State Property Committee, acting as Russia's privatization chief. He left the position on 13 August 1997, after the privatization auctions (loans-for-shares).

In June 2000, Alfred Kokh became head of Gazprom-Media, a subsidiary media holding of Gazprom (now a subsidiary holding of Gazprombank), and oversaw the gas giant's controversial takeover of NTV, an independent television company owned by Vladimir Gusinsky, on which he hosted the game show Алчность, the Russian version of Greed.[1]

He was succeeded by Boris Jordan on 16 October 2001. He also served as head of the 2003 election campaign staff for the Union of Right Forces, a pro-business, democratic party of young reformers including Yegor Gaidar, Boris Nemtsov and Irina Khakamada, the first woman to run for the Russian presidency.

He wrote the 2006 Russian book A Crate of Vodka (Ящик водки), a dialogue with journalist Igor Svinarenko about the twenty-year period that covered the last Soviet generation and the first, free Russian generation (1982, the death of Leonid Brezhnev, to 2001, when 9/11 put an end to liberal politics). The English translation appeared in spring 2009.

In 2008, he financed a scholarly point-by-point refutation of Holocaust denial materials. Denial of the Denial (Отрицание отрицания), with Pavel Polian, is the first book on the subject published in Russia.

Kokh is a frequent commentator in Medved, a glossy Russian men's magazine, writing about history and travel.

Alfred Koch (or Kokh) was a sponsor of the new monument in Moscow to Tsar Alexander II, the leader who emancipated the serfs and reformed the Russian army. Out of fear of persecution by the Russian authorities he fled to Germany in June 2014.[2] He lives on Lake Chiemsee in Rosenheim, Bavaria.[3] [4]

He criticizes Joe Biden.[5]

Personal life

His daughter Olga (born 1992, St Petersburg) attended The American School in England at Thorpe, Surrey beginning at age 13 and is a stand-up comedian living in central London.[6]

References

  1. News: Рождественский. Илья (Rozhdestvensky, Ilya). Badanin. Roman. Roman Badanin. 13 February 2019. Серийный олигарх. Рассказ о том, как Владимир Гусинский помирился с Владимиром Путиным. Russian. Serial oligarch. The story of how Vladimir Gusinsky made peace with Vladimir Putin. Proekt. 13 February 2020.
  2. News: Ukraine: Russland jagt die Intellektuellen aus dem Land - DER SPIEGEL - Politik. Benjamin Bidder, DER. SPIEGEL. Der Spiegel. 8 September 2014 .
  3. News: Trotzdem kämpfen sie weiter: Nach dem Mord an Boris Nemzow geht in russischen Oppositionskreisen die Angst um. Alle fragen sich: Wer ist der Nächste? . Nevertheless, they continue to fight: After the murder of Boris Nemtsov, there is fear in Russian opposition circles. Everyone is asking: who is next? . de . . 4 March 2015 . 26 August 2021 . 8 March 2015 . https://archive.today/20150308235847/http://www.suedkurier.de/nachrichten/politik/themensk/Trotzdem-kaempfen-sie-weiter;art1015367,7673348 . live .
  4. News: Плата за красивую жизнь: Альфред Кох объявлен в федеральный розыск . Paying for a beautiful life: Alfred Koch put on the federal wanted list . ru . «Ве́сти» (vesti.ru) . 23 November 2015 . 26 August 2021.
  5. https://www.obozrevatel.com/politics-news/klyuch-k-pobede-ukrainyi-v-vojne-v-rukah-odnogo-cheloveka-on-mog-zakonchit-ee-esche-god-nazad/amp.htm
  6. News: Comedian Olga Koch says she feels like she's speaking for all Russians when she goes onstage. Evening Standard. 2018-08-16. en-GB.

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