Bolko Hoffmann

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Bolko Hoffmann (born December 25, 1937 in Munich , † August 20, 2007 in Düsseldorf ) was a German politician ( Pro DM ), publisher of the stock exchange magazine Effecten Spiegel and board member of Effecten-Spiegel AG .

Life

Bolko Hoffmann was born as the son of NS-Gauleiter Westfalen-Süd Albert Hoffmann and his wife Gretel.

The business graduate Hoffmann initially set up his own advertising agency Thersal. In 1972 he founded Effecten-Spiegel AG in Düsseldorf. The purpose of the company is the publishing business, capital investments for its own account and participation in other companies and companies. Effecten-Spiegel AG publishes a weekly stock exchange journal of the same name.

In 1979 Hoffmann was one of the founders of the Citizens' Party and was elected its deputy chairman. From 1983 to 1994 he was the owner of the news agency ddp , which he acquired in bankruptcy proceedings and later sold to Wolf E. Schneider .

Bolko Hoffmann and his Effecten-Spiegel AG had been a major shareholder since September 2, 2002 and since April 1, 2004 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hunzinger Information AG, founded in 1979 by Moritz Hunzinger (Frankfurt am Main). In August 2007 Hoffmann withdrew from all activities of Effecten-Spiegel AG and its holdings due to health problems.

Hoffmann became known to the German public through an advertising campaign against the euro , which he largely financed from his private fortune. In 1998 he founded the Pro DM party , whose main goal was to prevent the introduction of the euro. Hoffmann was also chairman of this party.

In 2003 he won the former Hamburg Interior Senator Ronald Schill, who had been excluded from the Schill party , as a top candidate for the election to the Hamburg parliament . The Pro DM / Schill list received 3.1% of the votes. Before Schill's successful state election in 2001, Hoffmann had fought Schill because he wanted to compete with the party abbreviation PRO ( party rule of law offensive ). Hoffmann sued Schill because of the possibility of confusion with his party Pro DM, whereupon Schill's party with the acronym Schill took up.

After his death in August 2007, the Pro DM party decided to dissolve it, which came into force on December 31, 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hagen Historical Center: Albert Hoffmann
  2. ^ Hagen Historical Center: Albert Hoffmann, Part 2
  3. ↑ Internet portal "Westphalian History"
  4. ↑ Annual Report 2016. Effecten-Spiegel AG, February 10, 2017, accessed on January 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Hoffmann continues to shoot against Hunzinger. In: Netzeitung . February 6, 2004, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; accessed on January 10, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Adversary Bolko Hoffmann dismisses PR consultant Moritz Hunzinger without notice , Die Welt, April 3, 2004
  7. ↑ Fear of the Euro: The Right Spectrum Makes Mobile , Contrasts January 29, 1998

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SURNAME Hoffmann, Bolko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Pro DM), editor of the stock exchange magazine Effecten Spiegel
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 2007
Place of death Dusseldorf