Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann

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Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann (2012)

Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann (born October 14, 1932 in Stuttgart ) is a German lawyer and politician (CDU). He was the mayor of the city of Biberach an der Riss for many years .

ancestors

Hoffmann comes from an old Württemberg theologian family. His great-great-grandfather, the pastor's son Gottlieb Wilhelm Hoffmann (1771–1846) was mayor (today about district administrator) in Leonberg, member of the assembly of estates, member of the 2nd Chamber of the Württemberg estates and founded the Evangelical Brethren in Korntal and Wilhelmsdorf ; whose son Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann (1806–1873) was a. a. General superintendent of the Kurmark and court preacher last at the imperial court in Berlin. His fourth marriage was to Pauline Hoffmann (née Countess von Görlitz) whose son Konrad Hoffmann was the last court preacher to King Wilhelm II of Württemberg . His son Wilhelm Hoffmann was u. a. Director of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart , President of the German Schiller Society and co-founder of the German Literature Archive in Marbach . Wilhelm Hoffmann was married to the later kindergarten teacher (Froebel seminar) and sculptor Elfriede Frances Müller, who was born in Durban (Natal) and was born in England. The marriage resulted in two sons: the historian Peter Conrad Werner Hoffmann , and Claus-Wilhelm.

Youth and education

Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann grew up in a house bought by his mother in Stuttgart- Degerloch in a Christian and liberal family, interrupted by the war-related evacuation of the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart to Biberach an der Riss. After returning to Stuttgart, Hoffmann attended the Uhlandshöhe Waldorf School and passed the external Abitur there in 1952. After several internships and stays abroad, Hoffmann first studied sociology, modern history and Swedish at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , then law and economics at the Free University of Berlin and at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

After completing his law studies, Hoffmann initially worked as a lawyer and assistant to lawyer Hellmut Becker in Kressbronn on Lake Constance, then for four years as a judge at the Moabit Criminal Court in Berlin, the Crailsheim District Court and the Ravensburg District Court and District Court .

Lord Mayor

choice

In 1964 Hoffmann applied as a non-party member for the office of Lord Mayor of the city of Biberach an der Riss. On the one hand, the election caused a sensation nationwide because of the interference of a Protestant dean in the election campaign, and because the non-party Hoffmann was able to prevail over a candidate supported by the CDU and SPD . Due to ongoing legal proceedings brought by a competitor against Hoffmann's election, Hoffmann was initially appointed as administrative administrator by the municipal council following a change in the law in 1965 . It was only almost two years after the election that he could be appointed as the youngest mayor.

In 1974 Hoffmann was re-elected for twelve years and in 1986 for a further eight years.

Memberships

During this time Hoffmann was active in numerous institutions, committees and commissions, for example in

In supervisory boards such as the

Act

Hoffmann saw an essential part of his task in promoting both the economic and cultural development of his city with equal value and mutual conditionality.

On Hoffmann's initiative and under his leadership, the Baden-Wuerttemberg City Council decided in the so-called "Fellbach resolution" that culture, economy and social affairs have the same status and are not viewed by the cities of the state as voluntary but as compulsory tasks that also contribute to Services of general interest include water and energy.

At the end of the sixties Hoffmann was already busy with long-term planning (medium-term financial planning, urban development planning, land use plan), as well as with an institutionalized cooperation with the neighboring communities of the city of Biberach. He was also involved in the initiatives of the Oberschwaben Planning Association, initiated by Wangen District Administrator Walter Münch, who wanted to move Oberschwaben from its peripheral location into the field of vision of Baden-Württemberg politics.

Biberach's numerous connections testify to his commitment to international understanding. During his tenure, the town twinning was established with the towns of Valence in France (1967), Asti in Northern Italy (1981), Telawi in the then Soviet Republic of Georgia (1987), Świdnica / Schweidnitz in Poland (1990), and the Tendring district in Great Britain (1991) established. In Biberach he founded the district association of the European Union , of which he was chairman for 18 years. In addition, the third congress of the twin cities in Germany and the Soviet Union took place in Biberach.

It was thanks to Hoffmann's initiatives that the technical college for construction, originally founded as an engineering school in Biberach and today's Biberach University, was not relocated to Ulm or Ravensburg as part of the overall university education, but remained in Biberach.

Later activity

Since leaving the office of mayor, he worked as a lawyer in a Biberach law firm until 2015.

Hoffmann was a founding member and board member of the Oberschwaben Literature Archive Foundation established by Martin Walser , which later became the Oberschwaben Literature Foundation , and has been its chairman since 2003 as Walser's successor, and a founding member and board member of the Bruno Frey Music School Foundation .

family

Hoffmann married Gudula Renate born in 1953 while studying. Hege, the daughter of the photographer Kurt Hege. The marriage resulted in 4 children. After the divorce of his first marriage in 1985, Hoffmann married Christa Maria, geb. Beiter (* 1938 † 1992).

