Anna Elisabeth Kopp (née Iklé; 16 December 1936 – 7 April 2023) was a Swiss politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
[2][3] Kopp was born 16 December 1936 in Zürich, Switzerland, to Max and Beatrix (née Heberlein) Iklé.
Kopp attended high school Bern[4] before in 1956 she began to study law at the University of Zurich graduating with a Licentiate in 1960.
[8] During her studies, she joined the Swiss-Hungarian Student Relief Organisation [de] (SDSU) in 1956 which was founded due to the Hungarian Revolution.
[10] The SDSU leadership held meetings at the Villa of Kopps parents and they also spent vacations together in an estate of the Heberlein family in Malcesine at the Lake Garda.
[4] In February 1971, just days ahead of the national women's suffrage referendum, she took part in a panel in the casino in Wohlen for the yes campaign.
[16] For the first seven sessions she mainly observed and only introduced one motion demanding from the Federal Council to examine the possibilities for encouraging saving.
[17] In a press conference in 1981, shortly after it was reported that the Federal Council would leave it with the status quo and not enforce tougher measurements, she demanded that the Federal Council fulfill Kurt Furgler's promise from 1977 to enforce tougher measurements for combustion engines in automobiles.
[18] The result was that a few days later the Federal Council decided not to impose the softer regulations ECE-Norm [de] and supported the installation of a catalytic converter.
[22] At the end of October 1989, Hans Kopp resigned from the Shakarchi Trading AG, for whom he served as the vice president of the board of directors.
[22] On 5 November the newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported on an investigation into money laundering by people associated with the Shakarchi Trading AG.
[22] On 9 December 1988, the Swiss newspaper Le Matin wrote about a phone call to her husband Hans Kopp.
[22] Elisabeth Kopp then confessed having made that call, which led to the Swiss media demanding her resignation.
[21] Her resignation led to the imposition of a parliamentary investigative commission [de], headed by Moritz Leuenberger of the Social Democratic Party (SP).