Hans Hoffmann (politician, 1893)

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Hans Hoffmann (born July 25, 1893 in Bergzabern ; † April 24, 1952 in Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ). In 1945 he was Lord Mayor of Ludwigshafen am Rhein and from 1947 to 1951 State Minister in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Life and work

Hoffmann was the son of the Palatine SPD politician, member of the Reichstag and later Bavarian Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann . After graduation in 1912 at the Gymnasium in Kaiserslautern , he took a degree in law and economics in Geneva , Munich and Berlin in which he in 1915 with the graduation to the Dr. jur. finished. He then took part in the First World War as a soldier and became a prisoner of war , from which he was released in 1919.

After his return from captivity , Hoffmann worked in the administrative service of the local governments of Speyer and Kaiserslautern. In 1925 he moved to the Magistrate of the city of Kiel and in 1927 became the department head of the municipal works as well as the department head for tax matters of the city. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was dismissed from his posts. Initially unemployed, he was employed from 1941 to 1945 as a temporary worker in the economic department of the Reichsstatthalter Westmark . From 1946 he worked as a lawyer and notary in Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse near Bad Dürkheim .

Political party

Hoffmann joined the SPD and was a member of the district executive committee of the SPD Ludwigshafen am Rhein from 1946 to 1949 .

MP

Hoffmann was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Provincial Parliament from 1931 to 1933 . He became a member of the Advisory State Assembly on August 30, 1946 and was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. He was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1947 until his death.

Public offices

Towards the end of the Second World War , Hoffmann was appointed by the Americans on April 20, 1945 as Lord Mayor of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein . On September 4, 1945, he was replaced in this position by Valentin Bauer . He was then chief president of the provisional administrative district of Middle Rhine-Saar until he was removed from office by the French military government in October 1945 .

On July 9, 1947, Hoffmann was appointed finance minister to the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate led by Prime Minister Peter Altmeier , and on April 9, 1948, he was also head of the reconstruction department. On October 20, 1949, he resigned together with the two other SPD ministers Jakob Steffan and Wilhelm Bökenkrüger . He became a member of the government again on December 14, 1949 and was again appointed Minister of Finance and Reconstruction. After the formation of a Christian-liberal coalition, Hoffmann left the government on June 13, 1951 and was replaced as Minister by Wilhelm Nowack .

See also

literature

  • Ulrich Springorum: Development and structure of the administration in Rhineland-Palatinate after the Second World War (1945-1947), ISBN 9783428451289 , p. 59, online