Education
After attending school, Pöpke completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith, and first worked as a locksmith in Poznań and later switched to the Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen.
politician member of the German Bundestag
After attending school, Pöpke completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith, and first worked as a locksmith in Poznań and later switched to the Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen.
At the same time, from 1929 to 1933, he attended evening high schools in Kassel and Berlin. Then he began to study political science and economics, graduating in 1937 with a doctorate. From 1939 to 1945, he participated as a soldier in the Second World War.
When the war ended, he went into Soviet captivity, but was discharged in 1948.
He also served as executive Chairman of the Institute of Labor Education in Essen. Pöpke belonged to the German Bundestag from 1961 to until 1965.
He was also a representative of the North Rhine-Westphalia Landtag.