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Even in retirement, he kept supporting Leipzig as the German center of books: the {{ill|Haus des Buches, Leipzig|de|Haus des Buches (Leipzig)|lt=Haus des Buches}}, the [[Leipzig Book Fair]], and the [[Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding]].<ref name="Lehmann" /> He initiated an office at the Berlin Schiffbauerdamm, as a meeting place for intellectuals, book makers, politicians and artists.<ref name="Lehmann" /> He was awarded the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] in 1997, and a plaque "Dem Förderer des deutschen Buches" (To the Patron of the German Book) in 2001.<ref name="Börsenblatt" />
Kupsch was married to Hilde,<ref name="Verbände" /> née Seifert; the couple had three children.<ref name="FAZ" /> They ran a private gallery of [[contemporary art]] in [[Langen, Hesse|Langen]],<ref name="Verbände" /> Galerie von Kupsch, until 2004,<ref name="Buchmarkt" /> where they invited artists to the vernissages.<ref name="Kluge" /> He died on 26 April 2020<ref name="Börsenblatt" /><ref name="Frankfurter Allgemeine Lebenswege">{{cite web | title=Traueranzeigen von Hans-Karl v. Kupsch | website=Frankfurter Allgemeine Lebenswege | url=https://lebenswege.faz.net/traueranzeige/hans-karlv-kupsch | language=de | access-date=7 March 2022}}</ref> after a long
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