Alfred Koch. Biography of a politician and writer

Alfred Koch was born in Kazakhstan, in the town of Zyryanovsk. However, already in childhood, the family of the future politician moved to Togliatti. Here the young man finishes school in 1978. After graduating, the young man enters the financial and economic institute of Leningrad for the specialty "economic cybernetics". He graduated in 1983. In 1987-1988 the young man worked as a junior research fellow at the Research Institute "Prometheus". The next two years he holds an assistant in the department of electronic production management and economics at the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad.

Carier start

Already in 1990, Alfred Koch was elected for the first time as chairman of the district executive committee in the Sestrina District Soviet of People's Deputies of Leningrad. From next year he works as a deputy executive director in the territorial fund of state property in St. Petersburg. In August 1993, Alfred Koch is deputy chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation. In March 1995, a promising official becomes the first deputy to the then chairman of the State Property Committee of the Russian Federation, and a year later he becomes chairman, holding this post until August 1997.

Career takeoff

In the same year, Alfred Koch entered the government of the Russian Federation for the first time , becoming deputy chairman in the Government of the Russian Federation. However, after six months forced to leave the post. Leaving the government was associated with a well-known "writers' case," when a criminal case was opened on Koch by the Moscow prosecutor's office in connection with abuse of official authority. But still in December 1999 the case was closed under an amnesty. On June 10, 2000, Alfred Reyngoldovich Koch was appointed the Director General in

Holding Gazprom-Media. In parallel, he becomes chairman of the board of directors on the NTV channel. Already in September 2001, the manager conducts the first two releases of the famous television game, called "Greed". But later, because of the busy schedule, he was forced to give his place of the host to Igor Yankovsky. Koch himself took the chair of the vice-director on the state television channel. In late 2001, the official is leaving the post of head of Gazprom-Media. And in February 2002, he was elected representative of the Legislative Assembly in the Leningrad region. And in the spring of the same year there is a scandal concerning the legality of the results of the deputy vote on his candidacy. As a consequence, the official voluntarily resigns his powers.

Writing and Alfred Koch

The biography of our hero in the future is somewhat different. In 2006, he publishes a book written in collaboration with Igor Svinarenko. Later, the book "Box of Vodka" was nominated for the prestigious "Big Book" award. Two years later, in 2008, Koch's very fundamental work was co-authored with the historian Pavel Polyan. In the work "Denial of the Holocaust", dedicated to the relevant historical event, an impressive set of statistical and factual materials was collected. In addition, the view is expressed that denial of the Holocaust is not just a falsification of history, but also a dangerous geopolitical project. In 2013, Alfred Koch, together with Peter Aven, published a collection of interviews with various Russian political figures of the new era.