Hedwig Hoffmann (politician)

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Hedwig Hoffmann (born October 12, 1863 in Grebenstein as Hedwig Stiehl , † December 12, 1940 in Bochum ) was a German politician (DNVP).

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Stiehl attended elementary school and a high school for girls . She then took part in training courses in community care. After her marriage to the Bochum school councilor Karl Hoffmann, she took his name.

After the First World War , Hoffmann joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In 1919 she moved into the Bochum city parliament, to which she belonged until 1932. From 1921 to 1932 she was also a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament . She was also the chairwoman of the regional women's committee and the women's social group of the city association of Protestant women's associations.

On December 27, 1921, Hoffmann came to the Reichstag as a replacement for the deceased DNVP Reichstag deputy Clemens von Delbrück , to which she subsequently belonged as a proposal for the Reichstag until the May 1924 elections.

Hoffmann was also active as a journalist, especially in the field of youth welfare.

literature

  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 90.

Individual evidence

  1. Andrea Süchting-Hänger: The Conscience of the Nation , 2002, p. 428.
  2. http://www.reichstagsprotocol.de/Blatt2_wv_bsb00000064_00631.html