Bernhard Hoffmann (politician, 1919)

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Bernhard Hoffmann (born October 15, 1919 in Berlin ; † October 25, 2017 ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1965 to 1975 he was district mayor of Berlin's Tempelhof district .

Early years

After completing his military service, Hoffmann studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and then worked in the Wilmersdorf Planning Office before taking on the position of deputy head of the Neukölln Planning Office .

politics

In 1953 Hoffmann joined the SPD. The District Assembly of Berlin-Tempelhof elected him in 1959 to the District Building Councilor .

On February 25, 1965, he was elected as the successor to Kurt Mürre as the new district mayor and, as a result of the Berlin elections in 1971 , was confirmed in office on May 12, 1971.

Hoffmann left office on June 3, 1975, after the CDU emerged victorious in the 1975 elections in the Tempelhof district. Siegmund Jaroch was then elected as the new district mayor.

The first official partnership between a German and an Israeli congregation , founded in 1970 by Berlin-Tempelhof and Nahariya , also fell during Hoffmann's tenure .

Private

In his spare time, Hoffmann worked as a draftsman of watercolors , which he exhibited in the Tempelhof Town Hall on the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1969 .

Bernhard Hoffmann died in October 2017 at the age of 98.

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SURNAME Hoffmann, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2017