Ernst Hoffmann (politician)

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Ernst Hoffmann (born September 19, 1909 in Berlin ; † October 1, 1984 ) was a German politician ( SED ). For many years he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Hoffmann, son of a working-class family, attended elementary school in Berlin-Neukölln . From 1924 to 1926 he learned the trade of locksmith at RAW Berlin-Grunewald and then until 1928 the trade of boiler maker at RAW Berlin-Tempelhof . He then worked in the profession and was unemployed from 1930 to 1932. Hoffmann was a member of the SAJ from 1924 and of the SPD from 1928 . From October 1931 to March 1932 he attended the state college for economics and administration in Berlin-Spandau . From November 1932 to May 1933 he worked as a camp manager in a labor service camp . Unemployed again in May 1933, he did illegal anti-fascist resistance work in the Helmut Borck / Rudolf Zimmermann group in Berlin-Neukölln. He was arrested in September 1934 and sentenced to three years in prison in 1935 for “preparing for high treason”. From March 1935 to September 1937 he was imprisoned in the Brandenburg-Görden prison. After his release he worked as a salesman on a book cart and as a pipelayer helper. From 1938 to 1940 he completed an apprenticeship as a pipe fitter and worked in the profession until 1942. During this time he was again illegally active in the Emil Wölk / Harry Wachtel group. In October 1942 he was recruited for the penalty battalion 999 and used in Tunisia . In May 1943 he was taken prisoner by the United States , which he spent until February 1946 at Camp Livingstone in Louisiana and at Camp Butner in North Carolina .

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In March 1946 he returned to Germany. He became a member of the SPD again and youth secretary in the SPD central committee. At the unification party congress of the SPD and KPD to the SED in April 1946 he was elected to the party executive committee. He was initially deputy head and, from October 1947, alongside Paul Verner, head of the youth department in the Central Secretariat of the SED with equal rights. He was a member of the party executive or central committee of the SED until the fourth party congress in 1954. From June 1946 to 1949 he was also a member of the Central Council of the FDJ and in 1946/47 a member of the Central Council's secretariat.

From October 1948 to June 1952 he held the position of deputy chairman or second secretary of the SED regional leadership for Greater Berlin and was also the second chairman of the regional committee of the National Front . From 1949 he was a member of the Provisional People's Chamber and from 1950 to 1967 Berlin's representative in the People's Chamber. As a member of the SED parliamentary group, he was a member of the Standing Committee on General Affairs from 1954 to 1958, of the Budget and Finance Committee from 1958 to 1963, and of the Culture Committee from 1963 to 1967. On October 19, 1957, he was elected secretary of the Berlin parliamentary group in the Volkskammer.

From September 1952 to 1954 he served as the head of the Main Fine Arts Department in the State Commission for Art Affairs and from 1954 to 1959 as the head of the HA Mass Cultural Work and the Department of Local Bodies, Inspection and Policy Issues in the Ministry of Culture . At the same time he was a member of the College of the Ministry. From 1956 he was a member of the Presidium of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (URANIA). From 1959 to 1962 he was the main director of VVB Film in Berlin and in 1962/63 he headed the main film administration in the Ministry of Culture. From 1963 to July 1967 he was city ​​councilor for culture, physical culture and sport in the Berlin magistrate and then again head of department in the Ministry of Culture, this time for cultural relations. At the same time he was a member of the Berlin city council from 1967 to 1971 . In 1971 he retired. From 1976 until his death he worked as a member of the Central Commission for the Care of Old Honored Party Members at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

Hoffmann died at the age of 75. His urn was buried in the Pergolenweg grave complex in the Socialist Memorial at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery on Pergolenweg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin representatives advised . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 20, 1957, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Last introduction for our comrade Ernst Hoffmann . In: Neues Deutschland , October 26, 1984, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1984