Alfred Koch
Alfred Reingoldowitsch Koch ( Russian Альфред Рейнгольдович Кох, English transcription Alfred Rejngol'dovich Kokh, scientific transliteration Al'fred Reingoldovič Koch. ); Born February 28, 1961 in Syrjanowsk, Kazakhstan; is a Russian economist, politician, writer and businessman of German descent. Alfred Koch served as deputy prime minister under President Yeltsin and was an ally of the economic reformer Anatoly Chubais's one of the chief architects of privatization in Russia.
Life
Koch began in 1978 to study at a university in Togliatti and finished this in 1983 at the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute with a degree in Economic Cybernetics. Koch received his doctorate in 1987 in the field of Economic Cybernetics and received by Anatoly Chubais, a positive review, after which he was a research associate of the Leningrad Research Institute " Prometeus ". From 1988 to 1990 he was at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in the Faculty of Economics and Management Lecturer in radio electronics.
1990 Koch was elected mayor of the Petersburg Borough Sestrorezk.
From 1991, he worked in senior positions of privatization authorities ( svglw. THA ), in 1993 Deputy Chairman and finally appointed on 12 September 1996 as Chairman of the State Privatization Committee of the Russian Federation. Over the years, second only to Anatoly Chubais, he received the nickname " privatiser -2". On March 17, 1997, he was also one of the Vice - Prime Minister in the government of Viktor Chernomyrdin. During this time, Koch received a fee in the amount of $ 100,000 for a not-yet -written book on the history of privatization in Russia. After publicly assumed that these were concealed bribes to Koch and his co-authors ( including Anatoly Chubais ), Cook came on 13 August 1997 from all offices back.
On September 1, 1997, he was Chairman of the Montes Auri AG, an investment company that invests private Russian and foreign capital in Russian companies. In June 2000, Alfred Koch joined the leadership of Gazprom -Media, a subsidiary of the energy company Gazprom, and directed the controversial takeover of the independent television station NTV by Gazprom - Media. He handed the office in October 2001 Boris Jordan and moved back to the top post of the Montes Auri.
In February 2002, Cook was nominated by the Parliament of the Leningrad region as a deputy for the Duma. After great resistance to his person, he had to withdraw the candidature. Koch was also head of the election campaign in 2003 for the liberal party Union of Right Forces. After the electoral defeat of this party, he retired from politics.
2006 Koch wrote the Russian bestseller A crate of vodka ( Ящик водки ), a dialogue with the journalist Igor Swinarenko over a period of twenty years from the last Soviet and the first truly free Russian generation, starting in 1982, with the death of Leonid Brezhnev to to the attacks of September 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers, the symbol of the free market economy collapsed. The English translation appeared in spring 2009.
In 2008 he financed a scientific point - by-point refutation of Holocaust denial under the title " Denial of Denial " ( Отрицание отрицания ), with Pawel Poljan. It was the first ever book on the subject in Russia. Koch is a frequent commentator in " Medved ", a Russian glossy magazine for men, writes there about the history and travel.