Hoffmann has been living with his partner Sabine Kurreck b. Hentzen in Mittelbiberach.

honors and awards

Publications

  • School building - a basic problem of modern pedagogy, in: Law and economics of the school, issue 11, November 1961, pp. 336–338
  • The preliminary denial of a bankruptcy claim in Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1961, p. 1343 f.
  • Freedom and education - problems of the “administered school” in the law and economy of the school, 1962, issue 11, p. 325 ff.
  • Biberach history and present, ed. by Gerd Maier, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart and Aalen 1972. In it: Biberach today by Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann, pp. 123–129
  • The large district town of Biberach - cultural center and center of the economy. In: Der Kreis Biberach, Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart and Aalen 1973, pp. 305-318
  • Gottlieb Wilhelm Hoffmann - Korntal and Wilhelmsdorf. In: Schwäbische Heimat, magazine for the care of landscape, folk culture, Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart, Volume 27, issue 1, January – March 1976, pp. 45–5
  • The poet's achievement for the big picture, supplement to the edition of Maria Müller-Gögler: The author and her work, introduction, voices of friends. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1980, pp. 58–67
  • Address for the opening of the State Art Weeks on September 27, 1980 in: First State Art Weeks Nineteen Hundred Eighty in Biberach an der Riss, Biberacher Publishing Printing House, Biberach an der Riss 1981, pp. 15–22
  • Jakob Bräckle , retrospective. Edited by the city of Biberach an der Riß, editing and letter to Jakob Bräckle as a preface by Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann, Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei 1982
  • The city - place of creativity, in: architektur &wirtschaft No 85, 1987. P. 51 f. and greeting p. 1
  • In memory, in: Jakob Bräckle , the way to abstraction, Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei 1987
  • Hugo Häring in his time - Building in our time, published by the city of Biberach an der Riss / Lord Mayor Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann, Biberach August 1983, 3rd edition July 1989, in it: Foreword pp. 7–9. Russian edition 1990. Polish edition 1992.
  • History of the city of Biberach, ed. by Dieter Stievermann, Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 1991, therein: Foreword by Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann, pp. 6–12.
  • Claus-'Wilhelm Hoffmann: Turn the wind around - Biberacher attempts, Engelhornverlag Stuttgart, 1st edition 1982, 162 pp .; 2nd ext. 1989, 299 pp. 3. exp. Edition 1991, 319 pp.
  • To strengthen self-government in Greece. In: Kommunalpolitische Blätter, Kommunal-Verlag Recklinghausen 10/86, p. 781
  • Urban and town center renovations in the Biberach district, in: CDU INTERN, No. 5 September 1991, p. 3
  • Is culture still affordable? In: Die Alte Stadt, quarterly magazine for city history, sociology and monument preservation, 21st year 2 and 3/94 pp. 251–265.
  • The local self-government in Germany (shown using the example of the municipal code for Baden-Wuerttemberg), ed. and introduced by Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann. "DE JURE" publishing house, Moscow 1996, in Russian
  • Delectare et prodesse - a utopia? In: "He, Patron!", De scriptum Verlag, Uhldingen 1997 pp. 83 ff. (Contribution to the Martin Walser 1997 birthday volume )
  • Not cream, but yeast. In: BLIX, culture and event magazine, BLIX-Verlag, Aulendorf January 2004, p. 11
  • Power from art. In: BLIX, culture and event magazine, BLIX-Verlag, Aulendorf April 2004
  • Maria Menz letters, ed. v. Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann, Volume I: Correspondence with Martin Walser, Edition Isele, Eggingen 2005, 439 pp.
  • Maria Menz letters, ed. v. Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann, Volume II: Correspondence with friends. Jan Thorbecke Verlag Ostfildern 2009, 802 pp.
  • Maria Menz , poems, work edition in three volumes, new edition ed. v. Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann, Jan Thorbecke Verlag Ostfildern 2009,
  • Responsibility accepted, in: A life in two cities, Festschrift for Hildegard Diederich on her 80th birthday, Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 2012, pp. 27–29
  • Hans Dieter Schaal , Work in Progress, ed. v. Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann and Frank R. Werner, Edition Axel Menges Stuttgart / London 2013, 608 pp.
  • Contribution to: 40 Years of the Biberach District, 40 Stories, Biberacher Publishing Printing House, Biberach 1913.
  • 40 years of the Biberach district, interview “Biberach wasn't about sheer size”, special publication of the Schwäbische Zeitung, May 2013, pp. 58/59
  • Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann: In the course of time - Christmas letters from the city of Biberach from 1965-1993. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 2013, 340 pp.
  • Interrelationship between art and society, in: GYJHO, New Planet; Painting in oil on canvas 1974–2014, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Tübingen, Berlin 2014, pp. 163 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: The diary of the Baroness Spitzemberg . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries . 4th edition. tape 43 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976, ISBN 3-525-35811-3 , pp. 92, 585 .
  2. ↑ Mayor replacement for himself. In: DER SPIEGEL 31/1965. 1965, Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  3. ^ Theodor Pfizer: Responsibility for City and Citizens, 25 Years of the Baden-Württemberg City Council . Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-17-005338-8 , pp. 62 f .
  4. ↑ Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann: In the Changing Times Christmas Letters of the City of Biberach from 1965-1993. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, 1st edition, Biberach 2013, ISBN 978-3-943391-45-9 , pp. 50, 163, 176.
  5. ↑ Study Compass Biberach SS2020 (page 205). (PDF; 12 MB) In: Homepage of the Biberach University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  6. ^ Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann: Changing times - Christmas letters from the city of Biberach from 1965-1993 . Ed .: Hildegard Diederich. 1st edition. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 2013, ISBN 978-3-943391-45-9 , p. 340 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Claus-Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart